Soon after the introduction of off-track betting, attendance at tracks fell as bettors started betting near their homes.

With lack of anything better to do, they start betting money on the last number painted on the end of the last train.

As the evening wore on, drug company officals and financial analysts in the audience started betting on which way the decison would go.

If you give each kid $200 in fake chips and play no-limit, they start betting with $1 or maybe $5 bets.

He's telling you how he started betting?

"It is much too early to start betting on a sustained decline in interest rates, particularly with all the new supply that is coming," he said.

But she started betting on a rally in March.

Some of the more pertinent statistics offered about compulsive gamblers: 65 percent are men; 96 percent started betting before the age of 14.

And as if this were not enough, the money markets will start betting on who will follow Greece into the wilderness...

After starting a rumour about the bank, he starts betting against it.