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[[File:cardgame 8527.png|frame|I see your wager of Alexander... and raise you a Tristan! Tristan, come over here. Sit on the table.]]
{{quote|''I won my first wife shooting dice, but I lost her in a poker game.''
[[The Bet|Gambling]] seems to be a natural human activity. We have friendly bets on when Margret's baby will be born. Not-so-friendly bets on which sports team will be victorious this year. Sometimes we stake money and sometimes the stakes are [[Bragging Rights Reward|less tangible]].
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This happens a lot with employers betting employees for whatever reason, yet the [[Justified Trope|Justification]]- betting their employment contract rather than the employees themselves- is almost never used.
Most often the card game is [[poker]], but theoretically any form of game that allows [[The Bet]] would work. A comedic form of the [[Absurdly High Stakes Game]]. Compare [[Wager Slave]].
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* After the Boston Red Sox won the World Series in 2004, after an almost 90-year drought, a fake ad was aired for [[Master Card]] that showed various Red Sox fans saying things like, "Oh, I'd trade my car," "I'd trade my house," "I'd trade my firstborn son for the Red Sox to win the World Series!," followed by a montage of these people's pledged items being ruthlessly confiscated - right up to the toddler who delightedly squeals, "[[Crowning Moment of Funny|Go Sox!]]" as he's carried away... It ended with the logo of two interlocking circles... followed by one circle falling away with a "snip" noise while someone voiced-over, "OW." Denis Leary had pledged his left nut.▼
** "Mastercard, proud owner of 90% of New England [*OW*] and 50% of Denis Leary's nuts" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUJ-8R4ghXU here].▼
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Done entirely seriously in the (Daniel J.) Darby the Gambler battle of ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure|Jojo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' with souls and various forms of gambling.
** This is approaching [[Once an Episode]] for the series, as the heroes will almost always run into a person with a Stand power that depends on gambling. Said person will also always say "GOOD!" when confirming the agreement to gamble, as if there were a family of compulsive gamblers out there...
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* The threat of such is used as motivation for Team Hokage to win in The [[Flame of Recca]] - In order to participate in the [[Tournament Arc]], they have to stake something that the other side wants, so [[MacGuffin Girl]] Yanagi volunteers for the job.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* This almost happens to [[Empowered]], except the others playing refuse to accept her as a bet due to the 'unwritten rules' - they don't want a superhero team after them just
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* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4081016/1/The-Poker-Game The Poker Game]'' by "Enterprise1701-D" is a ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fanfic in which Harry accidentally acquires a harem, in part because several girls bet ''themselves'' and Draco Malfoy bets Pansy Parkinson.
▲* This almost happens to [[Empowered]], except the others playing refuse to accept her as a bet due to the 'unwritten rules'- they don't want a superhero team after them just 'cause one idiot tried to use a heroine in a poker game, thanks.
* So much kinky fanfiction.▼
* [http://khakipants12.deviantart.com/art/APH-Request-Poker-Face-245028666 This] ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia|Hetalia]]'' fanart.▼
▲* After the Boston Red Sox won the World Series in 2004, after an almost 90-year drought, a fake ad was aired for [[Master Card]] that showed various Red Sox fans saying things like, "Oh, I'd trade my car," "I'd trade my house," "I'd trade my firstborn son for the Red Sox to win the World Series!," followed by a montage of these people's pledged items being ruthlessly confiscated - right up to the toddler who delightedly squeals, "[[Crowning Moment of Funny|Go Sox!]]" as he's carried away... It ended with the logo of two interlocking circles... followed by one circle falling away with a "snip" noise while someone voiced-over, "OW." Denis Leary had pledged his left nut.
▲** "Mastercard, proud owner of 90% of New England [*OW*] and 50% of Denis Leary's nuts" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUJ-8R4ghXU here].
== [[Film]] ==
* The whole point of the [[Shirley Temple]] film ''[[Little Miss Marker]]''.
* In ''[[Benny and Joon]]'', Joon wins Sam in a poker game.
** A bit of an inversion. She lost. Sam's cousin had been trying to get rid of him by betting the responsibility of taking care of him.
* In ''[[Star Wars]]: Episode I'', Anakin is won in a podracing bet. And whether it was Anakin or his mother was decided by a [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp|chance cube]] throw. The Jedi didn't exactly leave it to chance, though
** In Episode V, it is revealed that Lando lost the Millennium Falcon to Han in a similar fashion. The way they talk about that ship, [[Cargo Ship|it could be considered a person.]]
* In the [[Richard Pryor]]/Jackie Gleason movie ''The Toy'', one of the sordid stories about U.S. Bates (Gleason) was that he won his servant Barkley in a game of pool.
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* An unfortunate man lost his wife to the brewer in ''[[Yojimbo]].''
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* Saki did this, also with a cook.
*
* ''[[Gone with the Wind]]'', where Gerald O'Hara wins Pork in a [[Poker]] game.
* In the ''[[Star Wars]]'' book series, Han wins a planet in a card game that turns out to be inhabited. By a [[Witch Species]], to boot. And of course, it's been long established that the transfer of everyone's favourite [[Cool Ship]] from Lando to Han occurred in the same way.
** In one book, Han and Leia (who'd had an almighty row a couple of chapters earlier) run into an old acquaintance of his, and when Leia asks him how they met he names the trope all but word for word. Leia was ''not'' amused, and Han has to rather quickly reassure her that he was a slave-owner for no longer than it took to file the necessary manumission paperwork.
* [[Erast Fandorin]] bet the heroine against a donkey in "The Turkish Gambit" (both the book and the movie), for a lack of any money or means of transportation. But then, as he is quick to point out, he was [[Born Lucky]], and so knew he was not risking anything.
* ''Last Call'' by [[Tim Powers]] is about a poker player who ''thought'' he won a huge pot in a game years ago... only to discover that he traded away his body and soul to the guy organizing the game. And now he's got to win it back before the guy comes to collect...
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* In the course of a long night of dice, Athos of ''[[The Three Musketeers (novel)|The Three Musketeers]]'' stakes horses, a diamond that does not belong to him, and his servant Grimaud. After several losses, he retrieves the diamond, Grimaud, and the horse's harness— but not the horse.
* This happens to the protagonist in one of [[Angela Carter]]'s retellings of "[[Beauty and The Beast]]". Her father loses her to the "beast" (she notes that it's not that he cared more about gambling than his daughter, just equally much). And then {{spoiler|he turns out to be a tiger in human's clothes and she turns into one too and willingly stays with him while sending back to her father a clockwork version of herself because clearly that's all he wants.}} This must be symbolic of ''something''...
* Bryony House in Jacqueline Carey's ''Terre d'Ange'' books is the only one whose adepts will gamble for their favours. It is said they very rarely lose. Hyacinthe's mother, a virgin at the time, was wagered by her cousin. Three guesses how that turned out.
* One of [[Roald Dahl]]'s short stories concerns a man who bets his daughter's hand in marriage that a wine-taster cannot figure out exactly where a wine came from. As the story goes on the wine taster only gets closer and closer to the truth, much to the daughter's horror. {{spoiler|At the end it turns out the reason he was getting so close was that he had peeked at the label before, and though the resolution isn't shown, one can presume this means the bet is off.}}
* In the [[Liaden Universe]] novel ''Plan B'', there's a character who's fallen so low that not only did his last master stake him in a card game, the bet was that the loser had to keep him.
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* In ''[[Stephanie Plum|Plum Lucky]]'', Diesel adds Stephanie to the pot in a high-stakes poker game. Fortunately for her (the opponent is highly unpleasant), Diesel wins.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[News Radio]]'' did this with Bill, who is appalled when he learns that he was bet against a mixing board until he's told the board is worth millions. It is explained as being ''a clause in Bill's contract.'' Being lost in a card game is apparently defined as an act of God, as the contract ''refers to Jimmy James as God.''
* ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' does this with a man bargaining his daughter off for marriage.
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'''Ann''': I hope I'm not going to have to explain to you that you don't actually own me.
'''Andy''': Of course not. [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|I never for one second thought that that was for real.]] }}
* The final season of ''My Hero (TV)|My Hero]]'' opens with George betting his body in a poker game, forcing him to get a replacement, played by a [[The Nth Doctor|different actor]].
== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends ==
* This is the driving feature behind the Pandavas' exile in the ''[[Mahabharata]]''. Yudishtra, the Crown Prince, has but one fault - a propensity to gamble. His evil Uncle Shakuni invites him to gamble with his cousin who craves the throne. However, Shakuni has cheating dice. Yudisthra bets and loses everything he owns and then begins to wager his brothers, then himself, then his wife, Draupadi. She is dragged, shrieking, by her hair, into the assembly, and is ordered to be stripped. As they do it, she cries out to Lord Krishna, who transforms her sari into a neverending sari. When they fall down from exhaustion from pulling at the folds, she delivers such an impassioned and resentful speech at Yudisthra's family - her in-laws after all - about her vile treatment, that they agree to give the brothers back their lives and change it to exile from the kingdom instead. Making it [[Older Than Feudalism]].▼
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* In ''31 Minutos'', a comedy show about a news program run by puppets, it's commented that a member of the crew, who has a gambling problem, bet his own aunt. [[Rule of Funny|Hilariously, the character in question defends himself saying that he won the game, so now he has two aunts.]]▼
▲* This is the driving feature behind the Pandavas' exile in the ''[[Mahabharata]]''. Yudishtra, the Crown Prince, has but one fault - a propensity to gamble. His evil Uncle Shakuni invites him to gamble with his cousin who craves the throne. However, Shakuni has cheating dice. Yudisthra bets and loses everything he owns and then begins to wager his brothers, then himself, then his wife, Draupadi. She is dragged, shrieking, by her hair, into the assembly, and is ordered to be stripped. As they do it, she cries out to Lord Krishna, who transforms her sari into a neverending sari. When they fall down from exhaustion from pulling at the folds, she delivers such an impassioned and resentful speech at Yudisthra's family - her in-laws after all - about her vile treatment, that they agree to give the brothers back their lives and change it to exile from the kingdom instead.
== [[Radio]] ==▼
▲== Radio ==
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story "The Stones of Venice", the Duke of Venice gambled his wife away in a game of chance. In response, she put a hundred-year curse on the city, and the Doctor and Charley arrive the day before the curse is due to take effect.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Happens to several people in a ''really'' high-stakes poker game among supernatural beings, in a fictional interlude of the ''Underworld'' RPG rulebook. Souls, sanity, intellects and destinies were all laid on the table once the betting got hot.
* A supernatural poker game also occurs in the ''To Go'' module for ''[[Unknown Armies]]''. One match is "jailhouse eightball", where the players bet things they want to get ''rid'' of. One player bets the cancer her son is suffering from, another bets one of his enemies.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* In ''[[StarCraft II]]'' [[Accidental Marriage|Matt Horner ''won'' Mira Han in a poker game]].
== [[Web Comics]] ==
▲* In ''31 Minutos'', a comedy show about a news program run by puppets, it's commented that a member of the crew, who has a gambling problem, bet his own aunt. [[Rule of Funny|Hilariously, the character in question defends himself saying that he won the game, so now he has two aunts.]]
* ''[[Friendly Hostility]]'': Collin wins Bootsie in a poker game. As well, Rafi loses toddler Fatima in a poker game (to a pair of friendly cannibals hosting a dinner party!) and he and Padma must scramble to retrieve her.
* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', Riff at one point mentions that his assistant (when he ran a company for anti-monster equipment) lost her family to vampires. He then specifies that she lost them in a poker game.
* In ''[[SSDD|S.S.D.D.]]'' Tessa apparently won her robot boyfriend Sticks in a card game, granted he was a just sex robot and wasn't fully self-aware until Tessa modified him (to make him more interesting for resale).
* ''[[Collar 6]]'': Sixx bet herself ( {{spoiler|She wins}}).
* ''[[Married to The Sea
* In ''[[Dilbert]]'', when the [[Pointy-Haired Boss]] was trying his hand as a professional gambler, [http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-12-13 this happened].
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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** Burns and Rich Texan once [[All or Nothing|waged all their wordly possessions]] on a scavenger hunt. Once Rich Texan won, he started riding Smithers as if he was another prize. Sure, Smithers' employment contract was more likely to be linked to the power plant rather than Mr. Burns but still...
* ''[[Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi]]'' "Bad Manager" Kaz bets Ami and Yumi in a game of [[Rock-Paper-Scissors]]. Different game, same plot. Slick Shady, who won the girls, actually did a better job managing their careers than Kaz usually does. Despite this, Ami and Yumi challenged for a [[Rock-Paper-Scissors]] game for the right to return to Kaz.
* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* In an episode of [[Hey Arnold!]] the freeloader Oscar bets the baby he's supposed to be looking after in a high-stakes poker game after he realizes he's out of chips. The other players refuse to accept this and storm out. Turns out Oscar had a royal flush, so it's not ''as'' bad as it looks.
* In an episode of ''[[The Mask (animation)|The Mask]]'', Stanley sold his soul to the Devil, known in this series as "Bob". The Mask challenged Bob to a dance contest for his freedom. When he lost, Bob challenged Mask for a [[Double Or Nothing]] rematch, which Bob lost, resulting on him having to be Mask's servant.
== Other Media ==▼
▲== Other ==
▲* So much kinky fanfiction.
* Happens to the the narrator of the song "My Mother Was A Chinese Trapeze Artist" by [[The Decemberists]].
{{quote|"...'til the money got tight, and they [his parents] bet me away to a blind brigadier in a game of high stakes canasta."}}
▲* [http://khakipants12.deviantart.com/art/APH-Request-Poker-Face-245028666 This] ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia|Hetalia]]'' fanart.
* Not too long after [[Walt Disney]] left [[Universal Studios]]—orphaning his proto-[[Mickey Mouse|Mickey]] character [[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit]]--[[Walter Lantz]] won the rights to Oswald in a poker game with company founder Carl Laemmle.
* A cartoon that appeared in ''[[Playboy]]'' shows a woman, kneeling on a bed, starting to strip out of her negligee. As the man standing in front of her apologetically admits, "I didn't actually win you -- your husband folded his hand."
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Happened to American slaves before 1865 or to Russian serfs.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071223140100/http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=35432&in_page_id=2 Happened in Russia in 2007]. The wife was so pissed off, she willingly left with the winner.
* In Aztec society, apparently betting was such [[Serious Business]] that people would occasionally bet themselves into slavery.
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