Quotes About Betting

Look, for some players, pot odds should guide your decision making.

By taking the lead on the flop, I can give myself opportunities to win more money when I am strong and pick up some uncontested pots when I'm not.

At some point, you're going to see the ability for a fan sitting in a seat to bet, swiping his credit card, whether James Harden is going to score ten 3-pointers or not that night.

The lawyer refused to tell me my brother's name, and my colleagues started a betting pool. The leading candidate: John Travolta. I secretly hoped for a literary descendant of Henry James - someone more talented than I: someone brilliant without even trying.

Hathaway!" Stan barked, coming from the direction of the field. "Nice of you to join us. Get in there now! You're lucky you aren't one of the first ones, " he growled.People were even making bets about whether you'd show. " "Really?" I asked cheerfully. "What kind of odds are there on that? Because I can still change my mind and put down my own bet. Make a little pocket money.

gambling's not a sin provided that you always win.

I don't gamble, if you will concede that poker is a game of skill.

A man who bets on greed and dishonesty won't be wrong too often.

He curled his finger under her chin as he rasped, I'm goin' tae get it right this time, you know. I believe that, Scot. She gazed up at him with all the love she felt. That's why you're still the dark horse I'm betting on.

When you're betting for tiles in an archery contest, you shoot with skill. When you're betting for fancy belt buckles, you worry about your aim. And when you're betting for real gold, you're a nervous wreck. Your skill is the same in all three cases - but because one prize means more to you than another, you let outside considerations weigh on your mind. He who looks too hard at the outside gets clumsy on the inside.

One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.

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

the over-under, is just another example of how the bookmakers are always looking for more options to give the guesser an opportunity

March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a 'gentleman gambler' when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely... There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.

When we got married, nobody gave it more than two weeks. There were bets all over the country, with astronomical odds against us.

There are times when you'll only have one or two seconds to decide if you're going to bet on something and you need to be decisive. You need to do math quickly in your head.

I'm no different from anyone else but I don't trust giving my details online, so any betting I do, I go into a bookies.

I am betting on Google's team to be the epicenter of future breakthroughs.

The seductive game of poker is one that I do not understand. I do not care to understand it, because it cannot be played without the putting up of a good deal of the coin of the realm, and although I have nothing to say against betting, my own theory of conduct in the matter is this, that I want no man's money which I do not earn, and I do not want any man to get my money unless he earns it.

The incurable optimism of the farmer who throws his seed on the ground every spring, betting it and his time against the elements, seemed inextricably to blend with the creed of her pioneer forefathers that it is better farther on-- only instead of farther on in space, it was farther on in time, over the horizon of the years ahead instead of the far horizon of the west.

Wait a minute, Richard said. You're betting that the two of you are better than a professional assassin. That you'll get to him before he gets to Anita. We both nodded. What if you're not better? Edward looked at him like he'd said the sun wouldn't rise tomorrow. Edward will be better, I said. You'd bet your life on that? Richard asked. I am betting my life on that, I said.

The black vampire whispered in her ear again. She laughed, so high and clear you could have bottled it. "Do you practice the laugh, or is it natural talent? Naw, I'm betting you practice." Jean-Claude's face twisted. I wasn't sure if he was trying not to laugh, or not to frown. Maybe both. I affected some people that way. The

I have two basic rules about winning in trading as well as in life: 1. If you don't bet, you can't win. 2. If you lose all your chips, you can't bet.

You can bet on Franco, or Mussolini, or Hitler, if you want. But my money goes on Hipolito.