What is "betting"

Usage examples of "betting".

Seven-Stud, no High-Low or twists or wild cards, and the betting seemed to be limited and three raises only.

The pot he could win was shoved to one side and the betting went on in the centre, and all he could do was sit and sweat it out.

He was one of the ones betting against the acceptance of the heir designation.

My expert advice can bring you far more favorable betting opportunities than this.

By the laws of this game, Stile could consider the proxies to be part of his betting assets.

The inconsiderate boaster was guilty of a double mistake for which he paid the penalty of his life, but his adversary was as much wanting in delicacy, for in such matters rightly-minded men do not venture upon betting.

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If I expected to score by betting on fighters and football teams that had been doped with ZAP, I needed Bobby because he knew bookies all over , the country and could cobble up a giant swindle.

MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-1798 IN LONDON AND MOSCOW, Volume 5c--THE ENGLISH THE ENGLISH CHAPTER X Eccentricity of the English--Castelbajac Count Schwerin--Sophie at School--My Reception at the Betting Club--The Charpillon I passed a night which seemed like a never-ending nightmare, and I got up sad and savage, feeling as if I could kill a man on the smallest provocation.

Max why we might want to consider investing a significant chunk of our betting kitty in a ten-dollar exacta wheel tomorrow night.

There was consequently great excitement and the betting and the bowling of the laughter rose to Furber with such a ring of vulgar, brazen joy that he rushed in anger from his garden, as pale-eyed and black as he could make himself, and flew down among them to stalk stiff-legged like a jackdaw, clacking futilely.

Although there were only the two of us, the meal lasted a long time, as I was anxious for additional information on what I had heard in the morning, especially on the Betting Club.

T-shirts, and warm-up jackets, and crummy polyester suits, and a sleazoid schlockmeister like Pat Parker was betting that he was going to sell plenty of copies of any book called THE WORD ACCORDING TO RALF too.

For nearly a week he went about in a happy trance: and when, by thrift and enterprisethat is to say, by betting Reggie van Tuyl that the New York Giants would win the opening game of the series against the Pittsburgh baseball teamhe contrived to double his capital, what it amounted to was simply that life had nothing more to offer.

Most of the immense, ugly structure, which had always looked like the box some other building had been shipped in, was now occupied only by tax accountants, 3V producers, whores, mosquitoes, anthologists, brokers, blimp-race betting agencies, public-relations firms, travel agents, and other telephone-booth Indians, plus hordes and torrents of plague-bearing brown rats and their starving fleas.