Sentence examples for gamblers play from inspiring English sources

In the Baccarat Room gamblers play a minimum $100 a hand, with a $10,000 limit.

International Game Technology, the world's largest slot-machine maker, agreed yesterday to buy Acres Gaming for $130 million to gain software that tracks which games gamblers play.

Inside, gamblers play slot machines watched by fake pigeons amid fake Italian houses with fake balconies lining fake cobbled streets beneath a fake sky.

Professionals, or in Ms. Eolis's case, serious recreational gamblers typically play poker, not blackjack, roulette or other games in which gamblers play against the house rather than one another.

Since poker pits players against one another — unlike, say, roulette or slot machines, in which gamblers play against casinos that have the odds stacked in their favor — online poker sites make their money by taking a small percentage, or "rake," from each pot.

On a recent Sunday night, Resorts World's V.I.P. floor was filled with Chinese gamblers playing baccarat as Mandarin-speaking waitresses served drinks.

Investment banks, which paid bonuses and weren't allowed to lend, were partnerships with skin in the game, not gamblers playing with other people's money.

PokerPulse, a website that monitors online poker, reckons that 1.8m gamblers played the game for money on the web during May 2005, some 600,000 more than in September 2004.

Similarly, a study of companies that won big legal judgments found that, like gamblers playing with house money, most of them squandered the money on bad bets.

INVETERATE gamblers playing the slot machines in an American casino are often reluctant to take a break lest they miss a big pay-off.

Old hands may continue to insist that the only way to play is eyeball-to-eyeball, but for many online gamblers, playing from home when it suits them is preferable to the intimidating atmosphere of a casino that might in any case be some distance away (especially in America).