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To: Elsie

It was a para-mutual payout. The house take was a fixed percentage of the gross. If people picked 787 one hundred times less frequently than 312, the payout on 787 would be a hundred times higher than the payout on 312.


1,566 posted on 02/02/2005 12:44:06 PM PST by bvw
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To: bvw

Do you mean if a 100 people picked the winning number, they'd each RECeiVE only a 1/100th of the total prize?


1,569 posted on 02/02/2005 12:46:08 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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