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The Tote Placepot is one of the most popular bets in racing and for many signals the start to a day’s racing. The Placepot is available every day, at every UK and Irish meeting.
Covering the first six races of the day, you don’t even need to choose the winner to triumph.
There are lots of different ways to select the horses in your Tote Placepot, including:
To understand more about reading the form in a racecard, click here.
Lucky Pick is also available for every bet type on a racecourse and start at just £2. Ask a member of the Tote team for a Lucky Pick bet.
A horse may also catch your eye from the colour of their silks or their name. Each horse is listed in the racecard and on screens at Tote positions so if there’s one you like- pick them!
The number of horses that ‘place’ in a race depends on the numbers of runners. The more horses in the race, the more horses will place, as shown below:
4 or less runners - no place betting, so you need to pick the winner
Between 5 and 8 runners - 1st and 2nd
More than 8 runners - 1st, 2nd and 3rd
Handicaps with 16 or more runners- 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th
To work out the cost of your Placepot, when you have chosen the horses you want to back, multiply the number of selections (horses you’ve picked) in each race to show how many ‘lines’ or bets you are placing. Remember, you can pick more than one horse in each leg.
For example:
Leg 1- 2 selections
Leg 2- 1 selection
Leg 3- 3 selections
Leg 4- 1 selection
Leg 5- 2 selections
Leg 6- 1 selection
2x1x3x1x2x1= 12 lines.
This is effectively 12 separate Placepot bets within the permutation.
Next, decide how much you would like to spend per line and multiply this by the number of lines.
So, the example Placepot will be:
2x1x3x1x2x1= 12 @50p per line = £6
The minimum stake (total cost of your bet) for a Placepot is £2 on-course and 50p at Tote.co.uk or through the Tote Placepot app.
Your winnings depend on the size of the pool which is shared out (after deductions) with all the winners. The fewer people that win, the higher the dividend.
All winnings are paid out to a £1 stake.
After each leg, the Placepot dividend will be updated on Tote.co.uk - keep an eye out on-course for updates to!
The biggest win from a placepot on-course was at The Festival, Cheltenham in 2019. One lucky racegoer won over £182,000 from a £2 stake!
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