Sentences with phrase «sucker bet»

A "sucker bet" is a term used to describe a bet or wager that seems tempting but is actually a trap or trick designed to benefit the person offering the bet. It is a way to deceive or take advantage of someone's lack of knowledge or experience. Full definition
For most of the NFL season, props are looked at as sucker bets, and everyone should just ignore them.
Too hard to predict all of the results for all the events, rather make your money off the juice and when sucker bets like the Mayweather fight come cash in.
It is those errors in the line as a game predictor that account for the fact that year in and year out the Vegas casinos fail to hold their full 4.5 % of the drop in sprots betting, and that the numbers indicate that the general public consistently wins between 51 % and 52 % of the time, and sometimes as much as 53 %, with all bookmaker profits coming from sucker bets such as teasers, parlays, point buying, and parlay cards.
And they wander off into parlays and teasers, multiple - proposition sucker bets that are far more difficult to win than straight bets.
I could end up being wrong, but it seems like a sucker bet to lay your money on something that has never been known to actually happen.
Even with a massive potential payout, that seems like a sucker bet.
Feel like a sucker betting these horrible lines but...
Casual bettors have been enticed at the prospect of getting one of the best teams ever at «+» odds, but that could ultimately be a sucker bet.
Is taking the 4/1 odds a sucker bet?
One of the generally held misconceptions is that they are sucker bets to be avoided at all costs.
In other words, the first player's bet is always a sucker bet!
In fact, research suggests it's a sucker bet.
With Garland, that can be a sucker bet: He's much better at setting up intriguing premises than paying them off — even, it would seem, when operating from someone else's blueprint.
Blind risk is the pointless gamble, the emotional decision, or the sucker bet.
Estimating volatility is a suckers bet.
The only problem is it costs $ 199 a year, and that's a sucker bet.
Vegas casinos love the sucker bet.
It's a sucker bet.
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