Word: buy-in
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tell when this guy was bluffing. So it should come as no surprise that Daredevil's seven-card stud, BEN AFFLECK, beat out nearly 90 other players to win first place and $356,400 at a major California poker tournament last week. His victory in the $10,000 buy-in event earned the avid gambler a seat in the World Poker Tour Championship, to be held next April in Las Vegas. Affleck outlasted a former world champ and fellow action hero Tobey Maguire at the tourney in Commerce, Calif., to "become a respected member of the poker elite," a casino...
...alcohol. You see, I told my self, gambling can be for a good cause.The excuses quickly became less valid: it’s a great way to kill an hour after dinner, or before heading to a movie. Finding a quarter in the street is one-twentieth of a buy-in; might as well chip in the other...
...talking March Madness. Ah, the madness, a one-shot opportunity for unexpected riches. With just a five-dollar buy-in, you can see a big enough profit for, well, a new watch, like what I bought two years ago when...
...process through which the plan has come forward is so disrespectful of school cultures,” says Graham and Parks parent Owen Andrews. “We’re caught in a time frame that doesn’t allow for any of the decent consultation and buy-in that would make the school communities feel better or worse about...
...move that seems more like a smart company's buy-in rather than an artist's sell-out, DC comics has just finished publishing Gilbert Hernandez' five-issue "Grip: The Strange World of Men." With his brother Jaime, Gilbert's work on "Love and Rockets" set the benchmark for an entire generation of post-underground comix artists. (They were selected as one of TIME's 21st Century Innovators.) Though the publisher better known for its superhero "properties" clearly didn't know quite what to do with it, Hernandez's "Grip" combines all the elements that have gone into making...