Odds to payout ratio

bomatt — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:45:34 GMT

Do people play the odds or the odds to payout ratio?

In GA, the odds to payout ratio is about 2 to 1 for Cash 3 and 4.

1000: 1 odds pays $500. Three way is a third of that and 6 way is 1/6th of that.

The same with Cash 4. 10,000:1 odds pays $5000.

Fantasy 5 has 575,757:1 but starts at 50,000.

The odds are 57 times the cash 4 with the payout being 5 times.

But as it rolls over, the odds catch up.

Currently it is estimated at $594,000 so the odds to payout are less t... [ More ]