Sentences with phrase «becoming gamblers»

In one sense the young men — and they are almost invariably men, not women — arrive on campus predisposed to becoming gamblers.

In the old days, Brown's Cleveland teams were a bit on the conservative side; now he has become a gambler.

Individuals, her research shows, are not born gamblers but rather become gamblers (and problem gamblers) through complex processes of social interaction with their environment.

In this western an avaricious, ambitious ex-Civil War officer becomes a gambler after his dishonorable discharge.

He became a gambler and a professional criminal who rose within the ranks of a notorious and feared organization called Maggia.

Not exact matches

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.

Like Reizner, Vaccaro was a gambler by nature before it became his vocation.

Given time to poke around, he was soon struck by the fact that a coterie of a dozen gamblers from Florida, who became known to him as the Miami Syndicate, were using sophisticated mathematical formulas to figure the odds and place bets, particularly on trifectas, in which a bettor must pick the top three players or doubles teams in the order they finish.

Those who do become pathological gamblers.

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Is this causing more individuals to become problem gamblers?

By age 18, more male gamblers had impregnated someone by age 18 as compared to female gamblers becoming pregnant.

The VERY rich gambler of Instagram: How a 25 - year - old became as famous as the sports stars and celebrities he now advises - betting millions of his (and

Part sci - fi Western, part heist movie, Solo: A Star Wars Story chronicles how a young Han Solo met his Wookiee co-pilot Chewbacca, encountered the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian and acquired the iconic ship the Millennium Falcon on his way to becoming one of the unlikeliest heroes of the Star Wars saga.

In effect, the casino becomes their means to reinvigorate their social lives, so that Kate is once again smoking pot and urinating on lawns at two in the morning like she did back in college, while Scott discovers his masculinity by threatening to chop off the limbs of gamblers who owe their new casino a debt.

It's doubtful that even the most loose - pocketed of career gambler would've taken a cheeky flutter on the fact that a roistering comic book B - movie would become the direct cinematic descendent of Lars von Trier's softcore woodland chimera, Antichrist.

There he becomes involved with his stuffy, square relatives and neighbors (Arthur Kennedy and Martha Hyer), a charming gambler (Dean Martin), and an adoring party girl (Shirley MacLaine) who loves him to pieces.

For all the urgency of the posse's mission, it's a journey of days through the desert and the characters fill the time with defining personalities: the easy - going affability of Sheriff Hunt that becomes sharpened by the focus of tracking the raiding party, the garrulous way that Chicory talks, like a lonely old man trying to be useful («It's the opinion of the back - up deputy that...»), the arrogance and urbane language of the educated townsman whose character recalls the gamblers of classic westerns but whose backstory reveals different tale, the resolute determination of the cowboy husband who will not shirk his duty despite the crippling ordeal.

A hangout for everybody from ex-military vets to locals to musicians to prostitutes to gamblers, the Algiers became an infamous symbol of the violence surrounding the ’67 riots when three young men were murdered on its premises in a large coach house behind the motel.

Anderson always preferred the original title, Sydney, for his first feature, a neo-noir thriller starring Philip Baker Hall as an ageing gambler who becomes a mentor to a young man who has lost everything (John C Reilly).

But at least that involves Michael Shannon becoming progressively more Shannon - y as the kid's degenerate gambler / college professor father, and a strong role for the frequently underused Carla Gugino as the kid's mom.

There's a reason I became a teacher instead of a professional gambler.

The idea of the big mystery being that a child was abused has become very tired and overdone to me - the Principal being a gambler totally shocked me (maybe a bit too much..)

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Gamblers become addicted to the «hope» of gambling, this is why they keep losing and don't change their habits, they put more and more money into their gambling addiction, sometimes even funding it on credit.

The desert city in Nevada, which has become such a place of pilgrimage for gamblers, is the ultimate distillation of the capitalist drive, of the risk - all mentality, and of the oft - fatal lure of the ever - imminent win which pushes the punter further towards the precipice.

So although environment can provoke a person to become a problem gambler, I do not see it as being a major factor.

People start on the path to pathological gambling for many reasons — financial problems, the gambler's fallacy, upbringing, etc. — but what determines whether one will become a problem gambler is how one deals with the addictiveness of gambling and the emotions gambling evokes.

According to the federal government's Problem Gambling resource, up to 500,000 Australians either are, or are at risk of becoming, problem gamblers.

Another study by The Problem Gambling Treatment and Research Centre found children of problem gamblers are 10 times more likely to follow in the footsteps of their parents once they become adults.

When the man who beat him came to collect his winnings, the gambler's wife became so heated that she filed for divorce against him.

Because the adult rates of problem gambling are lower than the adolescent rates, there is reason to believe that many adolescents who are classified as problem gamblers may not go on to become adult problem gamblers.

The literature also suggests that couple relationships may become entrenched in a cyclical process, with problem gamblers experiencing an increased need to gamble as partners try to control their behaviour (Tremblay & Brisson, 2007).

ORE needs to keep the casino gamblers out and encourage those with the right stuff to become professional Realtors as a «first» choice of vocation instead of a hail - Mary stop - gap job and / or a last ditch money - grab attempt that anyone can buy into to hopefully keep the wolves from the door (with a quick big hit), because, in the latter instance, your stereotypical Realtor in the public's jaundiced communal eye fulfils its expectation as just another desperate commissioned sales hack... just another product of the CREA / ORE dues / fee - producing professional never - ending spin cycle.