Nailing a $33,000 win wager on Knicks Go within the $6 million Longines Breeders’ Cup Traditional (G1), Matt Miller, an lawyer for a well being care consulting agency from Chicago, received final week’s 2021 Breeders’ Cup Betting Problem.
The Thirteenth annual Breeders’ Cup Betting Problem, Thoroughbred racing’s largest live-money match, held Nov. 5-6, featured a report 534 of the nation’s greatest horseplayers wagering on the thirty eighth Breeders’ Cup World Championships two-day program of twenty-two races at Del Mar racetrack California.
The match gamers generated an all-time BCBC-record wagering deal with of $6,920,092. Of that complete, $3,524,136 was guess at Del Mar, which was 18.5% of the $19,032,307 on-track deal with over the 2 days.
Miller, 50, completed with a complete rating of 142,800 factors. Mixed along with his first-place prize of $400,500, Miller amassed a grand complete of $543,300. Jonathon Kinchen, NYRA/Fox Sports activities tv handicapper, completed second within the BCBC for the second consecutive yr. Kinchen earned 95,974 factors, and including his $267,000 runner-up prize, garnered complete winnings of $362,974. Dennis Montoro of New York, completed third with 91,245 factors and $146,850 in prize cash, for complete winnings of $238,095.
Within the 2021 BCBC, every participant was required to fund a $2,500 buy-in and a $7,500 betting bankroll ($10,000 complete). All buy-in monies had been utilized to the prize pool, making the full prize pool $1,335,000. Gamers made actual wagers (win, place, present, exacta, trifecta, and day by day double) with their $7,500 bankroll and saved all monies earned from their wagering.
Along with these enjoying at Del Mar, gamers competed from satellite tv for pc areas Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Seaside, Fla., Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J., and Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif. Gamers additionally participated on-line at TVG.com (the official wagering accomplice of Breeders’ Cup), Xpressbet.com, NYRA Bets, and for the primary time, from HPI.com in Canada.
Miller, who was launched to the racing recreation from his maternal grandfather at Arlington Worldwide Racecourse, was taking his fifth consecutive shot on the BCBC and was trying to enhance upon his Thirteenth-place end within the 2017 contest at Del Mar. He centered his wagering technique on day by day double wagers and single-win bets.
On Friday, Miller constructed his bankroll to roughly $24,000 by hitting a $600 day by day double combining Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1T) winner Pizza Bianca with TVG Breeders’ Cup Juvenile presented by Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance (G1) winner Corniche .
On Saturday, Miller increased his earnings to approximately $40,000 with a $24,000 win wager on 3-5 Life Is Good , his “lock of the day” in the Big Ass Fans Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1). After a few losses, Miller sat in fourth place with a balance of $33,000 going into the Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic.
“From the very start of the tournament, I was absolutely set on betting Knicks Go, figuring I could get 2.5 to 3-1 odds,” said Miller, who got a little better than he figured as Knicks Go went off at 3.2-1. Knicks Go won the Classic going wire-to-wire, and Miller turned his $33,000 all-in wager into $142,800, and the 2021 BCBC Championship.
“I get a hard time from my friends and family for looking at everything in life in terms of risk and reward and then strategy,” Miller admitted. “But that’s what this tournament is all about. Having the sense (and to some degree luck) to know when the time to strike is right, the conviction to bet when I have a strong opinion, and the patience required to remain still when I don’t have a strong opinion. The feeling of winning the event I personally hold in greater regard than any other because of what it tests is beyond amazing.”
Complete tournament results are available online.
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