Only 2 winners in Ontario... Huge $$$

@clark17

 Yup, iv been there. They interrogate you to speal the beans if you have played more than one ticket, and at what stores...etc etc.

At the end of the day, legally they have to pay you your money. But yeah, supper annoying. They treat you like you robbed them, exactly.

@clark17

 You can box every game but like you said, it needs to pay something and upsets need to happen for you to profit.

Me and my friend box 8 games every Sunday and try and pick the rest. Usually I hit one every nfl season. Last year no luck.

Actually there is 15 games. for some reason they are including the Early game in London, England which I've seen before.

I've come across some of these dudes in these syndicates which they spend $5000 on the pools. 10 guys in for $500 a piece.

I've won the Pool on multiple occasions. Hopefully I can get lucky this weekend.

@IceGray

 1280 sound right? I like you play 8 locks but i wait till the bye weeks so you have 12 -13 games and only have to pick 4 or 5 last year i lost money only hit one ticket over 10000 grand need less to say i sent someone else to cash it

@clark17

 Although they integrate you unless you are a inside winner they never follow up on shit. I am considered a inside winner because my wife works at a store that sells lottery tickets the bull sht is she is a pharmacist never sold a ticket in her life.

@KingStreet

 In Ontario this week's card is only 14 games;

@clark17

 London game not included (that Europe game is never included).

The syndicates typically locked 3 favorites.  They had too to keep costs down.  EX: In a 15 game pool, lock 3 games, box 2 ($20/ticket) makes it 10 games to wheel 1,028 combinations.  At $20 per ticket that $20 grand per week.  That's a lot of convenience stores and gas stations to hit but that's what they did... 

With single game betting now legal, pot sizes have gotten smaller and weeks like this (Week 5) you lose a game (from 15 to 14) because of the Europe game in the morning.  Bye weeks kick in soon and the pools are down another couple of games per week . Less games, more winners...  

All sports in OLG Pools suffered.  There was a time when you get a mid week NHL pool paying $50 grand to one winner.  3 NHL pools per week, it was great.  Even PL soccer used to pay $10 grand.

Strategy is all gone, OLG got too many flavors on the Proline menu and all games pay out less money.

I remember when pools came out.  I loved them.

@Battalion74

 Good old times. Used to love NHL pools, like you said they used to pay 50k. Now, I think 1 winner is 20-25k.

Only $4K and change for the winners this past week. The syndicates boxing 10 games would be lucky to break even. Only 12 games for Week 5 Pools card so expect many winners and similar prize payout.

I agree with some previous posters: OLG has *cannibalized* their own Pools program by offering too many other options. The average Joe Pub only has so much to spend on any given Sunday, is he better off spending $80 to box 4 games in Pools and pretty much has no chance in hell to compete the deep-pocketed syndicates or is he better off using that $ for single game wagering, to live to fight another day?