Quotes About Wager

The secret behind playing small ball poker isn't so much in the hands you choose to play. It's more about the amount you choose to bet with the hands you end up playing.

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.

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

Since sovereign franchise is the ultimate in human authority, we insure that all who wield it accept the ultimate in social responsibility—we require each person who wishes to exert control over the state to wager his own life—and lose it, if need be—to save the life of the state. The maximum responsibility a human can accept is thus equated to the ultimate authority a human can exert.

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

A very risky gamble.

SHORT! HIER KOMEN!! ... Roots gezicht was paars van woede. Dit was min of meer zijn normale toestand, een feit waaraan hij de bijnaam 'Bietenkop' te danken. Er liep op kantoor een weddenschap over hoe lang hij nog had voor zijn hart zou exploderen. De inzet was een halve eeuw... maximaal.

Poker, n. A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown.

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

Never bet your money on another man's game.

one might say that my entire life has been a wager against chance—

I don't think if people gambled for what they could afford it would be very interesting.

Where I come from, no one settled their disagreements with bets, because no one of us had any money to bet.

Pascal's wager, to her mind: Although an atheist, Pascal said he would make a deathbed confession to God. If there was no God to hear it, what difference did it make? But if there was . . .

Pascal's Wager.

But the smart money says we should act like I'm right. Just in case." "Like Pascal's Wager.

The gambler isn't playing a game; he is just playing.

On the other hand, a discrete event (e.g., a football game, roulette, blackjack, or other casino game) has a defined ending point, which is characteristic of external losses.

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

Casino games are the one kind of content that has stood the test of time for decades.

I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.

INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn't.