Sentences with phrase «gamblers lose»

Every day thousands of problem gamblers lose out to their addiction, spending millions of dollars that should have been used to feed children, pay rent or clothe someone.

Taylor Manor has just 15 beds for gamblers, a four - week program costs $ 10,500, and many gamblers lose their hospital and psychiatric insurance coverage when they lose their jobs.

Obama and Geithner said that the IMF couldn't let American gamblers lose on the bets they had made on this financial horse race.

All the way along, at trial, in the Court of Appeal and in the UK's highest court, the gambler lost.

Not exact matches

In fact, collectively, more than $ 142 billion was lost by gamblers in 2014 alone, according to a report by Blackjack.org, based on the most recent tax tables available from the IRS.

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

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.

«If a gambler has a risk of terminal blow - up (losing back everything), the «potential returns» of his strategy are totally inconsequential» Nicholas Nassim Taleb

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.

If Greece doesn't pay, then all these gamblers and derivative players are going to lose their bets.

Plenty of stock market gamblers do an admirable job of losing their money on seemingly legitimate pursuits.

You can never have a «professional» gambler who doesn't lose money.

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.

I am a drunk, a drug addict, I am a thief, a liar, I am a gambler who has lost everything every day of my life.

Men winnow the faults of others like chaff; their own they hide as a crafty gambler hides a losing throw.»

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

Wenger has really lost it and he is a GAMBLER in real life.

These systems often rely on human nature and the over-confidence of most gamblers by increasing bet size during a losing streak.

Gamblers come equipped with war stories of losing money and winning money, stories you expect to hear from older, harder men.

Man City star Samir Nasri was reportedly «escorted» out of London's Park Lane Casino last week after apparently causing a female gambler to lose # 10k according to The Sun.

Unfortunately, a gamblers chance of winning their next bet is approximately what their historical winning percentage is regardless if they are on a winning or losing streak.

Pro gamblers bring into play distinct key handicapping numbers than the losing bettor.

This strategy allows a gambler to survive a losing streak while building up a bankroll.

As we mention in the above «It is Good to Pick Bad» article, I have flat out had gamblers tell me, «If I am going to lose, I'd rather lose betting (the vastly superior team) than betting on (the grossly inferior team).»

Today, many have shut down their money - losing operations, unable to draw gamblers or volunteers to run the games.

He and other proponents of the measure have argued that, with Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and other states offering more options for gamblers, New York is losing out on revenue.

Too bad so much money was lost in this way But all gamblers know when les jeux ils sont fait.

Denise Jewell Gee notes that the debate over whether daily fantasy football betting is legal is «besides the point» for those who are trying to help problem gamblers because «they're already seeing people who need help because they've lost control to the game.»

Sullivan Chime has described politicians who defect from one party to another after losing primary elections as spoilers and gamblers.

«Fayose has been jittery and confused since the PDP lost Ondo State to the ruling APC against all odds and calculations and as a political gambler, who has traversed many parties since 2003 till present, starting from the PDP to APGA, Labour party, romanced briefly with ACN and PPA before moving back to the PDP even as he romanced AD in the last week governorship election, he is at his wits again to save his skin.

Pathological gamblers have a stronger brain reaction to so - called near - miss events: losing events that come very close to a win.

The former of these strategies simply misses the heavy - tailed rewards, whereas the latter is almost certain to lead to gambler's ruin, that is, losing everything on a mere temporary run of bad luck.

Father Wayne (Tim) is a bit of an alcoholic gambler, and without the cashflow from Brady's usual prize money, the family may be in danger of losing their trailer.

Kailey is a professional gambler who not only lost custody of her son when she got divorced, but also lost the right to even see him.

In Mississippi Grind, Ryan plays the second banana to Ben Mendelsohn's Gerry, a chronic gambler with nothing to lose and nothing left.

A distinguished behavioral economist shows up to play a hand of blackjack with Selena Gomez, by way of explaining the «hot hand fallacy» that tricks both gamblers and investors into believing they can't lose.

The new hero is Johnny (Joseph Gordon - Levitt), a gambler who never loses at the games he plays but seems hell - bent on losing his own life to beat Roark.

One of Paul Thomas Anderson's earlier films, this effective warning to chronic gamblers fixes on a gambler who, broke as a wonky door, is adopted by a seasoned gambler who demonstrates the ability to get pricey rooms for next - to - nothing and how to get that lost money back.

Concocted of a series of short segments, one of which — Booze, Broads & Bullets — was torn from Miller's very own pages, here the writer and returning co-director Rodriguez have created two completely fresh escapades for these inhabitants to endure: The Long Bad Night, in which Joseph Gordon - Levitt's smarmy gambler learns what it's like to lose, and Nancy's Last Dance, which features Jessica Alba's stripper hell - bent on avenging a crucial death from the previous film.

This low - budget indie more effectively portrays this culture (just how quickly you can make money — and how destructive it can be when you lose it) than both Mark Wahlberg's recent remake of «The Gambler» and Will Smith's con / crime caper «Focus» from earlier this year.

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).

Borys Kit of The Hollywood Reporter reveals he's been told by two sources that the still - untitled 2018 film will tell how that card player, gambler and scoundrel Lando lost the Millennium Falcon to a young Han, played by Alden Ehrenreich.

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Mark Wahlberg gained weight to play a bodybuilder in Pain & Gain, but his latest role in The Gambler shows the actor losing 60 pounds for the role.

Johnny (Levitt) is a hot - shot gambler who never loses.

Now that is a losing bet, based on nothing more than a gambler's fallacy.

Those Casinos are paid for out of the pockets of losing gamblers.

A gambler would win his stake if a coin toss came up heads and he would lose it if it came up tails.