Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
Issue: 29   Editor: HowlingMadMika


The Casinos of Bootleggers: Race Track WillSeanMakeBoss
Race Track is another casino on Bootleggers but this time it is slightly more complicated that the casinos already covered. With Race Track, you pick a horse which have different odds of winning. If your horse wins, you win cash depending on what chances that horse had. For example, if you bet on a high risk horse like Purple, which has a 1/10 chance. then you will win 10 times your bet but if you keep it safe and bet on Orange, which has a 1/3 chance, then you win 3 times your bet. It really is up to you how much of a gamble you think is worth it.

Average price of a Race Track: The average price of a Race Track right now is 35 points (or $840,000).

Average turnover of owning a Race Track: Again, I was unable to get a straight figure as it really depends on what you put your max as. koelkast said that they has “learned it’s best to keep your max around 40k-100k” because that way you never lose too much. Furious was of the opinion that owning a Race Track is bad for the owner because the profits are really bad. He told me that he owned a Race Track and lost $2,000,000 within 25 minutes.

Race Track owners’ opinions on Race Tracks/if they’re worth it: Every Race Track owner who messaged me back thought that it was not worth owning a Race Track except koelkast. He said that as long as you keep your max in a position where the table can’t be won after two or three bets then you will be fine. Other Race Track owners like Radium said that this is the “last time” they would ever own a Race Track because he hated it that much.

Opinion of gamblers on how easy Race Tracks profitability/chance of winning when gambling: After discussing a potential improvement on Race Track where you can actually see the horses run (an idea for you, BSF!), the players got down the nitty gritty talk about just how Race Track works. The first person to really step forward was Menoria who said that people who think betting on Green over and over again is a good strategy are “dumb” as it will just lose you more cash than you win. Sectrum then suggested better on Yellow (as it has a 1:2 chance of winning) and doubling your bet, similar to Black Jack. As the discussion went on, KarkazII said that you would have to be an idiot to lose a lot of money at Race Track because the different odds offer you so many different strategies to win. Ezekiel, however, was not to sure that Race Tracks were so easy to win at. He said that he lost money betting on Green 73 times in a row! Wow! That’s a lot of cash.

Conclusion: It seems as though Race Track is a very good casino to gamble on as long as you have an idea of strategy in mind. However, in a few rare cases, the casino can turn on you and make things very difficult for your cash on hand. You shouldn’t be too tempted to gamble on Green or Purple just because they return more money! Try betting on the easier odds and winning lots of times, rather than trying to go for one big bet on a horse that probably won’t win!