• ___ on Jazz (cable station)
• 'Wanna ___?'
• $2 on the nose e.g.
• 100 dollars on Whirlaway, e.g.
• 106 & Park network
• A couple of chips, maybe
• A favorite is a good one
• A few bucks at Pimlico
• A few chips, perhaps
• Ante
• Ante matter
• Ante, for one
• Aqueduct action
• Atlantic City transaction
• Back a horse
• Backup with bucks
• Belmont Park action
• Big A action
• Big A venture
• Bit of bookie business
• Bookie business
• Bookie transaction
• Bookie's booking
• Bookie's concern
• Bouncing
• Cable channel that airs jazz and hip-hop shows
• Cable network
• Cable viewer's choice
• Cable viewer's choice (abbr.)
• Call, e.g.
• Call, perhaps
• Cash on hand?
• Casino action
• Casino transaction
• Chance
• Check alternative
• Chip in a pot
• Chip in chips
• Chip of the old pot?
• Chip unit*
• Chip, maybe
• Comic View channel
• Common $2 item
• Count on a long shot
• Craps action
• Croupier's concern
• Croupier's request
• Daily double
• Daily double, e.g.
• Derby transaction
• Dice game action
• Do a little gambling
• Don't ___ on it!
• Don't come, e.g.
• Double or nothing, e.g.
• Double-or-nothing
• Enjoy a casino
• Enter the pool
• Exacta e.g.
• Flier
• Gamble
• Gambler's risk
• Gambling wager
• Get in a pool
• Get in the pool
• Go all in, e.g.
• Go all-in, say
• Go into a pool
• Hialeah action
• Home of 106 & Park
• Invite to call
• It can be placed at a window
• It makes the pool larger
• It may be called
• It may be hedged
• It may be made in Nevada
• It may be placed before a window
• It may be placed on a sailing race
• It may be safe
• It may cost you $2 at the track
• It may elicit a call
• It might be a raise
• It might be placed in Nevada
• It's made by one who doesn't go out
• It's of mutuel interest
• It's on the line
• It's placed
• It's placed at the track
• It's placed in a casino
• It's revealed when the chips are down
• It's something to see
• Item in a hedge?
• Jump into a pool?
• Lay
• Lay it down in Vegas
• Lay it on the line
• Lay odds
• Lay on the line
• Make a wager
• Make book
• Make it interesting
• Monetary risk
• Money on a horse
• Money on the line
• Monte Carlo action
• Not check
• Oaklawn transaction
• One is often seen at the card table
• One may need settling
• One place to see hip hop videos
• One place to see R&B videos
• One riding on a racehorse
• Open a round, in poker
• Pari-mutuel transaction
• Parlay
• Parlor transaction
• Patronize Harrah's
• Patronize Luxor
• People do it a lot on putts in Caddyshack
• Perfecta or trifecta
• Perfecta, e.g.
• Pick a pony
• Pimlico transaction
• Place a wager
• Play a trifecta
• Play favorites, perhaps
• Play favorites?
• Play Megabucks
• Play the daily double
• Play the daily double, e.g.
• Play the horses
• Play the numbers
• Play the odds
• Play the perfecta
• Play the point spread
• Play the point spread, e.g.
• Play the ponies
• Play the slots
• Play the slots, e.g.
• Play the slots, maybe
• Poker action
• Pot addition
• Pot builder
• Push in some chips
• Put (on)
• Put at risk
• Put bucks on the Bulls, say
• Put chips in a pot
• Put chips on the roulette table
• Put coins in slots
• Put dough on a horse?
• Put money (on something)
• Put money (on)
• Put money on a Super Bowl team
• Put money on it
• Put money on the game
• Put on the line
• Put one's two cents in?
• Put some money down
• Put some money towards Magic, say
• Put up, in a way
• Quinella or perfecta
• Quinella, e.g.
• Racetrack deal
• Racetrack transaction
• Raise a raise
• Raise, perhaps
• Raise, sometimes
• Rap City channel
• Red or black, at a gaming table
• Red or black, e.g.
• Reno action
• Reno risk
• Reno transaction
• Risk
• Risk funds
• Risk money
• Risked sum
• Risky thing to make, perhaps
• Risky transaction
• Rouge or noir, e.g.
• Run a risk
• See or call
• See or call, in poker
• See, say
• Something laid down
• Something staked
• Something to lay on your hand
• Something to see
• Something to see, perhaps
• Sports wager
• Stack of chips, perhaps
• Stack of chips, sometimes
• Stake
• Stake money (on)
• Straight up, in roulette
• Strongly suspect
• Superfecta, e.g.
• Take a chance
• Take a flier
• Take odds
• Take the odds
• The Bobby Jones Gospel Hour airer
• The favorite is a good one
• The Who's You Better You ___
• Ticket window transaction
• Toss in a chip
• Totalizator's recording
• Tout's topic
• Track act
• Track action
• Track deal
• Track doing
• Track event
• Track move
• Track placement
• Track record?
• Track ticket
• Track transaction
• Track wager
• Trifecta
• Trifecta e.g.
• Trifecta or superfecta
• Trifecta, for one
• Try for a trifecta
• Try for a trifecta, say
• Try to beat the house
• TV's 'You ___ Your Life'
• Two dollars, at Pimlico
• Use a chip
• Use a pari-mutuel machine
• Use a parimutuel
• Vegas action
• Vegas activity
• Vegas stake
• Vegas transaction
• Vegas venture
• Vegas verb
• Venture at Santa Anita
• Venture money at Vegas
• Ventured
• Viacom has agreed to buy it
• Visit Vegas, maybe
• Wager
• Wager^BE
• What every poker game needs at least one of*
• What you can't do after mucking
• What you do with your boots
• Word with wanna or you
• You ___ Your Life
• You ___!
• You ___! (O.K.!)
• You Better You ___
• You might put one on a horse
• The act of gambling
• The money risked on a gamble
• Investors were willing to bet on the company, and its shares jumped $1.94 to $9.06.
• The New Jersey fund has bet $40 million on small stocks.
• The market bet heavily that the dollar would fall.
• Do we really want to bet the ranch on this deal?
• They like selling short, or making a bet that share prices will decline.
• Shearson placed a big bet on junk bonds and lost.
• a huge $11 billion bet on US interest rates that went wrong
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In his opinion, no fee can compensate for the risk of betting a large chunk of a firm's capital on a single deal.
bet that »Some investors are betting that interest rates will rise.
bet against sth »You wouldn't want to bet against inflation rising later in the year.
A lot of people made a bet on housing and lost.
a bet pays off »He borrowed heavily to start the business, and the bet has paid off.
Jenson's bet is that properties will remain scarce and rents will keep rising.