250 baht

A friend of mine is over from Hong Kong at the moment and told me about his day at the races a couple of weeks ago, his boss was over from Europe so they decided to go to Macau for the car racing event thay have and then onto the horse racing.

Now my mates knowlege of horses is about on par with mine, ie they have 4 legs and are big, so there he is looking at the pictures of the horses and decided to bet on the top 3 places, ie 1st 2nd and 3rd, now what are the odds of getting that right? Damn huge, he won just under 400,000baht, lucky sod :)

Thats Not #1, #2, #3, dog,,it is Win, Place, Show....good hit tho no matter what ya call it..

^Well as I said, he knows as much as me about horses :)

So what's the 250B, the amount of his bet?

^I would guess so ant, wouldn't you :)

Well despite there being no reference to it other than the thread title yes, I just did.

Make him pay for the night out DD :)

He always does Lars, on leaving school he became a highly trained and paid professional whereas I became a lazy slob :)

lucky him, party time ?

I stayed at the casino till 1Am yesterday, waiting for the daily 100'000 Euro draw, but in stead i lost 200 Euro playing on the poker table...Bucharest is a nice casino spot in Europe...

Singapore will soon open one Phoenicia Casino, March or april i heard, will be some special event for the future of the region...

I have gambled on games of chance very little, just like booze to me, once I start I can't stop til I am broke and can borrow no more.:confused:

Fair effort, not exactly a descriptive thread title!

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Originally Posted by blackgang

I have gambled on games of chance very little, just like booze to me, once I start I can't stop til I am broke and can borrow no more.:confused:

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And the shooting- cant stop till you run out off ammo, and swearing- cant stop till you run out off enemies, breath or keyboard batteries.

You are just a good old all or nothing kind off guy BG :):):)

Yep Lars,, always let it all hang out..:) Thats what I allus say.

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Originally Posted by kingwilly

not exactly a descriptive thread title!

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seo wise it is a perfect thread title :)

Bet he wishes he put more that 250 Baht down!

250 baht is the price of a beer in Wan Chai, his annual bonus this year will probably be more than I will earn in the next 10 years, should have stuck a few more baht on that bet :)

Does he know anyone in the garbage removal business ?

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Originally Posted by dirtydog

A friend of mine is over from Hong Kong at the moment and told me about his day at the races a couple of weeks ago, his boss was over from Europe so they decided to go to Macau for the car racing event thay have and then onto the horse racing.

Now my mates knowlege of horses is about on par with mine, ie they have 4 legs and are big, so there he is looking at the pictures of the horses and decided to bet on the top 3 places, ie 1st 2nd and 3rd, now what are the odds of getting that right? Damn huge, he won just under 400,000baht, lucky sod :)

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nice to hear , a nice little earner hope he enjoys ...:UK:

Winning 400K on a 250 baht bet is only 1600 to 1 odds...

They must have drug the nags out of the glue factory to pull those odds... :rolleyes:

some kind of tri-fecta or something where they combine the odds of the first three horses coming in the order he placed the bet divided my the amount of money in the pool and the number of betters. like the rest of yeh I know almost nothing myself but I did one of those bets after my friend won over $11,000 but I guess when I bet there were too many punters and our share was only $280

Get him to PM me the Lotto numbers will ya. :D

250 baht to win 400,000 baht on a 1,2,3 forecast???

More than possible on a good day; he did well

Don't know about doing well, he most likely choose the horses because of their color or names :)

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Don't know about doing well, he most likely choose the horses because of their color or names :)

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Has he got any tips for Lloydds?

I seem to be doing the reverse.. invest two million baht and end up with 250 baht!

Shares he knows nothing about at all, more than 20 years ago we both invested in a software company, we just knew that there would come a day when quite a few people would be using computers, even sometimes on a daily basis, the shares plummeted, he bailed out and sold at a loss, I held out, I just knew there would come a day that people might even have computers in their home, only fuking software company that has never boomed in the whole fuking world.

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Shares he knows nothing about at all, more than 20 years ago we both invested in a software company, we just knew that there would come a day when quite a few people would be using computers, even sometimes on a daily basis, the shares plummeted, he bailed out and sold at a loss, I held out, I just knew there would come a day that people might even have computers in their home, only fuking software company that has never boomed in the whole fuking world.

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It wasn't a UK company was it, from Birmingham...began with "R"... shit I cannot rember it properly, but it had the same name as a brand of ATI chipsets or something..I thought I was buying something to do with ATI and ended up with this shit stock that went down the pan! (When I actually looked back, it was almost in liquidation when I bought the stock - so theres speculation by an idiot)

RAGE, it was called RAGE, and I thought it was the fucking ATI Rage that made the video cards, when in fact it was a money loosing shit heap from the UK!

BURNED!

Alphanumeric, still going, still shite, a friend of mine made $6,000,000 on a software company shares he had about 10 years ago, I seem to have choosen the only long standing software company in the world that has made fuk all in the last 20 odd years :(

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he became a highly trained and paid professional whereas I became a lazy slob

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Not neccessary in that order.

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Originally Posted by Muadib

Winning 400K on a 250 baht bet is only 1600 to 1 odds... They must have drug the nags out of the glue factory to pull those odds...

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You must know nothing about betting.

As it was horses and not dogs then the race would have been a handicap event with eight or more horses running, if the guy bet a straight tricast (1st, 2nd and 3rd in the correct order) he could have easily got that money back. For instance a bet of 15/1 - 7/1 - 12/1 would give you a return of 416,000 from a 250 bet.

Long odds though, just lucky.