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bet and is
`` 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.

bet and opposite
A Don't pass line bet is a bet for the shooter to lose ( shooter " seven out, line away ") and is almost the opposite of the pass line bet.
The don't pass bet is opposite in that it loses if the come-out roll is 7 or 11 and wins if the come-out roll is 2 or 3.
A lay bet is the opposite of a buy bet, where a player bets on a 7 to roll before the number that is laid.
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.
Thus, the wise course on the eleventh spin would be to bet on red, not on black: exactly the opposite of the layman's analysis.
In 1826, as a result of a bet, he is said to have ridden his horse into the Bedford Hotel ( later Midland Bank ), opposite the Town Hall in Leamington Spa, up the grand staircase and onto the balcony, from which he jumped, still seated on his horse, over the diners in the restaurant below, and out through the window onto the Parade.
Waiting on a railway line he would bet on how many trains would pass through the opposite platform.

bet and place
Some casinos will place the bet straddling the outer border of the pass line so as to indicate that it is to be paid the same odds as a place bet, instead of just even money.
The dealer will place the odds on top of the come bet, but slightly off center in order to differentiate between the original bet and the odds.
Only the stickman or a dealer can place a service bet.
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.
Both place and buy bets are bets that the number bet on will be rolled before a 7 is rolled.
Rarely casinos offer the place bet to lose.
The place bet to lose typically carries a lower house edge than a place bet.
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.

bet and wins
If the roll is any other value, it establishes a point ; if that point is rolled again before a seven, the bet wins.
If a 7 is rolled instead of the point being re-rolled, the don't pass bet wins and is paid even money.
This additional bet wins if the point is rolled again before a 7 is rolled ( the point is made ) and pays at the true odds of 2-to-1 if 4 or 10 is the point, 3-to-2 if 5 or 9 is the point, and 6-to-5 if 6 or 8 is the point.
The second round wins if the shooter rolls the come bet point again before a seven.
Traditionally, the buy bet commission is paid no matter what, but in recent years a number of casinos have changed their policy to charge the commission only when the buy bet wins.
Where commission is charged only on wins, the commission is often deducted from the winning payoff — a winning $ 25 buy bet on the 10 would pay $ 49, for instance.
* Martingale – A system based on staking enough each time to recover losses from previous bet ( s ) until one wins.
The player with the stronger poker hand in three ( or more ) out of the five columns, wins, unless a player folds on a bet that was made.
If a player's front hand beats the dealer's front hand, and the player's rear hand beats the dealer's rear hand, then that player wins the bet.
If one hand wins and the other loses, the player is said to push, and gets back only the money he or she bet.
If each of the player's now-separated hands beat the banker's corresponding hand then he wins the bet.
If only one of his hands beats the banker then he pushes ( ties ) in which case neither he nor the banker wins the bet.
In the beginning of Act One, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern bet on coin flips and Rosencrantz wins with heads ninety-two times in a row.
These combinations are stated to be played on a minimum bet ( usually 1 credit per line, with 1 line or reel played ), excluding feature wins.
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.
* 1978, David Levy wins the bet made 10 years earlier, defeating the Chess 4. 7 in a six-game match by a score of 4. 5 – 1. 5.
A bet to show wins if the horse finishes first, second or third.
The full odds are paid if the horse wins, ( plus the place portion ), with a quarter or a fifth of the odds ( depending on the race-type and the number of runners ) if only the place section of the bet is successful.
If no opponents call a player's bet or raise, the player wins the pot.
* In Sporting Blood ( 1931 ), Gambler Warren ' Rid ' Riddell ( Clark Gable ) wins a racehorse, Tommy Boy, on a bet.

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