How to Bet Dime Superfecta at Dog Tracks

Play the dime superfecta as you would a regular one, but make sure the track you are wagering on offers it. A superfecta in greyhound racing is tchoosing he correct order of the first four dogs across the finish line. Most tracks have a $1 base for their superfectas, but a growing number, such as Southland in Arkansas, Raynham in Massachusetts, Hinsdale in New Hampshire and Phoenix Greyhound Park in Arizona, are offering the bet.

Realize that when you spend a dime on a superfecta, you will receive one-tenth of what the $1 superfecta ticket pays. While the dime superfecta allows you to afford many more superfecta combinations, you can’t expect it to pay the same. Nonetheless, for a minimum amount of risk you could hit a very nice ticket. One gambler in Arkansas hit a dime superfecta for over $21,000 when nobody else had the combo covered in the regular pools. Having the luxury of betting the dime wager allows you to cover combinations you couldn't afford before. Dime superfectas rarely exceed the standard at which winning parimutuel wagers are taxed. Normally if your winnings on a single wager are more than $600 and 300 times the amount of the wager you are subject to taxes, but a dime superfecta does not pay off to those levels in the vast majority of cases.

Try to box your handicapped selections in a dime superfecta. The possibilities are endless when they only cost a dime, which is the big attraction of a dime superfecta. Boxing a superfecta involves taking at least four dogs and betting on them in a way so that if they are the first four across the line, no matter the order, you are a winner. To box four dogs in the dime superfecta costs just $2.40, five goes for $12 and six for $36.

Don’t forget the dime super keys. Keying a dog in a particular spot on the ticket in a superfecta, whether it is to win, place, show or come fourth, is much more affordable with the dime superfecta. For as little as $.60 you can put a dog on top to win with three others behind it. If the dog wins and those three, no matter the order, are the next ones over the line you will win. To key one dog with four other costs $2.40 and one with five others costs $6.

Always remember to make sure that the paramutual clerk knows that you want the dime superfecta. Those combinations can run up the price of your ticket if they think you are betting regular superfectas and if you are getting a bet in under the gun, with the race about to go off, they may not have time to cancel them. State clearly that you want a dime superfecta and then watch the teller’s screen to make sure that is what you are getting.