Apuesta por un Amor

pretty good soap.juan soler is a professional gambler who wins a ranch during a poker game. he takes over the ranch and allows the man and his family to stay and work it with him. the man's son is furious, but juan offers him half of the profits if he stays and helps and becomes his partner.the man's son has always planned to marry the beautiful daughter of the rancher next door. however, juan soon falls in love with her and she responds. the first rancher's son also has a relationship with a pretty woman named butterfly, who wants him to marry her.the second rancher is a widower who is seduced by a cunning woman into marrying her. she wants his money and maneuvers to gradually gain control of it. this second rancher has a no-good son. his wife discovers how rotten he is (a rapist, drunk and ne'er do well) and blackmails him into helping her. he soon likes the idea of gaining access to his father's money through his stepmother. she convinces the rancher to change his will to leave everything to his first grandchild with his wife administering the money for the child. she then advises the bad son to find a woman, get her pregnant, marry her, and they can enjoy the money the grandchild inherits. the rancher dies.meanwhile, juan and the second rancher's daughter marry, but she only marries him because her father is in terrible financial trouble (before he dies) and juan can fix that. she won't admit that she loves juan, and refuses to be a wife to him in more than name. their relationship is volatile and they break up and come back together. during a break up, he has a brief relationship with a young woman who becomes pregnant. she wants to revenge herself when he goes back to his wife after telling her he would marry her.his wife then has a baby (the heir to the whole fortune), and they are happy for a while, but the baby is believed dead after a fire and the mother becomes too depressed to continue their marriage.

Like Refugio del amor, I have enjoyed Apuesta por un Amor because it has helped me to become fluent in Spanish in just 5 months. I relax, riding my bicycle, and just enjoy. I find that if I use subtitles or try to understand each word, I get lost and don't get anything at all. By just listening, huge blocks of the language flow into my mind, and I learn whole expressions and sentences. Apuesto por un Amor is not the greatest plot, but it's fun. Like the other telenovelas I've watched, or listened to, I learn so much about the culture - what the Spanish-speaking consumers want from a film. I guess el sábado gigante on T.V. says it all - la gente (people) want a film that's ¡muy emocionante! I've never seen so many people cry so much! I wonder if they have some sort of fluid the actor can make flow from his eyes in huge streams. In any case, I have the impression that it's okay for Mexican men to cry, and I think that's not a bad thing.

It lags a lot and I cannot watch from chapter 4 thru 6 on side 2 of disc. The best scenes are impossible to watch.

this novela is OK. the only worthwhile performances are Alejandra Avalos and Eric Castillo and Fabian Robles. Juan Soler and Paty Manterola are not convincing, but sure tell each like 100 times they love each other , then Paty says I hate you, I'll never believe her acting. Also, there's too much violence, too many characters get killed off. If you can handle that. Fabian Robles is awesome ! He is so wicked fun to watch! Alejandra Avalos is really good, her best role I ever seen her in. Monika Sanchez is good also as Mariposa. So I would recommend it for these actors and actresses, but you might fast forward some scenes.

I would have to say this is one the novelas that has you hooked from begining to end. There so mush that was not on the DVD that had to be there to really enjoy and get the whole story. But I loved every minute of it. I was disappointed that I didn't hear Luis Miguel singing his song, I always say you have to have the original song to go with it. I would recommend this one. But I think they needed to add more of the scenes to really enjoy the story.

This is a fast paced and wonderful love story. It has english subtitles . I wish Televisa would stop editing these stories and put them out as originally done.. Even with the editing it was great to watch.

While I thorougly enjoyed the telenovela while it was being aired, the DVD is a huge dissapointment. The've edited and cut so many parts of the storyline that it was difficult to follow. Soledad story is completly cut. You barely notice the brother who was such an evil character. To many abrupt jumps. I would definitely not recommend the DVD. If you can find the original telenovela being broadcast I would highly recommend it.

It is so good!! Recently I’ve become a fan of telenovalias, this is one of the best!! English subtitles are great!!!

Interesting telenovela about love and gambling. It got a bit unreal at the end. I don't think greed can drive people to be that stupid. Subtitles were slower than the pictures. I had to keep rewinding. Worth watching though!

Antes que nada, mi opinión es sobre la novela adaptada para DVD. Nunca vi la historia en la televisión y no podría decir cuanto le han eliminado.La historia es buena, empieza algo lenta pero cada vez va cogiendo más fuerza y nunca vuelve a ser lenta.Como siempre, recuerden que ésta es una versión en DVD y tiene varios cortes, pero aún así vale la pena verla. El único punto en contra es la musicalización, no tiene la música original y la que pusieron de remplazo es horrible, pero bueno, uno se termina acostumbrando.

This is one of my favourite Mexican telenovelas. It stars a terrific and one of my favourite Mexican actresses Patricia Manterola. If you like telenovelas (soap operas), I would recommend it.

Deux dvd de Tierra de Pasiones, sont défectueux, ce la troisieme fois que cela arrive, certains semblent des copies, qui me enlevé le désird acheter d autres : (

I watched this telenovela to improve my Spanish speaking skills and it did just that. I really enjoyed the storyline and the scenery was fabulous. i hadn't watched the original telenovela, and didn't feel that I had missed much. The editing was good.