Sentences with phrase «large bets»

Consequently, they take far more risks and frequently invest in options and futures, buy on margin using borrowed money, short stocks and make large bets on currencies and commodities.

The nature of his system is that you are constantly making large bets for small returns as you try to make up for previous losses.

-- I personally find the combination of large bets and distressed situations quite dangerous.

Typically these market - setting sportsbooks will be the first to move their lines after getting steamed — i.e. taking large bets from well - respected professional bettors.

With this system you are constantly making large bets for small returns as you try to make up for previous losses.

Traditionally, angel investors placed relatively large bets on a small group of startups.

They take much larger bets that would result in line moves like these.

But it's not a particularly large bet: during all but the most extreme periods, the relative performance of the two strategies should not be dramatically different.

Larger bets = sharper bettors (usually), which can help explain the line moving from 7.5 to 7.

Instead I am still writing off my capital loses from times when I made large bets and things went wrong.

«Returns like that are the strange attracters that keep V.C.s in the game of placing large bets on early - stage companies that are just as likely to go broke as to hit it out of the park,» Erik Gordon, a professor at the University of Michigan, said, referring to venture capital firms.

Even though the majority of bettors are taking Navy, these evenly split money percentages indicate there have been several large bets placed on Tulsa.

«You've heard it all, and I just have to keep in front of you that much of the selling we saw [Friday] was deeply related again to the incredibly large bets against volatility made by clueless money managers who expected things would remain calm as they had for ages,» the «Mad Money» host said.

Pinnacle is a market - setting sportsbook with a reputation for taking very large bets from sharp players, revealing that wiseguys are in agreement with recreational bettors regarding the right side of this matchup.

If the total increases, it's an excellent indicator that sharp money (typically large bets by wise guys or betting syndicates) is taking the over.

He beat favourite Roger Hiorns, who was thought to be a foregone conclusion after bookies took large bets in anticipation of him winning.

As part of the so - called Volcker Rule — a regulation that has come to epitomize a tamer Wall Street — banks are also prevented from making large bets with their own money.

On the other hand, sharps are typically wise guys or betting syndicates who spread large bets across multiple sportsbooks.

Sharps are typically wise guys or betting syndicates who spread large bets across multiple sportsbooks.

In most cases, this occurs due to betting syndicates and other key players with the resources to place large bets at multiple locations, all at once.

Now, I know what you're thinking: «If the professionals are betting the dog, shouldn't larger bets balance out the sheer volume of wagers from the public meaning the house actually needs to root for...

Now, I know what you're thinking: «If the professionals are betting the dog, shouldn't larger bets balance out the sheer volume of wagers from the public meaning the house actually needs to root for for New England?»

After the normal bouncing around of openers, there are two other factors that routinely cause substantial movement: injury announcements and large bets before game time.

I'm not sure that as a community we're embracing those sorts of large bets here in the United States.

Tom Hulme, a general partner at GV, formerly Google Ventures, told Business Insider in an interview earlier this year: «To [SoftBank's] credit, they seem to be placing some very specific large bets and investing in public companies as well, which is very interesting.»

On the other hand, sharps are typically defined as wise guys or betting syndicates who place large bets based on data analysis, historical trends and model building.

It's largest bet Planet Hollywood took on Finals.

If your bankroll is large enough to make continuous large bets (1000 times the size of your unit bet), than you will probably win a little in the long term.

There has been slight buyback on GGG at a couple of books and CG Technology in Vegas has taken a couple of large bets over the past few days on the favorite.

If the line instead drops to +7.5 to +7 it means that although more bettors are taking the Sky, more money (or possibly large bets from a respected bettor / betting syndicate) is actually taking the Liberty.

CRIS, one of the most respected sportsbooks based largely on their willingness to accept large bets, opened the Seahawks as 1 - point favorites when their lines were released Sunday night.

There are enough large bets on UTEP that oddsmakers have been able to balance their books and mitigate the influx of public money.

This game is driving an insanely large betting handle already with 73 % of tickets and 79 % of dollars wagered grabbing New Mexico State and the points.

Tuesday's Game 1 of the World Series already is attracting large bets at Las Vegas sportsbooks — almost all of them on the favored Los Angeles Dodgers.

This is the cat and mouse game that goes on nearly every day in larger betting houses; books attempting to identify the advantage customers using their action to identify the «correct side.»

The race has even drawn international speculation, including from Ireland's largest betting service, Paddy Power.

The move comes as Ford and other automakers place increasingly large bets on electrification and self - driving technology.

But, I'm making sure to stay 50 % in cash, so I can place large bets when (hopefully!)

You realize that markets are unpredictable and that it's extremely difficult to earn market - beating returns, so you always have some money in bonds and some money in stocks, and you avoid overly large bets on individual investments and narrow market sectors.

Part of the story involves some very large bets Microsoft made over the past decade or more that simply didn't pay off.

Essential duties of a Casino Dealer are passing cards and gaming items, distributing payouts, confirming larger bets with floor managers, and interacting with customers.

That indicates that although they're receiving a majority of public support, there have been several large bets placed on the Tigers.

In David Purdum's recent article at ESPN Chalk, he reports that large bets by square bettors taking the short trip from California have been on the Dodgers, but sportsbooks expect sharp money to come in on the Astros for both game 1 and the series.

The interesting, central finding of the theory paper is that when a «fortune» (available resources) fall below a certain critical level (determined by the cost per unit time of surviving, and the stochastic return investments available to the investor), the optimal policy becomes what economists call a «risk - seeking» one, where the investor should place relatively large bets on relatively high payoff, low probability of payoff gambles.

Westgate Superbook was seeing similar action, however, much larger bets were being placed on Mayweather.

However, in a nod to the coal industry, the POWER + Plan places a particularly large bet ($ 2 billion over five years in investment tax credits) on carbon capture and sequestration projects: an expensive boondoggle that would prolong coal use.

This split indicates there have likely been a handful of large bets placed on the Falcons +7.

Shareholders are sitting on a very large bet that Lulu is well on its way to becoming a global mega-brand.

In this example, there's been an influx of public money on Utah, but large bets from well - respected clients have taken Colorado.