I looked a bit at yesterday's Pick Six at Hollywood (not to handicap - I think my Pick 6 playing days are over as my bankroll is too small) and came up with the following tables. In case you have been out of touch, the progressive pool grew to $3,274,505 to which an additional $7,596,347 was bet. The pool, net of the 20.68% takeout, was $9,229,927. The big carryover created an expected return of $1.22 per dollar wager. The payoff of $576,065.40 for the 13 holders of winning tickets was almost eight times greater than a parlay of win bets. In the final leg yesterday I was rooting for 1 Uncle Bucky, a hopeless longshot, to extend the carryover one more day. Instead 9 Extreme Notice ($39.80) nosed out 2 Oh Shine under the wire. The morning line had Extreme Notice at 8/1 but bettors in each pool ignored this and he was sent off at 18.90/1 in the Win pool and 22.70/1 in the Pick Six pool (among live tickets).

Wager		Race						Parlay Value
		3	4	5	6	7	8
Win		$4.20	$11.20	$13.80	$6.80	$13.20	$39.80	$72,471
Double			$30.80		$39.00		$307.20	$92,252
Pick 3				$329.60			$1,865.60	$307,451
Double-Pick 4			$30.80				$13,324.00	$205,190
Pick 6								$576,064.40

Win Odds for Hollywood Park Race 8
	ML	Win	Pick 3	Pick 4	Pick 6
1	50	73.1	103.2	91.7	Inf
2	8	9.1	7.3	8.4	9.3
3	6	5.7	6.3	5.9	3.7
4	8	8.6	11.1	11.4	14.4
5	8	10.7	8.0	8.5	8.9
6	20	40	24.5	25.3	76.0
7	15	14	11.1	12.9	13.0
8	20	31	23.6	39.0	50.3
9	8	18.9	26.4	18.8	22.7
11	8	11.2	9.8	9.5	8.6
12	15	36.4	54.6	43.0	306.8
13	8	5.7	6.0	6.0	8.1
14	3.5	2.5	3.1	2.8	2.1
15	15	42.6	36.7	37.3	60.6