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- The Gambler (博奕打ち Bakuchi-uchi) is a Yakuza film directed by Shigehiro Ozawa. It was the first film in the Bakuchi-uchi series.
- This achievement is Easiest in the bloodstone inn, where you play a special version of Keystone where the bets are inverted, and you try to bet to lose, be patient and don't be greedy and you should have this achievement fairly quickly.
- The Gambler (otherwise known as Captain North) was the final opponent in the Underground Exile Games. This article is a . You can help My English Wiki by expanding it.
- The Gambler was a storyline that spanned three comics in the Penny Arcade continuity.
- The Gambler is an achievement/trophy in Max Payne 3. It is obtained by winning a wager in a Gang Wars game.
- Fred Flintstone's compulsive gambling returns, and he loses his furniture and TV set to Fred's archnemesis, Arnold the paperboy. You see during the Flintstones's honeymoon, Fred gambled, but Wilma believes he's been cured of his habit. Then Arnold the newsboy tempts him to bet on a single marbles game. Can Wilma save Fred before he starts betting and losing all the furniture in the house ? Credited animators: George Nicholas, William Keil.
- Alf develops a gambling habit and winds up in trouble with his bookie.
- The Gambler is the 107th episode of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. (Ink & Paint DVD booklet description: A large gathering celebrates the launch of the Coridite Reactor, a huge technological achievement that will power Eternia. A Widget, Smudge, takes to the carnival pleasures of a smooth, charming trickster named Melbrag. While a flood in one of the mines diverts the attention of others Melbrag tricks smudge into gambling away a sample of Coridite. Smudge replaces the lost Coridite in the reactor with a sample from the mines, but unknown to the Widget the recent flood has made the Coridite unstable, endangering the Coridite Reactor and much of Eternia!)
- The Gambler is a crime drama film based on the 1974 film of the same name written by James Toback. It follows a literature professor with a gambling problem who runs afoul of gangsters.
- The Gambler is an achievement in Fable II worth 10 gamerscore points.
- ALF is concerned that the Tanner family is struggling financially when he finds out about the Tanner's $11,000 balloon payment. When ALF finds out that Dorothy gambles on horse races with a bookie known as Nick "The Fish" Mints, he decides to place some bets of his own to help the Tanners out of their financial struggles.
- The Gambler is a song by Kenny Rogers. Written by Don Schlitz, this is a story told from the first-person perspective about a conversation with an old poker player on a train. The card shark gives life advice to the narrator in the form of poker metaphors, before dying in his sleep. This song spawned the poker catchphrase, "Know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em." (thanks, Andy - Arlington, VA, for above 2) {| class="collapsible collapsed" style="width: 100%; text-align: center;"
- The gambler follows a card (or dice) theme, uses cards, dice, darts, coins and gambling implements as weapons, and is very well-versed in blackjack, Poker, craps, and all sorts of casino games. They rely much more on luck and cunning than on skill and outright power, and very seldom take it too hard on the occasions they lose, usually due to believing it was due to chance. For actual gamblers, see The Gambling Addict or Professional Gambler. Examples of The Gambler include:
- He said, "Son, I've made a life Out of readin' people's faces Knowin' what their cards were By the way they held their eyes So if you don't mind me sayin' I can see you're out of aces For a sip of your soda I'll give you some advice" So I handed him my bottle And he drank down my last swallow Then he bummed a Twinkie And he offered me a bit And the day got deathly quiet And his faced lost all expression He said, "If you're gonna play the game, boy You gotta learn to play it right
- "The Gambler" is a song written by Don Schlitz and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Rogers. It was released in November 1978 as the title track from his album The Gambler which won him the Grammy award for best male country vocal performance in 1980. Bobby Bare had recorded the song earlier that same year in his album BARE CBS KC35314 (1978). The song was written by Schlitz who had recorded it previously, and had charted at #65 on the country charts with it. It was one of five consecutive songs by Rogers to hit #1 on the Billboard country music charts. On the pop chart, the song made it #16 and #3 on the Easy Listening chart. It's become one of Rogers's most enduring hits and a signature song. The song was also recorded by Johnny Cash for his 1978 album Gone Girl.
- My grandfather was a big card gambler, and told us a lot of wild stories from his traveling youth. He mostly kept to five-card stud and was a master at bluffing — given the nature of most of his stories and how we believed them, I guess he was at least telling the truth about that. The game was five-card stud. My grandfather didn’t have much money, but he hung on in the early hands, and after an hour or so, he had a tidy pile of chips in front of him, to the surprise of the others. The winning player leaned in and told him. “It’s the antidote.”
- The day after his high school graduation, young Steven Sharpe III asked his girlfriend, Helen, to marry him, but she refused until he could prove he was not a habitual gambler like his father and grandfather before him. When Helen ran off with a local boy who had won a fortune gambling on the sweepstakes, Steven quit his job and decided to make a new life for himself. When an armored car crashed right in front of him as a result of a freak accident, Steven decided to help himself to the money that had spilled out of the back of the van, vowing that from then on he would take whatever he could get.Convinced that the only thing that mattered in his life was luck, and that the lucky people were those who took chances, Steven drank a toast to his grandfather's memory and to his own new life as
- The Autobots are returning to earth after their adventure on Aron's planet, when their "toy rocket" space ship suddenly comes to a halt. They are captured by an alien captain named Bosch. Bosch deactivates them and intends to sell the Autobots as slaves in exchange for energon. However, Smokescreen's tube malfunctions and he remains functional, though temporarily immobilized. Meanwhile, Dirge and Ramjet arrive on the planet in Astrotrain and head towards the city. They are followed by a mysterious blue Autobot.
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