All of life is a wager
Persons whose wagers depend upon how particular selected athletes perform in actual sporting events stand in no different stead than persons who wager on the outcome of any sporting event in which they are not participants.
Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.
At the end of the day, you have smart marks all over the world thinking that they know the outcome of a match.
Consult your dragon before you wager his hide.
Men made wagers with their judgment, their allegiances, their resources.
You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God.
