Sentences with phrase «stakes gamble for»

Developers are betting on that support to give them the edge over other projects in the high - stakes gamble for a coveted casino license.

Not exact matches

The $ 5 billion Canadian online poker and gambling giant has emerged with an 80 per cent stake of a combined CrownBet and William Hill corporate bookmaking business that will take on Tabcorp and Sportsbet in the heated battle for Australian punters.

The stakes in the U.S. - China relationship are too great for populist politicians to gamble with.

I don't know if the boss will accept my request to be audacious and play a gamble which I am certain will beat small team QPR neat and clear for all the 3 points that will be on stake on Friday at the Emirates Stadium.

The maximum stake on fixed odds betting machines will be slashed from # 100 to # 2 in a major blow for the gambling industry.

In his State of the State speech in January, Mr. Cuomo raised the stakes further, calling for the constitutional amendment to legalize casino gambling and proposing to transform Genting's planned resort near Aqueduct into a destination casino resort that would include the nation's largest convention center.

Karen Hinton — married to State Operations Director Howard Glaser, one of the governor's oldest friends and a key figure in Cuomo's high - stakes efforts to legalize casino gambling, bring a new power utility to Long Island, and finalize a decision on hydrofracking for natural gas — is a «managing director» at Mercury Public Affairs, which was founded by several former aides and advisers to Republican former Gov. George Pataki.

The book, which has a working title of «A Gambling Empire at Stake,» could be published as early as the end of 2015 — after New York selects operators for up to four new casinos in the Hudson Valley, Capital Region and Southern Tier.

The big gambling event for them is at a New Orleans casino, where they play in a high - stakes poker game.

Even fueled by Reynolds, whose likability is practically a super power, a new director in David Leitch («John Wick» and «Atomic Blonde»), charismatic new costars like Zazie Beetz («Atlanta») and Julian Dennison («Hunt for the Wilderpeople»), bigger stakes (and more money to execute them), «Deadpool 2,» suffers from the sequelitis that typically threatens gimmicky gambles turned tentpole franchises.

It's a sharp, teasing setup for a tale of even higher stakes and steeper falls from grace, set in motion by an early scene of Molly being arrested by the FBI for her alleged involvement in an illegal gambling racket.

Aaron Sorkin's directorial debut tells the fiendishly complicated story of how a very smart 26 - year - old named Molly Bloom (Chastain) came to operate a high - stakes gambling ring that pulled in Hollywood celebrities, Wall Street billionaires and Russian mobsters — a recipe not only for a very expensive disaster but also for a sensationally entertaining movie that maintains a tight grip on the audience over nearly 2 1/2 hours.

Molly's Game (R for profanity, drug use and some violence) Jessica Chastain plays the title character in a biopic chronicling the rise and fall of Molly Bloom, the Olympic skier - turned - gambling operator who ran a high - stakes poker game for a decade until the FBI brought down the operation.

Yet, even with smart writing, astounding performances (Craig being the kingpin) and that classic Bond style, the depictions of perilous situations, sensational violence and high stakes gambling still make Casino Royale a questionable bet for older teens.

The best of the four is Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck's «Mississippi Grind,» starring Ben Mendeloshn and Ryan Reynolds as a pair of lovable loser gamblers going all - in on a gambling trip designed to earn the stake for an infamous poker game.

Both Barnes and Noble and FastPencil have their companies» names at stake and will select books of the highest caliber for physical placement; where taking a risk on a previously unknown author may mean gambling a few dollars on an ebook, there is significantly more money invested in purchasing a print edition, so readers want to know that the book has been carefully screened for quality.

Former Investors Group adviser Paul Yoannou had an insatiable appetite for high - stakes gambling.

Borrowing money at the casino is like gambling on steroids: the stakes are high and your potential for profit is dramatically increased.

Vegas Stakes ™ (Super NES ®, 1 - 4 players, rated E for Everyone — Simulated Gambling, 800 Wii Points): Feel like taking a road trip to Las Vegas?

Only four games were investigated for this report, but the Gaming Commission set out their four criteria for games to be deemed to include gambling: they need to be a game, the player must stake something that can lead to profit or loss, and the result needs to be randomised.

Interviewing is like high - stakes gambling, especially if you have been out of work for a while.