Remember yesterday when I was swearing off of PF Wagering forever?
Well…. arbitrage is arbitrage. And I saw some better opportunities on Day 17. Combine that with winning another PF Race and it was a wonderful day for the Bankroll Builder Challenge.
Here are the Details!
Day 17 (Feb. 21st, 2024) Results:
Day 17 started off with a Bankroll of $425.47, 2 Photo Finish Horses and 7 Zed Run Horses.
The “Sweepstakes” Casinos are an automatic daily bonus, easy enough to start there.
Sweeps Casinos:
Everything was back on track here with the Sweeps Casinos.
I won my Chumba Blackjack hand, Stake came in 1 cent behind the full $1.00 bonus I get there, and Pulsz struggled a bit again with a $0.10 reward.
- Pulsz – up $0.10
- Stake – up $0.99
- Chumba – up $2.00
Pokerstars:
It was a nice little day on Pokerstars again on Day 17. I hit my $1 Roulette spin and got 5 Free Spins (one of the best outcomes) for another $1.93 in profit on their “Classic” slot.
Pokerstars – up $2.93
FanDuel Sportsbook/Casino:
So on Day 16, I told you a story about how I was driving to daycare and missed Wagering on the “Race of the Day”.
Well, on Day 17 the “Race of the Day” was scheduled for like 9:25 PM EST or something absurd like that. Way past my bedtime… no action. Lol.
FanDuel — up $0.00
DraftKings Sportsbook/Casino:
Hit both of my bets on DraftKings!
- Liverpool & O 2.5 Goals (+$0.64)
- Over 0.5 Goals 1st 10 min – BOS-EDM (+$1.50)
I’ve thought about increasing my unit size on DraftKings… but it’s hard when there’s Promos that are ‘good-but-not-great’.
I’m going to start chasing Crowns (DK Crowns — not the PF kind) with some DFS Entries tomorrow – and I think I’m going to include those Results in the study; even though DFS is incredibly variable.
DraftKings — up $2.14
Zed Run: (sucks)
May or may not have accidentally withdrawn around $3 in $ZED to fund my PF gambling habit. Thought about replacing it & then I was like eh… I’ll make it back someday.
Zed Run — down $3.41
Photo Finish Live:
Okay, so after yesterday’s rant and losing Picks — I was completely out of DERBY.
But I want to show you what I saw:
https://photofinish.live/races/season0012-custom-storm-cloud-trail-841
We had a field of 8 in an LDF where 3 Horses were either S or S+ and matched preferences, 1 horse was an A+ matched preferences, and 4 Horses were just all kinds of nonsense-not-matched preferences. Including some A’s and A-‘s.
I knew I wanted to get some Place money down — so I bet on the #3, the #6, and the #7 to Place. The result came in 7-3-6 and just like that I had made $2.06 in PF Wagering! Finally!
That brings us to Race #2:
https://photofinish.live/races/season0012-custom-farmers-trail-1746
It’s an RTS with a field of 6 Horses. There are
- 3 S Horses that strongly match RTS
- an S+ that lightly matches RTS
- an S RTF
- and an A+ LTS.
However, there was a massive 800 DERBY Place Bet on the #4. Thinking I had an arbitrage opportunity, I went with 3 Place Bets on the 3 of 4 competitors (#1, #2, #3) — and again; hit the top 2 Spots for $4.86 worth of DERBY profit.
I wanted to go in-depth and provide these links because there is definitely easy money out there in some of these PF Fields — I just can’t force myself and try to cover 6/12 Horses in bigger Races because I think I know something.
I’m very dumb – but I’m going to continue to look for these obvious opportunities to use a little arbitrage and pass on the Races that have a bit more ‘risk’ associated with them.
And oh yeah — I won ANOTHER PF Race. Astral Avenger is absolutely on fire with 3 of his past 5 Races coming in with the W’s!
https://photofinish.live/races/season0012-custom-benchmark-royal-classic-allowance-7519
If you’re not racing your lower FF Horses in “Benchmark” Races; you need to check your strategy.
I’ve raced him just over breakeven ROI in terms of DERBY alone over the past 2 Weeks which obviously amounts for some huge CROWN profits. I’m hoping to make another purchase (will be a foal or female) soon to keep growing.
I’ll also say that just from these initial entries, I was able to stake 132.57 CROWN for the season — something I’m very excited to keep my eye on as Season 12 progresses.
Photo Finish — up $59.01
ESPN Bet:
I lost on my $1 slot, but I was able to spin my 10 Bonus Spins for a total of $1.84 to make up the difference!
ESPN BET – up $0.84
DNA Racing:
It’s a simple ‘hodl’ day for DNA Racing.
DNA — up to $1.64
Coinbase:
Going to go back to the ‘listing the Balances’ method here:
- SOL $9.71 (5% APY)
- MATIC $5.16 (2.4% APY)
- ATOM $4.85 (9.2% APY)
Coinbase — up $0.11
Day 17 Summary:
My insistence on continuing to learn how I can make Photo Finish Wagering for me feels good… definitely better than rage quitting.
$59 out of $66 of today’s profits were related to Photo Finish, and I do want to continue to figure out where my unit size should be on the Sportsbooks without potentially messing up my Profits.
I say this a lot – but I never thought I’d be having $60+ profit days in this Challenge… it reminds of 2021 waking up to Zed Stud Fees in my Wallet; except I’m not putting up Podcasts about how shitty the team is.
Total for Day 16: UP $66.35
In total, the Challenge Bankroll stands at:
- $491.82
- 2 Photo Finish Horses
- 7 Zed Horses
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