Sentences with phrase «gamblers playing»

Games Gamblers Play (Michael Hui, 74)-- Jan 07, 2014 Time and Tide (Tsui Hark, 00)-- Mar 25, 2014 Tri Star (Tsui Hark, 96)-- Apr 01, 2014 Chungking Express (Wong Kar - wai, 94)-- Apr 01, 2014 Mission: Impossible II (John Woo, 00)-- Apr 04, 2014

When a gambler plays the Roulette Wheel the odds of winning depend on how many of the numbers the player covers off when the bet.

Not exact matches

Kelly, however, initially refused to play in Buffalo, instead signing and spending the first couple of years of his career with the Houston Gamblers in the upstart USFL, where he had tremendous success.

Yet the gamblers were allowed to play on for weeks, according to reports by the casino's parent company, Bloomberry Resorts Corp., and the Philippine Senate Committee on Accountability of Public Officers and Investigations.

«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.

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!

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.

Note, however, that professional gamblers typically target 55 % as their winning percentage because this can potentially lead to more plays and higher profits.

The Houston Gamblers, with me at quarterback, played against Steve Young and the Express.

JORDAN (from 1993, appearing on NBC in a pair of dark shades that made him look like, well, a gambler): It was a means of relaxing with my family [though his family was not around when he gambled in Atlantic City] and my friends, and it got me ready to play the game....

Expecting the luck to even out is Gambler's Fallacy, and even if the Blue Jays were a.600 team according to their expected record, they were going to need to play even better than that if they were going to catch the Yankees.

Le Prof, though, is hardly known as a big gambler and is more likely to be seen playing on the no - deposit slot machines!

On the other hand, there is a plethora of villains, or victims: the cheating ballplayers, the disillusioned owner, some unpleasant journalists, an evil gambler (played with malevolent charm by David Thornton).

If you looked at how his teams play you could paint him as a devil - may - care, cavalier, high - stakes gambler.

A 54 - year - old professional gambler who likes new Cadillacs and high - stakes golf, Hamilton enjoys the betting more than he does the playing, saying he recently turned down an opportunity to tee it up at Augusta National because his would - be host doesn't believe in playing for money.

A gambler banking on Woods to play all 72 holes will win $ 110 with a $ 100 wager.

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

Kirby Hannan wants lawmakers to let charities use «enhanced» bell jar machines that come with video screens and encourage a quicker play by gamblers.

Hundreds of gamblers crowded into an Islandia hotel Monday to play electronic slot machine games and sip drinks as Suffolk OTB opened Long Island's first video lottery casino.

Future work will investigate the styles of thinking that are in evidence when the problem gamblers at the National Problem Gambling Clinic play the simplified games the researchers have developed.

«In any game where returns are highly volatile, and there is a reasonable expectation that skill plays a role, delusions of expertise may come into play,» comments Browne, who adds, «In horse betting in particular, it appears that a gambler may easily be misled into believing that an effective winning strategy had been identified, when in fact it was due to chance alone.»

I don't play gambler and not go pubs or bars in the night.

I'm a Thai woman seeking caucasian men who are not lazy, not selfish, polite, take care women, honest, faithful, good mood, calm, quiet, not play a gambler, good health, clean, like to watch tv, exercise, reading and travel natural places.

I'm a small Asian woman seeking white men who are honest, respect each other, loves family, not playboy, faithful, not play gambler, not lie, not lazy and generous.

The two gamblers, opposites, trek south (stopping in St. Louis, Memphis and Little Rock), with Gerry hoping to at least get even playing in new gambling venues.

Originally written by James Toback (Two Girls and a Guy) and starring James Caan, this 2014 version, scripted by William Monahan (The Departed), stars Mark Wahlberg as an English professor and a high - stakes gambler who is trying to balance his relationship with his mother (Jessica Lange) and a student (Brie Larson) as he gets involved with a gangster played by The Wire's Michael Kenneth Williams and a loan shark played by John Goodman.

The Gambler V: Playing for Keeps also stars Dixie Carter, Loni Anderson, and Mariska Hargitay.

Redford plays Depression - era confidence trickster Johnny Hooker, whose friend and mentor Luther Coleman (Robert Earl Jones) is murdered by racketeer / gambler Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw).

There are no critic reviews yet for Gambler V: Playing for Keeps.

Set in the depression era of 1930's Chicago, it stars Robert Redford who plays depression - era trickster Johnny Hooker, whose friend and mentor Luther Coleman (Robert Earl Jones, who is the brother of famed actor James Earl Jones) is murdered by racketeer / gambler Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw).

In this road movie that feels much like classic 1970s cinema, Ben Mendelsohn (The Place Beyond the Pines, 2012) plays Gerry, a talented yet perpetually unlucky gambler who thinks the next big win is just around the corner.

In Sunday's pilot episode, expertly directed by Michelle MacLaren, Franco plays a bartender named Vincent who is stuck working two jobs, while his brother Frankie is a reckless gambler who owes the mob big.

Mark Wahlberg plays a man sprinting down the path of self - destruction in The Gambler, a bitter character portrait set in the seedy world of L.A. underground betting.

An amiable, minor crowd - pleaser, Battle Of The Sexes plays out as a pair of character studies: King, the reserved but powerfully motivated champion butting up against the insidious sexism of sports and media while coming to terms with her own sexuality; Riggs, the middle - aged compulsive gambler and clown playing the part of an exaggerated chauvinist pig for attention and publicity.

Playing out against the casinos and hotel rooms of Reno, Nevada, it's a noir - flavored character study that stars Philip Baker Hall as Sydney, an aging gambler who takes a down - on - his - luck drifter named John (John C. Reilly) under his wing.

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.

For 2016, the new Antoine Fuqua - directed film stars Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt and Byung - hun Lee and centers around a group of outlaws, mercenaries, bounty hunters and gamblers who find themselves employed by the desperate townspeople of Rose Creek who are being overrun by a villainous industrialist (played, of course, by Peter Sarsgaard).

Michael Cera plays one such star, euphemized in Sorkin's script as «Player X.» The names of the real - life gamblers in Bloom's book have been changed, presumably, to protect the litigious.

Arguably the movie's most iconically enjoyable scene — thanks to Mauro Fiore's sweat - and - shadows cinematography, John Refoua's editing and some choice slices of showdown dialogue from screenwriters Nic Pizzolatto («True Detective») and Richard Wenk («The Equalizer»)-- the saloon confrontation also introduces the second of the seven: Pratt's hard - drinking, wisecracking gambler Faraday, who likes to play card tricks during sticky situations.

Gordon - Levitt plays Johnny, a cocky gambler, who makes it his mission to destroy Sin City's biggest villain in a nail biting game of cards.

Mark Wahlberg drops pounds for the upcoming movie, «The Gambler» Mark Wahlberg gained weight to play a bodybuilder in Pain & Gain, but his latest...

Other shortcomings that could appropriately be added to the list are drunkard, gambler, chain - smoker and regular customer of a lady of the night (played by Naomi Watts).

John Turturro plays Joey Knish, a smooth gambler who took Mike under his wing and taught him control.

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.

Mark Wahlberg cries in the very first moment of The Gambler, immediately distinguishing his character from the one played by James Caan in the 1974 original.

Focus is effortlessly cool (and very hot) for a good long time, ramping up to a genuinely amazing mid-movie showdown with the great B.D. Wong playing a billionaire degenerate gambler during a game in which, if I'm not mistaken, Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday Miami Sharks have made it once again to the Super Bowl.

Directed by Ron Howard, who stepped in after the original directors, Chris Miller and Phil Lord, were fired midway through production, the film is a cross between a heist movie and a space western, chronicling Solo's first encounters with his Wookiee sidekick, Chewbacca, the Millennium Falcon and his stalwart frenemy, the smooth - talking gambler Lando Calrissian, who was introduced in 1980's «The Empire Strikes Back» by Billy Dee Williams and who is played in «Solo» by actor - writer - musician Donald Glover.

Lando Calrissian is pansexual, Solo: A Star Wars Story screenwriter Jonathan Kasdan said Thursday, adding that «there's a fluidity to» the performances turned in by both actors who played the intergalactic gambler, Billy Dee Williams and Donald Glover.