Sentences with phrase «stakes gambler»

Unless you have the risk tolerance of a high - stakes gambler, playing games in your divorce is rarely a good idea.

Choe is a Los Angeles - based artist, high - stakes gambler and blackmailer, whose refined taste in food ranges from Chicken Littles to desserts made of paper.

Both an English professor and a high - stakes gambler, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster (Michael Kenneth Williams) and offers his own life as collateral.

40 years later, Mark Wahlberg, who holds similar A-list status as Caan did back then, takes on the title role of literature professor by day; high - stakes gambler (and loser) by night.

2014 Directed by Rupert Wyatt Starring Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, Michael K. Williams, Brie Larson, Jessica Lange, and George Kennedy Synopsis: A literature college professor and high stakes gambler runs afoul of a loan shark and his bodyguard - like gangsters while he has an affair with one of his students.

More elaborately, Ficarra and Requa give huge scenes to veteran actors B.D. Wong, (Law & Order: SVU) as a high - stakes gambler at the (don't call it a Super Bowl, because the NFL wasn't licensed) AFFA League Championship, and Gerald McRaney (Major Dad) as security agent Owens, a push broom - mustached advisor to a European racing millionaire (Rodrigo Santoro) who has hired Nick to swindle a competitor and ensure his team's victory.

In fact, while the first half of «Focus» is a fun and fizzy con movie that's capped off by a terrifically tense sequence featuring BD Wong as a high - stakes gambler who will bet on anything, the second half isn't nearly as engaging.

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.

I'm a big stakes gambler on the side and love taking big risks for big payoffs in business as well.

Paddock was a high - stakes gambler recognized in the casinos of Vegas.

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

Like high - stakes gamblers with finite bankrolls and three - alarm substance - abuse habits, ruination always lies just around the corner for small - volume carmakers like Jaguar.

Not exact matches

«Some people laugh at me and say I need to go to Gamblers Anonymous, «says Hoff, who frequently makes small - stakes wagers on practice swims with herNorth Baltimore Aquatic Club teammates.

Arsenal are odds - on at 1/3 to win this game, which looks like a license to print money as far as I am concerned if you are a big time gambler, but being greedy I am going to look for a much better value bet and will probably increase my stakes by getting some bonuses from the best betting sites listed on bettingsiteoffers.co.uk.

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.

The poet Alfred Noyes, who was at Mount Wilson on November 1, 1917, when the completed telescope first turned to the sky, later wrote of the scientists: «Where was the gambler that would stake so much, — / Time, patience, treasure, on a single throw?

There's a sense of altruism to his addiction at first, as he tells stories of staking other gamblers for their big, redemptive stint at a poker table.

In a movie about con - men and gamblers, Ryan Reynolds and Ben Mendelsohn feature as a pair of «oddball strangers» who hit the road together to try to make a high - stakes poker tournament in New Orleans.

A sweet, shambling, supremely enjoyable road movie about two compulsive gamblers of very different stripes, Mississippi Grind could easily be confused for one of Alexander Payne's wounded comedies, albeit one with higher stakes and a lower thread - count.

This is Reynolds» seventh visit to the Park City, Utah fest, and this time around he's here in support of the latest film from the Half Nelson writing / directing team of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, about two gamblers heading to New Orleans for a high - stakes poker game.

And we watch as he meets the true love of his life, an object of instant attraction that he lays eyes on after a high - stakes card game with a gambler named Lando Calrissian, portrayed in a playful turn by a perfectly cast Donald Glover.

The always welcome Joseph Gordon - Levitt hits Sin City as Johnny, a young gambler who dares to take on Roark in a game of high stakes poker.

And finally, there's a third plot which doesn't really seem to fit, starring Joseph Gordon - Levitt as Johnny, a cocky young gambler with a secret, who engages the corrupt Senator Roark (Powers Booth) in a game of high - stakes poker.

The best of the four is Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck's «Mississippi Grind,» starring Ben Mendeloshn and Ryan Reynolds as a pair of lovable loser gamblers going all - in on a gambling trip designed to earn the stake for an infamous poker game.

The odd - story - out centres on Johnny (Joseph Gordon - Levitt), a young gambler on a lucky streak who sits down opposite the city's corrupt Senator Roark (Powers Boothe) at a high - stakes poker game.

Set in the glitz and glamour of Vegas, the hub for gamblers, the story would definitely intrigue people who love high - stakes poker.

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

There's a number of them on any normal high street, so much so that the government is considering reducing the stakes of them so that they can help to curb the rise of problem gamblers in the country.

In this corrupt gambler's paradise, the stakes are high and the House always wins.

In response to Ehrlich» s published claim that «If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000» — a proposition Simon regarded as too silly to bother with — Simon countered with «a public offer to stake US$ 10,000... on my belief that the cost of non-government-controlled raw materials (including grain and oil) will not rise in the long run.»