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* Borderline example in ''[[Knight Rider]]'': Michael deliberately lost KITT in a game with the episode's bad guy, as part of a plan to take him down. Unfortunately he didn't bother to ''explain it to KITT'' beforehand.
* Borderline example in ''[[Knight Rider]]'': Michael deliberately lost KITT in a game with the episode's bad guy, as part of a plan to take him down. Unfortunately he didn't bother to ''explain it to KITT'' beforehand.
* An episode of ''[[The Odd Couple]]'' has Oscar lose Felix to guest star Bobby Riggs as a glorified butler. Oscar offers to try to win his freedom back but Felix wins it back himself by holding a note longer than Riggs.
* An episode of ''[[The Odd Couple]]'' has Oscar lose Felix to guest star Bobby Riggs as a glorified butler. Oscar offers to try to win his freedom back but Felix wins it back himself by holding a note longer than Riggs.
{{quote| '''Oscar''': I'll win you back, buddy!<br />
{{quote|'''Oscar''': I'll win you back, buddy!
'''Felix''': No you won't. You'll lose double or nothing and I'll have to bring in my brother from Buffalo! }}
'''Felix''': No you won't. You'll lose double or nothing and I'll have to bring in my brother from Buffalo! }}
* In ''The Beiderbecke Affair'', Jill Swinburne loses her boyfriend, Trevor Chaplain, to his former fiancee, Helen of Tadcaster, in a coin-toss after a night of heavy drinking. Mrs Swinburne honours her agreement with Helen, but Mr Chaplain goes back to her anyway because "nobody wins me at the toss of a coin." It is strongly suggested that this is a new development in Trevor's persona since the time when he and Helen were engaged.
* In ''The Beiderbecke Affair'', Jill Swinburne loses her boyfriend, Trevor Chaplain, to his former fiancee, Helen of Tadcaster, in a coin-toss after a night of heavy drinking. Mrs Swinburne honours her agreement with Helen, but Mr Chaplain goes back to her anyway because "nobody wins me at the toss of a coin." It is strongly suggested that this is a new development in Trevor's persona since the time when he and Helen were engaged.
* A ''[[Simon]]'' episode featured Duke Stone at a poker table betting his butler because he was ''two'' dollars short of the money needed to match the last bet and his nephew wouldn't allow him to pay later. Simon won that round. In the end, Duke offered his gardener in exchange to get his butler back.
* A ''[[Simon]]'' episode featured Duke Stone at a poker table betting his butler because he was ''two'' dollars short of the money needed to match the last bet and his nephew wouldn't allow him to pay later. Simon won that round. In the end, Duke offered his gardener in exchange to get his butler back.
* Subverted on ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'' when Andy "won" Ann from Mark in a pool game:
* Subverted on ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'' when Andy "won" Ann from Mark in a pool game:
{{quote| '''Mark''': I don't even know how to say this. I am so sorry, and I will do my best to visit you on holidays.<br />
{{quote|'''Mark''': I don't even know how to say this. I am so sorry, and I will do my best to visit you on holidays.
'''Ann''': Thanks. You tried.<br />
'''Ann''': Thanks. You tried.
'''Mark''': I guess you're his now.<br />
'''Mark''': I guess you're his now.
'''Ann''': Do you want to get out of here?<br />
'''Ann''': Do you want to get out of here?
'''Mark''': I do.<br />
'''Mark''': I do.
'''Ann''': Okay. Bye, Andy.<br />
'''Ann''': Okay. Bye, Andy.
''[they leave, cut to [[Confession Cam]]]''<br />
''[they leave, cut to [[Confession Cam]]]''
'''Andy''': I know that legally Ann is now mine, but it weirdly doesn't feel that way.<br />
'''Andy''': I know that legally Ann is now mine, but it weirdly doesn't feel that way.
''[the next day]''<br />
''[the next day]''
'''Ann''': I hope I'm not going to have to explain to you that you don't actually own me.<br />
'''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.]] }}
'''Andy''': Of course not. [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|I never for one second thought that that was for real.]] }}


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* So much kinky fanfiction.
* So much kinky fanfiction.
* Happens to the the narrator of the song "My Mother Was A Chinese Trapeze Artist" by [[The Decemberists]].
* 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."}}
{{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.
* [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.
* 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.
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