Sentences with phrase «less than gambling»

Theoretically, the variance would be less than gambling on rookies.

Not exact matches

The gambling can be done at any time, on any device, with average playing round lasting less than a minute.

After the last update of «Byzantium» on the Ethereum network, the transaction processing fee of the gambling smart - contract has dropped to a few cents and now is less than 0.5 % of the minimum bet.

The great majority of the 183 tribes that have gambling facilities (in 28 states) bring in revenues of less than $ 1.5 million yearly.

He wanted to come to us, cost less than Xhaka — idiotic gamble on Xhaka (who is a good player btw) instead of buying Premiership experienced, marathon man Kante, for less!!!! Total and utter idiocy.

It is less of a gamble than the Ox, and definitely less than Chambers.

Instead we took a big gamble on a player valued at less than # 30 million, that had been a huge flop at United.

Even at such a bargain price the investment made by Brendan Rodgers in January 2013 was still something of a gamble, though perhaps less so than subsequent deals for the likes of Mario Balotelli, and the Northern Irishman has done well to nurture Coutinho and show him enough faith to help the player mature into a real world - class talent.

I suppose his worth a gamble, if he costs less than 20 million, he's still very young.

Once again AW want us to trust (more properly to gamble) on TW14, which is lesser than Giroud for years, leading the role.

Of the 224 signings, over half (114) went on to make less than twenty starts for the club and although some may have been considered a gamble for the future this appears to be a damning level of success; recognising that a handful are still on the books and may yet establish solid careers in the claret and blue.

Opponents of casino gambling rallied supporters in Springfield, Massachusetts last night where a citywide referendum on MGM Resorts» $ 800 million casino development is less than three weeks away.

With less than 24 hours before the polls open and New Yorkers consider an amendment to expand casino gambling, the pro-casino group New York Jobs Now released two TV ads Monday highlighting support from newspaper editorials and bipartisan backing.

Updating a 2005 report called «Stacking the Deck,» Common Cause New York says gambling interests have raised more than $ 3 million in less than three years, passing the cash along to elected officials and a series of pro-gambling groups.

But another group making a strikingly similar argument for the casino amendment is All In For Jobs, a labor - backed entity that references casinos and gambling even less than New York Jobs Now.

Robb Smith, Executive Director of Interfaith Impact of New York State and a member of the Coalition of Gambling in New York, said that because gambling already exists in Saratoga, also home to the iconic flat track, the arrival of a casino could have less of a negative impact than in otheGambling in New York, said that because gambling already exists in Saratoga, also home to the iconic flat track, the arrival of a casino could have less of a negative impact than in othegambling already exists in Saratoga, also home to the iconic flat track, the arrival of a casino could have less of a negative impact than in other areas.

With less than 48 hours until the first race of the 2012 season at Saratoga Race Course — today we're talking gambling.

Less than 1 percent of the entire population is addicted to gambling — a rate that has held steady for 40 years — even though surveys of American adults show that 72 percent have gambled at least once in the prior year.

Pathological gambling may have less to do with the thrill of winning than with the downer of losing, reports Vanderbilt University neuroscientist David Zald.

There will be a day / night cycle dictating NPC movement patterns, as well as gambling minigames, stores, and a black market analog for purchasing less than legal equipment.

Casting the physically dissimilar Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon - Levitt as the same person 30 years apart was a huge gamble that pays off beautifully, thanks less to the prosthetics applied to Gordon - Levitt's face than to his uncanny youthful replication of Willis» middle - age mannerisms.

Usually you and a buddy hit the Vegas strip to gamble, drink and other more less than savory acts.

With that said, my hypothesis is that investors would be less likely to gamble on an investment based purely on intuition than an educator would on a teaching strategy because the investor has more to lose in a very short amount of time.

So either you are a famous author who earns an insane amount of money per month, or you struggle at the bottom, earning less than the minimum wage, no wonder it's a gamble.

If the rate is low, paying the loan off could be less costly than taking a gamble with a 0 % APR credit card offer.

Ayres and Nalebuff argue that borrowing to invest while you're young is actually less of a gamble than the conventional path of saving first, then starting to invest only in your 40s.

If those $ 2000 are «funny money» that you don't mind losing but would be really excited about maybe getting 100 % return in less than 5 years, well, feel free to put them into an individual stock of an obscure small company, but be aware that you'd be gambling, not investing, and you can probably get better quotes playing Roulette.

I'm less than enthusiastic about stock investing for essentially the same reasons I'm less than enthusiastic about casino gambling: in both cases «the «game's» rules are totally out of my control, a super-powered marketing machine successfully obscures reality and drives play and players, and the game exists solely to enrich its owners at the game's participants» expense.

All that said, Guild Wars 2 is still my game, for all my criticisms of it, and while I find plenty to frown at with this new system, I'm also feeling encouraged to see ArenaNet seemingly taking player feedback into account and trying new ways to make money that are less bad — and less about getting away with as much gambling as possible — than the rest of the industry with its lockbox - infatuated debauchery.

There is a clear loss condition in gambling, when you receive less than you put in.

But without a way to translate money out of a game, you always receive less money than you put into the loot box, so the typical gambling standards don't apply.

in the time of gamble - boxes, Robert's failure was to deliver as hyped while throwing in everything like FOIP and land claims, but the actual business model is pretty fair considering you can get access to the game (in its current alpha state and when it finally releases) for less than the standard AAA price.

And rather than visiting individual galleries — and perhaps discovering new talent — collectors are focusing on market - tested trophy works carried by major dealers; are sometimes buying from Instagram or other online images without seeing the work in person; and are less willing to gamble on the emerging artists represented by small and midsize galleries.

The Independent story headline is a small gamble, there can be massive cloud coverage (occurring as I write) continuing from the usual great snow and ice Arctic summer melt, but I am quite sure the ice extent may be equal or less than last year come September 20.

«I had to reschedule the first flight I missed and then I went back to the machine waiting for the second flight and I ended up missing that as well,» said the woman, who estimates that she lost up to $ 2 million due to her gambling habit, in less than five years.

These ISPs have essentially elected to take the gamble that no copyright holder will hold them accountable (or that the costs of being held accountable will be less than the profits they have reaped in return for supplying the «pipes» for piracy).

At the same time, more than half of all bitcoin operations are small transfers (less than $ 100), in most cases linked with gambling websites.

Females in general have been found to be less likely than males to develop gambling problems.

Problem Gambling in less than 2 % of the population: A CCGR workshop on research challenges with a small population