The heaviest gamblers in the world are Australians. An estimated 82% of
Australians bet. That is twice as much per capital as Europeans or
Americans. Yet, Australia, with less than 1% of the world population,
has 20% of the world’s poker machines.
Thus said, the world’s biggest
gambler is a Greek, Archie Karas, who at one stage won $17 million but
also lost $13 million playing dice. In gambling language, for a gambling
house a “sure-thing” is a wager that a player has little chance of
winning; “easy money” is their profit from an inexperienced bettor, an
unlucky player is called a “stiff.”
The term “smart money” refers to
gamblers who have inside information or have arranged a fix, the
gambling term for insuring the outcome of an event by illegal methods.
Small-time gamblers who place small bet in order to prolong the
excitement of a game are called “dead fish” by game operators because
the longer the playing time, the greater the chances of losing.
Source:interestintopics.net
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