Good Morning Race Fans,
6:30am isn't when Ray Chi normally wakes up, but today's special....
It's Belmont Stakes Day 2011 and we've got a full day of hard core wagering ahead of us, (as well as my body weight in caffeine and booze-not sure in which order.) We're STILL working on the parlay of parlays and are planning a MASSIVE onslaught on the 1M Pick 6 and 1M Pick 4, (of course peppered in with multiple Superfectas, Tri's and Exactas for good measure!) A couple HUGE prices came in yesterday so theres a double carryover of $144,003 just to make it interesting.
I'm pretty bummed I can't be kicking it with my homeys in our usual crappy booth at my North Office swilling Crown Royal like theres going to be a drought, and cashing tickets together, but I'll have to do this solo via the interweb....just know I'm with you in spirit and please remember I'M IN ON ALL PARLAYS!
Let's Do This Shit. (Masterful Insight and Tickets to Follow...)
Showing posts with label Pick 6. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pick 6. Show all posts
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
This is the Sound of Me Failing
"BODY BLOW! BODY BLOW! UPPER CUT!"
Just like the old "Punch Out" arcade game that would drain my pockets of every last dime; this is how it feels when the two longest shots on the board, (21-1 and 19-1) run 1st and 2nd to ruin NOT ONLY my chance for a future-changing Pick 6 score, bragging rights FOREVER, AND finally achieving my life long dream of taking a bath in Crown Royal, BUT ALSO any remaining self respect or street cred I might save by hitting some saver consols. "KNOCK OUT!"
THERE IS A REASON PEOPLE PLAY THE Pick 6, however elusive it may be: HUGE, HUGE sums of money for the low, low price of only $2. (Although if anyone could ever go perfect (x6) without all favorites and hit the Pick 6, they would be the BIGGEST PIMP ON PLANT EARTH!) That is why, barring of course my ever shrinking bankroll considerations, I will keep playing it ESPECIALLY on carryover days, and so will thousands and thousands of other people.
I always say that handicapping horses is like trying to solve a REALLY HARD crossword puzzle, (that happens to be alive and may not feel like running today) that pays you big money when your right. Well the Pick 6 is like Sudoku humped a Rubik's Cube, was forced to life by Dr. Frankenstein, who pumped it full of Dianabol, AND NOW IT WANTS TO TRAMPLE YOUR ASS.
Everyday millions and millions of people around the globe play the Lotto with almost ZERO chance of ever winning. IT IS ACTUALLY POSSIBLE, to hit the Pick 6 if you know what your doing, have enough money that you're not too attached to, and of course vital to your success, HAVE A BIT OF GOOD LUCK. The Pick 6 gets hit just about every day and the days when it doesn't, then there is a carry over and that makes EVEN MORE PEOPLE PLAY, but even if its only a measly $30 or $40k, IT IS ACHIEVABLE AND I'M PLANNING ON HITTING ONE. That goddamn Mel Fisher took 16 long years to find the Atocha, SO DON'T COUNT ME OUT YET, I'm getting back up.
So if you know Ray Chi you already know this, but when I do FINALLY hit one....Drinks are on me. FOREVER!
Five Lucky Bastards won $552,535 today with $600,000 in consolation tickets, let's keep swinging. Thanks as always to my faithful parlay partners.
Today's Hourly Rate: -$43.33hr
(For those of you following along, this month is NOT going well. I wonder how late they buy Plasma...)
That's all I got,
raychihasspoken
Just like the old "Punch Out" arcade game that would drain my pockets of every last dime; this is how it feels when the two longest shots on the board, (21-1 and 19-1) run 1st and 2nd to ruin NOT ONLY my chance for a future-changing Pick 6 score, bragging rights FOREVER, AND finally achieving my life long dream of taking a bath in Crown Royal, BUT ALSO any remaining self respect or street cred I might save by hitting some saver consols. "KNOCK OUT!"
THERE IS A REASON PEOPLE PLAY THE Pick 6, however elusive it may be: HUGE, HUGE sums of money for the low, low price of only $2. (Although if anyone could ever go perfect (x6) without all favorites and hit the Pick 6, they would be the BIGGEST PIMP ON PLANT EARTH!) That is why, barring of course my ever shrinking bankroll considerations, I will keep playing it ESPECIALLY on carryover days, and so will thousands and thousands of other people.
I always say that handicapping horses is like trying to solve a REALLY HARD crossword puzzle, (that happens to be alive and may not feel like running today) that pays you big money when your right. Well the Pick 6 is like Sudoku humped a Rubik's Cube, was forced to life by Dr. Frankenstein, who pumped it full of Dianabol, AND NOW IT WANTS TO TRAMPLE YOUR ASS.
Everyday millions and millions of people around the globe play the Lotto with almost ZERO chance of ever winning. IT IS ACTUALLY POSSIBLE, to hit the Pick 6 if you know what your doing, have enough money that you're not too attached to, and of course vital to your success, HAVE A BIT OF GOOD LUCK. The Pick 6 gets hit just about every day and the days when it doesn't, then there is a carry over and that makes EVEN MORE PEOPLE PLAY, but even if its only a measly $30 or $40k, IT IS ACHIEVABLE AND I'M PLANNING ON HITTING ONE. That goddamn Mel Fisher took 16 long years to find the Atocha, SO DON'T COUNT ME OUT YET, I'm getting back up.
So if you know Ray Chi you already know this, but when I do FINALLY hit one....Drinks are on me. FOREVER!
Five Lucky Bastards won $552,535 today with $600,000 in consolation tickets, let's keep swinging. Thanks as always to my faithful parlay partners.
Today's Hourly Rate: -$43.33hr
(For those of you following along, this month is NOT going well. I wonder how late they buy Plasma...)
That's all I got,
raychihasspoken
Belmont Park Pick 6 Carryover - Final Tickets
OK here it is....(I didn't make the super easy, perfect-perfect "C" ticket I usually do, cause I ran out of time when they moved up post time, weird). The 6th and 7th legs were the toughest for me, so cross your fingers and I luckily got another $20 parlay participant to defray costs in GZ.
AND THEY ARE OFF!
raychihasspoken
AND THEY ARE OFF!
raychihasspoken
Belmont Park $930,495 Carryover - Budget Edition
Man it's Early!
Ray Chi doesn't like to be out of the sack before noon, so my blaring alarm at 6:45am wasn't exactly ideal for my sunny disposition, but duty (and big paper) calls, so onward.
I've about dialed in the big Pick 6 carryover left after the wasteland that was Belmont Stakes day, and now all I need to do is pound some more caffeine and formulate some tickets! We've got a modest parlay pool today, A-Dog, Genny, Robyone, (and if I get on the Hustle I can probably get a few more) who are riding high as a kite on the coattails of our last HUGE score, (ahem, I believe everyone made about $9 bucks)...
ANYWAY, let's not worry about little things like details. I feel good about this one, and as Mel Fisher always said, "Today is the day!"
Seriously. "Today IS the Day."
I'll try to put up my final tickets before post time.
That's all I got,
raychihasspoken
Ray Chi doesn't like to be out of the sack before noon, so my blaring alarm at 6:45am wasn't exactly ideal for my sunny disposition, but duty (and big paper) calls, so onward.
I've about dialed in the big Pick 6 carryover left after the wasteland that was Belmont Stakes day, and now all I need to do is pound some more caffeine and formulate some tickets! We've got a modest parlay pool today, A-Dog, Genny, Robyone, (and if I get on the Hustle I can probably get a few more) who are riding high as a kite on the coattails of our last HUGE score, (ahem, I believe everyone made about $9 bucks)...
ANYWAY, let's not worry about little things like details. I feel good about this one, and as Mel Fisher always said, "Today is the day!"
Seriously. "Today IS the Day."
I'll try to put up my final tickets before post time.
That's all I got,
raychihasspoken
Monday, June 7, 2010
Belmont Stakes Blowout - 2010
Um Yeah,
You do everything you can to prepare for a big race day. You watch the key prep races, pour over the work out reports, try to decipher any clues from the plethora of pre-race articles, (of course check what Beyer and Crist think), and then most importantly: You grab a tasty beverage, sit down, and you get comfortable with the Daily Racing Form for about 8 hours and do your homework!
Sometimes though, even if you've done all of the things you are supposed to do, it all still goes horribly wrong.
I definitely can not remember a time in the over a decade I've been betting on the Triple Crown, that the favorite got smoked by some ridiculous long shot, this many times on one day. There were even a few of the races, (including the Belmont), that the favorite was out of the money all together!
So this is what I always do in the eyes of defeat, (I mean BESIDES drinking 15 glasses of Bourbon by myself with the shades drawn), I go home, open The Form, I look at my notes, and see how I could have possibly whiffed so badly. How did I miss that horse? Why when I was formulating all of my bets, wasn't that horse included? Was there something I overlooked, forgot, misread, or am I just a total Jackass? (Don't answer it's a rhetorical question.)
So that is what I did and you know what, I couldn't have picked ANY of those horses in races 9-13. None of them.
Seriously, there's a $930,495 carryover on Wednesday and I've got work to do. Who's up for a Parlay?
Today's Hourly Rate: - $50.50hr
That's all I got,
raychihasspoken
You do everything you can to prepare for a big race day. You watch the key prep races, pour over the work out reports, try to decipher any clues from the plethora of pre-race articles, (of course check what Beyer and Crist think), and then most importantly: You grab a tasty beverage, sit down, and you get comfortable with the Daily Racing Form for about 8 hours and do your homework!
Sometimes though, even if you've done all of the things you are supposed to do, it all still goes horribly wrong.
I definitely can not remember a time in the over a decade I've been betting on the Triple Crown, that the favorite got smoked by some ridiculous long shot, this many times on one day. There were even a few of the races, (including the Belmont), that the favorite was out of the money all together!
So this is what I always do in the eyes of defeat, (I mean BESIDES drinking 15 glasses of Bourbon by myself with the shades drawn), I go home, open The Form, I look at my notes, and see how I could have possibly whiffed so badly. How did I miss that horse? Why when I was formulating all of my bets, wasn't that horse included? Was there something I overlooked, forgot, misread, or am I just a total Jackass? (Don't answer it's a rhetorical question.)
So that is what I did and you know what, I couldn't have picked ANY of those horses in races 9-13. None of them.
- Champagne d'Oro - Too slow, and far superior competition in the race.
- Winchester - Seriously? Against Gio Ponti AND Court Vision? C'mon!
- Drosselmeyer - Um let's see, hasn't had a 1st place since January, is spotting 11 Beyer points to Ice Box, AND had continuous sore leg problems AND was working out in bar shoes?
- (Um, pass whatever your smokin buddy, cause it must be the good stuff.)
- J L Bernstein /Ezzy - (Ray Chi's spirit was broken, so he left and didn't watch, but a 10-1 and 17-1 culminated in a $6,884 Pick 3 and a $349,628 Pick 4. WOW.)
Seriously, there's a $930,495 carryover on Wednesday and I've got work to do. Who's up for a Parlay?
Today's Hourly Rate: - $50.50hr
That's all I got,
raychihasspoken
Thursday, May 20, 2010
AND WE'RE OFF!
Hi. My first real post for this so let's cross our fingers and hope I don't get mocked off the interweb. Pipe Dreams On Paper is going to be all about me, (so I can think of at least ONE person who'll LOVE IT) my strong opinions, ruminations and rumblings, and continuous self reflection and diagnoses of well.....
JUST WHAT THE HELL I DID WRONG.
How horribly did I really play that last hand? What was the reason I didn't box the three horses I liked all along in a easy $12 Trifecta that ended up paying $2,337.40? How did I so miserably fail in that last tournament by busting out on the bubble again. Seriously.
Why, you may ask? Well probably because I'm a glutton for punishment, a "kick-me player" (look it up), a life-long self-saboteur, but mostly because I'm just a narcissistic bastard who isn't satisfied just listening to himself talk anymore, now I have to read it too. Sheesh!
While all that may be true... the real reason is to learn, because if you don't learn from your mistakes you are doomed to repeat them...forever. Hopefully, if we can figure out why exactly something went the way that it did, we can prevent it from happening again in the future and then improve, get better, grow, and ultimately win.
Cause that's what it's all about isn't it? Win everything.
There's a modest Pick 6 carryover at Belmont Park tomorrow, I better hit the books.....
That's all I got,
raychihasspoken
JUST WHAT THE HELL I DID WRONG.
How horribly did I really play that last hand? What was the reason I didn't box the three horses I liked all along in a easy $12 Trifecta that ended up paying $2,337.40? How did I so miserably fail in that last tournament by busting out on the bubble again. Seriously.
Why, you may ask? Well probably because I'm a glutton for punishment, a "kick-me player" (look it up), a life-long self-saboteur, but mostly because I'm just a narcissistic bastard who isn't satisfied just listening to himself talk anymore, now I have to read it too. Sheesh!
While all that may be true... the real reason is to learn, because if you don't learn from your mistakes you are doomed to repeat them...forever. Hopefully, if we can figure out why exactly something went the way that it did, we can prevent it from happening again in the future and then improve, get better, grow, and ultimately win.
Cause that's what it's all about isn't it? Win everything.
There's a modest Pick 6 carryover at Belmont Park tomorrow, I better hit the books.....
That's all I got,
raychihasspoken
