A whopping $2,302 was wagered at Friday’s 4-pm performance into the $1.00 Pick 3 betting pool at Magic City Jai-Alai. This was a new record Pick 3 amount wagered (aka “handle”) at Magic City Jai-Alai and shattered the previous Pick 3 record handle of $1,953 which occurred on July 1st of the current season.

The low 20% takeout rate on Pick Bet wagers at Magic City Jai-Alai compared to competitor Dania Jai-Alai’s 25% is more attractive for bettors as more money is being returned to the bettors, resulting in higher payoffs. There is 80% returned to Pick 3 bettors at Magic City Jai-Alai vs 75% returned at Dania. There were (8) winning ticket holders for Friday’s 4-pm $1.00 Pick 3, with each $1.00 ticket paying $230.20. The same betting pool with eight winning tickets would have resulted in a payoff of $215.80 at Dania.

The winning Pick 3 sequence was 1-7-1 which were winners Bueno – Juice/RonRon – Kubala for the 3-game sequence which involves picking the winners of games 4 through 6. The middle leg of the Pick 5 wager is now a doubles game. Note that if no bettor successfully selects all three winners, the full 80% payback is split among ticket holders with any 2 of the 3 game winners correctly selected (i.e. games 4&5, games 4&6, games 5&6). There are 512 possible combinations of Pick 3’s (8 x 8 x 8 = $512).