One interesting thing to note about breakage is that it's Lottery Domain Review  better to play a horse with odds placed at 1/9. This is because for win wagers, the minimum payout is $2.40 and even if the payout is supposed to be lower for a 1/9 odds, the track is required to give the minimum payout, so there's no breakage to worry about here.

 

How do you get your wagers from getting affected by breakage?

 

There's really no way you can avoid it. You can simply choose to bet in situations when breakage won't figure in heavily, for example, in longshots or in exotic wagers like trifectas. Breakage is an issue in favorites and in place and show pools. But this approach would severely limit your betting. It's much better to simply view breakage as part of the whole process and that while it could cost you heavily on certain days, it will also not matter much in others. Eventually, it will just even out.