gambler's chance

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Gibbons will take a gambler's chance with a percentage of the gate receipts.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet, when all is said and done, the catching of fish is a matter of luck—a gambler's chance, Page 5 if you will have it so.

From How to Cook Fish by Reed, Myrtle

For the third time in ten hours, though puzzled and groping, trembling between gain and loss, he plunged on the gambler’s chance.

From Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance by Horton, Marcus

I'll take a gambler's chance that she hasn't and will give you $50,000 for her and $25,000 for the cargo that is waiting for her; you to take the cargo she brings in.

From A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River by Cumberland, Barlow

But he had thrown away a gambler's chance by a moment of frenzied struggle.

From The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley by Tracy, Louis