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It was similar thinking, after all, that led the Dodgers last offseason to take a gamble on Hernández, who was also coming from a pitcher-friendly ballpark in Seattle.

Or gamble on an out-of-form Palmer at home against a woeful Southampton side that is shipping goals?

In most cases, no fires erupted, but Butler said commanders cannot gamble on that outcome.

After nearly a year of fire-breathing rhetoric and talk about a “bloody nose” strike that would scare Pyongyang into talks, Trump opted to gamble on direct diplomacy.

And the prevalence of counterfeit goods — three products bought in illicit shops carried the names of legal brands but were probably fakes — compounds the risk to consumers willing to gamble on what they get.