With its $850 million price tag, Bebo represents a big wager on the power of social networking to create an audience for those ads.
E-gaming has become a dominant player in Gibraltar's booming economy, but British Prime Minister David Cameron's pledge to hold a referendum on Britain's permanence in the European Union by 2017 represents an unwelcome wager for Gibraltar, whose economic welfare depends on the territory remaining a part of the EU.
His career represents a possibly rash wager: that even in the most lawless marketplace, talent is still worth a premium.
What they are envisioning represents a high-stakes wager that voters can be persuaded by a version of Mr. Romney that they have scarcely seen — a version that is, in many ways, at odds with how Mr. Romney campaigned throughout the Republican primary season, when he emphasized his conservatism on social and economic issues.
But for all its promise of innovation, the A380 represents a bet-the-house wager on one of the most disliked same-old models of air travel: the hub-and-spoke.
The rapid consolidation of racetracks represents a landmark turn of events for thoroughbred racing, which has been suffering in recent years from declines in attendance and wagering.
Meanwhile, total wagers on the Kentucky Derby reached 194.3 million dollars, representing a 4percentt increase from last year.
My wager is that most of the improvements will be modest, and not represent a quantum leap in predictive capability".
But they nonetheless represent an important group of Palestinians, who returned from abroad after the Oslo peace declarations of 1993 to wager on a future.
If Manafort is gambling the end of his life on a pardon from the famously unpredictable President Trump, then his strategy in this case appears to represent the greatest wager yet in a life spent winning unlikely bets — pushing all of his chips to the middle of the table.
