In fact, the final payoff does not exist; the purpose of the scam is simply to collect money from the victim.

The odds often change two or three times from the time the horses leave the starting gate until the final payoffs are posted.

If you read the second paragraph (or the final payoff), I think they have done that very well.

The nut never figures the final payoff would be bigger than he bargained for.

After all, Chevron argues, the final payoff might turn out to be far less than 30 percent.

The final payoff is at least a decade away - an eternity for Wall Street.

The final payoff is in the main galleries, a cavernous, 650-foot-long hall.

Whether it is the final amateur payoff or not is unclear.

"I think the final payoff came to around $2,000, plus he took all of us out for a celebration dinner," Gold says.

And indeed, the final payoff was immense, with brasses blazing.