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Slate's "Political Futures" application allows users to choose where they would place a bet if they had $500 to wager on the outcome of the 2008 race for the White House. Leveraging Slate's "Political Futures" tool, which databases the big three political prediction markets, the application shows where the pretend wager falls in relation to real bets and maps out how other people in a user's network placed their "bets."
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This is the simplest and most common horse wager. You wager on a race winner at given odds. You collect if your chosen horse is the first to cross the finish line.
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This is a very traditional wager and if your selection wins the race, you win the bet. It is known as a "simple wager' although it is not simple to pick the winner.
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This wager requires the player to pick the winners of three consecutive races. Some race tracks have a rolling pick 3 which is when the player must pick three races in a row and it continues for the next three races.
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