They didn't seem to care about making money from anyone stupid enough to back Douglas, but even the most punch-drunk gamblers in Vegas would have avoided those teasing odds.
Councillors were advised that gamblers would be "less boisterous" than clubbers or pub drinkers.
Moreover, the gamblers in Sinn Féin look across the cabinet table to the largest unionist force, the Democratic Unionists, and see a party deeply fearful about shipping votes to the rightwing and anti-power-sharing ultras of Traditional Unionist Voice.
Soon, it will resound to the kerching of slot machines pumping out cash as gamblers score jackpots.
Saltzman seems to have stepped straight out of one of Mordecai Richler's novels about blazingly nervy and alive Canadian-Jewish bluffers and gamblers.
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"A budget for the makers, and the doers and the savers," he said, although it would have been more accurate to say "the makers, doers, savers and gamblers", but let's not nitpick.
The betting money, surprisingly, is on the Democrats, and gamblers at InTrade give Mr Franken slightly better odds of winning enough sloppy votes to go to the Senate.
Read our previous coverage of the trial:Martingale gambler: Some gamblers double their bet after each loss and continue to do so until they eventually win or run out of money.
Recently a deputy prime minister, Somsavat Lengsavad, announced the closure of a Chinese-run casino near the border that had attracted drugs and prostitutes along with gamblers.
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