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Parie beaucoup de jetons, tu as de la chance !

Parie beaucoup de jetons, tu as de la chance !
Bet a lot of tokens, you are lucky!
From Lesson 199:Introducing a cause (comme)·French

Questions & Answers about Parie beaucoup de jetons, tu as de la chance !

Why is it parie and not paries since it is the tu form?
In the imperative (command) form, regular -er verbs drop the final s for the tu conjugation. So, tu paries (you bet) becomes just parie (bet!) when giving a command.
Why is it beaucoup de jetons instead of beaucoup des jetons?
Expressions of quantity like beaucoup (a lot), peu (a little), and trop (too much) are followed by a simple de (or d'). Even though jetons (tokens) is plural, you never use des here.
Why does the French sentence use avoir (to have) instead of être (to be) for "you are lucky"?
In French, luck is something you have, not something you are. The standard expression is avoir de la chance (literally "to have some luck"), which translates to English as "to be lucky."
How would I rewrite this sentence using comme from this lesson to connect the two ideas?
You could say Comme tu as de la chance, parie beaucoup de jetons ! (Since you are lucky, bet a lot of tokens!). Remember that when comme is used to mean "since" or "because," it must go at the very beginning of the sentence.

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