Absurdly High Stakes Game: Difference between revisions

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Make note: This includes some versions of [[Russian Roulette]]. [[Deal With the Devil|Deals with devils]] are also common. May lead to being [[Trapped By Gambling Debts]]. If the game is televised, it is probably a [[Deadly Game]]. If you actually wager ownership of a ''person'', then you may end up [[Lost Him in A Card Game|Losing Him in a Card Game]] or gaining a [[Wager Slave]]. Related to [[The Bet]].

 

== Anime & Manga ==

* ''[[Gamble Fish]]'' quite often, where they are usually betting large amounts of money. In one case Tomu even bet his own finger, he lost and immediately had it chopped off with a chainsaw.

* ''[[Mirai Nikki]]'' has characters betting their diaries and lives on a simple coin game with even odds. The game gets complicated because the diaries involved can tell the future -- including the outcome of the coin game, and destroying a diary kills its owner. [[Magnificent Bastard]] Aru Akise manages to win even though {{spoiler|he's the only one playing who can't predict the future.}}

** The poker game Jotaro Kujo plays with Daniel J. D'arby in Part 3 ramps up the stakes to the souls of Jotaro's friends. Jotaro even puts his own on the line. {{spoiler|Jotaro wins only through magnificent bluffing, betting ''every'' soul in play on a dud hand.}} This scene appeared in the OVA adaptation.

** Later he bets souls against Terrence D'arby, ''a video gamer''. {{spoiler|He has to cheat to win that one.}}