WEIGH YOUR ODDS
Betting sports can often be a complicated game in itself. It may depend, of course, on how many other people are involved in the bet. The safest way to bet on the outcome of a game or a fight or horse race is to go cheap. For example, you might tell your friend that you are betting ten dollars on a particular horse to win at Hawthorne. Then he will choose another horse in that race. If neither horse wins, nothing lost. If yours wins, he gives you twenty; and vice versa. It's even better if you have event tickets to the horse race. That is sometimes known as a “gentleman’s bet with money.” On the other end of the scale, however, is the “big bet with high stakes,” in which, say, ten people form a football pool at work for the outcome of the Super Bowl. Each participant has to choose one of the two teams to win, and the amount of money gambled could be as much as a thousand dollars. This definitely puts even more risk and stress than necessary into what is most likely an already stressful job. Relations become very tense as the day of the big game edges closer. It’s really helpful in situations such as this to have a really big pay check. You never know what kind of bills might come up, what expenses might just suddenly creep up on you when you become involved in a high-stakes gamble such as this one.