Sentences with phrase «time gambler»

His third film, Mean Streets, is surely his first, as the director teams up with Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro for a fiery crime drama about a small - time gambler who enlists the help of a friend, who's a rising star in the New York mafia, to help him get out of debt.

He's a small - time gambler with a backpack full of cash, an overdue debt in Vegas and a broken radiator hose.

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.

What is his place in Heaven compared to someone who is an Alcoholic Christian and a big time gambler but doesn't go to Church and help the elderly?

The facility is across the street from McCarron International, and, says Heinen, the reigning California Amateur champ, «I know plenty of big - time gamblers who'll come over here to kill time.

On its face, the Mutt - and - Jeff bonding between two small - time gamblers in Mississippi Grind may strike you as strange, even unbelievable.

Some people though are big time gamblers and like to go all or nothing.

Not exact matches

While the College Football Playoff will garner the most attention, there's plenty of other great bowl games to enjoy in the mean time, and for gamblers, there's plenty of money left to be made.

And just as we frequently mistake correlation for causation, we're susceptible to what's called the «gambler's fallacy,» the belief that anomalies from expected outcomes in a random process are likely to be evened out by their opposites in the future — or, more simply, the idea that a roulette ball that's landed eight straight times on black is therefore more likely on the ninth spin to land on red.

Why then should the U.S. Treasury pay three times as much as the Iraq War for money that will end up being lost after paying off the gamblers from their own bad bets.

By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant)-- I have a friend who is an infrequent gambler and won money almost every time he went to the casino.

Legend has it that the sandwich was named after the Earl of Sandwich, a gambler in 1700s who, not wanting to take the time to leave the gaming tables to eat, came up with the concoction and found that it was a quick and easy solution to the problem.

Given time to poke around, he was soon struck by the fact that a coterie of a dozen gamblers from Florida, who became known to him as the Miami Syndicate, were using sophisticated mathematical formulas to figure the odds and place bets, particularly on trifectas, in which a bettor must pick the top three players or doubles teams in the order they finish.

We all know that wenger is toooo stubborn but I am sure that he is a big time private gambler that has million pound bets With his elite buddies on what he can do with this team with handicaps....

With quarterback Kyle Allen taking more of the full - time reins of the offense from freshman Kyler Murray — a potential Johnny Manziel scrambler - gambler in the future who was drastically inefficient in the season's early - going — the Aggies have settled a bit.

Its just time for fresh blood who can cope with the requirements of the modern game, when Arsene was appointed he was a big gamble too and look what he turned out to be so lets not fear so much into gambling on another and even Arsene should appreciate and accept this as his the master gambler.

Then he remembers the time a Vegas gambler named Tommy Fischer made a bet that involved his carrying his opponent's bag and walking the course backwards.

He says that 20 % of gamblers in treatment have attempted suicide; this is perhaps 100 times the national average for suicide attempts.

Woods» impressive comeback from a fourth back surgery last April has casual golf fans, gamblers, six - time major champion Faldo, and legendary sports broadcaster Jim Nantz giddy with anticipation of Woods» start at next week's Masters.

«I used to bet on Vanderbilt all the time in basketball,» says Alex Andrews, the admitted compulsive gambler.

For those less experienced gamblers the market is called «Half - time full - time» and the prediction will state «Belgrade - Arsenal».

It is time to close out another winning NFL week for pro gamblers.

Since a major part of currently existing betting strategies are inefficient, most gamblers just waste time and money to find a win - win game system.

Reputable and long - time tipsheet used by many elite handicappers and gamblers has their 2008 - 2009 Bowl Season Best Bet of the Year on their late telephone service.

As others say, drinks are free for gamblers at all times, including after midnight.

At the same time, Lago is expected to peel of some gamblers who would otherwise go to Turning Stone casino, which is operated by the Oneida Nation of Indians.

Trump's personal assistant, John McEntee, was fired because he's a high - rolling gambler who bets tens of thousands of dollars at a time, opening himself to potential outside influence.

Now add state rules that kept these charities operating games stuck in a kind of time warp — with «paper slots» called bell jars and often retrieved by gamblers from a fancy or otherwise container.

Theresa May told us time and time again that she would not «reveal her hand» ahead of negotiations, as if the EU27 were a bunch of gamblers in a smoky casino.

The Times calls on state lawmakers to «stop chasing gamblers» as a means to close the budget deficit.

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?

A study by University of Iowa researchers confirms that pathological gambling runs in families and shows that first - degree relatives of pathological gamblers are eight times more likely to develop this problem in their lifetime than relatives of people without pathological gambling.

GAMBLERS already had enough to think about without factoring the end of time into their calculations.

Researchers at the University of Brescia and other institutions in Italy found that online gamblers who closed their accounts because of money troubles showed the widest variance in the size of their bets over time.

Back then, the West was still wild: The population of Taft, Montana, one of the three towns threatened by the Big Burn, consisted mostly of gamblers and prostitutes — «five for every man,» as one official noted at the time.

Dr Lawrence, of Psychology, said: «Our findings show for the first time that gamblers have an exaggerated theta response to almost winning in brain regions related to reward processing, which could contribute to them continuing to gamble despite their losses.

Make all the great money with gamblers at any time.

Ken Jeong (Community) spent his time in The Hangover as a mean, naked gambler that hit so hard; he returned in The Hangover Part II, but [spoiler alert] spent the better part of the movie presumably dead.

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.

In the film, Han Solo meets loyal co-pilot Chewbacca and notorious gambler Lando for the first time, bound by a desperate mission against impossible odds that will help shape the irresistible scoundrel audiences have come to love.

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Only an hour of screen time before complimenting Hiroshi, McConaughey's Ron Woodroof is dead - ending as an unlucky rodeo gambler, plowing strange ass in the animal stalls and aching with undiagnosed HIV.

Card gambler / smuggler Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover), at times, is a scene stealer.

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.

The details: It's been over 30 years since Robert Altman's California Split, so the time is ripe for another seedy story of the dangerously symbiotic relationship between a pair of congenitally reckless gamblers.

For all the urgency of the posse's mission, it's a journey of days through the desert and the characters fill the time with defining personalities: the easy - going affability of Sheriff Hunt that becomes sharpened by the focus of tracking the raiding party, the garrulous way that Chicory talks, like a lonely old man trying to be useful («It's the opinion of the back - up deputy that...»), the arrogance and urbane language of the educated townsman whose character recalls the gamblers of classic westerns but whose backstory reveals different tale, the resolute determination of the cowboy husband who will not shirk his duty despite the crippling ordeal.

That's right, following the premiere of Solo: A Star Wars Story, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy has confirmed / teased that the galaxy's most charming gambler is due to get his time in the spotlight (at long last).

What gives the movie a big boost is the delayed appearance of that riverboat gambler — cum — space pimp Lando Calrissian, this time played by Donald Glover, who is a far more vital and amusing actor than Billy Dee Williams was in The Empire Strikes Back.

His Kind of Woman John Farrow, USA, 1951, 16 mm, 120m Mitchum had a good time shooting this ambling comedy thriller, playing a down - on - his - luck gambler who takes a mysterious gig that brings him to an exclusive Baja resort, where he meets up with a colorful crew of characters, including a beautiful woman (Jane Russell) and her movie star boyfriend (Vincent Price).

I also think that instead of re-making the movie and using a generic title like The Gambler, director Rupert Wyatt and screenwriter William Monahan could have gone a different route that would have been more beneficial come Oscar time.