Sentences with phrase «as gamblers»

Gambling addiction can be treated by working with a Certified Addictions Counselor and through groups such as Gamblers Anonymous and group therapy.

A barrister specializing in tax, Etienne Wong, pointed that current guidance confuses virtual currency investors, as it is uncertain which investors could be classed as gamblers and which would fall under skilled trader (taxable investor).

Therefore it is more likely that early investors could claim themselves as gamblers.

Nigerians must understand that adequate notice has been issued by all financial sector regulatory authorities, namely Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN and Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC, to warn Nigerians who want to trade in bitcoins as gamblers.»

Thus, why are traders referred to as gamblers, and investors considered to be smarter?

The opening number was juiced to the home dogs as gamblers could get the Giants at -102 if laying the field goal.

That leaves us with Sanchez and Ox as our gamblers.

But this is not the same as Gamblers Anonymous; Gam Anon is designed not for the deviant gambler but for his or her spouse.

However, up until fairly recently, UK gamblers have been facing the very same problem as gamblers in other parts of the world — playing at online casinos where, quite frankly, the house edge is out of control!

Just as a gambler will get an occasional streak when flipping a coin, a basketball player will produce an occasional streak when shooting the ball.

No one would describe Stephen Harper as a gambler.

But as any gambler knows, picking who will win is boring.

Jan 04,2016... PETE CARROLL DOES N'T have a reputation as a gambler.

PETE CARROLL DOES N'T have a reputation as a gambler.

You're only real goal as a gambler is to have more of the latter than the former.

Along the way, there are some notable guest appearances, such as Benicio del Toro as a stuttering intergalactic thief, Laura Dern as resistance vice admiral Amilyn Holdo and Justin Theroux in a blink - and - you'll - miss - it role as a gambler and code - breaker in this movie's riff on the famous cantina scene.

As a second son, Rawley will not inherit the title or house, and as a gambler can't live within his allowance, so this marriage gives Becky a liaison with a good family but not the benefits.

Victor Mature delivers perhaps his finest performance as gambler Doc Holliday, an alcoholic Eastern doctor escaping civilization in the Wild West and slowly coughing his life away from tuberculosis.

Lovingly directed by Stephen Frears, with a standout performance from Bruce Willis as a gambler.

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

It's also a pleasure to have Jodie Foster in the cast as a gambler who's never quite able to hide her intentions either at or away from the poker table.

The first one focuses on the fallacy commonly known as the gambler's fallacy.

With the hope that the dry air of the frontier will cure what ails him, Doc settles in Dodge City, Kansas, opening a dentist's office and earning money as a gambler.

As every gambler knows, the risk of ruin refers to the possibility that a string of losses will wipe them out entirely.

He states he is as gambler.

xx) Feel free to substitute «poker player» for «trader» in pretty much all of the above — and I'd never describe a great trader or poker player as a gambler either..!

My own view (as a gambler with an eye for odds) is that statistical significance is a purely arbitrary device.

As a gambler would say, they have no «skin in the game».

As a gambler, I know this.

Not exact matches

The letter reminds casinos that the Bank Secrecy Act requires them to ask gamblers whether their bets are for themselves, and to report any wagers for third parties as suspicious activity.

And just as we frequently mistake correlation for causation, we're susceptible to what's called the «gambler's fallacy,» the belief that anomalies from expected outcomes in a random process are likely to be evened out by their opposites in the future — or, more simply, the idea that a roulette ball that's landed eight straight times on black is therefore more likely on the ninth spin to land on red.

Martin Wood, the owner of one of the city's two pawnshops, Wood's Loan Office, saw his business flourish as down - on - their luck gamblers pawned their jewelry for cash.

When the gambler is losing control of their life, mental health practitioners often diagnose this behaviour as an impulse disorder.

«The best thing you can do as an investor or a gambler, is to know the odds of the game you're playing — because not knowing them will cost you.»

Gint: A holistic comment regarding the overall site: I think if Fly wants to bring a mixture of steady investors to his blog — and not just the «go - go» OTB playing degenerate gamblers (as amusing as those commenters are) then he's going to need to continue to diversify the content to a degree that there is someone covering every aspect of the investment world.

According to Reuters, real estate directly affects 40 separate business sectors there, including gaming, which VIP gamblers use as collateral for loans taken out to bet with.

Why then should the U.S. Treasury pay three times as much as the Iraq War for money that will end up being lost after paying off the gamblers from their own bad bets.

NEW PLAN The bill clarifies that people (including many professional gamblers) who also deduct wagering expenses, such as the cost of travel to and from a casino, must add those expenses to their total losses before comparing that sum to their total taxable winnings for the purpose of making the overall deduction calculation.

One variation of this is known as the «gambler's fallacy».

But gamblers are never regarded conventionally as entrepreneurs (and they don't see themselves as such).

While stock investors consider diversification across different investments as the strategy for minimizing potential losses, gamblers look into the risk capital to risk reward ratio and would only put in their money if the odds are favorable.

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.

Now to be honest with you, there are a lot of gamblers in the stock market posing as investors or traders.

Yet rather than taking this opportunity to run these banks as public utilities and lower their charges for credit - card services — or most important of all, to stop their lending to speculators and gamblers — governments left these banks operating as part of the «casino capitalism» that has become their business plan.

The gamblers at the roulette table will scoff at that, as will the ones at the slot machine.

Erring seems almost congenital to scientists as well as to gamblers, stock market experts, and weather forecasters.

As the suffering continues, there settles over him finally a dull despair, broken only rarely by an unnatural and terribly enfeebling intensity, as when the gambler hopes on and on that some day he will meet with lucAs the suffering continues, there settles over him finally a dull despair, broken only rarely by an unnatural and terribly enfeebling intensity, as when the gambler hopes on and on that some day he will meet with lucas when the gambler hopes on and on that some day he will meet with luck.

Faith is easily understood by the gambler as both Blaise Pascal and Donald Hankey knew because the gambler stands to win or lose by his play.

In fact, few Nevadans will openly admit that there are compulsive gamblers, for to admit as much would also be to admit that there is something inherently evil in their states major industry.

«If unquestionable addictions can be present without any physical addiction — as with binge drinkers or compulsive gamblers — and if physical addictions can be present without any true addiction — as in the medically ill patients I just mentioned — then it must be that physical addiction is neither necessary to nor sufficient for an addiction.