Magic City Jai-alai’s highly popular Jai-5 has now been won by Jai-alai bettors the last 9-performances, with winners collecting $2,000 or more for their tickets on 8 of the 9 performances.

Thursday’s first performance of Week 12, the noon performance, was the sequence of 3-4-7-8-5 for the Jai-5 games 3-7 which was won by players Legend, El Barba, RonRon, RonRon and RonRon. There was $1,773 in handle wagered on the Jai-5 and when the final leg will-pays were shown, RonRon was the only player live for the guaranteed jackpot payout of $2,000. RonRon won the most singles game in Week 11 and was the Golden Cesta Award winner by winning a staggering 13 of 28 games. Initially, RonRon ran the game to game point, looking for a perfect game, but was beaten by strong player Kubala from post 3. El Barba in post 2 lost a game point, leaving the door open for another return chance for RonRon to secure the win. He won the game point against early game player CRB in the 1-post, when a return shot by CRB hit the overhead netting which is out-of-bounds.

Thursday’s second performance, which started at 4-pm, was the sequence of 3-4-1-2-2 for games 3-7, which are considered easy post positions. These games were won by Bradley, Bueno, Kubala, RonRon and Bueno. Will-pays for this game showed no multiple 5 of 5 winners and four of the eight posts numbers were live for the guaranteed $2,000 jackpot; posts 2,6,7,8 (players Bueno, Kubala, RonRon and Carballo). The game 7 finale was almost won by Bueno in post 2 his second time up (he lost game point), then Carballo in post 8 lost his shot at game point. The game was won by Bueno his 3rd time up from the lucrative 2-post. There was $1,560 wagered on the Jai-5 for this performance.

The Jai-5 wager has been an easier handicap for Magic City Jai-alai bettors with the current shortened roster which is temporarily featuring all singles games during the 8-game performance. Typically, performances are 9-games and feature 3-doubles games, games 3/5/7, which make the 5-game Jai-5 sequence more difficult as teams for these doubles tournament championship games are intentionally paired in the attempt to make them as equally matched as possible, thus making doubles games more competitive. Strong late game players RonRon, Kubala and Carballo have dominated all of the singles games in the last 3-legs of the Jai-5 wager for the last 2-weeks with the exception of Bueno’s game 7 win at the Thursday’s 4-pm performance. Other strong late game players Douglas, Ikeda and Anderluck will make the Jai-5 more difficult for bettors to win when they return to play soon.