Surprisingly, he is now tripling down on his Syrian bet.

If new artists don’t become successful, “I’ve doubled and tripled down on everything and I’m still playing to empty houses and not selling records.”

Tripled down on standing up for his recent controversial foreign policy statements on nuclear weapons, meeting with foreign leaders, and hunting al Qaeda, with firmness and good humor.

Though he could scarcely afford the air in his lungs, he doubled and tripled down on his bets, multiplying his wins until the casino buckled under the onslaught.

Take the things that work and double down on them and triple down on them and stick with them, because without that kind of support, growth is really difficult for a nonprofit.

Yet while Romney was dialing things back, his campaign tripled down on the story with advisers suggesting to the Washington Post that the Libyan embassy deaths wouldn’t have occurred if Romney were president.

On October 16, 2014 at a WWDC keynote, Craig Federighi pretended to "triple down on secrecy" by hiring Stephen Colbert as "Supreme Commander of Secrecy."

For Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee, doubling and tripling down on opposition to the bailouts in Ohio—a swing state where Chrysler and GM have massive, thriving operation—is the equivalent of a hat-trick.

The Obama campaign is out with a new campaign ad Thursday, tripling down on its false claim that Mitt Romney wants to outlaw all abortion, even in cases of rape, incest and the life of the mother.

"We're simply doubling and tripling down on sanctions," he said, "but the problem is we're dealing with a regime that has long been willing to subject their popular to hardship rather than compromise on the own political and ideological aims."

But Romney and his advisers — Wong declined to say whether they were consulted before the candidate weighed in on the the embassy chaos — are tripling down on the clear contrasts offered by neoconservatism’s trumpeting of values, which lends itself nicely to campaign seasons but is more complicated in actual governance (see the war in Iraq).