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  • verb Present participle of overbet.

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Examples

  • Rex kept refilling his glass, and as the evening wore on, he started playing too grandly, overbluffing, overbetting, losing pots he never should have tried to win, and getting mad at his cards when they let him down.

    Half Broke Horses Jeannette Walls 1994

  • Rex kept refilling his glass, and as the evening wore on, he started playing too grandly, overbluffing, overbetting, losing pots he never should have tried to win, and getting mad at his cards when they let him down.

    Half Broke Horses Jeannette Walls 1994

  • Rex kept refilling his glass, and as the evening wore on, he started playing too grandly, overbluffing, overbetting, losing pots he never should have tried to win, and getting mad at his cards when they let him down.

    Half Broke Horses Jeannette Walls 1994

  • Capital Market Policing • Great Accidents: - LTCM (12 years ago): leverage - Amaranth (5): overbetting - Maddoff (1): security fraud • Small accidents - Market timers - Death spiral

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