Sentence examples for bet spread from inspiring English sources

He is a racing fan — favoring the "grand slam," a bet spread over four races — but could not say what luck he had had that day.

Many of these hedge funds do very complicated, highly leveraged bets: they bet spreads on bonds will converge a penny, like Long Term Capital Management did; they bet you'll see short-term mean reversion in stocks; they bet that after an earnings announcement by a company there will be "drift" in the stock price for an additional week.

Pick is not against the betting spread.

BRONCOS BIGGEST FAVORITE Sports books in and around Las Vegas made the Denver Broncos a 28-point favorite at home on Sunday against the Jacksonville Jaguars, the biggest known betting spread in an N.F.L. game.

As any gambler will tell you, it is better by far to lose all your money on a single, heroic punt than fritter it ineluctably away in a series of dismal and unnecessary little bets spread over a fortnight.

In the years ahead, studios would shift to a model of bigger bets, spreading their money over of fewer movies that cost more, as well as looking to alleviate those risks by investing in familiar properties with tentpole potential.

But new forms of betting, such as spread bets on a team's or an individual player's score, increased the volume.

Another is for the insurance company to make a lot of bets, and spread them out over the board.

Bet 3 spreads the expected winnings of that exchange in order to assure a profit in the case that E is false.

On a spread bet, you would place a bet of £10 per point to give you the same exposure.

But punters betting with Sporting Index, a spread betting firm, seem to have ignored the polls and guessed the number of seats each party would get fairly accurately.