The Hong Kong Jockey Cub will allocate an eight million dollar jackpot to the Quartet & First 4 Merged Pool - the highest amount allocated since its launch - for the Happy Valley race meeting this Wednesday, 29 April. With eight races on the card, each race of the night meeting will carry a one million dollar top-up.
Among the winners who have earned a huge payout in Quartet & First 4 Merged Pool, some winners have used a multiple formula while some have made use of a banker-bet formula, which is a way to pick more horse selections but with fewer combinations and therefore to reduce the bet amount. Details are below:
Quartet
Race meeting |
Quartet formula
|
No. of combination
|
Unit bet amount
|
Bet amount
|
Total dividend
|
4/ 2/ 2015
|
Multiple: 4 selections
|
24
|
$10
|
$240
|
$242,805.00
|
4/ 2/ 2015
|
Banker: 1 banker 4 selections (total 5 selections)
|
24
|
$10
|
$240
|
$242,805.00
|
4/ 2/ 2015
|
Banker Multiple: 1 banker 4 selections (total 5 selections)
|
96
|
$5
|
$480
|
$212,483.50
|
1/ 2/ 2015
|
Banker Multiple: 1 banker 4 selections (total 5 selections)
|
96
|
$5
|
$480
|
$204,718.50
|
First 4
Race meeting |
First 4 formula
|
No. of combination
|
Unit bet amount
|
Bet amount
|
Total dividend
|
25/ 1/ 2015
|
Multiple: 6 selections
|
15
|
$10
|
$150
|
$42,143.00
|
25/ 1/ 2015
|
Banker: 2 bankers 7 selections (total 9 selections)
|
21
|
$9.52
|
$200
|
$40,136.00
|
All betting pools for this Wednesday’s race meeting, including Quartet & First 4 Merged Pool will start selling at Off-Course Betting Branches (OCBBs), Telebet, and Interactive Services from noon this Tuesday, 28 April.
*Customers must be aged 18 and above