Sentences with phrase «gambling addict»

Is it possible to get power of attorney over two gambling addicts who are otherwise healthy adults?

I think having been around so many gambling addicts, she realized it's not a positive thing to really do in your life.

Instead, they treat it like a trip to the casino, and many of them end up behaving like drunk gambling addicts instead of calm and calculating traders.

No wonder a lot of the «industry» people I've met through the years are major gambling addicts.

Shafer says it's equally true that adding more gambling facilities could increase the number of gambling addicts in New York, but he says that isn't mentioned in the referendum.

Since then, Bauer has made his career primarily, though not exclusively, in action films and crime dramas on both the big and small screens, including such motion pictures as PRIMAL FEAR, TRAFFIC, RAISING CAIN, and stellar indie films including THE LAST GAMBLE, where he plays a sports gambling addict whose life falls apart around him.

Another speaker likened our government's behavior to that of gambling addict deep in the hole who refuses to acknowledge their own problem and places higher and higher bets every day.

«Casinos prey on working people and depend on gambling addicts and problem gamblers for their high profits,» noted Hawkins.

The story revoles around a recovering gambling addict who finds work providing protection to his friends.

Jean Dujardin, who picked up an Oscar as the charismatic lead in that other period piece, «The Artist,» is Pierre Michel, a police magistrate and possible former gambling addict, devoted to the junkies he leans on for information on the juvenile squad.

It was a great concept, but not knowing what he didn't know caused him to contract with a fast - food consultant who seemed perfect on the outside, but was a shady gambling addict.

There are billions of sports fanatics and gambling addicts spread out across the world.

The report by the Coalition Against Gambling in New York says that the costs of treating additional gambling addicts from the new gambling resorts would exceed any tax breaks that the casinos could generate.

You can practically smell the cigarette smoke and bourbon - soaked desperation wafting through «Mississippi Grind,» a nicely observed throwback of a road movie about a pair of gambling addicts en route from Dubuque, Iowa, to a high - stakes poker game in New Orleans.

A recovering gambling addict returns to his Texas home only to find trouble and temptation when he rekindles his relationship with his ex-wife.

Like the fleeting highs and crushing lows experienced by gambling addicts, Treat Me Like Fire (Joueurs) starts off with energy and confidence, only to slowly succumb to cliché and implausibility once the initial adrenaline rush subsides.

Mississippi Grind sees hard - up gambling addict Gerry (Ben Mendelson) befriend the charismatic poker player Curtis (Ryan Reynolds).

Plus there's the responsibility factor - gambling companies are often liable for gambling addicts if there are no proper support avenues in place.

Corrupt copper / gambling addict Michael Shannon gets wind of this precarious scheme, and hatches a plot to a. intercept the package, and b. cash in the chitty for himself.

Complications ensue when his daughter, Poppy, played by the very hot Gene Tierney (Laura) becomes a drunken, debauched gambling addict and a regular at Madam Sling's establishment thanks to the persuasive powers of Victor Mature's Doctor Omar, who appears to be a pimp of some sort.

Gerry (Ben Mendelsohn) is pathetic and miserable, a hopeless gambling addict, drifting until he encounters the smooth - talking shyster Curtis (Ryan Reynolds).

But the tour needs a boost, which it gets in the form of a self - described male chauvinist pig — aging former men's champ Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell), now 55 and a debt - ridden gambling addict, a hustler looking for a big score.

To the average outside spectator, someone checking their phone all the time, whether they're out at a restaurant, at work or laying at home in bed, would see like a full - fledged gambling addict.

People who didn't even know they were gambling addicts buy and buy as well, past their means and what they can afford because they can't help themselves.

They would simply be skimming business off the top at whatever commission percentage was in vogue at the time; they wold not be relying on that «mad money» income, so to speak, for their very sustenance in life, unless they were drug or gambling addicts etc..

It's the story of two gambling addicts who think...

Gambling addicts in a casino think and act exactly like forex trading addicts do while in the comfort of their own homes, it is the habits and mindset of a professional trader that separates him or her from a forex gambler.

Japanese film focuses on gambling addict and failed husband, yet somehow manages to be charming

As a former gambling addict, Michel channels his obsessive nature into getting to the bottom of the complex network of drug lords, discovering that corruption exists at the top and around him.

A different group of gambling addicts....

It has no bearing on anything that really means anything unless you are a gambling addict and have thousands of dollars riding on a game.

Incidentally, Lucia, who is charged with investigating embezzlements, says that no one knows how much money is lost to Reno businesses at the hands of embezzlers, but that 75 per cent of the total is directly related to gambling; and that the only way in which the department can help the embezzler and the gambling addict is to sentence them to a lengthy but, hopefully, rehabilitative jail term.

Dear Ready To Fold: It's good that you realize your parents are gambling addicts, because addicts have certain behaviors that are universal.

Should a man or woman be forced to reconcile with a serial adulterer, emotional abuser, petty thief, or porn or gambling addict?

Coming in at # 3, Nevada might be an interesting place to live... if you're a gambling addict or Celine Dion.

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.

«Nearly winning is more rewarding in gamblings addicts.»

The gambling addict has a rightfully bitter ex-wife, a job as a real estate agent that he's no good at, and he owes money to everybody.

The middle - aged sad sack Gerry (Ben Mendelsohn, Aussie actor), a gambling addict, is a divorced real - estate agent from Dubuque, Iowa, who has deep financial troubles — his debts due to gambling have mounted and he has not only lost a wife (Robin Weigert) but a daughter because of his addiction.

Synopsis: Convinced that his newfound friend (Ryan Reynolds) is a good - luck charm, a gambling addict (Ben Mendelsohn) takes the man on a road trip to a high - stakes poker game in New Orleans.

John Saxon (Black Christmas, Joe Kidd) plays gambling addict, Roper, who escapes the mob boss out to collect on a late payment.

Establishing Richie's father (Heard, Justice League: The New Frontier) as another gambling addict is a tell that he's going to get into trouble that is going to compromise Richie's freedom of will.

The story of a friendship between two degenerate gamblers (George Segal and Elliot Gould), Robert Altman's California Split perfectly evokes the milieu of the gambling addict: smokey, shag - carpeted and relentless.

A trailer has arrived online for writer - director Bart Freundlich's (The Rebound), new film Wolves, which sees Michael Shannon as a gambling addict whose troubles threaten his family, and in particular his 18 - year - old son, a basketball star on the verge of being recruited by Cornell University.