Rainbow Pick 6 Winner Borislow
Jun 4, 2014 7:42:59 GMT -5
Post by Evelyn on Jun 4, 2014 7:42:59 GMT -5
Borislow Goes ‘All’ the Way
By Johnny D
Xpressbet
“Never mind.” –Emily Litella as played by the late Gilda Radner on Saturday Night Live.
Unless you spent last weekend living beneath the Jersey shore boardwalk, you already know how wealthy entrepreneur, horse owner and gambler Dan Borislow pulled the rug out from under the rest of us. It wasn’t just any rug, either. It was one of those expensive Persian versions worth nearly $6.7 million. It even had its own pet name—Rainbow Six—and it had been the envy of coast-to-coast collectors.
Good for Danny. He bet his money, took his chances and won. He deserves the bread, even though others, including yours truly, perhaps could use it more. We had our shot, or at least would have on ‘Mandatory Monday,’ if Borislow hadn’t licked the plate clean a day early.
Borislow’s sneak attack actually was opportunistic and maybe brilliant. After all, Sunday is a day of rest and Borislow correctly figured that the majority of the opposition would be napping in the springtime sun, resting for an all-out Memorial Day assault. So, he snuck in a day early, below the radar in broad daylight and made off with the loot.
As bold as his attack was—two tickets totaling approximately $15,000—he was lucky to unearth the pot of gold. A few inches this way or that and his caper would have been much less epic. He would have had all six winners, all right, but instead of a king’s ransom he would have banked about the cost of a slightly used car.
And that would have been just fine with rest of the racing world.
Many players, again including yours truly, already had spent hours handicapping Gulfstream’s Rainbow Six Monday sequence and had intended to fine-tune tickets just before first leg post time. In fact, we weren’t even watching Gulfstream races Sunday. We were waiting on line for our number to be called in a crowded seafood joint. A time-killing check of Twitter alerted us that the Rainbow Six pot was in jeopardy. We then watched the final leg on our cell phone as four runners hit the finish nearly in unison.
The official Equibase chart lists the winning margin as a ‘nose,’ but that’s only because they don’t use the term ‘eyelash.’ When the Rainbow Six payoff first appeared on the screen we had to glance twice to sort out the unusually long row of digits. We never have seen a payoff like that before and it took a while for the numbers to compute.
That, as they say, was that.
Some horseplayers diminish Borislow’s achievement because of his winning ticket’s structure that included every horse in the third, fourth, fifth, seventh and eighth races, with just two runners in the sixth race. That’s All x All x All x 2 x All x All in pick six parlance. ‘All-burgers,’ as they are affectionately known, seldom lose. The trouble with them, though, is that they get expensive, so most players can’t afford to utilize that magic button very often.
‘That’s not real handicapping,’ critics squeal about Borislow ‘buying’ six out of seven races. To that we call, ‘sour grapes.’
Borislow’s got a substantial bankroll. That’s an advantage. But it also reminds me of the concerned boxer who before a bout noticed that his opponent across the ring was being blessed by a priest. He asked his trainer, “Does that help?”
“Only if he can fight.”
Borislow is savvy enough to know how to put the odds in his corner. He saw an opportunity Sunday and he took a swing. He connected with a knockout blow to the chin.
“I’ve been handicapping for a few years, and there are two things that are important,” Borislow told the Miami Herald. “It’s not only knowing which horses to bet, but how to bet.”
Dan Borislow is not the first ‘whale’ to attempt to bully the Rainbow Six into submission. And, you can bet your sweet bippy, Sunday wasn’t the first time Dan Borislow has personally attempted it.
How in the world do you think the Rainbow Six carryover pot managed to get to $6.5 million in the first place? We can tell you it wasn’t on the backs of wagers submitted by guys who write racing columns for a living. ‘Whales’ have been trying to harpoon this ‘Moby Dick’ all winter. And at times they’ve had to kiss windfall payoffs goodbye in frustration because someone in Dumbluck, Missouri, also played an $8 winning ticket consisting of numbers corresponding to the birth dates of grandchildren.
In this game, you bets your money and you takes you chances.
Spend $8 or $8,000 in the Rainbow Six and you still need to be both perfect and alone to take down the top prize. Sunday, while everyone else still was in the dugout, Borislow stepped up to the plate, got a belt-high fastball, took a nice big cut and hit it out of the park.
About the only person nearly as happy as Dan Borislow Sunday was my Uncle Sam who cashed for roughly $1.7 million. He got his ‘off the top’ in fresh electronic Benjamins just as soon as the mutuel machine burped Danny Boy’s cashed ticket.
The Rainbow Six will arise again Friday with $50,000 in Gulfstream seed money. Dan Borislow probably won’t submit a ticket. Neither will many other folks. The thrill is gone…at least for now. Track head honcho Tim Ritvo says he will take a look at possibly tinkering with the wager’s format in time for next winter’s racing season. Perhaps it will remain the same. Either way, when the pot grows sufficiently we’ll all return to play. And next time we’ll be careful not to wait until the last day because, as we now know, the last day might come one day earlier.
Race On!
By Johnny D
Xpressbet
“Never mind.” –Emily Litella as played by the late Gilda Radner on Saturday Night Live.
Unless you spent last weekend living beneath the Jersey shore boardwalk, you already know how wealthy entrepreneur, horse owner and gambler Dan Borislow pulled the rug out from under the rest of us. It wasn’t just any rug, either. It was one of those expensive Persian versions worth nearly $6.7 million. It even had its own pet name—Rainbow Six—and it had been the envy of coast-to-coast collectors.
Good for Danny. He bet his money, took his chances and won. He deserves the bread, even though others, including yours truly, perhaps could use it more. We had our shot, or at least would have on ‘Mandatory Monday,’ if Borislow hadn’t licked the plate clean a day early.
Borislow’s sneak attack actually was opportunistic and maybe brilliant. After all, Sunday is a day of rest and Borislow correctly figured that the majority of the opposition would be napping in the springtime sun, resting for an all-out Memorial Day assault. So, he snuck in a day early, below the radar in broad daylight and made off with the loot.
As bold as his attack was—two tickets totaling approximately $15,000—he was lucky to unearth the pot of gold. A few inches this way or that and his caper would have been much less epic. He would have had all six winners, all right, but instead of a king’s ransom he would have banked about the cost of a slightly used car.
And that would have been just fine with rest of the racing world.
Many players, again including yours truly, already had spent hours handicapping Gulfstream’s Rainbow Six Monday sequence and had intended to fine-tune tickets just before first leg post time. In fact, we weren’t even watching Gulfstream races Sunday. We were waiting on line for our number to be called in a crowded seafood joint. A time-killing check of Twitter alerted us that the Rainbow Six pot was in jeopardy. We then watched the final leg on our cell phone as four runners hit the finish nearly in unison.
The official Equibase chart lists the winning margin as a ‘nose,’ but that’s only because they don’t use the term ‘eyelash.’ When the Rainbow Six payoff first appeared on the screen we had to glance twice to sort out the unusually long row of digits. We never have seen a payoff like that before and it took a while for the numbers to compute.
That, as they say, was that.
Some horseplayers diminish Borislow’s achievement because of his winning ticket’s structure that included every horse in the third, fourth, fifth, seventh and eighth races, with just two runners in the sixth race. That’s All x All x All x 2 x All x All in pick six parlance. ‘All-burgers,’ as they are affectionately known, seldom lose. The trouble with them, though, is that they get expensive, so most players can’t afford to utilize that magic button very often.
‘That’s not real handicapping,’ critics squeal about Borislow ‘buying’ six out of seven races. To that we call, ‘sour grapes.’
Borislow’s got a substantial bankroll. That’s an advantage. But it also reminds me of the concerned boxer who before a bout noticed that his opponent across the ring was being blessed by a priest. He asked his trainer, “Does that help?”
“Only if he can fight.”
Borislow is savvy enough to know how to put the odds in his corner. He saw an opportunity Sunday and he took a swing. He connected with a knockout blow to the chin.
“I’ve been handicapping for a few years, and there are two things that are important,” Borislow told the Miami Herald. “It’s not only knowing which horses to bet, but how to bet.”
Dan Borislow is not the first ‘whale’ to attempt to bully the Rainbow Six into submission. And, you can bet your sweet bippy, Sunday wasn’t the first time Dan Borislow has personally attempted it.
How in the world do you think the Rainbow Six carryover pot managed to get to $6.5 million in the first place? We can tell you it wasn’t on the backs of wagers submitted by guys who write racing columns for a living. ‘Whales’ have been trying to harpoon this ‘Moby Dick’ all winter. And at times they’ve had to kiss windfall payoffs goodbye in frustration because someone in Dumbluck, Missouri, also played an $8 winning ticket consisting of numbers corresponding to the birth dates of grandchildren.
In this game, you bets your money and you takes you chances.
Spend $8 or $8,000 in the Rainbow Six and you still need to be both perfect and alone to take down the top prize. Sunday, while everyone else still was in the dugout, Borislow stepped up to the plate, got a belt-high fastball, took a nice big cut and hit it out of the park.
About the only person nearly as happy as Dan Borislow Sunday was my Uncle Sam who cashed for roughly $1.7 million. He got his ‘off the top’ in fresh electronic Benjamins just as soon as the mutuel machine burped Danny Boy’s cashed ticket.
The Rainbow Six will arise again Friday with $50,000 in Gulfstream seed money. Dan Borislow probably won’t submit a ticket. Neither will many other folks. The thrill is gone…at least for now. Track head honcho Tim Ritvo says he will take a look at possibly tinkering with the wager’s format in time for next winter’s racing season. Perhaps it will remain the same. Either way, when the pot grows sufficiently we’ll all return to play. And next time we’ll be careful not to wait until the last day because, as we now know, the last day might come one day earlier.
Race On!
