As happens in every gambling story, from Dostoevsky's The Gambler to Wahlberg's The Gambler, McConaughey's character starts to get too big for his britches.
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So if a casino wants to sue a Chinese gambler, it's not enough just to obtain a judgement in a Singaporean court - it also needs to sue the gambler on the mainland.
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Economics: Will holding a crocodile make you a better gambler?
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And Woods' Masters win made one gambler $2360 million richer.
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It's about time that Westeros' chief gambler overplayed his hand.
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He is not a gambler in any other respect, however.
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His first film, "The Gambler" in 1974, starred James Caan.
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This man, likely a diehard gambler, kept humans for amusement.
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I'm a professional gambler, so there's no loyalty to anybody.
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As a gambler, it's done him no good at all.
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"His father was a big, big gambler," Ingela Lucey said.
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Even a bad gambler can get on a hot streak.
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"I was a professional gambler as a teenager," he said.
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He was a social gambler as well as a basketball gambler, one of those people who know how to play on the line between charisma and rudeness, teasing and affection, especially among people he likes.
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Holzhauer, a professional sports gambler, put down $20,908 of his $31,200.
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But he puts himself on the line like a good gambler.
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So he moved to Las Vegas and became a professional gambler.
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"Paddock was a pathological gambler, psychopath and a sociopath," he said.
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Courtsiding can give a gambler an edge on even the bookmaker.
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Persuade someone to read "The Gambler" in 50 words or less.
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Synopsis: Professional gambler Sydney teaches John the tricks of the trade.
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I'm not much of a gambler myself, despite the Asian-ness.
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His last role was in 2014's The Gambler alongside Mark Wahlberg.
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I am not against gambling; in fact, I'm a big gambler myself.
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His last role was in "The Gambler" with Mark Wahlberg in 2014.
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He looked for a moment like a gambler betting his last dollar.
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He was a high-stakes gambler recognized in the casinos of Nevada.
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He was, in reality, a gambler who spent periods of time incarcerated.
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He was a gambler who thought he would get away with risk.
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But this has been bugging me, a gambler, for a long, long time.
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It all began when he met a professional gambler named Robin Hood 702.
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Things had gone relatively smoothly, at least for a professional gambler—until Australia.
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Caridi also appeared in The Gambler (1974) and Prince of the City (1981).
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Most cruise ships have casinos on board, and Paddock was an avid gambler.
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" Any gambler that likes to win should bet that the answer is, "no.
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The gambler punched him in the face and he collapsed and later died.
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LAS VEGAS — Stephen Paddock was a contradiction: a gambler who took no chances.
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If you're a gambler, you're in store for free drinks, Ms. Daitch said.
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But the police discounted that possibility and blamed one irate gambler for it.
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So, yes ... somewhere in the darkness, the Gambler broke way more than even.
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He's a mixture of a crazed gambler, a mathematical genius and a soccer fanatic.
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Vinnie is a bartender with ambition, while Frankie is a gambler and a charmer.
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The 41-year-old victim, an active gambler from the mainland, had been stabbed.
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She's previously starred in The Glass Castle, Kong: Skull Island, Trainwreck and The Gambler.
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As a professional gambler, it was the equivalent of being told he couldn't work.
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But like every good gambler, the president should be open to other winning combinations.
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This would come after sometimes months of the gambler being put through bookmaker checks.
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A second stepfather was an alcoholic gambler who moved the family to New York.
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By night, he is a full-time free spirit, dedicated gambler and generous tipper.
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The measure of a good gambler is what happens when the dice cool down.
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But a sane gambler would avoid casting bets on this election at the moment.
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Are you the sort of person who takes financial risks, a literal horse gambler?
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Paddock was known as a high-stakes gambler who often visited Las Vegas casinos.
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He was a gambler and very charming, but he was always in a dream.
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One key to Holzhauer's "Jeopardy!" success actually stemmed from his background as a professional gambler.
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For a team supposedly led by a riverboat gambler, that's a precarious place to be.
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Not merely foreign, but German, Jewish, a gambler and (perhaps most horrifying of all) debonair.
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At those odds, the gambler would receive just 18 cents for every dollar they bet.
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The Las Vegas resident and professional sports gambler told the outlet that he took Jeopardy!
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"I'm a gambler," he says, "You could say that this time, I'm betting on myself."
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As far as the gambler is concerned, their payment has gone to the gambling site.
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While Merkel is not a risk taker or a gambler, she can take bold decisions.
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In 2014 he was in the film "The Gambler," starring Mark Wahlberg and Jessica Lange.
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Like a true gambler, however, there is no harm in trying to handicap the field.
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She would also pose as a degenerate gambler to help raid women-only betting parlors.
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A college friend, a severely addicted gambler, won a million-dollar lottery in her state.
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"The Gambler" was ubiquitous, brought more accolades, and became a popular series of TV movies.
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But there was also an older guy, a gambler, and his name was Dapper Dan.
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I felt like a reformed gambler who had been air dropped onto the Vegas strip.
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One of Lucan&aposs friends, James Wilson, told The Telegraph that Lucan was a gambler.
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A remake of the 1974 film "The Gambler" was released in 2014, starring Mark Wahlberg.
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Charles Bidwell, whose family now owns the Arizona Cardinals, was a gambler and a racetrack owner.
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The 34-year-old professional sports gambler from Las Vegas now has a total of $1,780,237.
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He was a professional gambler, his parents were socialists, and he was said to be queer.
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Josh Frydenberg, the federal energy minister, likens Mr Weatherill to a "problem gambler chasing his losses".
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For example, some might be really into rolling the dice, so you'd build them a Gambler.
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"I definitely play the game like a gambler who's not afraid of losing," he told me.
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To the outsider, the Golden Knights might seem like a first-time gambler on a heater.
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If you lost, the expectation was that the book's courtesy would be returned by the gambler.
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His neighbor, Scott Smith, knew he was a gambler, and assumed he slept during the day.
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He'd settled in Los Angeles in the 1920s, become a bootlegger, then a gambler and racketeer.
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For instance, in October 1941, a small-time gambler was shot at night near a schoolyard.
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The potential ruin doesn't stop with the gambler but with the corruption of the sport itself.
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Whether he planned it or just got lucky, the gambler Putin is on a winning streak.
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Like James Caan's similarly badass character in "The Gambler," from 1974, Howard is infatuated with basketball.
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Here he is writing about his father the degenerate gambler, for ESPN, and it's vintage Junod.
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I don't want to credit Ms. Rhimes for Mr. Lindelof's risk-taking — he was already a gambler.
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Also screening: "Lime Kiln" outtakes and Williams's more heavily stereotyped comedy "A Natural Born Gambler," from 1916.
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Also screening: "Lime Kiln" outtakes and Williams's more heavily stereotyped comedy "A Natural Born Gambler," from 25.
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Tickets for the "All In For The Gambler: Kenny Rogers' Farewell Concert Celebration" in Nashville on Oct.
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"We never broke up as such, we just parted company and musically we moved on," says Gambler.
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Success requires skills not taught in a classroom – and sometimes even the luck of a winning gambler.
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Her mother vacillated between drugs and alcohol; her father was a drinker, a gambler and a womanizer.
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If a gambler plays once, wins big, and the sportsbook loses money, the affiliate could get nothing.
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In one instance he was charged with stabbing a fellow gambler in the abdomen with a penknife.
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Thrust into Tokyo's underbelly, she becomes a gambler and a thief, vowing to avenge her father's death.
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"I'm not a gambler," said Sharon Allen, 42, who lives in Birmingham and bought $40 worth of tickets.
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Do you have a degree in anything, or did you always know you wanted to be a gambler?
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That was pretty brave, to quit everything else because of a good World Cup, becoming a professional gambler.
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The man behind the Manila shooting later proved to be a disgruntled gambler, heavily indebted to the house.
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But eventually something strange happened: Klinestiver, who'd never been a gambler, suddenly became an obsessive slot machine player.
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But here's where it gets a little wonky: Jupiter is a gambler and a free spirit at heart.
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He was a gambler placing small bets with little risk—and he ended up with a huge payout.
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The 34-year-old professional gambler usually has a staggering lead over his opponents going into Final Jeopardy.
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The professional sports gambler wowed the game show's audience again after he won for the 14th time Tuesday.
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Paddock, a 64-year-old retired accountant, was a substantial high-stakes gambler and had no criminal history.
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Other proposed items at the state fair's restaurant include The Gambler, The Bootlegger, and The Boss Man Panini.
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How you bet from that point on depends on how conservative or aggressive you are as a gambler.
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What is the disconnect between being the athlete in that game versus being that gambler betting on that?
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A lucky gambler, Vladimir Putin knew when to raise the stakes and when to cash in his chips.
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Paddock was an accountant by trade and a gambler by avocation, a man with no known military experience.
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Suddenly, he was accosted by a drunken gambler who recognized him and cheerfully pelted him with swear words.
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This is one of the tougher picks I have ever seen in my days as an NFL gambler.
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It's only a little better than picking a horse in a race because a gambler likes the name.
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He was a high-stakes video gambler, drawing on sharp analytic skills and interacting little with other players.
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For example, a gambler might tell his local casino to bar him from entering in the first place.
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Even with his casinos, Trump wasn't a gambler, either, saying he'd rather own slot machines than play them.
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De Lacy is a gambler, and Venice has some of the most infamous dens of iniquity in Europe.
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Police officer, promoter at Lumpini Stadium, and active gambler, Suthap Poompanmoung has taken an interest in Lookboonmee gym.
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Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old gambler and real-estate businessman, killed 58 people and injured over 400 others.
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If Los Angeles had walked away victorious, the gambler would have walked away with $4.5 million, according to ESPN.
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You won't find professional sports gambler, and current "Jeopardy!" champ, James Holzhauer sitting behind a desk at an office.
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It was the 10th straight win for the 34-year-old professional sports gambler who lives in Las Vegas.
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How they can screw it up: The Canucks are like a gambler who doesn't know when to say enough.
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If you live in California and are seeking help for gambling addiction, call 1-800-GAMBLER to get assistance.
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The shooter, an avid gambler, has no apparent debt, and police studying his wins and losses unearthed nothing unusual.
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Just another gambler For someone who led such an adventurous life, Paddock didn't seem to like other people much.
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Paddock was a skilled gambler, the casino host said, and he stopped coming once those games were taken out.
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That's like saying, 'I'm not a gambler, but taking New England -22019 plus the over is a fantastic parlay.
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"The Gambler," Fyodor Dostoyevsky It's one of my favorite of Dostoyevsky's stories, really frightening but it's an incredible book.
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There wasn't much "iron" in 150-time loser Iron Mike Sharpe, and The Gambler was always a bad bet.
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His boss, Steve Kerr, eyes him intently, then smiles like a gambler admiring someone who is beating the odds.
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He is a world-renowned gambler who has been prosecuted four times before on different charges but never convicted.
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Chase was a gambler, the Yankees' owners were gamblers, and in an apparently uncoordinated way they tanked a season.
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Trump is spending down his limited foreign policy credibility as a gambler squanders his last chips at the roulette wheel.
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Law, as James Buchan explains in this exceptionally thorough biography, was a gambler in life as much as in finance.
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On the big screen, Cumbuka best known for playing the "Toothless Gambler" in the 1989 Eddie Murphy comedy Harlem Nights.
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In raising nuclear tensions last year and in embracing his summitry in 2018, Mr Kim has proved himself a gambler.
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While the unidentified gambler came out with such a big payday, not everything was peachy for some Las Vegas betters.
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Paddock, who worked as an apartment manager and aerospace industry worker over the years, was known as an avid gambler.
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Robert and the other gambler are in a heated discussion about the line on the Canelo fight when Dink calls.
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Together we'd watch the monitor with the same mixture of angst and hope that a gambler does a slot machine.
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The bookie wants the gambler to keep betting, and so may extend credit to keep the player in the game.
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An inveterate gambler trying to keep up an unsustainable lifestyle, he owed money to the I.R.S. and others, including Walters.
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Musburger started VSIN in part because he, as a casual sports gambler, struggled to find credible sources of gaming information.
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A flambeur is a gambler, and Bob cannot pass by a game without sizing up the odds or joining in.
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The Mystery of a Nondescript 'Numbers Guy' Stephen Paddock, the gunman, was a contradiction: a gambler who took no chances.
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Now, we're not saying you're a degenerate gambler if you're wagering money on Friday's weather in Billings, Montana, but ... y'know.
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Mr. Paddock, 64, was described as a high-flying gambler who lived in a quiet retirement community and played golf.
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Mr. Paddock, 216, was described as a high-flying gambler who lived in a quiet retirement community and played golf.
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"He was a gambler, that was his job," his brother, Eric Paddock, told reporters Monday at his home in Orlando.
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Another gambler bet $20,000 that the Cleveland Indians would beat the New York Yankees and lost, according to Mr. Gural.
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But Howard has his plagues: He's a gambler and presumably an unlucky one given the heavy debt that he's carrying.
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Ever the gambler, Durocher could see the advantage Robinson's talent would confer on the team that dared to play him.
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A high-rolling Las Vegas sports gambler, William T. Walters, is on trial in Lower Manhattan on insider trading charges.
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It's already been reported that Paddock, a notorious gambler, was completely funded by his gambling habits and real estate transactions.
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The 297-year-old professional sports gambler from Las Vegas has won 295 games so far, earning a total of $97,220,222.
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But every gambler, whatever the size of the problem, wants to know that he or she has some chance of winning.
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This doesn't mean, however, that every person with a traumatic childhood will grow up to become a compulsive gambler, Poole said.
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Investigators remain largely in the dark about what drove Paddock, a retired real estate investor and high-stakes gambler, on Oct.
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"This should have been done a long time ago," said one U.K.-based professional gambler, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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My father was a taxi driver, but he was also a bookmaker and a bit of a gambler on the side.
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Mr. O'Brian played a professional gambler who, in the film's closing moments, became the last character ever killed onscreen by Wayne.
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A gambler might bet, for example, that the sum of the first two cards in play will total 7 or 11.
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Along the way, Palmer's life becomes entangled with that of famous actor Martin Weir (DeVito) and gambler Leo Devoe (David Paymer).
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"This should have been done a long time ago," said one UK-based professional gambler, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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As with any gambler, debts can mount fast -- as Putin saw last month with the expulsion of 150 of his diplomats.
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His father was a drinker and a gambler, and early on Jim knew that he wanted to leave family strife behind.
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In addition to Holzhauer, a professional sports gambler, and Boettcher, a librarian, 13 other champions will be competing in the tournament.
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Perhaps Mr. Manafort, who has enjoyed a lifelong reputation as a swashbuckling big-time gambler, is simply a lousy poker player.
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But if Holzhauer, a 34-year-old professional gambler in Las Vegas, continues his current streak, he'll close that gap quickly.
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Try "Goal lin," which can easily become GO ALL IN, something a confident (or desperate) gambler might do with their chips.
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Critic's Pick In the Safdie brothers' new movie, Sandler plays a jewelry-store owner and compulsive gambler running for his life.
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Dostoevsky — socialist, political prisoner, addicted gambler, epileptic, reactionary thinker and visionary artist — did plenty abyss-gazing and his testimony is overwhelming.
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As a gentleman croons Kenny Rogers' classic "The Gambler," a disagreement of sorts occurs between the guy in blue and Rob.
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Part of his success, experts say, is his comfort with taking risks, which helps him in his day job as a gambler.
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One gambler in Nevada placed an $85,000 bet on Woods that could cost bookmaker William Hill $1.2 million if it pans out.
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No gambler could ever hope to offer a sufficiently large bribe for such stars to put their massive legitimate incomes in jeopardy.
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It is as though a problem gambler chose to cure her addiction by changing her bets rather than ceasing to bet altogether.
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A real risk with office pools, brackets, or fantasy leagues is the possible effect on any employee who is a compulsive gambler.
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However, with the new breed of affiliates who are also giving out betting advice, the business model can work against the gambler.
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"If you're from Badran, you're either a criminal, a gambler, an alcoholic, a waria (transgender woman), or just plain crazy," Wulan explains.
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Holzhauer, a professional sports gambler, thought about risk in a unique way and broke records with the biggest wins in "Jeopardy!" history.
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Eventually Sun recruited the celebrity poker pro Phil Ivey, who is also known as a high-stakes gambler at craps and baccarat.
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Philippine authorities said the gunman, who stole casino chips on his way out of the facility, was a gambler deep in debt.
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They were divorced within the year — Conrad Jr. was a renowned gambler and playboy and she filed for divorce citing mental cruelty.
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The sports gambler had become known for employing an aggressive strategy when selecting boxes on the board at the start of each game.
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On Friday, Holzhauer, a 34 year-old professional sports gambler, won his 32nd game on the show bringing his total earnings to $2,462,216.
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Betting on tennis is relatively simple and comes with enormous potential payoffs, a professional tennis gambler told Reuters under the condition of anonymity.
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Despite the huge amount involved, McIngvale told CNN that he's not a big gambler -- the mega bets were more of an insurance policy.
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Holzhauer, a 34-year-old professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, shattered the previous record of $77,000 made by Roger Craig on Sept.
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In October one, the reclusive high-stakes gambler opened fire on the popular outdoor music festival from the 32nd floor of that resort.
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Instead, Fallon suggested that the actor is a "compulsive gambler," and he sustained the injury from playing the slot machines too many times.
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It seems that famed smuggler, gambler, Cloud City administrator and original Millennium Falcon owner Captain Lando Calrissian is returning to the big screen.
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Rogers, whose hits include "Lucille" and "The Gambler," said in 2015 that he intended to retire and embarked on a world farewell tour.
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That raises the issue whether a bookie-gambler relationship is enough to show the type of beneficial exchange needed to establish insider trading.
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The SEC claims that the three-time Masters champion received the tip from sports gambler Billy Walters, to whom the golfer owed money.
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With a partner, Hayley Gorcey, his girlfriend at the time, he also found a backer, a professional gambler who wishes to remain anonymous.
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" Lama doesn't consider himself a gambler, nor does he want to be rich, "We don't make much money, we're a very simple restaurant.
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Moneymaker, who learned duplicity (and inherited a fitting surname) from his father, a gambler, deployed that skill to hustle older men at pool.
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Richard Wilhelm Jarecki was not the sort of rakish bon vivant that might come to mind as the epitome of a successful gambler.
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Gambling lossesIf you&aposre a gambler, you can deduct money that you spent on gambling up to your total winnings for the year.
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The Casino was the perfect retreat, with friendly staff, complimentary bets, and a variety of games for even the casual, risk-averse gambler.
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High attrition, a long hiring process and competition with other law enforcement agencies are reasons CBP cited for its staffing troubles, Gambler said.
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"Replay" was specifically inspired by the 2003 episode called "Rewind," in which a gambler uses a time-traveling device to win a poker game.
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I would forgo my option to win $220 from my $10 bet (I'm not exactly a high-stakes gambler) and walk away with $147.
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" — Sheriff Joseph Lombardo One of Paddock&aposs brother in the past described him as a "substantial gambler" who treated the activity like "a job.
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Holzhauer, a 34-year-old professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, Nevada, shattered the previous record of $2244,2365 made by Roger Craig on Sept.
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At the age of 15, Bratton signed a managerial contract with Howard Frazier, a seedy gambler with a penchant for moving his fighters quickly.
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He contended Walters won big as a stock trader the same way he did as a sports gambler - with diligent research and keen instincts.
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One longtime sports gambler who played with Betodog recalled Hanson, then in his late 20s, bossing around men 30 and 40 years his senior.
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According to a lawsuit filed by the SEC, Mickelson got a tip about Dean Foods company in 2012 from famed sports gambler Billy Walters.
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The gambler CNBC has agreed to call "Justin" first came across Sports Insights when the company ran a promotional offer to test their services.
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One of the firefighters, apparently a gambler, lets a lit cigarette dangle from his lips as he stands on the edge of the pit.
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As the legend goes, the Old West gunfighter, lawman and gambler Wild Bill Hickok was holding the hand when he was murdered in 1876.
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Federal authorities announced criminal charges against the ex-chairman of Dean Foods and a sports gambler with ties to prominent athletes and corporate executives.
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He had no known criminal record, and public records showed no signs of financial troubles, though he was said to be a big gambler.
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Mr. Knoxville is Connor, a gambler who is being pursued by some nasty people because he accidentally came into possession of an incriminating cellphone.
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Two people familiar with the decision to remove Mr. McEntee from the White House said he was known by colleagues to be a gambler.
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The suspicious bank account that prompted the investigation was opened specifically for a gambler in Macau called Mr. Peng to transfer money, Xinhua said.
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Lucan first worked as a banker, but after he won 10 times his salary in an evening of baccarat, he became a professional gambler.
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So when Emma Boettcher triumphed over the most dominant contestant ever, it was both a tremendous win for propriety — the librarian topples the gambler!
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They were both worth millions at the time, but Karl was a notorious gambler who lost all of his money — and all of hers, too.
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The SEC said Mickelson had placed bets with Walters both before and after July 2012, when the gambler called Mickelson with his Dean Foods tip.
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You wouldn't make a 5x leveraged bet on the S&P 500 — not unless you were an extremely sophisticated financial arbitrageur, or a reckless gambler.
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Las Vegas gambler William "Billy" Walters is expected to go to trial Monday on charges that he made more than $40 million through insider trading.
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Any good game show contestant will successfully employ some degree of strategy, but Holzhauer's status as a professional sports gambler gives him a key advantage.
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LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Here, in the city of glitz and promise, just a few poor plays can bury a gambler under a tower of debt.
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Another peels back the many audio layers behind a split-second moment with BB-8 and a drunken alien gambler during the Canto Bight scene.
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Other cast members include alcoholic gambler Josh Farraday (Chris Pratt), bear-like hunter Jack Horne (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Native American warrior Red Harvest (Martin Sensmeier).
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Because after much tweeting, DM-sliding, emailing and then Whatsapping, I finally managed to pin down Gambler, the former producer and manager of Hectic Squad.
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One gambler turned a 20 pounds stake into 103,000 pounds after backing 11 teams to win – the biggest accumulator win of the season so far.
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William Walters, a professional gambler linked to Phil Mickelson in an insider trading scandal, pleaded not guilty and had his bail set at $25 million.
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Ask any gambler the secret to leaving a casino with the big bucks, and they'll tell you it's all about knowing when to walk away.
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So, like a terrible boyfriend or a degenerate gambler with a new blackjack system, let me tell you why things will be different this time.
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A high-stakes gambler living in Nevada climbed to the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas on Oct. 1.
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Paul Krishnamurty, a professional gambler for 15 years who works as an analyst at Betfair and a columnist at Politico, is not one of them.
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Attendance at Yankee Stadium was down 35 percent, television ratings had plummeted and Steinbrenner had been banished from baseball for consorting with a known gambler.
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A high-stakes gambler whose last known full-time employment was 30 years ago, Mr. Paddock, 64, lived in a retirement community in Mesquite, Nev.
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Four times, the authorities went after the famed Las Vegas sports gambler William T. Walters, and four times the man known as Billy emerged victorious.
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He doubles down like a wild gambler in a casino, raising the stakes one more time demanding just a few more chips from the house.
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White Collar Watch Insider trading law is heating up again, with a trial involving the high-profile gambler Billy Walters scheduled to start next week.
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Las Vegas gambler William "Billy" Walters on Thursday was sentenced to five years in prison over his role in a $43 million insider-trading scheme.
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Here's sports reporter Holly Sonders hittin' the strip club with notorious high-stakes gambler Vegas Dave ... begging the question -- you guys a couple or what?!
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Bryan Cranston, who created this drama with David L. Shore ("House"), stars as a violent gambler alongside Margo Martindale and Peter Gerety as Pete's grandparents.
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He doubles down like a wild gambler in a casino, raising the stakes one more time demanding just a few more chips from the house.
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I am not a gambler, but I remember as a child hearing my grandfather whispering in the phone as he made bets on horse racing.
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He has seen $153,000 bets placed on a 100-to-1 ticket on a weeknight slate of baseball games; it netted one lucky gambler $500,000.
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James Holzhauer, a 291-year-old professional sports gambler, is blowing up the traditional "Jeopardy!" style of play — and taking home mad money as a result.
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Within two years, a devastated Kick began an affair with Earl Peter Wentworth Fitzwilliam, a Protestant, married drinker and gambler who was even richer than Billy.
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That said ... props to the singer who continued to play a pretty solid rendition of the Kenny Rogers classic, "The Gambler" while the scrap broke out.
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A 34-year-old professional sports gambler from Las Vegas won more than $110,000 on "Jeopardy!" on Tuesday, breaking the record for single-day cash winnings.
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Why authorities and his family have said he was a wealthy and successful gambler, investigators also said he lost a significant amount of money since 2015.
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I want you to know that Ada Lovelace had a drug problem, that Ada Lovelace was a compulsive gambler and she felt really weird about motherhood.
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The professional sports gambler often made multiple eye-popping wagers in a single episode and finished with the 203 most lucrative games in the show's history.
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That's partly because the reigning MVP is an impulsive gambler who's addicted to the thrill that attaches itself to that exact moment a steal feels attainable.
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While covering the cricket market in India for his book Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy, Hawkins learned how easy match fixers can get in on a game.
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Mr. Paddock was an avid gambler who often bet heavily at the major casino hotels, and Ms. Danley, 62, had worked for some of those hotels.
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An excessive drinker, gambler and womanizer, Prince George spent a vast chunk of the royal finances on paintings, clothing, over-the-top parties and palace-building.
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Sports reporter Holly Sonders and high-stakes gambler Vegas Dave have only been dating for 1 WEEK ... and they're already dropping L-bombs and talking marriage!
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The entertainers interviewed by the Stearnses remembered Snakehips as a heavy gambler and "a mean guy" with a violent temper who was nevertheless popular with women.
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"If you are a problem gambler, you are four times more likely to have a problem with alcohol at some point in your life," he said.
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If I were a gambler, I sure would bet that these 42 new congresswomen have experience with issues that few congressmen have ever had to face.
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Newman, Mr. Bharara's prosecutors continued to aggressively pursue these cases, including charges against the gambler William T. Walters in a trial scheduled to begin this week.
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The National Council on Problem Gambling runs a hotline both online and at 1-800-GAMBLER, and will be launching a games-specific resource at ResponsiblePlay.
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"I am not a gambler myself, but I don't mind playing for fun," Jacob Arabo, the company's founder and chief executive, said in a phone interview.
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Lastly, I attempted to contact several online psychics for answers, but they kept asking for my credit card information, and you already know I'm not a gambler.
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The sports gambler who dominated the game and the librarian who ended his streak could meet next month in a late round of the Tournament of Champions.
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"McEntee lost his White House job in March 2018 because an investigation found he was a frequent gambler whose habit posed a security risk," Josh Dawsey reports.
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A report by industry regulator the Gambling Commission last year said 43 percent of players were either problem gamblers or at risk of becoming a problem gambler.
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When asked about whether these gambling dens are dangerous, Doctor Fong points out that they primarily pose a danger to the gambler—not just physically, but financially.
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Holzhauer's experience as a gambler — in which losses are an inevitable part of doing business — helped him feel comfortable with a strategy that involved more overt risks.
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I had just started a new job in a new city, where my only friend was a fellow gambler who once took me for $2,500 in Scrabble.
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From her years as a losing high-stakes gambler, she knew that casino executives will accommodate even outlandish requests from customers who wager huge sums of money.
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Her luck runs out when Nicky, a gambler who's intimidated by her success, tries to recover from a losing streak by going in on a bond scam.
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The stock market, by contrast, is like a weird side game in which people bet one another on which gambler is going to have the best day.
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William C. Rempel, author of "The Gambler," a new biography of Kerkorian, spent 36 years at The Los Angeles Times, many of them as an investigative reporter.
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Investigators are continuing to probe the "secret life" of Stephen Paddock, a high-stakes video gambler who stockpiled a major cache of weapons without arousing any suspicion.
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A longtime gambler with ties to the gaming industry, Mr. McCain helped write the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act in 22002, codifying regulations for Native American gambling enterprises.
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It was also a gambling school, and Chanson's cocktail menu nods to that with drinks like Poker Alice, named for a gambler and mixed with assorted liqueurs.
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Folks who were there tell us Nelly confronted another gambler about not knowing how to play the game ... insults started flying, and the pit boss got involved.
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Over the years his hair went from frat-boy neat to a snowy mane, but he remained congenitally upbeat, like a gambler accustomed to drawing winning hands.
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Berke represented a Las Vegas sports gambler caught on insider trading charges in a case that was connected to pro golfer Phil Mickelson, who was never charged.
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In the show's Tournament of Champions, the sports gambler from Las Vegas defeated the librarian from Chicago who ended his eye-popping winning streak earlier this year.
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By the time he challenged King to the match, Riggs was a has-been, a former champion turned compulsive gambler having trouble getting his recovery to stick.
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And, get this ... we're told Mama told a fellow gambler she lives at the casino, and has been staying on the property for the past few months.
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When it comes to his position on the U.S.-China trade dispute, President Donald Trump is still playing the role of a riverboat gambler on a hot streak.
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On her Monday episode of The Talk, she revealed that The Gambler writer allegedly threatened her with violence should she come forward about harassment suffered at his hands.
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So Dink instead takes on a partner, someone who isn't a professional gambler and is unknown to the casinos, and has his partner place all of their bets.
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According to a motion filed by the prosecution, one of Hanson's co-defendants, Jack Rissell, emailed evidence to Hanson that he beat up an indebted gambler in Minnesota.
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"If he was standing here in front of me, I wouldn't know what he looked like," he told the Inquirer in 1991 when first asked about the gambler.
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The sports gambler who overwhelmed his opponents and the librarian who finally dethroned him won their semifinals in the Tournament of Champions and will meet in the finals.
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" At the same time, Wynn said the man "never owed any money" at the casino, but also "didn't meet the profile of a problem gambler, anything like that.
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A serial gambler with a penchant for prostitutes, booze, and brawls, art historians have largely agreed for the last four centuries that Caravaggio died of syphilis in 1610.
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"The number one piece of advice he got was just, 'Smile, look like you're having a good time,'" said Ben Yu, a longtime friend and fellow professional gambler.
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The authorities still have no idea what motivated Stephen Paddock, a wealthy gambler who lived in a retirement community, to commit a massacre at a country music show.
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People who knew him were under the impression that he was a profitable gambler, or that he at least won often enough to make his casino lifestyle worthwhile.
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School kids in the crude mud huts of Britain 50 years hence will copy out in cracked crayon the name of the man who was such a lucky gambler.
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"It's a very specific drunk, it's not just every time I'm drunk I turn into this… I think she's some sort of tortoise gambler," she says on Friday's episode.
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The security official tells PEOPLE the shooter, 64-year-old real estate investor and high-stakes gambler Stephen Paddock, likely spent weeks if not months planning Sunday's deadly attack.
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Authorities say Paddock, 64, a real estate investor and high-stakes gambler, had amassed an arsenal of nearly two dozen assault-style rifles and numerous high-capacity ammunition magazines.
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What's happening: Where pit bosses once kept tabs on players and doled out offers by feel, technology is now supercharging marketing and promotions that best influence each individual gambler.
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"If I sit at a poker table with a professional gambler, they will be able to read my tells in a way that I cannot because I'm a rookie."
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A professional gambler by day, Holzhauer is leveraging his experience in the sports-betting scene and using game theory — in combination with his impressive knowledge — to dominate the game.
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The musical film starred Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, and Vivian Blaine as two couples caught up in the schemes of underground gambler Nathan Detroit, played by Sinatra.
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Doubling or tripling down on that risk is essentially a dice roll - and as any gambler knows, there is always the possibility that you will come up snake eyes.
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Paddock, a gambler and retired accountant, owned a home in Mesquite, Nevada, and his brother has said he was a successful real estate investor who owned apartments and houses.
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As a frequent customer and dedicated gambler, he had secured a mini-suite with balcony on the Escape for $432, plus credits for purchases on ship and at ports.
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Hours before kickoff, however, news broke that Filchock and another Giants star, Merle Hapes, were offered $2,500 each by a gambler named Alvin J. Paris to throw the game.
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An amateur gambler who had seen ups and downs, Mr. Chawla dreamed of owning a hotel, and in the 203s he phoned a famous mogul to seek a loan.
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The 36th pick in the 2013 draft, Slay has progressed from an intriguing set of measurables, to a boom-or-bust big-play gambler, to a complete cover corner.
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She was working as a hostess at the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa in Reno, Nevada's third-largest city, when she met Paddock, a wealthy gambler, according to his brother.
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At other times, the 6-foot-4 professional gambler lopes, shoulders slightly hunched, through gaming areas and steps onto elevators -- the ordinariness of his movements camouflaging his dark aims.
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A new state regulation means that any gambler who self-excludes there or at any other New York track or casino will now be excluded from all of them.
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A mustachioed James Franco portrays the identical twins, Frankie, a reckless gambler, and Vincent, a worrisome bar owner who steers clear of the trouble his brother's hobby inevitably entails.
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He was often known by his nickname, "Doc," which was given to him by Blue Jays announcer Tom Cheek, as a reference to the notorious gambler and gunslinger, Doc Holliday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Late in July 2012, Phil Mickelson, one of the world's most famous golfers, received a phone call from a well-known professional sports gambler, William "Billy" Walters.
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Inspired by loathing of Mr Obama, and his gut instinct that the Iran deal rewarded a foe and threatened such friends as Israel, Mr Trump has turned high-rolling gambler.
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The 583-year-old professional sports gambler will face off against Alan Dunn, a software development manager, and Lindsey Shultz, a physician and healthcare analyst, in the quarterfinal match-ups.
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In an instant, he went from being an unknown Las Vegas sports gambler to an overnight celebrity who now can barely walk down the street without getting approached by fans.
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Similar types of fighters in Thailand too often get dubbed as 'win by knockout or lose by decision' fighters, and while they keep things exciting they are not gambler favourites.
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Holzhauer, a 34-year-old professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, Nevada, won for the 14th time on the Alex Trebek-hosted program and brought his total winnings to $193,061,554.
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Release date: limited release on December 13, 2019; nationwide release on December 25What it's about: Adam Sandler plays a jeweler and compulsive gambler who has to pay off his debts.
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Many of the best Muay Thai opportunities are in Bangkok, and a gym like Sangmorakot, with its military/gambler/promoter owner, is a powerful boss with a host of connections.
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Thirteen months later, Grigson is gone and Pagano's fate may rest in the hands of a new GM. Grigson, by trade, was a gambler who refused to play it safe.
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For more than two weeks, a professional sports gambler from Las Vegas has been dominating "Jeopardy!" with a calculated strategy, an affinity for risk-taking and a deft buzzer hand.
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Additionally, Graeme Wood, who has reported on ISIS for The Atlantic, noted that Mr. Paddock was a gambler and had committed suicide, actions that are at odds with ISIS' ideology.
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A gambler, Bobby watches Billie Jean on TV but hangs with masters of the universe, male cigar chompers and scotch swirlers who think nothing of betting away a Rolls-Royce.
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They've only been engaged for two weeks, but Holly Sonders and pro gambler Vegas Dave are already talking divorce .... because you can actually BET MONEY if their relationship will last!!!
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Every time we get a notification, the brain releases a flood of dopamine as addictive as the reward signal a gambler gets as they pull the handle on a slot machine.
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For somebody in the latter camp, an addicted gambler is anything but free; but to the secular liberal, that way of life could simply be one way of exercising formal freedom.
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There's the flight attendant searching for a better job (Kim Matula), the ridiculously mustached pilot (Dylan McDermott, playing against type), a crazed gambler who will bet on anything (Peter Stormare), etc.
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It's like the pigeon becomes a gambler, because when he pecks and gets food, he gets bored, so he peck-peck-pecks, he doesn't know when he's gonna get the food.
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Donald Trump is not just a former casino owner, but a gambler, and to win the presidency he's initiating a bold gambit that puts the future of the world at risk.
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On October 1, 2017, a reclusive high-stakes gambler named Stephen Paddock opened fire on the popular outdoor music festival from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.
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UNWELCOME TIES: The Hill's Mark Hensch reports: Newly unearthed video from Yahoo News seemingly contradicts Donald Trump's claim that he has never known a gambler with alleged ties to organized crime.
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Being run out of casinos is an occupational hazard for Grosjean, a professional gambler who majored in applied math at Harvard and briefly considered careers on Wall Street and in academia.
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In 2018, James Bryant, a 52-year-old assistant manager at Eldorado, was killed when he tried to stop a disgruntled gambler who was leaving with chips he had just lost.
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Journalists who cover ISIS were immediately dubious of this claim, considering "Paddock was a gambler and had committed suicide, actions that are at odds with ISIS's ideology," to quote the Times.
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The game sounds cool ... players pick a character (you can even be Floyd) and ya gotta figure out strategic ways to become the most dominant gambler in a virtual casino world.
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This is the road after Las Vegas, after a high-stakes gambler named Stephen Paddock hauled powerful weapons into a gilded casino and opened fire on a country music festival below.
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To many Syrians, Mr. Trump is no liberator but a gambler who, for narrow political gains at home, stains their just struggle for freedom with the bad brush of American interventionism.
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In July 1990, Commissioner Fay Vincent suspended Steinbrenner for making a $40,000 payment to a confessed gambler, Howard Spira, for damaging information about Winfield, the expensive star who had disappointed Steinbrenner.
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Pair it with Melville's earlier "Bob le Flambeur" (1956), on Amazon, starring Roger Duchesne as a pompadoured, middle-age gambler who stakes everyone on a daring plan to rob a casino.
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The Las Vegas police determined that Stephen Paddock, a high-stakes gambler, had carried an arsenal into the Mandalay Bay hotel and opened fire from a window high above the concert.
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If you hear Kenny Rogers in The Gambler singing, "You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away," you are not alone.
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"I'm telling you Mr. Trump the gambler, I'm telling you, know that we are close to you in that place you don't think we are," said Soleimani, wagging an admonishing finger.
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"Emma dominated her warmup games that day, and I knew she would make an extremely tough challenger," the 34-year-old professional sports gambler from Las Vegas said in a news release.
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" Rogers, a three-time Grammy winner and a Country Music Hall of Famer, is best known for songs like "The Gambler" and his 1983 duet with Dolly Parton "Islands in the Stream.
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" An employee at the Wynn Las Vegas who first met Paddock six years ago gave detectives a similar account, saying the man was a good gambler, but also "kind of an introvert.
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One gambler, who made $25 million betting on the Houston Astros and the Philadelphia Eagles during their recent championship runs, lost $3.8 million after they bet the Rams would beat the Pats.
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"They really didn't have a way to quantify or talk about how fencing was contributing to border security," said Rebecca Gambler, the director of homeland security and justice issues at the GAO.
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What ensued was a nearly three-hour debate over whether and how much gambling addiction should factor in the sentence — complete with references to "The Gambler," a short novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
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The FBI and police have yet to declare a motive for the shooting, though officials have said previously that Paddock, a prolific gambler, was on a losing streak prior to the shooting.
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He also reprised the role of Earp on the big screen in Guns of Paradise (1990), The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw (1991), and Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone (1994).
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Kenny Rogers: "The Gambler" This song is so popular that playing it should come with a disclaimer that if you do so in a bar, at least two people will sing along.
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Richard Munchkin, a professional gambler who is the author of "Gambling Wizards" and a co-host of the radio show "Gambling With an Edge," claims to have mastered all of these techniques.
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"South Australians know that Jay Weatherill is like a problem gambler doubling down to chase his losses on energy policy," Josh Frydenberg, the federal energy minister, said in an email to Reuters.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a civil suit today against notoriously successful sports gambler William Walters and the former director of Dean Foods, Thomas Davis for engaging in insider trading.
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" Rogers, a three-time Grammy winner and a Country Music Hall of Famer, was best known for songs like "The Gambler" and his 1983 duet with Dolly Parton "Islands in the Stream.
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Mr. Paddock, 64, a high-stakes gambler, spent days carrying an arsenal of guns into the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino across the street from the festival, before randomly shooting concertgoers below.
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But known to be prickly, he resigned the next year after conducting the original version of Prokofiev's opera "The Gambler"; among other issues, he complained of being treated unfairly by Moscow journalists.
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But from the North's perspective, which is the one that matters most, believing that it can deter the U.S. may be a gamble worth taking — and we know Kim is a gambler.
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In the United States, a man like Mr. Bloom, a hybrid of high-rolling gambler and sports team owner, is unheard-of, and would run afoul of the typical sports league bylaws.
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But we fool ourselves into thinking that those statistics don't apply to us, just as we all think we're better-than-average drivers, and every gambler thinks he can beat the house.
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Netflix Description: A gambler mired in debt thinks another cardsharp may just be his good luck charm as the two head for New Orleans to buy into a high-stakes poker game.
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The new research comes just weeks after wealthy retiree and gambler Stephen Paddock opened fire on an outdoor music festival on the Las Vegas strip, killing 58 people before taking his own life.
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If a problem gambler at the poker rooms I frequent in New York City were to hire a programmer and flood the D.F.S. market with his lineups, he would almost certainly hemorrhage money.
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Ergen, a former professional poker player, said "I'm not a gambler" during today's call and assured investors that the odds are very, very good that everything goes through as laid out last week.
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Being committed was not therapeutically helpful, but it was a moment of clarity, the way skidding off the road is for a drunk driver or losing two months' mortgage is for a gambler.
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All of my "regular" investment accounts are invested in diversified index funds, but I just threw a couple hundred dollars in my RH account to gamble with (told ya I was a gambler).
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A former professional gambler who spent years refining his research and analytics for his work has been hired as the Dallas Mavericks' director of quantitative research and development, according to an ESPN report.
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The case has drawn attention not only because of Walters' renown as a wealthy professional sports gambler, but because of a connection to star golfer Phil Mickelson and an investigation plagued by leaks.
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The film, directed by Ron Howard, follows Alden Ehrenreich as a young Han Solo, who befriends his future co-pilot and Wookie companion Chewbacca, and meets the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover).
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Eric Paddock says his brother was a high-stakes gambler, real estate investor and former accountant who gave family members no inkling whether he might have been financially troubled, according to the Post.
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We got the playboy gambler Saturday at STAPLES Center -- where he caught the Logan Paul fight -- and asked about some of the craziest poker games he's been in and which players were involved.
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The two hop in a car en route to Mueller (Fishburne), an inveterate drinker and gambler turned sober pastor, to ask if their fellow vet could preside over the funeral ceremony at Arlington.
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Season 1 followed the mind games between the con man and the gambler; Season 2, which streams Friday, focuses more on Pete's family, including a memorable turn from the character actress Margo Martindale.
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Mr. Walters, a colorful Las Vegas sports gambler known as Billy, is facing charges of wire fraud, securities fraud and conspiracy stemming from his trades of Dean Foods shares from 2008 to 2014.
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MANILA — The gray smoke that belched for hours from a popular hotel-casino in Manila was initially dismissed by the police as the work of a disgruntled gambler with a bottle of gasoline.
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His lawyer, Barry Berke, told jurors last week that Walters never received any inside information, and that he made money trading stocks using the same skills that made him a successful sports gambler.
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As Nick Arnstein, the dashing gambler whom Fanny loves and loses, the handsome Darius Campbell fills out what has always been an empty suit of a part (albeit a tuxedo) with little distinguishing detail.
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The film is led by Washington's bounty hunter Sam Chisholm, who brings together alcoholic gambler Josh Farraday (Chris Pratt), sharpshooter Goodnight Robicheaux (Ethan Hawke) and his knife-throwing comrade Billy Rocks (Byung-hun Lee).
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge has rejected Las Vegas gambler William "Billy" Walters' bid to dismiss criminal insider trading charges after an FBI agent admitted to leaking details about the probe to reporters.
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The 34-year old professional sports gambler from Las Vegas — originally hailing from Naperville, Illinois — just won 19 games in a row on Tuesday night, tying for the third-longest streak ever in Jeopardy!
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Esquinas said the bet was placed on March 28, 303, two days before Jordan met with league officials and said that he'd stop hanging around sketchy gambler types like Bouler, Dow, and Richard Esquinas.
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A lawyer for Mr. Walters said that he was "a true American success story, whose extraordinary accomplishments as a lawful sports gambler have been widely recognized and lauded" and planned to fight the charges.
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U.S. authorities on Thursday unveiled charges against Davis and gambler William "Billy" Walters for running the insider trading scheme that netted over $40 million and included a tip that benefited professional golfer Phil Mickelson.
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Lombardo said he is "absolutely" confident authorities will find out what set off Paddock, a 19703 year-old high-stakes gambler and retired accountant who killed himself before police stormed his 32nd-floor room.
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Imagine this: the day before the 2000 Super Bowl, news breaks that New England Patriots players Tom Brady and Julian Edelman have been offered large bribes by a sports gambler to throw the contest.
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One early advocate was Tynan Smith, a former professional gambler and pickup artist — he appears in Neil Strauss's "The Game" under the pseudonym Herbal — turned blogger, who decided to go nomadic in early 20163.
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Giovanni Ribisi plays a con man who gets out of jail and assumes the identity of Pete, his former cellmate, in order to hide from a violent New York gambler played by Bryan Cranston.
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She is a gambler too, in that she rejects a safe life with an adoring prince to take a chance on passion with the desperate Herman, which turns out to be a bad bet.
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But in his elaborate fantasies, he is a military commander, a surgeon and a Southern gambler, among other roles — all of which pale in comparison with the real-life adventure he finds himself on.
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The gambler Winston Churchill took chances in 1940, albeit rational ones backed by educated guesses that, for all Hitler's bluster, the Third Reich had neither the air nor sea power to destroy the Anglosphere.
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He had prepared unconventionally, spending the week before the tournament on Long Island with Bobby Riggs, the American tennis star and inveterate gambler who was then 21968 but still an accomplished player (and hustler).
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"—Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 23, 2018"Let me tell you, Mr. Trump the gambler... Let me tell you... Know that we are near you, in places that don&apost come to your mind.
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Fanny's faltering relationship with a charismatic gambler, Nick Arnstein, leaves her not defeated but strong and resilient, a welcome turn of events for a character initially willing to give up her career for him.
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Adam Sandler's performance as a degenerate gambler is something I will never get out of my head because for as many shady things as he does, you can't help but root for the guy.
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The prosecution of the well-known gambler William T. Walters ran into significant turbulence when prosecutors revealed that a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent leaked information about the investigation to the press in 2014.
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Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old gambler and real estate businessman who lived in the area, broke out the window of his hotel room and was fired bullets from high-powered weapons into the crowd.
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Hughie was the hotel's night watchman for years, and he was a witness to Erie's days of glory as a gambler and a lady's man — or at least to Erie's overblown tales of those days.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday identified the FBI agent who they say admitted to leaking information to reporters about an insider trading probe involving a Las Vegas sports gambler and golfer Phil Mickelson.
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Omar Sharif Sharif eventually become known for playing the exotic leading man in roles such as The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), Genghis Khan (1965) and a big-time gambler in Funny Girl (1968).
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Cheltenham is owned by the Jockey Club, an organization that owns 15 of the largest and best-known racecourses in Britain, and counts noted horse racing fan (and successful gambler!) Queen Elizabeth as their patron.
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If the walls of Kenny Rogers' old estate could talk, they'd be screaming about the time the Gambler sunk a jump shot on Michael Jordan -- and they'd also say the place is up for auction.
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From the music and graphics to the math behind each spin, every feature is the result of the enormous resources dedicated to ensure that the machine extracts the maximum amount of money from the gambler.
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Law enforcement officials were searching for clues Wednesday surrounding Stephen Paddock, the 64-year-old retired accountant and high-stakes gambler, who killed at least 58 people and left 527 others injured before killing himself.
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Stephen Paddock, a longtime gambler who had amassed an arsenal of weapons, was firing down on thousands of people at an outdoor country music festival from his suite on the 32nd floor of the hotel.
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Though the professional sports gambler is frequently sarcastic and self-deprecating on Twitter, and likes to troll his fans with cryptic tweets, many saw his Luck comments as an admission that he'd let Boettcher win.
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The second court case was for providing credit facilities to a self-admitted habitual gambler, where the regulator alleges the bank failed to verify the customer's financial situation before approving a credit card limit increase.
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According to news reports, he was a gambler who struggled with debts, had recently been evicted from an apartment for failure to pay rent and, on his video, he described himself as having lost everything.
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"He has a confidence and a certain swagger," said Brooke Cucinella, who took him on as her partner in a case against the Las Vegas sports gambler William T. Walters on charges of insider trading.
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He has his own shop, but he's also a compulsive gambler, laying down huge sums on sports, which have left him in debt to the wrong people -- and looking for salvation -- when the movie begins.
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Walters's lawyer, Barry Berke, has said that is lying and that Walters made money in Dean Foods, a leading dairy company, through diligent research, using the same talents that made him a successful sports gambler.
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A merchant banker turned professional gambler and backgammon player, Mr. Bingham would inherit the title Lord Lucan when his father died in 1964, and acquired the nickname Lucky Lucan when he won $50,000 at baccarat.
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Joan Loughnane, chief counsel for Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, disclosed the probe by the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General during a court hearing on the insider trading case against gambler William "Billy" Walters.
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Bally's staff had asked if there was anything special Mudry wanted once he got to the casino, but he said he just wanted to be like any other gambler on the floor, the news outlet reported.
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U.S. authorities on Thursday charged a former chairman of Dean Foods and a professional Las Vegas gambler with engaging in a years-long insider trading scheme, which included a tip that benefited professional golfer Phil Mickelson.
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David Chaves, a Federal Bureau of Investigation coordinating supervisory special agent, was named in court papers filed in Manhattan federal court as the agent prosecutors say leaked details about the probe of gambler William "Billy" Walters.
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To keep LiButti as a loyal customer, the regulars charged, Trump's casinos had comped the gambler with gifts of luxury cars, including Rolls Royces and Ferraris, as well as trips to Europe and the Super Bowl.
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Disgruntled gambler Jessie Carlos attempted to rob the casino on June 2, firing an assault rifle and setting fires that would eventually engulf the casino floor and cause the deaths of dozens of staff and guests.
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While he and Carolan were plotting their weight-loss empire, Hanson was also meeting with Robin Hood 702, a professional gambler who has been featured in various news stories for giving his winnings to poor families.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Famed Las Vegas sports gambler William "Billy" Walters was sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison, following his April conviction in one of the highest profile U.S. insider trading trials in years.
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IRS records show that the Las Vegas gunman who killed dozens in a hail of gunfire this week was a successful gambler who earned millions of dollars in 2015, according to a report by NBC News.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Social Democrat challenger, Martin Schulz are still fighting hard for every vote as Sunday's national election nears, but they do have one thing common: neither is a gambler.
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He followed a high-risk path of nuclear provocation to reach this moment of equality with the most powerful leader in the world Although he owned -- and bankrupted -- casinos, Trump has never been a gambler himself.
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In Walt Disney's "Solo: A Star Wars Story," Glover stars as a younger version of Lando Calrissian, the intergalactic smuggler and gambler character made famous by actor Billy Dee Williams in the original "Star Wars" trilogy.
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"You had the Lincoln Republicans in the east, you had the very Southern Democrats in the middle, and then you had the riverboat gambler Democrats in the West," said Tom Ingram, a longtime advisor to Alexander.
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His songs provide the soundtrack for this Robert Altman western, in which a roving gambler (Warren Beatty) joins forces with a British prostitute (Julie Christie) to open a brothel in a mountain town in Washington State.
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Diving headfirst into the wildness that is a Josh and Benny Safdie movie, Sandler put together a performance as a degenerate gambler that made "Uncut Gems" into a movie we will be talking about for years.
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In a motion filed on Friday in Manhattan federal court, lawyers for gambler William "Billy" Walters contended the agent's leaks were part in illegal campaign to use secret grand jury information to revive a moribund investigation.
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James Holzhauer, a 34-year-old professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, won Tuesday's episode with a total of $110,914 -- breaking the record for single-day cash winnings, the quiz show said in a press release.
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In 1997 Mr. Makk released "The Gambler," which follows Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Michael Gambon) as he furiously tries to finish a semi-autobiographical novel about his gambling addiction and love life while being interrupted by various crises.
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A year later, she starred with Tyrone Power in "The Mississippi Gambler" and with Van Heflin in "The Wings of a Hawk," a tale of guerrilla resistance to federal despotism under President Porfirio Díaz of Mexico.
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They stormed the joint last Wednesday, seizing thousands of dollars in cash, confiscating 40 motherboards from the illegal machines, and arresting one lonely gambler inside, according to the Harris County Constable Precinct 5's Facebook page.
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Goldman was an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York for a decade through 2017, serving as the lead prosecutor in the conviction of Las Vegas sports gambler William "Billy" Walters for insider trading.
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David Chaves, a Federal Bureau of Investigation coordinating supervisory special agent, was identified in court papers filed by federal prosecutors in Manhattan as the agent they say leaked details about the probe of gambler William "Billy" Walters.
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In 1955, Discovery, a well-regarded literary magazine edited by Vance Bourjaily, published her story "The Deal," about a young woman, an aspiring artist in Las Vegas, who agrees to sleep with an aged gambler for $1,000.
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As a compulsive gambler who has a self-professed addictive personality, he had come to owe Barclays Bank some £20,000 ($26,000), and was shocked when the bank's app continued to approve what he saw as predatory loans.
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Police and the FBI have said they believe former accountant and high-stakes gambler Stephen Paddock acted alone to amass an arsenal of weapons in his Mandalay Bay suite before opening fire into the concert crowd below.
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A preliminary police report released in January said Paddock, a 64-year-old high-stakes gambler, researched police SWAT tactics, rented hotel rooms overlooking other outdoor concerts and investigated potential targets in at least four U.S. cities.
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But Wynn acknowledged that Paddock did not publicly display any alarming issues, or fit the profile of a compulsive gambler — admitting that he would not have thought to stop Paddock from staying at one of his hotels.
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It's a drowning feeling that can turn even the most confident pitcher into little more than a gambler, hoping the next outing will be the big win that turns his luck around before he goes bust again.
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The protagonist, Hélène (Delphine Seyrig), is a widowed antique dealer and unlucky gambler whose world is further rocked when her prewar lover, Alphonse (Jean-Pierre Kérien), returns to court her, despite having a young mistress in tow.
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With Jar Tui's life experience as a military official in the Royal Thai Air Force, now a gym owner and professional gambler, I knew this would be an oral history I'd need to pursue in the future.
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He gets his wish, in a way: It falls to him to look out for Johnny Boy, played by Robert De Niro — the lost boy of the neighborhood, a reckless gambler who puts them both in danger.
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She was on one end, with another contestant standing between her and Holzhauer, a professional gambler from Las Vegas who was running out of personal facts to share with Trebek during the episode's round of small talk.
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Mr. Natanzon, who was born in Soviet Russia, emigrated to Israel with his mother when he was 21 years old and later moved to the United States, spending his teenage years in Buffalo, was a compulsive gambler.
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The director is best known for early films he did with Robert Downey Jr. such as 'Two Girls,' "The Pick-Up Artist," and "Black and White" ... as well as 2008's "Tyson," and 2014's "The Gambler."
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"I mean obviously any fixing is bad, but a lot of the time I don't necessarily think the match result is being fixed," Ian Doward, a betting industry veteran and frequent Futures gambler, told me by phone.
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" The 79-year-old country music legend announced his retirement in 2015, and has spent the last two years circling the globe on The Gambler's Last Deal — a tour named after his signature song, 1979's "The Gambler.
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Those charged this year include famed Las Vegas sports gambler William "Billy" Walters, who has pleaded not guilty, and hedge fund manager Sanjay Valvani, who worked at Visium Asset Management and committed suicide last month following his indictment.
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Unless you make every gambler, big and small, identifiable, you will not be able to defeat match-fixing, because you will not have taken the money out from the organized crime groups that are taking advantage of it.
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Related: House Russia investigators get access to Treasury data Normally, if a gambler cashes out $22012,22015-plus in a single day, the casino must fill out a form listing their name, physical address, Social Security number, and birthdate.
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Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old gambler and real estate businessman who lived in the area, had broken out the window of his hotel room and fired bullets from high-powered weapons into the crowd of 22,000 concertgoers.
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With the deadline just hours away, EchoStar, whose founder Ergen was once a professional gambler, ramped up the pressure on Inmarsat by revealing on Friday morning it had made a second informal bid in private on July 3.
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The chestnut horse was owned by Lord Bolingbroke, who, fitting to his name, was quite the gambler, and was painted after Lustre's victory over Jolter owned by the Duke of Cumberland in a four-mile race in 23.
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But placing bets of $100 or more in video poker, "this guy was gambling high," said Anthony Curtis, a former professional gambler and currently the owner and publisher of Las Vegas Advisor, a website covering the casino business.
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Ms. Streisand's big day is celebrated with four of her brightest, starting with "Funny Girl" (1968), in which she won a best-actress Oscar as the comedian Fanny Brice alongside Omar Sharif as the gambler who loves her.
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And in 2013 a Las Vegas taxi driver found $300,000 in a paper bag in the back seat of his cab and returned the money to its owner, a gambler who had just won it at a casino.
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In November 215, John Bingham, the seventh Earl of Lucan, a dashing but dissolute gambler, supposedly mistook his children's nanny for his estranged wife in the dimly lit basement of their London home and bludgeoned her to death.
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Analytics firms can use your credit card information to calculate how likely you are to adhere to medication, how likely you are to be a problem gambler, how often you drink or if you buy brand-name medicine.
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The 58-year-old Georgia native joins the late guitar slinger Jerry Reed, who will be inducted as the "veterans-era artist," and "The Gambler" songwriter Don Schlitz, who is being honored in the category dedicated to non-performers.
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But the works soon ended up in the hands of his grandson, the 12th Duke of Hamilton, a notorious gambler and ne'er-do-well ("his betting book is usually a sorry sight on settling day," it was often said).
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected a bid by famed Las Vegas sports gambler William "Billy" Walters on Tuesday to remain free while he appeals his conviction and five-year prison sentence for insider trading.
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U.S. prosecutors said on Friday that an FBI agent had confessed to being a "significant source" of leaks to journalists covering an insider trading probe involving a famed Las Vegas sports gambler as well as professional golfer Phil Mickelson.
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Since May alone, those charged include famed Las Vegas sports gambler William "Billy" Walters and hedge fund manager Sanjay Valvani, who worked at Visium Asset Management LP and committed suicide on Monday less than a week after being indicted.
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Whether it's a compulsive spender or habitual gambler we're financially tied to by law or blood, or a friend who keeps asking for small loans to tide him over till pay day ... cash issues can be a relationship-killer.
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NEW YORK, Jan 4 (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday identified the FBI agent who they say admitted to leaking information to reporters about an insider trading probe involving a sports gambler and golfer Phil Mickelson, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
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As for the recruits, the other headliner is the red-hot Chris Pratt -- whose roguish charm is surely one of the movie's bigger marketing assets -- as a boozy gambler, while the rest have been transformed into a rainbow coalition.
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Those who knew the gunman who opened fire at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip last year painted an inconsistent picture for investigators of a successful gambler who enjoyed traveling but avoided germs and hand-shaking.
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Playing a tepid lawyer, he was as warmly reserved as Ms. Mirren was strategically haughty in "Woman in Gold," and playing a gullible gambler in "Mississippi Grind" he made a fine exclamation point alongside Ben Mendelsohn's slumped question mark.
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Last October, a retired real estate investor and high-stakes gambler used multiple assault rifles equipped with bump stocks to kill 58 people at a Las Vegas outdoor concert, the deadliest attack by a single gunman in U.S. history.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A wealthy Las Vegas gambler pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges that he engaged in an insider trading scheme that generated more than $40 million and included a tip that benefited star golfer Phil Mickelson.
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With those revelations, police announced they were closing their 222-month investigation without a definitive answer for why Paddock, a high-stakes gambler, amassed an arsenal of weapons and carried out the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
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As investigators sketched a portrait of the suspect, Stephen Paddock, a wealthy gambler and amateur golfer, survivors have described the scene of carnage in vivid detail: Thousands of concertgoers screaming and running for cover as victims fell around them.
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Just as Rogers sang in "The Gambler," the winding path Kenny Rogers Roasters has taken around the world is proof that "you've got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away."
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The problem with this is, that this anger is just temporary, I wont feel any more later, but like trying to stop a gambler from playing poker, its really hard to get someone to just stop playing video games.
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Other cases being prosecuted by the office involve charges of insider trading against William T. Walters, a Las Vegas sports gambler who has also pleaded not guilty, and an alleged kickback scheme by a former executive at Valeant Pharmaceuticals.
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Those charged this year include famed Las Vegas sports gambler William "Billy" Walters, who has pleaded not guilty, and hedge fund manager Sanjay Valvani, who worked at Visium Asset Management LP and committed suicide last month following his indictment.
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A weak spot for Democrats to hammerDemocrats campaigning for the presidency will most likely seize on the lack of progress by Trump on North Korea and Iran to portray the president as a reckless gambler with US national security.
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He sold game pieces to members of his classic-car club, a man he met in the Atlanta airport, and a gambler and ex-con in Florida named Andrew Glomb who passed out winning game pieces to a network of friends.
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Both Ebby and her parents' beloved valet, Leo, turn out to have committed murder; and her brother Potsie isn't just a gambler with a candy addiction, but a bookie who runs in a sleazy circle that includes their miscreant cousin Perry.
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The bet, made at 400-to-1 odds at the South Point Race and Sports Book, earned the gambler a nice $100,000 on Sunday night when the game came to a close with a score of Patriots, 103, Rams, 3.
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But the crown jewel of the book is the title story: the tale of Henry Sugar, a selfish gambler who teaches himself to see through solid objects in order to cheat at cards and eventually reforms himself into a secular saint.
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The practice, in which a gambler outside the casino gives instructions to an agent via a live stream or online platform, allows people to bet anonymously and can allow players to escape the attention of authorities in their home countries.
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That narrative brings an intriguing array of characters through Molly's orbit, as well as an account of how it all worked, from procuring big-money "fish" to participate to the renowned gambler (Michael Cera) with whom everyone yearned to compete.
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To the contrary, I think their supposed reservations are basically a tell—you know, the subtle tip-off a bad gambler does when he's bluffing—that lets the rest of us know just what actually matters in major college sports.
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Vinnie works two jobs, seven days a week, to provide for a family that's on the brink of collapse, and he's willing to take responsibility for the $20,000 plus interest his brother Frankie, a degenerate gambler, owes to mob bookies.
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"His Kind of Woman" (Friday), with Mitchum as a gambler who is lured to Mexico as a sap, and the auteur purée "Macao" (Thursday), on which Nicholas Ray took over for Josef von Sternberg, are both enjoyably overstuffed Howard Hughes productions.
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" To explain the trading, Mr. Berke asserted that Mr. Walters used the skills he developed as a gambler by picking stocks much the way a poker player scopes out an opponent based on "tells," or "little clues that are not obvious.
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But Sandler is the box office star in the film — which opens this month — as Howard Ratner, a wheeler, dealer and degenerate gambler in midtown Manhattan's diamond district who is increasingly desperate to settle his debts with one massive score.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The man responsible for a weekend blast at Shanghai's Pudong International Airport that injured five people, including himself, was an indebted gambler who warned on Chinese social media that he intended to kill himself, police said on Monday.
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Despite some recent small gains in both retention and hiring speed, Border Patrol is still nearly 7,000 agents below the target set by Trump, according to Rebecca Gambler, director of GAO's Homeland Security and Justice Team, who testified earlier this month.
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A high-rolling Las Vegas sports gambler, William T. Walters, went on trial on Wednesday in the most prominent insider trading case in Manhattan since the former McKinsey managing director Rajat Gupta was convicted of tipping off a hedge fund manager.
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His father, E. T. Jenkins Jr., known as Bud, was a salesman, a gambler and evidently a charmer who left the family when Dan was a toddler, though he showed up now and then to take his son to sporting events.
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Just four months after the wedding, her husband was killed in action in World War II. Within two years, a devastated Kick began an affair with Earl Peter Wentworth Fitzwilliam – a Protestant, married drinker and gambler who was even richer than Billy.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department's internal watchdog has opened a criminal probe of an FBI agent's leaks to journalists about an insider trading probe involving a Las Vegas sports gambler and professional golfer Phil Mickelson, a prosecutor said on Wednesday.
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If a tennis player throws a match — or in this spot-betting era, a game or a set — there generally has to be a direct link to a gambler or, to use industry parlance, a corrupter in order to generate a viable case.
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NEW YORK, June 1 (Reuters) - A famed Las Vegas sports gambler pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges that he engaged in an insider trading scheme that generated more than $40 million and included a tip that benefited star professional golfer Phil Mickelson.
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Although police have not determined a motive for the killing, investigators learned that Paddock was a retiree, a former accountant and high-stakes gambler whose father was a notorious, "psychopathic" bank robber who spent nearly eight years on the FBI's most-wanted list.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors said on Friday that an FBI agent had confessed to being a "significant source" of leaks to journalists covering an insider trading probe involving a famed Las Vegas sports gambler as well as professional golfer Phil Mickelson.
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Federal prosecutors in Manhattan, who are pursuing the case against gambler William "Billy" Walters, said in a letter filed in Manhattan federal court that the agent had admitted to being a source for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
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Hanson, who once told me he ran his operation like a Fortune 500 company—something his sportsbook clients confirmed—was undone in part by a vendetta he had against a gambler named RJ Cipriani, who is also known as Robin Hood 173.
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Many of the women, including Rachel McAdams and Selma Blair, claim Toback — known for writing films like 1991's Bugsy, 1987'sThe Pickup Artist and 2014's The Gambler — approached them about a possible movie role before eventually turning the conversation towards sex.
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After agreeing to defend Rose Creek, Chisolm starts gathering up his seven, including a loud-mouthed gambler named Farady (Chris Pratt), former Confederate sharpshooter Goodnight (Ethan Hawke), knife expert Billy Rocks (Byung-Hun Lee), and an outlaw named Vasquez (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo).
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Authorities say Paddock, 64, a real estate investor and high-stakes gambler, had amassed an arsenal of nearly two dozen assault-style rifles and numerous high-capacity ammunition magazines in his room where he broke the windows and fired into the crowd.
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NEW YORK, Sept 12 (Reuters) - A lawyer for famed Las Vegas sports gambler William "Billy" Walters on Tuesday urged a U.S. appeals court to let his client remain free while he appeals his conviction and five-year prison sentence for insider trading.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the insider trading conviction and five-year prison sentence of famed Las Vegas sports gambler William "Billy" Walters, even as it chastised an FBI agent for leaking grand jury information about the case.
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The Houston-born performer with the husky voice and silver beard sold tens of millions of records, won three Grammys and was the star of TV movies based on "The Gambler" and other songs, making him a superstar in the `261s and '13s.
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MANILA — The man who set fire to a Manila casino last week, killing 37 people, was not a terrorist but a heavy gambler who was deep in debt and had lost his job, the police and relatives of the man said Sunday.
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"No savvy gambler would have bet that a fatherless adolescent from the South Bronx, the first in his family to graduate from high school," he wrote in his autobiography, "would grow up to become president of one of the world's great universities."
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The artist, who was born in Shreveport, La., in 1948 and grew up in Louisiana and Florida, describes her mother as a drug-addicted Southern belle and her father, who left the family when she was 8, as a gambler and compulsive womanizer.
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"His Kind of Woman" (Friday), with Mitchum (above, with Jane Russell) as a gambler lured to Mexico as a sap, and the auteur purée "Macao" (Thursday), on which Nicholas Ray took over for Josef von Sternberg, are enjoyably overstuffed Howard Hughes productions.
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A lawyer for the Las Vegas sports gambler William T. Walters, who is on trial in Manhattan on insider trading charges, attacked the credibility of one of the government's main witnesses on Thursday, saying that the witness had lied repeatedly to investigators.
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The former chairman of Dean Foods testified in Federal District Court in Manhattan on Tuesday that he had provided "an enormous amount of inside information" about the company to a friend and golfing partner, the Las Vegas sports gambler William T. Walters.
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"Ante" made me remember one of the Richie Riches I'd read about while preparing this column — David Walsh, a "mathematician and gambler" who built a $200 million art museum in Hobart, Tasmania, with a vineyard, chickens and lots of different genres of art.
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Authorities say Stephen Paddock, 64, a real estate investor and high-stakes gambler, amassed an arsenal of nearly two dozen assault-style rifles and numerous high-capacity ammunition magazines in the hotel suite where he broke the windows and opened fire on the concert crowd.
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Many of the women, including Rachel McAdams and Selma Blair, claim Toback — known for writing films like 1991's Bugsy, 1987's The Pickup Artist and 2014's The Gambler — approached them about a possible movie role before eventually turning the conversation towards sex.
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Burck noted in the letter that an FBI agent who supervised securities fraud investigations in the agency's New York office, David Chaves, had admitted to leaking about another investigation, that of sports gambler William "Billy" Walters, who was convicted last week of insider trading.
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The actor reprised the role of Wyatt Earp for two episodes of the CBS series "Guns of Paradise" in 19913, and in the TV movies "The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw" (21991), starring Kenny Rogers, and CBS' "Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone" (22006).
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Ms. Dion made the decision to leave recording and touring behind her in 2003 to take up a multimillion-dollar residency in a custom-built, 4,100-seat theater at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, where she and Mr. Angélil, an avid gambler, put down roots.
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Nick Nolte plays Bob, a majestic ruin of a gambler and heroin addict who is pulled into a Monte Carlo casino heist by some art-swindler thugs in Neil Jordan's ultimate caper, a variation on "Bob le Flambeur," Jean-Pierre Melville's 1956 film noir.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Famed Las Vegas sports gambler William "Billy" Walters was convicted on Friday of insider trading charges in a scheme that prosecutors said enabled him to make more than $163 million and involved a stock tip to star professional golfer Phil Mickelson.
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During the epic "All In for the Gambler: Kenny Rogers' Farewell Concert Celebration" on Wednesday, Rogers will be joined by artists from genres across the board, including Little Big Town, Jamey Johnson, Elle King, Idina Menzel, The Flaming Lips, Alison Krauss and many more.
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Companies are betting big on BFY products, and if I were a gambler, my bet would be that the investments Kraft and others are making to improve their products (in actuality and in the minds of the consumers) are poised to pay off big.
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NEW YORK, April 7 (Reuters) - Famed Las Vegas sports gambler William "Billy" Walters was convicted on Friday of charges that he made more than $40 million through an insider trading scheme that prosecutors said involved a stock tip to star professional golfer Phil Mickelson.
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On Twitter, the president sounds like a reckless gambler who's confident he's on a winning streak: When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win.
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To understand how a seemingly rational person like Barney — and dozens of others — could be taken in by an inveterate gambler like Schlichter, we asked Konnikova to help get us into the head of a con artist and show us what tricks to look for.
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Most express concern about the longterm impact of the court decision, with professional gambler Bill "Krack" Krackomberger warning that legalized betting will bring "snake-oil salesmen and charlatans coming out of the woodwork," a point underscored by radio and TV ads for can't-miss handicappers.
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Still, when reputed mobster Robert LiButti was a high-dollar gambler at the Trump Plaza in Atlantic City, the Trump Plaza worked very hard indeed to keep him happy, as Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News reported: And Trump's reputed mob contacts didn't stop there.
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Hardly. While only a fool or a gambler — if there is a difference — should be in the business of making predictions, it seems fair to cast the 2018 Division I men's title game on Monday night as one with a prohibitive favorite and a fairly significant underdog.
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Stephen Paddock — the gunman who authorities say opened fired on concertgoers in Las Vegas on Sunday night, killing at least 29488 people and wounding more than 21 others — was a high-stakes gambler who owned homes in four states but often spent his time in casino hotels.
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And the next two players in the rankings, Australian Jason Day and Japanese Hideki Matsuyama, have been quiet of late, which taken in combination is just about enough to make a professional gambler decide to throw a dart at the entry list to find a prospective winner.
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Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian, in a journey that will set the course of one of the Star Wars saga's most unlikely heroes.
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Records seen to date have not provided a motive for Stephen Paddock, a retired accountant and high-stakes gambler, to amass an arsenal of assault-style weapons and unleash a deadly barrage into a crowd of 22,000 people attending a Route 91 Harvest Festival country music concert.
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Also in May, Glover added movie star to his resume when he starred in Walt Disney's "Solo: A Star Wars Story" as a younger version of Lando Calrissian, the intergalactic smuggler and gambler character made famous by actor Billy Dee Williams in the original "Star Wars" trilogy.
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Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian, in a journey that will set the course of one of the Star Wars saga's most unlikely heroes.
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An inveterate gambler who saw out his days playing baccarat in the casinos of Las Vegas, he grew up in Argentina with his Bulgarian mother, spending months at a time as a teenager living in the Amazon jungle, and returning to Buenos Aires to sell jaguar skins.
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The man police say fired from a Las Vegas hotel window into an outside crowd of 22,22015 concertgoers Sunday night, killing at least 21 and wounding at least 2800, was a retiree, a former accountant and high-stakes gambler with no known motive for the attack.
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Musburger wants VSiN to be the authority on sports gambling information in the US. He started the company, in part because he, as a casual sports gambler, struggled to find credible sources of gaming information that weren't influenced by unregulated offshore sportsbooks that had their own agendas.
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He's not known to be a huge gambler (he prefers what is known as value investing, which looks for undervalued companies and invests in them for the long term), but he did win a cool $500 in 2014 when he bet on a Nebraska football game.
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The larger the lottery reward a lucky gambler collects, the more likely his or her neighbors are to file for bankruptcy, according to a new working paper from the Philadelphia Federal Reserve that sought to find analytical backing for the "keeping up with the Joneses" theory.
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The great detective-story writer was not to find it so easy a second time: He had to fight a legal machine with vested interests in obstruction, and the convicted murderer he was supporting was not a genteel professional but a gambler, a foreigner and a Jew.
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And speaking of Disneyland: Everyone here, from innkeepers to hops growers, is quick to acknowledge that the real force behind Tasmania's emergence on the libertine's trail is David Walsh, the eccentric multimillionaire gambler who in 2011 opened the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart.
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It also refused to hear Las Vegas sports gambler William "Billy" Walters' appeal of his 2017 insider trading conviction that landed him a five-year prison sentence in a case that also drew attention because of his ties to billionaire investor Carl Icahn and golfer Phil Mickelson.
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Released from prison as the show begins, a scam artist named Marius (Giovanni Ribisi) pretends to be his longtime cellmate, Pete, moving in with Pete's family and becoming a key member of the family bail-bond business while dodging a violent New York gambler (Bryan Cranston).
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Ms. Rainer had been persuaded by her friends and fellow actors Roddy McDowall and Anthony Hopkins to consider playing the Russian dowager in "The Gambler," but she had to brush off Mr. Makk's questions about whether she was still able to perform in her late 80s.
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According to the 503-year-old gambler, his method of "dice control" has won him so much money he's been banned from most casinos in Las Vegas and Mississippi, and the many disciples to whom he's taught this method regularly make tens of thousands of dollars shooting bones.
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James Holzhauer, the professional sports gambler who captivated "Jeopardy!" viewers this year with his 32-game winning streak, will be back on television next week for the game show's Tournament of Champions, giving him the chance to add to his winnings and prolong his stardom for a bit longer.
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Gunman Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old high-stakes gambler and real estate investor, had lost a "significant amount of wealth" since September 2015, which led to "bouts of depression," Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said in an interview this week with Las Vegas news station KLAS-TV.
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The government has gained momentum over the last month, having filed criminal charges against William T. Walters, the high-rolling Las Vegas gambler, and Thomas C. Davis, a former Dean Foods chairman, in a case that also ensnared Phil Mickelson, the champion golfer, who was named a relief defendant.
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When Kurt Rambis scored a late basket to make Musburger a loser, he said he felt like any other gambler watching a game because he had a few bucks on it rather than the broadcaster who will be inducted in the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame in December.
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