Sports and Gambling
- Pool (cue sports), a group of games played on a pool table
- Pool (poker) or pot, money wagered during a single hand of poker
- Pool betting or parimutuel betting, a betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together
- Betting pool, a form of pool betting where gamblers pay a fixed price into a pool
- Football pool, an association football (soccer) betting pool
- Betting pool, a form of pool betting where gamblers pay a fixed price into a pool
- Pool play or group stages, the round robin stage of many sporting championships
- Singapore Pools, Singapore's sole legal lottery
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Famous quotes containing the words sports and, sports and/or gambling:
“Sports and gallantries, the stage, the arts, the antics of dancers,
The exuberant voices of music,
Have charm for children but lack nobility; it is bitter earnestness
That makes beauty; the mind
Knows, grown adult.”
—Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
“Someone once asked me why women don’t gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don’t have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women’s total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.”
—Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)