The "house edge" lies in the misalignment between the promised payout and the inherent odds of the game.
To ensure he can always pay the electric bill, Palmer puts the breaks on payouts (talk about having a house edge).
House edge: 5.6%--worse than blackjack but better than the wheel of fortune.
Placing a big one-time bet "cuts the house edge to its bare minimum because it works on your stake only once, " says Anthony Curtis, a one-time professional gambler and president of lasvegasadvisor.com.
The odds are calculated to give the house an edge of 1.90% with full transparency because all dice rolls and earnings statistics are verifiable using the blockchain.
Cecil Valance stays only three days at Two Acres, the Sawle family house on the edge of North London, but the house party becomes a piece of literary history, because it is here that Cecil writes a poem for Daphne, which memorializes the house and its garden.
The funny thing about all of this, of course, is that the house has the edge.
The region's prosperity means many can afford a premium for a cutting-edge house.
They particularly like having more space, a new house on the edge of town, gardens for their children to play in, and somewhere convenient to park their cars.
In his house at the edge of Dechmont Woods near Livingston in West Lothian, where he had worked all his life as a forester, there were very few books.
This venerable country house hotel on the edge of Elterwater has been given a much-needed makeover.
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The Halfway House, on the edge of the site of a special school at Box, near Minchinhampton, was closed by owners The Novalis Trust on 8 July.
The crowning touch was a statue of Aladdin topping a fanciful Opera House that teetered on the irreversible edge of kitsch.
Republicans installed a majority in the House of Delegates and preserved their edge in the Virginia Senate by emphasising all manner of local issues, few with any linking theme.
The way the rules work, though, a substantial edge is enjoyed by the house.
The House that Dre Built appears on the edge of launching the Beats Pill, a Bluetooth wireless speaker with four drivers and a shape that more than explains the medicinal name.
Lighthouse authority Trinity House plans to switch off Godrevy light on the edge of St Ives Bay by 2010.
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Some aviation safety experts have questioned whether FAA has the in-house expertise to oversee the safety of cutting-edge technologies that haven't been in planes before.
McIntyre said a water company is willing to bring a feed line to the edge of the community and put a pump house in.
Founded four years ago, the house is a student- led initiative designed to explore cutting edge technologies that are environmentally friendly.
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The house has a fire pit on the yard, an infinity-edge pool overlooking the ocean, five bedrooms, five full baths and an outdoor shower.
Looking west from our bedroom's rear window we could sometimes see inland as far as the dark treeline of the Watchungs, a low-lying mountain range fringed by great estates and affluent, sparsely populated suburbs, the extreme edge of the known world and about eight miles from our house.
His personal study, which was designed to house a 17-by-28-foot Persian rug from the late 1800s, is filled from floor to ceiling with valuables, ranging from gilded fore-edge books to war memorabilia, a brandy bottle left in his guest house by Kennedy Onassis, and even what he says is Sitting Bull's pipe.
The edge of the glacier slopes up to the height of a two-storey house.
The house, cold, empty and boarded up, was a wooden Dutch Colonial at the edge of the water.
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Now she lives in a simple place on the edge of the city, and there is little chance she will find the money to buy another house.
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