Mandatory payouts of the Jai-5 and Mighty Ocho resulted in some hefty payoffs for winning ticket holders on those wagers today.

Nobody correctly selected all 5-winners on the Jai-5 so 4 of 5 winners paid a really nice payoff of $808.70 for each of the 8-winning tickets. There was $4,834 wagered into the Jai-5 today which had a jackpot carryover of $2,603 after the Saturday 4-pm performance. Posts 1, 2, 5 and 7 were all live tickets going into the final leg which was won by the longshot team of CRB-Vuelo from post 4. Post 1 team of Asier-Kubala had a single winning ticket that would have paid $6,470 to a ticket holder had they won the game. Post 1 won a show playoff to finish 3rd in Game 7. Posts 2, 5 and 7 were all covered for 5 of 5 with 2-winners on each of those posts and will-pays reflected a $1 price of $3,235.

Likewise, there were no winners with all 8-winners on the Mighty Ocho wager, the new $1 Pick 8 wager that works exactly like the popular Jai-5. There were 2-winning tickets that had 6 of the 8 winners and each ticket paid a “Mighty” amount indeed of $2,533. There was a surprising $4,293 wagered into this carryover jackpot of $1,632 going into today’s mandatory payout of the Mighty Ocho. Going into the final game 8 leg today Kubala in post 3 was the only post covered for a 6 of 8 payoff. All other posts were paying on 5 of 8 winners had they won with prices for 5 correct winners ranging from $1 payoffs of the lowest one for $163.40 with Carballo in post 1 up to $2,533 for some others. Three of the posts, the 4, 5 and 8 were all paying $2,533 each for 5 of 8 winners. Kubala came through and won game 8 for the two lucky ticket holders. Prior to today’s mandatory payout there have been four occurrences where someone has had 6 of the 8 winners correctly picked on Magic City’s Mighty Ocho. The Mighty Ocho lives up to it’s name as it’s mighty hard to hit 8 of 8 winners.

Magic City has increased the guarantee for the Mighty Ocho starting with the Wednesday July 1 noon performance to $2,000. The previous guarantee was $1,000.