Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
winning too close to even
Portuguese translation:
(a probabilidade) de não ganhar nada era muito alta
Added to glossary by
lmrocha
Mar 28, 2017 13:32
7 yrs ago
English term
winning too close to even
English to Portuguese
Bus/Financial
Business/Commerce (general)
In other words, the reason fifty bets didn't work was that fifty was too small a number and still left the odds of winning too close to even.
Proposed translations
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Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
Norway
Norway
Native in Portuguese
Works in field
Norway
Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
Engineer:Oil&Gas/Electron/Finan/Law/HSEQ
Native in: Norwegian 
, Portuguese
Works in: English to Portuguese, Norwegian to Portuguese, Portuguese to Norwegian, and 19 more.
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(a probabilidade) de não ganhar nada era muito alta
Segue uma proposta não literal. Ele quer no final das contas dizer que a probabilidade de não ganhar nada era muito alta
https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/when-the-odds-are-ev...
even money
a. a bet in which the winnings are the same as the amount staked
https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/when-the-odds-are-ev...
even money
a. a bet in which the winnings are the same as the amount staked
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "obrigada"
+2
29 mins
Ana Vozone
Native in Portuguese
Specializes in field
Will do!
Native in: Portuguese (Variant: European/Portugal) 
Works in: English to Portuguese, French to Portuguese, German to Portuguese, and 1 more.
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365
as hipóteses de ganhar ou perder eram praticamente as mesmas
Acho que é este o sentido. As hipóteses eram basicamente "fifty-fifty"...
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Bruno Michel (X)
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Obrigada, Bruno!
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Leonor Machado
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Obrigada, Leonor!
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airmailrpl
Brazil
Brazil
Native in English
&
Portuguese
Works in field
Brazil
Technical - Fast - good price - accurate
Native in: English (Variant: US) , Portuguese (Variant: Brazilian)
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English, English, and 1 more.
Related KudoZ points
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204
English term (edited):
left the odds of winning too close to even
deixaram as chances de ganhar muito perto do empate
left the odds of winning too close to even => deixaram as chances de ganhar muito perto do empate
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