Quotes About Gambling

Diesel was smiling at Grandma. "You blew through almost two hundred thousand and you were playing dollar slots? That's impressive." "Especially since some of that time I was winning," Grandma said. "Twelve dollars?" "Yep. I was on a roll.

She wished Michael had had a grandfather like this guy Morty, someone to tell him, It's a rotten deal, the house always wins. Just sit at the table and play for all you're worth. Instead of one who showed him how to die.

It's a rotten deal, the house always wins. Just sit at the table and play for all you're worth.

Our investigation has found that, unlike traditional fantasy sports, daily fantasy sports companies are engaged in illegal gambling under New York law, causing the same kinds of social and economic harms as other forms of illegal gambling and misleading New York consumers.

Unlike most traditional, season-long fantasy sports sites, which make most of their money from administrative fees and advertising, FanDuel and DraftKings take a cut of every bet. That is what bookies do, and it is illegal in New York.

Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 million dollars from playing. It is unreal.

I saw someone lose $100 million in one night. When you watch that, as an owner-operator of a game, you realize that these numbers are incredibly unsustainable, incredibly unhealthy. So, I was not happy about this loss. It brought me no joy or adrenaline.

Gamble until you die. I do not really care.

All kinds of gambling, from bingo to baccarat, are benign entertainment for most people, dangerously addictive to a few, and capable of breeding unwanted side effects for society.

Every poker player has ups and downs because luck is also involved. When a great poker player smashes, he's making the right moves and making the right reads and he's getting lucky.

Just as outlawing alcohol did not work in the 1920s, current attempts to prohibit online gambling will not work, either.

The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.

I will never be in the stock market. It's just gambling. I'm a gambler, but I'll gamble on the practicality of things.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do deserve to lose money.

The real reason why I don't play in many big cash games is because I can't stomach the thought of losing $100,000 or more in any given session. If I play three consecutive days at the Bellagio, I might win two days but lose big on the third. Really, who needs the agony of losing that much money? Not me.

You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.

Daily fantasy sports operators claim that they operate legally under Alabama law. However, paid daily fantasy sports contests are, in fact, illegal gambling under Alabama law.

Our review concludes that DraftKings'/FanDuel's operations constitute illegal gambling under New York law.

But Carol had not betrayed her. Carol loved her more than she loved her child. That was part of the reason why she had not promised. She was gambling now as she had gambled on getting everything from the detective that day on the road, and she lost then, too. And now she saw Carol's face changing, saw the little signs of astonishment and shock so subtle that perhaps only she in the world could have noticed them, and Therese could not think for a moment.

I actually dealt blackjack for a summer.

men and women have gambled in every age. In every age men have been dishonest and governments have been corrupt;

I used to sports gamble a lot and I was getting killed on that but then I found poker and really enjoyed it. But it was a hobby more than anything else. I played it every day but only on pretty small stakes.