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* Subverted in ''[[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack]]''. K'nuckles bets Flapjack in a card game, and wins, getting another cabin boy as the prize. However, Flapjack is so insulted about this that he leaves and becomes a banker.
* Happened in an episode of ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'' where Johnny was bet and lost by Momma to a big game hunter [[Villainous Glutton|(a character homage to Sydney Greenstreet)]] in a poker game. He cheated in an obvious manner but it took the length of the episode for Momma to realize this and come to Johnny's rescue.
* On the season 12 ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|Simpsons]]'' episode "Children of a Lesser Clod" (the episode where Homer starts a home day care center after breaking his knee in a basketball accident), one of the video clips of how much of a horrible father Homer is to Bart, Lisa, and Maggie shows Homer betting Maggie in a poker
** One of the comics ended up with Smithers temporarily being Homer's assistant under similar circumstances.
** In the episode "The Burns and the Bees", Mr. Burns and some other billionaires were reunited for a card game and Burns added Smithers into the pot. Rich Texan said that, since they were betting people, he'd add his basketball team. Despite thinking they're "hardly worth a Smithers", Burns accepted it. And won.
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{{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]]
* 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."
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