#gambling

Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#alarming #alone #between #due #exposure

It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying... I'm basically gambling hoping something will come along this season and if not, I don't know what the future holds. ↗

— Charisma Carpenter

#basically #because #been #breath #come

Once an opportunist like Mickey, who took the argument when she jumped on some devastated wretch's machine and jackpotted that it was the "cash-ino's money" she was winning, Moon returned after her six month break with the view that the separation had somehow sweetened the honeypot. The sad reality, she quickly learned, was that she was not irreplaceable; as such, the Casino felt no compunction to welcome her back with multi-jackpots. Instead, it took her money everyday and did not once give her a jackpot so that she could say, "Ah. They missed me." Instead, all she could keep saying was, "Verr-y bed. Verr-y bed. Suck-ah all my money! ↗

— Hope Barrett

#casinos #cleopatra-igt #gambling #jackpots #life-lessons

Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling. ↗

— Al Alvarez

#i #i think #poker #really #think

Gambling is an act of faith of gamblers. Prophecy is an act of faith of the saints. ↗

— Toba Beta

#gambling #prophecy #faith

The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity. ↗

— Tom Harkin

#country #fiscal #gambling #get #money

Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards. ↗

— Richard Roeper

#cards #favorite #flipping #gambling #keep

No wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady winner. ↗

— Thomas R. Dewar

#gambling #husband #steady #unless #wife

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

#come #family #farming #gambling #generally

My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#borrow #dollars #fellow #fifty #gambling