Off-Track Betting : Daily Double Bets in OTBShow Video Details ↓ Man: In this segment we are going to cover a bet called the Daily Double. This is one of the more complicated bets that you can actually place at a racing establishment. A Daily Double is basically an exacta with a really big twist. You are betting on what's coming in first for the race in which that bet starts and the next race after that,on which number is going to come in first. So to explain that in a little better way, let's say that the Daily Double starts in race 2 and ends in race 3. So for race 2 we are picking what number we think is going to come in first and that's the very first number we put in the Daily Double. The second number is what's going to come in for the second race, in the first position. We can wheel this and we can also box it, but boxing gets really complicated with this bet. And it's also very expensive. If we were to wheel this, the first half of our wheel if you remember back to our wheel was a one. And we actually have to stop it after the second line, as there is no third and fourth place that we are going to worry about. And in this wheel, it's not first place and it's not second place. It's 1st race, 2nd race. So let's go back to our example, let's say we wanted to do 1,2 1,2,3,4,5 then we would do, "I want to do a Daily Double and I want to go to this track and do a $1 Daily Double. I want to wheel the 1,2,3, that is the horse or dog coming in first place on race 2. And then 4,5,6 would be the wheel for the 2nd race to come in first. So we want 1,2,3 to come in first for race two or 4,5 and 6 to come in for race 3. It's not interchangeable. If you box it, you have to box 1,2,3,4,5,6 and the reason it gets really expensive is it starts putting 1,2,3,4,5,6 for race 2 and then 1,2,3,4,5,6 for race 3. So you're basically paying $1 dollar for each of those bets, and every single combination that there is. Trust me, there is a lot of them. Especially with that many numbers. You're basically taking those 6 positions and writing up every single combination of those numbers, every single way and that's basically A Daily Double. |