Sentences with phrase «trifecta bets»
The department's Organized Crime Strike Force maintains that in 1974 - 75 a group of gamblers, working for organized crime elements, won huge exacta and trifecta bets on rigged races and lugged hundreds of thousands of dollars out of New York tracks.
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He also teaches him about the high - risk, high - reward nature of the trifecta bet.
Not exact matches
To understand how the Miami Syndicate cleaned up by betting trifectas in Connecticut, it's necessary to know how jai alai is played and bet.
Given time to poke around, he was soon struck by the fact that a coterie of a dozen gamblers from Florida, who became known to him as the Miami Syndicate, were using sophisticated mathematical formulas to figure the odds and place bets, particularly on trifectas, in which a bettor must pick the top three players or doubles teams in the order they finish.
The Miami Syndicate had such total control and such an acute sense of how to «tune» the odds that members were even able to bet just enough on a trifecta so that a win would pay less than 300 to 1.
In the meantime, if you see your favorite local athlete at the horse track with a limping dog on a leash, he's not there to bet the trifecta, he's looking for the vet.
(For non horseplayers, exotic bets are the more complicated bets like trifectas, superfectas, pick 3, pick 4, or pick 6)
So yeah, it is a very safe bet that Guillermo del Toro will win the Oscar for Best Director right now, which would complete the «Three Amigos» trifecta as he follows in the footsteps of Oscar winners Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity) and Alejandro G. Inarritu (Birdman, The Revenant).
But it's a bet on fashion, technology & a closed («walled garden») system — that's a trifecta of a bet that tends to work out beautifully,'til one day without warning it goes horribly & terribly wrong...
The literal meaning of a trifecta is a type of bet in horse racing where you must choose the top three finishers.
If I had to bet, I would guess that Al Gore is probabaly going to be Time's Man of the Year, giving him the trifecta of politically correct recognition this year.