Quotes About Betting

I think there's a mental block for betting big amounts that doesn't exist for me but it does for other people.

On first blush, Hold 'em seems like a ridiculously simple game.

I truly believe that at some point they're going to have kiosks in every NBA arena, like they do at the airport when you get your boarding pass, so you can bet on the games.

I'm not really a gambler, but I'll bet on the Super Bowl or some boxing. Something I feel comfortable with.

Most major sports benefit from the fact that betting by the general public fuels fan interest and boosts television ratings. The Super Bowl and 'March Madness' are prime examples. But sports other than boxing draw a clear line where betting by participants is concerned.

The first bet I remember was on the Chargers in Super Bowl 29 with my classmates. I lost a lot of weeks' allowance.

The rules of the betting are intelligent: recent events and the current context have the most weight in determining an interpretation. When no recent event comes to mind, more distant memories govern.

When uncertain, System 1 bets on an answer, and the bets are guided by experience. The rules of the betting are intelligent: recent events and the current context have the most weight in determining an interpretation. When no recent event comes to mind, more distant memories govern.

walked to the door. "You know, you don't have to show me the way. I done this enough times now, I know how to get there." "Yeah, probably," the guard said. "They just like us to walk along with you, make sure you don't get lost along the way. Besides, I've got money on you tonight. You're not gonna disappoint me, are you?

I say - I don't mind betting this is the most popular thing Campbell ever did. Nothing in life became him like the leaving of it, eh, what?

I never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Never.

By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against them, short-selling acts as a sort of policing system; legal short-sellers have been instrumental in helping expose firms like Enron and WorldCom.

I used to work in a warehouse in Woodville North and we always used to take bets like most places do on Cup day... and I was lucky three years in a row. I always picked the right horse.

Category No. 3: Two aces with a low card.

What I learned at LucasArts was, you don't make your bets on ideas: ideas are cheap. You make your bets on people.

The Chinese government does not like people betting against the yuan.

It's rare to find these true coin flip situations in Hold'em but surprisingly common in Omaha. That's one of the reasons why Omaha is the perfect game for action junkies who relish the notion of flipping coins for large sums of money.

Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it's the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.

The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.

Ain't only three things to gambling: knowing the 60-40 end of the proposition, money management, and knowing yourself.

A race track is a place where windows clean people.

No dog can go as fast as the money you bet on him.

Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

In most betting shops you will see three windows marked 'Bet Here', but only one window with the legend 'Pay Out'.