Sentences with phrase «one's gambling habit»

It's not that I expect authors NOT to pay to promote, but I'm growing more and more concerned that these marketing strategies are turning into gambling habits.

If your online gambling habit is a secret you keep from family and friends, there is a likelihood that it is becoming unhealthy.

In 2005 a Mayo Clinic study found 11 cases of patients who had developed gambling habits while taking dopamine agonists for Parkinson's disease.

Yakuza 5, like the previous game, follows several characters alongside Kazuma Kiryu; while Taiga Saejima and Shun Akiyama return from Yakuza 4, this newest title introduces Tatsuo Shinada, an ex baseball player whose gambling habits got him banned from the sport.

Other phones develop late - night gambling habits.

The diamond is meant for American mobster Cousin Avi (Dennis Farris), but when his London - based jeweler friend learns of Franky's nasty gambling habit, he hires Boris the Blade (Rade Serbedzija)-- a gangster renowned for dodging bullets — to steal the diamond for himself.

After almost mopping up a windfall during a game of craps, the Johansens hatch a scheme to open a casino in Frank's basement and recruit people from the surrounding neighborhoods to come and feed their insatiable gambling habit.

Play as Ben McCall, a brutal LAPD cop and descendant of Ray McCall; Eddie Guerra, a DEA agent with a chronic gambling habit; or Kim Evans, a gang - affiliated street kid turned FBI agent.

Men with problematic gambling habits are more likely to have witnessed violence or experienced childhood trauma, according to a study published in the journal Addictive Behaviors.

That is not to say that all impulsive people will develop gambling habits or problems but they could if the right factors were in play at the right times.

Dr Luke Clark, a senior lecturer at the University of Cambridge (UK), told the meeting that neurocognitive tests of impulsivity and compulsivity, and also positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of the brain have started to show how gambling becomes addictive in pathological gamblers — people whose gambling habit has spiralled out of control and become a problem.

As BlogTO points out, in 2003's Owning Mahowny, Hoffman's character, Dan Mahowny, is a Bay Street embezzler inspired by a real - life Torontonian, Brian Molony, who approved dozens of fraudulent loans to himself under various aliases as a means of funding his gambling habit.

The spokeswoman said the croupier developed a gambling habit when he was young and investigations showed he was now heavily in debt.

Why fans believe it is true: Just months before Michael Jordan announced his first retirement in 1993 and eventually pursued a career in baseball, the NBA had launched an investigation into Jordan's gambling habits.

On Monday, Trump's personal assistant, John McEntee, was escorted from the White House grounds after an investigation found that he was a security risk due to his gambling habits, The Washington Post reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.

McEntee lost his White House job after an investigation found his gambling habits posed a security risk, the Washington Post reported.

When you're beginning to feel like you're losing control of your gambling habits it's often a natural reaction to dismiss the severity of your behaviour and convince yourself that you are under control.

Anyway, Wahrenbrock insists, his experience has shown that compulsive gamblers leave the state because they can't afford the gambling habit; hence there is no need for the state to institute programs to help them.

The researchers found a statistically significant link between gambling and violent behaviour, which became starker the more severe the gambling habit.

For the study, the researchers asked 316 high - schoolers, aged 14 - 19, from four high schools in Israel to fill out questionnaires to establish their involvement in sports and their gambling habits.

Of course, nobody with a gambling habit would undergo neurosurgery nor would physicians consider it.

Gerry is a talented poker player, but his gambling habit is getting the best of him.

You feel the presence of the larger conflict in the disintegration of the parents» marriage, mounting tension over the father's gambling habit, and the pervasive sense of corrosive self - interest that underpins the characters» dealings with one another and eventually taints Lina and Siham's relationship.

Enticed by the thrill of online football betting and casinos, the sales manager, who wanted to be known only as Mr Ang, borrowed from multiple registered moneylenders to feed his gambling habit as well as to cover debts with moneylenders and even loan sharks.

Can you imagine how hard it is for someone who is trying to kick a gambling habit as it is, constantly bombarded but gambling advertising that paints a glamorous picture of this life - destroying habit?

Serial Cleaner is a breath of fresh air, it may not be an original concept but it certainly keeps you entertained, it seems to take inspiration from the likes of Party Hard but obviously you're cleaning instead of killing, this doesn't make Bob a good guy by any means with his odd collecting and gambling habits but he sure is entertaining!

The UK Gambling Commission released its annual report today examining the gambling habits of 11 - to 16 - year - olds.

One woman lost her home and custody of her children after developing a gambling habit while on Abilify.

«I had to reschedule the first flight I missed and then I went back to the machine waiting for the second flight and I ended up missing that as well,» said the woman, who estimates that she lost up to $ 2 million due to her gambling habit, in less than five years.

Seven of the eight patients given Abilify lost control of their gambling habits.