Pot
Pot noun - A considerable amount.
Usage example: made a pot of money in the real estate market
Stack
Stack noun - A considerable amount.
Usage example: earned a stack of money for writing the screenplay
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- It is part of the strategy of tournament poker to recognize situations where one's stack is low enough with respect to the size the pot is likely to reach that it is easy to become pot-committed.
Source: Sunk Cost Fallacy -
Further, one can merge one $1200 pot with 19 $12 pots, making a stack of 20 $1200 pots.
Source: Adam Smith Hates Your Guts -
If you guess "water", you're either gifted with a new hot tub or a flood to mop up; if you guess "money", you get either a pot of gold or a stack of bills; if you guess "fire" or "love"... the list goes on.
Source: Literal Genie
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