Reader's Digest 2月号の記事 "Raising the Stakes on Sports Betting" からの引用です。
Also often too good to be true are "parlay" bets, which combine several results into one wager. Payouts go way up--but so do your odds of losing. For every $100 wagered on single bets, sportsbooks keep about $5 and return the other $95. But on parlays, they keep about $32. Dreaming big, losing small--that's what you do when you try to guess at 16 NFL games to turn $10 into $300K.
"parlay" の意味を調べます。
・Collins Dictionary: to stake (winnings from one bet) on a subsequent wager Brit equivalent: double up: She'd hoped to parlay her $500 payment for the article on dressmakers into a $1,000 fee for future work.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: to use or develop money, skills, etc. in a way that makes more money or leads to success: They parlayed a small inheritance into a vast fortune.
・Vocabulary.com: If you parlay a bet, then you take the winnings from one bet and bet it again on something else. You might have seen a gambler on TV parlay her winnings into a huge fortune.
The verb parlay is often used to talk about gambling, but it can be used more broadly to describe any initial stake that you turn into something much larger. You might parlay your early investment in your brother’s company into a high-paying leadership role. Parlay also has a noun form that describes these kinds of transactions. You might notice your Uncle Bob once again betting a baseball parlay.
Also often too good to be true are "parlay" bets, which combine several results into one wager. Payouts go way up--but so do your odds of losing. For every $100 wagered on single bets, sportsbooks keep about $5 and return the other $95. But on parlays, they keep about $32. Dreaming big, losing small--that's what you do when you try to guess at 16 NFL games to turn $10 into $300K.
"parlay" の意味を調べます。
・Collins Dictionary: to stake (winnings from one bet) on a subsequent wager Brit equivalent: double up: She'd hoped to parlay her $500 payment for the article on dressmakers into a $1,000 fee for future work.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: to use or develop money, skills, etc. in a way that makes more money or leads to success: They parlayed a small inheritance into a vast fortune.
・Vocabulary.com: If you parlay a bet, then you take the winnings from one bet and bet it again on something else. You might have seen a gambler on TV parlay her winnings into a huge fortune.
The verb parlay is often used to talk about gambling, but it can be used more broadly to describe any initial stake that you turn into something much larger. You might parlay your early investment in your brother’s company into a high-paying leadership role. Parlay also has a noun form that describes these kinds of transactions. You might notice your Uncle Bob once again betting a baseball parlay.
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