# Apuesta por un amor

Apuesta por un Amor (English: Gambling on Love) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Angelli Nesma Medina for Televisa in 2004.
The telenovela stars Patricia Manterola, Juan Soler, Eric del Castillo, Roberto Palazuelos, Mónika Sánchez, Jorge Vargas, Dacia González and Roberto Ballesteros.
Univision tlnovelas started broadcasting Apuesta por un amor on March 31, 2014.

## Plot

Julia Montaño (Patricia Manterola) is the daughter of Don Julio Montaño (Jorge Vargas), a wealthy landowner in the Yucatán Peninsula. She is a beautiful, strong-willed and sometimes arrogant woman, who flouts her father's will and the customs of their small town by spending her days herding cattle and overseeing the management of her father's ranch. She has two siblings - Álvaro (Fabián Robles), a dissipated young man who spends the majority of his time chasing girls and getting drunk, and Soledad (Lorena Enríquez), a beautiful and ingenuous young girl who falls in love with Gabriel Durán (Juan Soler), the handsome gamester and ex-lover of their greedy step-mother, Cassandra (Alejandra Ávalos), who moves to San Gaspar after winning the hacienda of Don Ignacio Andrade (Arsenio Campos), Julio's closest friend, in a poker game. Don Ignacio's son, Francisco (Roberto Palazuelos), has been in love with Julia, but after discovering that he has become involved with the town harlot, Eva (Mónika Sánchez), Julia spurns him for Gabriel.
Julia doesn't let herself be domesticated by anyone, but despite all the disagreements, she has to admit she is deeply in love with Gabriel. Nevertheless, after she catches him cheating on her with Eva, Julia declines his marriage proposal. Although she claims to utterly hate him, she eventually accepts to marry him, only to save her family's fortune that Don Julio foolishly lost in a bet with Gabriel. At first their marriage is full of fights and hateful words as Julia is determined to make Gabriel pay for his faults, but her heart softens after giving birth to their son. Things seem to look up for them; and they start living as a normal couple, but the real troubles are yet to come.

## Cast
### Main

* Patricia Manterola as Julia Montaño
* Juan Soler as Gabriel Durán
* Eric del Castillo as Chepe Estrada
* Roberto Palazuelos as Francisco Andrade
* Mónika Sánchez as Eva Flores "La Mariposa"
* Jorge Vargas as Julio Montaño
* Dacia González as Clara García
* Roberto Ballesteros as Justo Hernández

### Recurring

* Socorro Bonilla as Lázara Jiménez
* Tony Bravo as Camilo Beltrán
* Gustavo Rojo as Lawyer Leonardo de la Rosa
* Eduardo Liñán as Lawyer San Juan
* Arsenio Campos as Ignacio Andrade
* Maleni Morales as Esther de Andrade
* Alfonso Iturralde as Professor Homero Preciado
* Roberto D'Amico as Father Jesús
* Jaime Lozano as Braulio Serrano
* Justo Martínez as Macario Trujillo
* Héctor Sáez as Cayetano Cruz
* Fernando Robles as Marcial
* Alejandro Rábago as Lorenzo Pedraza
* Rafael del Villar as Domingo Ferrer
* Tere López Tarín as Dr. Ivana Sabater
* Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez as Dr. Adriana
* Fabián Robles as Álvaro Montaño
* José María Torre as Luis Pedraza
* Francesca Guillén as Matilde Cruz
* Julio Mannino as Leandro Pedraza
* Lorena Enríquez as Soledad Montaño
* Jan as Dr. Felipe Calzada
* Juan Ángel Esparza as Samuel Cruz
* Benjamín Rivero as Ramón Cabrera
* Elsa Navarrete as Lucero Beltrán
* Carmen Becerra as Nadia Thomas
* Manuela Ímaz as Gracia Ferrer
* Alejandra Ávalos as Cassandra Fragoso

### Guest star

* Marco Muñoz as Dr. Sebastián Ibarrola

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Association | Category | Nominee(s) | Result |
| 2005 | 23rd TVyNovelas Awards | Best Telenovela | Angelli Nesma Medina | Nominated |
| 2005 | 23rd TVyNovelas Awards | Best Actress | Patricia Manterola | Nominated |
| 2005 | 23rd TVyNovelas Awards | Best Actor | Juan Soler | Nominated |
| 2005 | 23rd TVyNovelas Awards | Best Antagonist Actress | Mónika Sánchez | Nominated |
| 2005 | 23rd TVyNovelas Awards | Best Antagonist Actor | Fabian Robles | Won |
| 2005 | 23rd TVyNovelas Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Dacia González | Nominated |
| 2005 | 23rd TVyNovelas Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Eric del Castillo | Won |
| 2005 | 23rd TVyNovelas Awards | Best Musical Theme | "Que seas feliz" by Luis Miguel | Nominated |
| 2005 | 23rd TVyNovelas Awards | Best Direction | Alfredo Gurrola Benjamín Cann | Nominated |
| 2006 | 38th Latin ACE Awards | Most Outstanding Character Actor | Eric del Castillo | Won |