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* In the movie ''[[Dirty Work]]'', the gambling-addicted Dr. Farthing ([[Chevy Chase]]) will only raise Pops on the heart transplant list if he is paid $50,000 to save him from his bookie.
* In ''[[Lucky Number Slevin]]'', the Boss and The Rabbi rope Slevin into their war by mistaking him for Nick Fisher, a lowlife who owes them tens of thousands of dollars. {{spoiler|Of course, Slevin planned for the mobsters to mistake him for Fisher}}.
* In ''[[A
* On the second to last play of ''[[The Replacements]]'', Nigel confesses to Shane that he has to throw the game in order to not lose his bar as a result of gambling debts. Shane decides to not handoff the snap and improvise instead.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[Truth in Television]] as far as the Mafia were/are concerned. A favourite way for them to get their hooks into a business was to let a gambling-addicted owner run up impossible debts with a mob bookie.
* One of the reasons Marc Anthony was so loyal to [[Gaius Julius Caesar]] was that the latter covered the former's gambling and prostitute debts that in modern terms [
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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