Quotes About Betting

I also feel fairly confident that the original Texaco Salvatore was a good family man, with perhaps a propensity for wearing his wife's panties and betting his kids' college money at the track, but otherwise a solid dude.

Courtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is the deadly danger of winning.

One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider.

At a tight table with a full complement of players, you need to assume that bets mean pretty much what they're supposed to mean.

For a continuation bet to be a profitable move, the amount of the bet has to be carefully chosen in comparison to the pot. In essence, you are hoping to buy the pot right now. If you overpay, you'll lose too much money when your opponent calls with a hand better than yours. If you underpay, you'll be offering your opponent correct pot odds to stick around with a drawing hand. Neither situation is good, so the exact amount of the bet is very important.

probing bets to be a little smaller than my continuation bets, since I'm starting from a weaker position. (It was my opponent, rather than me, who took the lead in the hand.) Anywhere from 30 percent to 50 percent of the pot is a good range.

I think there needs some attention to be paid to what sport is going to represent to young people: should it be viewed in the competitive, team-oriented sense that it is now, or does it become a vehicle for betting, which may, in effect, change the atmosphere in the stadiums and the arenas?

The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.

It was every day on the horses and every single race. I was betting on anything; horses, dogs, virtual racing, roulette.

The black market poses a greater risk to the integrity of sports than open, visible, and regulated betting.

Hold'em — like life itself — has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting.

him betting. Taff and the others could hardly be persuaded not to accept such easy pickings, which left the source of the cash, Harry Gilbert himself. Precisely what, I wondered

Chico was a small-time hustler and big-time loser who liked to bet the ponies and hit women. He was more successful at the latter.

Unlike some other gurus, he doesn't believe he is predicting the future; he is simply observing what is happening and making rational bets.

Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.

A horseman of the old school, a gentleman who never forgot to dip down and stake you when he win. He was more ashamed to be stingy than to be broke, so as long as he had two dollars you had one . . .

people on average prefer to bet on their own judgment over an equally probable chance event when they consider themselves competent about the event being judged.

I understand it is 13-8 against Egon Ronay publishing a Good Betting Shop Food Guide by 1997.

Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.

He was betting on a jilted caddie or a jealous husband.

Expecting a Republican to do the tough and right and uncomfortable thing in the face of Donald Trump was like betting on the Washington Generals.

Some people play a horse to win, some to place. I should have bet this horse to live.

If you wagered $5,000 on each of my winning NFL picks in 2012 and $500 ($550) on each of my losing picks, you'd be ahead $70,050. Wow.

One of the worst things that can happen in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age.