O que significa a gambler who took no chances. ?

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Kendon

7 out 2017

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Inglês (EUA)

It sounds like an oxymoron - a statement that contradicts itself.

But it literally means someone who gambles (plays games of chance for money) and doesn’t take risks.

I have no context, but I think it means that the person cheated.
If you gamble and don’t take any chances, you must be cheating.

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Kendon

7 out 2017

Inglês (EUA)

It sounds like an oxymoron - a statement that contradicts itself.

But it literally means someone who gambles (plays games of chance for money) and doesn’t take risks.

I have no context, but I think it means that the person cheated.
If you gamble and don’t take any chances, you must be cheating.

monica8

7 out 2017

Japonês

@Kendon
Yes. This is an oxymoron.

The whole paragraph is:
LAS VEGAS — Stephen Paddock was a contradiction: a gambler who took no chances. A man with houses everywhere who did not really live in any of them. Someone who liked the high life of casinos but drove a nondescript minivan and dressed casually, even sloppily, in flip-flops and sweatsuits. He did not use Facebook or Twitter, but spent the past 25 years staring at screens of video poker machines.