20150213684 | System and Method to Increase Handle in Pari-Mutuel Betting Environments - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for pari-mutuel wagering are disclosed. In one aspect, a method of supporting a wager type for a pari-mutuel betting race having a predetermined number of participants includes: receiving odds data for each of the predetermined number of participants in the race; removing, from the predetermined number of participants, one or more favorites to win the race based on the odds data, thereby forming a reduced field of participants for consideration in the race; and providing the reduced field of participants to a totalizer system for use in calculating a pari-mutuel payout for a wager of the wager type based on the reduced field of participants and an outcome of the race once run with the one or more favorites, while ignoring the one or more favorites for purposes of the wager type. | 07-30-2015 |