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lay and bet
At a 3-4-5x odds table, the maximum odds you lay will always be 6x the amount of the don't pass bet.
Winning don't come bets are paid the same as winning don't pass bets-even money for the original bet and true odds for the odds lay.
Just like the buy bet lay bets pay true odds, but because the lay bet is the opposite of the buy bet, the payout is reversed.
One can also bet with another person that a statement is true or false, or that a specified event will happen ( a " back bet ") or will not happen ( a " lay bet ") within a specified time.
It is possible that you could be getting " the best of it " or " the worst of it " when you lay a bet ; the fact that you are laying a bet does not necessarily mean you are getting " the worst of it ".
A lay bet is a bet that something won't happen, so if you lay $ 50 on a horse then you are betting the horse won't win.
When a large bet comes in, a bookmaker can also try to lay off the risk by buying bets from other bookmakers.
When the Earl arrives ( in his bookie disguise ) he laments having ignored Jeeves ' advice to lay off Captain Biggar's bet, and is shocked to find his sister and brother-in-law have come to visit.
Recent allegations of race fixing have centered around the recently formed betting exchanges which unlike traditional bookmakers allow punters to lay an outcome ( that is, to bet against a particular runner ).
That try became the centre of furore when rumors spread that match referee Darcy Lawler had bet on St. George to win ( Wests captain Arthur Summons later claimed one of his players announced to his team mates before the game that any who had bet on the Magpies to win had better lay off their bets as referee Lawler had backed St. George ).
The Horseshoe is also believed to be the first major casino to offer 100-times-odds at craps ( a patron with a bet on the pass or don't-pass lines could take or lay up to 100 times their bet in odds ).

lay and is
It is hard not to lay most of the blame for their failures on the pope.
Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;
A president is frequently besieged to serve in non-academic civic and governmental capacities, to make speeches to lay groups, and to make numerous ceremonial appearances on and off campus.
and it is not unlikely that, even as the great Bach lay dormant for so many years, so has the erudite, ingenious SalFininistas passed through his `` purgatory '' of neglect.
the lay ministry is a means to recruit like-minded people who will strengthen the social class nucleus of the congregation.
The firm is prominent in making equipment for cleaning seed cotton, driers, and heaters, and they lay claim to being the first maker ( 1910 ) of boil extraction equipment.
In the above mentioned report of the Notre Dame Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, the basic outlook of the new breed of lay faculty emerges very clearly in the very statement of the problem as the members see it: `` Even with the best of intentions he ( the President of the university ) is loath to delegate such authority and responsibility to a group the membership of which, considered ( as it must be by him ) in individual terms, is inhomogeneous, mortal and of extremely varying temperament, interests and capabilities.
This is not only a compliment to Mijbil, of whom there are a fine series of photographs and drawings in the book, but to the author who has catalogued the saga of a frightened otter cub's journey by plane from Iraq to London, then by train ( where he lay curled in the wash basin playing with the water tap ) to Camusfearna, with affectionate detail.
All this will serve to show off the Ory style in fine fashion and is a must for those who want to collect elements of the old-time jazz before it is too late to lay hands on the gems.
Miss Pons is certainly not 70 -- no singer ever is -- and yet the rewards of the evening again lay more in paying tribute to a great figure of times gone by than in present accomplishments.
Ekstrohm lay in his bunk and thought, the camp is quiet.
The ecclesiastical leadership exercised by abbots despite their frequent lay status is proved by their attendance and votes at ecclesiastical councils.
A counterweight is often provided at the other end of the shank to lay it down before it becomes buried.
There is a legend that as an infant, a swarm of bees settled on his face while he lay in his cradle, leaving behind a drop of honey.
It is at this point that Paris gives Aeneas Priam's sword, in order to give legitimacy and continuity to the Royal Line of Troy – and lay the foundations of Rome.
He argues that Kant's " aesthetic " merely represents an experience that is the product of an elevated class habitus and scholarly leisure as opposed to other possible and equally valid " aesthetic " experiences which lay outside Kant's narrow definition.
In fact, Buddhism, in its fundamental form, does not define what is right and what is wrong in absolute terms for lay followers.
Buddhist monks and nuns of most traditions are expected to refrain from all sexual activity and take vows of celibacy ; lay people, however, are not expected to refrain from any specific form of sexual activity, and there is no concept of sinfulness attached to sex.
" Formal axiology, the attempt to lay out principles regarding value with mathematical rigor, is exemplified by Robert S. Hartman's Science of Value.
The funeral is sung about in Heorot as part of a lay during the feasting to mark Beowulf's victory over Grendel.
The path continues to ascend, and the side of the ravine, on which it runs, becomes steeper, until a cave is reached above which the mountain now rises almost perpendicularly ; while on the right, it strikes in a rapid descent down to where, in St Benedict's day, below, lay the blue waters of the lake.

lay and opposite
But finding the sea guarded by a squadron of Octavian's ships, he retired to winter at Patrae while his fleet for the most part lay in the Ambracian Gulf, and his land forces encamped near the promontory of Actium, while the opposite side of the narrow strait into the Ambracian Gulf was also protected by a tower and a body of troops.
For example, in the UK ( and in other Commonwealth countries ), to " table " a motion means to place it on the agenda ( to bring it to the table for consideration ), while in the US it means exactly the opposite —" to remove it from consideration " ( to lay it aside on the table rather than hold it up for consideration ).
In 1842, French Consul General at Mosul, Paul-Émile Botta began to search the vast mounds that lay along the opposite bank of the river.
It opened with a horse-race in the Circus Maximus, whose starting point lay below and opposite to her Aventine Temple ; the turning post at the far end of the Circus was sacred to Consus, a god of grain-storage.
Next was the " Duke of Wellington " which lay approximately 400m closer to London on the southern side of the road, roughly opposite the old Hanwell Police Station.
In 1857 roads and bridges were built to connect the Lackawanna and Bloomsburg Railroad, which lay on opposite sides of the river, so as to be able to mine Newport Mountain.
The South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company had plans to lay their tracks from the eastern most terminal at Charleston, S. C., and to continue to the western most terminal at Hamburg, S. C. on the eastern banks of the Savannah River opposite Augusta, Georgia.
Members can make both " back " bets ( normal bets on a selection to win ) and " lay " bets ( bets on the opposite side of the Back, against the selection ), thereby eliminating the traditional bookmaker.
The tide of the campaign had turned but Napoleon misjudged the strategic situation, thinking that the force that had fought Davout was only a flank guard and that the main force lay before him ; in reality it was the opposite.
The interests of Cuba's future lay with its sister nations in Latin America, and were opposite to those of the United States.
Whilst one side favoured shock action and had faith in the effectiveness of the sword and lance, the opposite contended that the cavalry ’ s future lay in serving as mounted infantry.
In the north it lay opposite the cities of London and Westminster and extended southwards to cover the contemporary districts of Brixton, West Dulwich and West Norwood, almost reaching Crystal Palace.
Several strands are wound around a textile core, their twist is oriented in the same or opposite direction as the individual wires ; this is referred to as Lang lay and regular lay respectively.
The royal manor of Sheen lay on the right ( south ), Surrey, bank of the River Thames, opposite the parish of Twickenham and the royal manor of Isleworth on the left, Middlesex, bank.
It may be a reference to the belief that the island lay directly " opposite " from mainland Portugal ( as it is usually charted ), consistent with the Seven Cities story.
At one point Bateman had to lay off his entire workforce, but their resulting plight made him take them back ; in order to find work for them, he expanded the business into building opposite Salem House — including a derelict windmill which was to become the brewery's trademark.
The northbound and southbound tracks were interlaced so that one rail lay between the tracks in the opposite direction, as points and a single track would have required a signal cabin on the north side of the viaduct.
:::" We may lay it down that Pleasure is a movement, a movement by which the soul as a whole is consciously brought into its normal state of being ; and that Pain is the opposite.
The Navy tunnel system, which lay opposite the hospital, under the south side of Malinta was connected to the main tunnel by a partially completed low passageway through the quartermaster storage lateral.
The lord's family's more private rooms lay beyond the dais end of the hall, and the kitchen, buttery and pantry were on the opposite side of the screens passage.
A supporting group, the Ross Sea party, would meanwhile travel to the opposite side of the continent, establish camp in McMurdo Sound, and from there lay a series of supply depots across the Ross Ice Shelf to the foot of the Beardmore Glacier.

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