But though Peter Reid's gamble of playing five in midfield won plenty of possession during this period, the trade-off was that Sunderland had nothing up front.
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson's gamble of playing a vastly inexperienced side backfired as a heroic performance from Conference side Exeter earned them a historic draw on the biggest day in the club's history.
Kidney's gamble of playing inexperienced Ulster fly-half Paddy Jackson also backfired at Murrayfield as the youngster missed a number of crucial kicks despite performing creditably in open play.
The hot new term for this practice is "multi-table" entrepreneurs, which no doubt is derived from the common online gambling practice of playing multiple poker games at the same time.
He should not gamble 2014 on the hope of playing shortstop again, and the Yankees should not let him.
Natasha Dow Schull, an associate professor at M.I.T. and the author of "Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas," describes the experience of playing Texas Hold 'Em Heads Up Poker as feeling as if you're taking on "a really good medieval automaton" with "a little man behind the curtain".
Card game, game played for pleasure or gambling (or both) with one or more decks of playing cards.
Day trading is just another form of playing the lottery, betting or gambling.
Can we, in the future, permit the trading houses, the Bank Holding Company trading desks, and the vast plurality of gambling profiteers playing the grain markets who are neither farmers nor commercial consumers, to push prices ever higher to their own profit and benefit at the cost of consumers worldwide thereby becoming the arbiters of those who have access to food and those who do not?
They drink and gamble, of course, play mind games with one another and confound their teachers, make up stories, smoke and mope.
