Bookie: Difference between revisions

{{trope|wppage=Bookmaker}}

{{quote|“Bookie - A pickpocket who lets you use your own hands.”

|Henry Morgan}}

 

{{examples|suf=s}}

== Anime and Manga ==

* Nabiki Tendo from ''[[Ranma ½]]'' makes book on Ranma's fights, setting odds and taking bets. We first see her doing this, with the aid of [[Those Two Guys|her two factors]], during Ranma's first fight with Ryoga. Nabiki's not entirely an honest bookie; she's not above trying to influence a fight to improve her profit margin.

* In the novel of ''[[Durarara!!]]'', Orihara Izaya was the bookie for his middle school's baseball betting pool.

 

== Comic Books ==

* ''[[Usagi Yojimbo]]'' featured a story involving a crooked bookie who has employed a skilled former samurai to help him run a con; they hustle wandering travelers into fighting duels with the samurai, the bookie takes bets on the fight, hyping up the unskilled traveler as unbeatable, then they split the pot when the samurai kills the traveler.

 

== Fan Works ==

* ''[[Ranma ½]]'' fanfiction often inflates or exaggerates Nabiki's small-time betting operation into a neighborhood-wide or even a ward-wide operation. In some of these stories it comes to the attention of local [[Yakuza]], which is rarely to Nabiki's benefit.

* In the ''[http://chaletian.livejournal.com/tag/village!verse Village!Verse]'' series of fanfics for ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'', Sulu seems to be the ship's unofficial bookie.

 

== Film ==

* Bookie Bernie Bernbaum is one of the primary antagonists of the film ''[[Miller's Crossing]]''.

* In 1974's ''[[California Split]]'' there's "Sparkie", who is as much a [[Loan Shark]] as a bookie.

 

== Literature ==

* Ludo Bagman from ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'' is the dishonest version, accepting bets on the Quidditch World Cup at improbable odds and paying off the winners in (fake, temporary) leprechaun gold.

 

* [[Played for Laughs]] in an episode of ''[[Seinfeld]]''. Kramer places a large bet with a bookie in Jerry's name and ends up winning a [[Undisclosed Funds|large but unspecified amount of money]]. Unfortunately, the bookie is very new to the business and can't afford to pay out his winnings. Jerry, who has no real stake in the winnings, couldn't care less, but a series of accidents that happen to the bookie around him make him look like an unstoppably violent madman out to get his money.

* The Scottish [[Sit Com]] ''[[Still Game]]'' has Steve the Bookie, a recurring character who runs the local (legal) betting shop in Craiglang.

* Bookies occasionally showed up as arrestees in ''[[Barney Miller]]'', usually offering odds on various goings-on in the station even as they sat in the cell at the back of the set.

* An episode of ''[[Bottom]]'' revolves around [[A Simple Plan]] to raise £500 to place a bet at long odds on a three-legged blind horse called Sad Ken, after the bookie tricks them into thinking it's a dead cert.

 

== Video Games ==

* ''[[Mafia Wars]]'' offers a "Bookie" henchman type.

 

== Real Life ==

 

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