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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.]] |
[[File:cardgame 8527.png|frame|I see your wager of Alexander... and raise you a Tristan! Tristan, come over here. Sit on the table.]] |
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{{quote|''I won my first wife shooting dice, but I lost her in a poker game.''|David Allen Coe, "Lay My Money Down"}} |
{{quote|''I won my first wife shooting dice, but I lost her in a poker game.''|David Allen Coe, "Lay My Money Down"}} |
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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]]. |
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]]. |
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== Anime and Manga == |
== Anime and Manga == |
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* 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. |
* 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. |
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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. |
* 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. |
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** "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]. |
** "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]. |
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== Fan Works == |
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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, part because several girls bet ''themselves'' and Draco Malfoy bets Pansy Parkinson. |
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== Film == |
== Film == |
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