The "In Play" Limit

I'm still processing the results for last weekend. I'm sorry it's late, but I had some complicated entries to process. One of which speaks to the new "In Play" rule, and is a good example of how it can be used.

In lieu of the old "250 or 25% of your total per week" limit, the new limit is that you can have 250 points or 25% of your winnings In Play at any given time. In Play means only that a wajer has been placed, and not resolved yet. You can actually play a lot more than 250 in a weekend, based on the timing of the games. One player made this play:

• 75 units on three 11 AM games
• 25 units on one PM game
• 25 units on one 2 PM game
• 115 units on four 2:30 PM games

This brings him to 240, which is close the max, but then:

• The 11 AM games end, freeing 75 units, making his In Play 165.

Once a wajer is resolved, those units are no longer In Play and may be wajered again. For a single game, the wajer is resolved when it ends; for parlays, it is resolved when one play within the parlay loses, or all games in the parlay are complete. Which happens here:

• 25 units on one 3 PM game, making his In Play 190.
• The 1:00 game ends, freeing 25 units and making his In Play 165.
• 50 units on two 5 PM games, making his In Play 215.
• The 2:00 game ends, freeing 25 units and making his In Play 190.
• The 2:30 games end, freeing 115 units and making his In Play 75.
• 100 units on four 6:00 or 6:30 games, making his In Play 175.
• The 3 PM game ends, making his In Play 150.
• Two more wajers for 50 in later games, making his In Play 200 at the end of the night.

So he wajered a total of 540 in a day, without ever being over 250 at any given time.

When the website is finished (which it almost is, I swear), all of this will happen automatically. Games, and plays made on them, will be resolved every 15 minutes or so. Your In Play total will be kept current, and you'll be told what it is each time you make a play.