Manages to surpass the gamblers (7)

I believe the answer is:

betters

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'the gamblers' is the definition.
(better is a kind of gambler)

'manages to surpass' is the wordplay.
'manages' becomes 's' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to' says to put letters next to each other (I've seen this in other clues).
'surpass' becomes 'better' (bettering is a kind of surpassing).
's' after 'better' is 'BETTERS'.

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