One bit involved a bet between the coach and a Globetrotters star, Special K Daley.
The swap involved a bet on the difference between two-year and ten-year interest rates.
One example, proposed by Nicolas Bernoulli and made famous as the St . Petersburgparadox, involved a bet with an exponentially increasing payoff.
He had weird dreams, involving a bet he'd failed to place on the outcome of the Ryder Cup, but even when he was unconscious, he retained his fine-dining palate.
Ille had twice been on the wrong side of decisions in lower courts but this time the judges "understood the nature of the transaction", said Jochen Weck of Rössner, the company's lawyers.Ille's deal, one of hundreds of interest-rate swaps that Deutsche sold up and down the country between 2002 and 2006, involved a bet on the difference between two-year and ten-year Euribor interest rates.
The beauty part was that although they were investments in oil, they didn't involve a bet on oil prices themselves.
Choosing to buy a house, for example, involves a series of bets on land prices, interest rates, taxes, job prospects, future planning decisions in the area selected and the structural soundness of the property concerned.
The Heinz case may have involved a side bet in London.
At issue in the suit settled on Thursday were trades dating back to April 2001 that involved a sizable bet by Pequot on Microsoft stock.
A second is that, in making justice swifter and involving victims and communities in sentencing, the government may be short-selling offenders' right to the due process of law.The third worry is that the reforms involve a large bet on payment by results before there is clear evidence in Britain or elsewhere on how to make it work in criminal justice.
