Sentences with phrase «of gambling addicts»

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 different group of gambling addicts....

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.

Not exact matches

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

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.

Because of the state government's interest in increasing gambling revenues, there is little concern for rehabilitating those addicted to gambling, and the churches offer little help to these victims.

It is true that of the thousands of people who live in or travel to Reno every year most do not become addicted to slot machines or roulette tables; only a comparative few can not say No to the urge to gamble.

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

One is the typical profile of what we see with alot of addicts, whether they're drug addicts, gambling addicts is they come from backgrounds in their childhood where the relationships with their primary caretakers were not good.

Simply saying «Jobs and Growth» repeatedly does not make Labours vague debt addicted spendaholic «plan» any less of a suicidal gamble with the lives and futures of real people.

Less than 1 percent of the entire population is addicted to gambling — a rate that has held steady for 40 years — even though surveys of American adults show that 72 percent have gambled at least once in the prior year.

A New York cop (Keitel) is hopelessy addicted to drugs, gambling, and sex, in this intense, hallucinatory portrait of sin and redemption.

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 film is fairly paint - by - numbers and mostly predictable, but a standout performance from Shannon as the drunk, gambling - addicted father of a high school basketball star and an impressive turn from the always - welcome, always - gorgeous Carla Gugino will help position Wolves for a decently widespread theatrical release, though it probably won't have much staying power.

The plan backfires, and she is forced into custody of her gambling - addicted mother.

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

But it's only really a vehicle to plot mechanisms, the love interest who demands he be his very best self (Brie Larson) and the sports scholarship student (Anthony Kelley) who offers a whole other set of options to a gambling addict.

Croupier (Hen's Tooth, Blu - ray, DVD), the 1998 film that helped elevate the career of Clive Owen, is a low - key drama with Owen as a would - be writer and a gambling addict in denial who takes a high paying job at a casino.

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.

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.

Gerry (Ben Mendelsohn) is an estate agent from Iowa who's addicted to gambling, ever more hopelessly, and who spends a great deal of time sitting in his car listening to an instructional CD called 200 Poker Tells, which lists the signs by which you can gauge an opponent's character and thought processes, and ideally, guess their cards: they might babble at the table, rub their nose, furrow their brow.

It's the story of two gambling addicts who think that the answer to all of their problems lies just around the next bend in the river, and it's sharply well written and directed, with astute performances from the lead actors.

«Saint John of Las Vegas»: Comedy starring Steve Buscemi as a gambling addict who flees Las Vegas in an effort to clean up his life.

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.

So they, along with good friend (and gambling addict) Frank (Jason Mantzoukas — in the most high - profile role of his career), decide to start an illegal underground casino in Frank's house.

Gerry (Mendelsohn) lives in the world of man - made light, a gambling addict near the bottom of his barrel.

Carell's Riggs is a gambling addict in a struggling marriage, who, in lieu of correcting his flaws, is doomed to flaunt them for the world to see.

After a half - hearted, if dramatic, suicide attempt, Imogene is released by the hospital to the custody of her estranged, gambling - addicted mother (Annette Bening).

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.

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.

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.

This causes them to behave like they are a gambling addict in a casino; pumping increasing amounts of money into their trading accounts, risking random amounts with no money management plan, meddling in trades after they are live for no good reason, chasing the market, and a whole host of other addictive trading errors.

Many novices become addicted to trading, and subsequently, start treating their trading as just another form of gambling.

Dogs are effectively «gambling addicts» and by only rewarding them some of the time we tap into their innate desire to gamble and this keeps their enthusiasm for training high.

Further, the video game industry as a whole and the age ratings don't take into account whether games have gambling of this sort, which the report says is «particularly problematic for minors and gambling addicts.»

In this sense, it's not dissimilar to the alcohol or gambling addict that can not resist the immediate «pleasure» of satisfying her or his habit — the future consequences are discounted to the point of irrelevance in the addict's mind.

pdf), linked from Courthouse News, alleges that the plaintiff, Joyce May Ross, had become so addicted to gambling, and so at risk of financial ruin, that, in desperation, she signed a form available at all British Columbia government - sanctioned casinos, effectively banning herself from entering, and subjecting her to criminal fines if she violated the ban.

A married father of two is due to take GlaxoSmithKline to court this week, alleging that his use of Requip, a Glaxo drug for treating Parkinson's disease, turned him into a gay sex and gambling addict.

Michael J. Burke, published 2008, 250 pages Never Enough is the shocking, true story of Michael J. Burke, who went from being a successful lawyer, loving father and husband, and respected member of his community to a closet alcoholic and gambling addict to the tune of $ 1,600,000, using client's trust account funds.

Never Enough is the shocking, true story of Michael J. Burke, who went from being a successful lawyer, loving father and husband, and respected member of his community to a closet alcoholic and gambling addict to the tune of $ 1,600,000, using client's trust account funds.

Addictions, whether to a substance (alcohol, drugs, food), a result (gambling, workaholism, excessive exercise), or a person (relationship dependency), have the same core source... loss of self... and this is what has to be healed if the addicted person is going to gain true freedom from the addiction.

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