Sentences with phrase «about gamblers»

How about the gambler who says «this is my last bet,» and then makes another wager right after.

You talk about a gambler.

But, then again, as Lyons proved way back when, there's something about a gambler whose very existence depends on success that increases the odds of succeeding.

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Maybe it has something to do that in Germany or Austria the common opinion about investing in stocks is like being a gambler or ``... you only can loose money..».

Great traders and fund managers think about how much they could lose before thinking about how much they can win; this is essentially the OPPOSITE of a gambler's mentality.

But while information about companies (such as earnings, financial ratios, etc.) and their stocks are readily available for public use, gamblers have no way of getting information about what happened in the recent past.

We feel the same way about so - called compulsive gamblers.

He answered that Harrah's felt no shame about its activities and needed no policy on compulsive gamblers.

During Saturday morning's opening, about 3,000 people are lined up to come in, and we fill up the entire parking lot for 2,000 cars, and the gamblers complained about not finding a parking space.

Professional gamblers, at least in Las Vegas, are not as reluctant to talk about their winnings as they were a few years ago when IRS agents were known to rush up to a poker or baccarat table and grab chips away from a delinquent taxpayer.

The many pros Haney has spoken with don't share gamblers» optimism about Woods» ability to capture that elusive 15th major at the men's first grand slam event of the 2018 season.

Over the years, Aly won about as much as he lost — good betting, as any steady gambler can attest.

We've all heard about sharps, wise guys, professional gamblers, syndicates and betting groups.

But for a pro gambler it's about that long haul, and hell, I can't imagine how they must be licking their chops on this.

Most gamblers were not all too happy about last night's Monday Night Football game that ended on a blown call by the replacement officials.

I've heard every tout and every gambler boast about how well he does picking winners against the spread.

While Buffalo owner Ralph Wilson drools about Flutie, Bills general manager Terry Bledsoe would prefer to spend the team's bucks on Jim Kelly, who threw 44 TD passes for the USFL's Houston Gamblers last season.

When asked about Spira by SI's Martin F. Dardis, Caridi, now serving five to 15 years in an upstate New York prison for robbery, assault, coercion and criminal usury, said that Spira was «a degenerate gambler» who «hung around» the Long Island restaurant Caridi used to own.

Maria del Carmen Arroyo gave a speech in which she said that her son had asked her to cite Kenny Rogers song «The Gambler,» about knowing when to hold «em and when to fold «em, etc..

«About half the revenue from the average casino comes from the net losses of problem gamblers, so the better job the state or the casinos do at deterring and curing problem gamblers and treating and helping problem gamblers recover, the lower their revenues are going to be,» Shafer said.

New casinos will encourage problem gamblers To the Editor: Many people who favor expanding casino gambling in our state seem to overlook that problem gamblers provide about 50 percent of casino revenues.

This is the famous gambler's fallacy, one of many seemingly intuitive ideas about luck that turn out...

GAMBLERS already had enough to think about without factoring the end of time into their calculations.

And although there have been frequent stories in the media about women who are gambling addicts, men are more than twice as likely as women to be problem gamblers.

«We can, however, conclude that brain responses to near - misses resemble those to actual wins; that brain responses to near - misses are associated with increased theta activity in gamblers and that gamblers» level of reported gambling severity and susceptibility to thoughts about gambling predicted activity in brain regions are responsible for the near - miss effect.»

About 25,000 children aged between 11 and 16 meet the definition of a problem gambler, according to the commission's latest annual survey.

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Derby About Blog My name is Andy and I'm a compulsive gambler, Derby Co..

It's likely no shocker a film about two degenerate gamblers from the writing / directing team that brought us the harrowing «Half Nelson» is going to be at least a little emotional draining.

They start to make playful bets with each other about arbitrary members of the crowd, attracting the attention of a nearby moneyed gambler (B.D. Wong).

Henry Fonda cuts an iconic figure as Wyatt Earp, the sturdy lawman who sets about the task of shaping up the disorderly Arizona town of Tombstone, and Victor Mature gives the performance of his career as the boozy, tubercular gambler and gunman Doc Holliday.

His third film, Mean Streets, is surely his first, as the director teams up with Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro for a fiery crime drama about a small - time gambler who enlists the help of a friend, who's a rising star in the New York mafia, to help him get out of debt.

Revolver (R for nudity, profanity and violence) Guy Ritchie and Luc Besson collaborated on this crime saga about a mobster casino owner (Ray Liotta) who orders a hit on a lucky gambler (Jason Statham) who has beaten him in a private game.

In a movie about con - men and gamblers, Ryan Reynolds and Ben Mendelsohn feature as a pair of «oddball strangers» who hit the road together to try to make a high - stakes poker tournament in New Orleans.

In previous years the sheer quantity of Chow's excellent work this year (in All About Ah - long, God of Gamblers and A Better Tomorrow III as well as The Killer) would have earned him the Endy.

A sweet, shambling, supremely enjoyable road movie about two compulsive gamblers of very different stripes, Mississippi Grind could easily be confused for one of Alexander Payne's wounded comedies, albeit one with higher stakes and a lower thread - count.

Chris and Andy chat about the Grammy nominations (3:00), the Ryan Coogler «Black Panther» rumors (8:00), «The Nice Guys» trailer (11:00), and go deep on «The Leftovers» season finale (12:00), and watching «Focus» vs. «The Gambler» on a flight (41:00).

This is Reynolds» seventh visit to the Park City, Utah fest, and this time around he's here in support of the latest film from the Half Nelson writing / directing team of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, about two gamblers heading to New Orleans for a high - stakes poker game.

Rake's (Fox Thursdays, 9 / 8C) Keegan Deane is charming, intelligent, and a lousy gambler but he tends to get too involved in situations that can not go well for him: he owes his bookie; his office manager / secretary / general assistant is about quit over back pay, and his latest client has paid him in tuna (well, with a tuna).

While original writer James Toback grounded his 70s script in autobiography (he was both teacher and gambler), Monahan exhibits an uncharacteristic tin ear for the film's wordy milieu, leaving the cast (including a sorely served Brie Larson) to wrestle with toe - curling am - dram speeches about the nature of life, love and learning.

«The Gambler,» Dec. 19 Oscar - winning screenwriter William Monahan and Backstage cover star Mark Wahlberg team up again for this remake of the film about an English professor with a gambling addiction.

10:00 pm — Sundance — Bob le flambeur Jean - Pierre Melville's noirish crime film about an aging gambler / thief who takes on one last job — knocking over a casino.

Mom Minerva (Cathy Moriarty), a compulsive gambler whose bookie is about to take out her debts in trade, comes along to help Hugo on her rounds.

6:10 am — Sundance — Bob le flambeur Jean - Pierre Melville's noirish crime film about an aging gambler / thief who takes on one last job — knocking over a casino.

The Gambler is a film about an English literature professor with a dark side, a gambling addiction that has gotten him into debt with Los Angeles gangsters to the tune of $ 240,000.

Big chunks of screen time are allotted to a seedy quartet of «railbirds» (which includes Kevin Dunn and Ian Hart), hardcore racetrack gamblers who pool their cash in pursuit of a «Pick Six» accumulator bet which stands to net them $ 2.6 m. There's a lot of arcane slang about odds, racing and gambling which cries out for an accompanying leaflet.

ROBERT ALTMAN The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Film Comment pay tribute to America's greatest living and working director Kathleen Murphy writes about Altman the artist; plus: a salute to «the producer as gambler» by Alan Rudolph

2:00 pm — Sundance — Bob le flambeur Sundance is running a three - film set of Jean - Pierre Melville films, starting with this noirish crime film about an aging gambler / thief who takes on one last job — knocking over a casino.