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== Anime and Manga ==
* Done entirely seriously in the (Daniel J.) Darby the Gambler battle of ''[[
** 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...
*** Well, there ''was'' one in the third arc. Daniel had a brother, Terrence Trent Darby, who had the same power, but with video games.
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* [[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...
* On more than one occasion, [[P. G. Wodehouse|PG Wodehouse]]'s writing featured an [[
* Hawk from the ''[[Hawk And Fisher]]'' novels once claimed to have lost his missing eye in a card game, although he was joking.
* In ''Chess With A Dragon'', some insectoid aliens are shown engaged in some sort of gambling game. The biggest loser of the evening is said to be dangerously close to "gracing the table", i.e. becoming dinner for the winners.
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* ''[[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 and Mandy|Grim]] bets himself and loses in a game of limbo.
* 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.
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