you just pays your money and takes your chance

(colloquial) what will happen is a matter of chance or luck. A variation of the phrase you pays your money and you takes your choice, suggesting that when faced with a choice between two similar possibilities or alternatives, one might just as well rely on luck. The phrase comes from a rhyme used by English traders with market stalls:

"Whatever you please my little dears;
You pays your money and you takes your choice.
You pays your money and what you sees is
A cow or a donkey just as you pleases."