`` This is moving day '', Winston reminded her, `` and I bet you left things every which way upstairs, your clothes all over the floor and the bed not made.

I think the best bet is to go through the society columns of last year and see if any of the grooms match with the obituaries a little later.

Sailfish are so plentiful that boat captains have been known to bet with a potential customer that if he does not catch anything the trip is free.

The samples they collected there, although their origin is still not certain, are, according to geologist Don Wilhelms, " a reasonable bet to be Descartes.

The bet in a merger arbitrage is that such a spread will eventually be zero, if and when the takeover is completed.

The bet in this municipal bond arbitrage is that, over a longer period of time, two similar instruments — municipal bonds and interest rate swaps — will correlate with each other ; they are both very high quality credits, have the same maturity and are denominated in U. S. dollars.

* Binary betting, a bet on a proposition which is quoted as a spread bet

The player whose bet is at the front of the betting box is deemed to have control over the position, and the dealer will consult the controlling player for playing decisions regarding the hand ; the other players of that box are said to " play behind ".

Any player is usually allowed to control or bet in as many boxes as desired at a single table, but it is prohibited for an individual to play on more than one table at a time or to place multiple bets within a single box.

If the dealer does not bust, each remaining bet wins if its hand is higher than the dealer's, and loses if it is lower.

Blackjack games almost always provide a side bet called insurance, which may be played when dealer's upcard is an ace.

At least one further side bet is usually provided.

* Double down The player is allowed to increase the initial bet by up to 100 % in exchange for committing to stand after receiving exactly one more card.

The additional bet is placed in the betting box next to the original bet.

When the outcome of the dealer's hand is established, any hands with bets remaining on the table are resolved ( usually in counter-clockwise order ): bets on losing hands are forfeited, the bet on a push is left on the table, and winners are paid out.

Insurance is a side bet that the dealer has blackjack and is treated independently of the main wager.

It pays 2: 1 ( meaning the player receives two dollars for every dollar bet ) and is available when the dealer's exposed card is an ace.

Odds can also be placed on a don't come-bet just like a pass line bet ; in this case the dealer ( not the player ) places the odds bet on top of the bet in the box, because of limited space, slightly offset to signify that it is an odds bet and not part of the original don't come bet.

It's also imperative to vary both the way to draw the numbers of new cards in equal situations and how to bet both before and after the draw.

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.

Not only do the parties hope to gain from the bet, they place the bet also to demonstrate their certainty about the issue.

He also admitted asking Pieter Strydom to place a R50 bet on South Africa to win for him.

A player who matches a bet may also " raise ," or increase the bet.

These situations may also occur when a player has a made hand with little chance of improving what is believed to be currently the best hand, but an opponent continues to bet.

Parimutuel gambling is often also offered at " off track " facilities, where players may bet on the events without actually being present to observe them in person.

Similar to fortune pai gow, is emperors challenge which also allows a side bet on a 7 card pai gow ( no hand ).

The maximum theoretical payout, assuming 100 % return to player would be 1000 times the bet, but that would leave no room for other pays, making the machine very high risk, and also quite boring.

He also forfeited the use of the Power Gem, having made a bet with the She-Hulk in which he agreed to never use the Gem again if she defeated him.

In modern Hebrew a synagogue is called either a beyt knesset, meaning " house of assembly "; or beyt t ' fila ( also written as bet tepilla ), meaning " house of prayer ", in Yiddish shul, from the German for " school ," and in Ladino esnoga.

At some establishments, the " reverse teaser " also exists, which alters the spread against the gambler, who gets paid at more than evens if the bet wins.

He also admitted to betting on Reds games, but said that he never bet against the Reds.

Those records also show he bet on every game that Gullickson started during the time period which the betting notebook covered.

* Theodor Geisel, also known as Dr. Seuss, wrote the well-known children's book Green Eggs and Ham using only 50 different words on a 50 dollar bet with Bennet Cerf.

The only real advantage offered by the Big 6 & 8 is that they can be bet for the table minimum, whereas a place bet minimum may sometimes be greater than the table minimum ( e. g. $ 6 place bet on a $ 3 minimum game.

Gorske claimed that he first tried a Whopper after his friend bet him $ 5 to do so, and that he then spent the money on Big Macs.

Big bets are generally double the wager of the initial or small bet.

He made a well-known bet with Hartland Snyder in about 1955 that anti-protons could not exist ; when he lost the bet, he speculated that the reason anti-matter does not appear to be abundant in the universe is that before the Big Bang, a single particle, the " universon " existed that then decayed into " cosmon " and " anti-cosmon ," and that the cosmon subsequently decayed to produce the known cosmos.

She manages to chase off Munk and Mambo and tip the scales of good and evil, causing a series of fairy tales to go wrong and have unhappy endings including Jack getting stepped on by the Giant ( John DiMaggio ), Little Red Riding Hood being eaten by the Big Bad Wolf, and Rumpelstiltskin ( Michael McShane ) winning his bet with the miller's daughter and takes her baby.

* to pay $ 1 if the Red Sox win tomorrow's game ; the purchaser of this promise loses his bet if the Red Sox do not win regardless of whether their failure is due to their loss of a completed game or cancellation of the game, and

The POW bet on the races, and money was raised and donated to the Red Cross.

Simon Cowell said that Ashley's bet was the inspiration behind his new game show called Red or Black ?.

Joe was fired from Red Fox for gluing his face to the table on a five-dollar bet ; he would get his job back a month later due to an unexplained phone call.