Sentence examples for gambling instinct from inspiring English sources

I guess I have a bit of a gambling instinct.

While this design appealed to the gambling instinct, it is a suboptimal way to generate retirement income.

His previous church was in Las Vegas; perhaps a bit of gambling instinct is involved in this idea.

"A lot of mathematicians don't have the gambling instinct," says Curtis, whose Las Vegas-based Huntington Press publishes Griffin's book.

Minton wrote the majority opinion and sided with the majority to keep the injunction in place, but dryly mocked the counsel for the defense and the gambling law, stating: Counsel for the petitioner discussed at great length from a sociological point of view, of the age-old problem of the gambling instinct in the human being.

They may also appeal to a collector's gambling instincts.

At some point in the mid-1990s he underwent an almost Damascene conversion into a responsible financier, who managed to channel his gambling instincts into money-making investments for a hedge fund.

He attributed this not to his skill at poker but to his gambling instincts, which are formidable in some circumstances (backgammon, mainly) and horrendous in others (sports betting, mainly).

"I think Rocco recognized that the theater could really satisfy his gambling instincts as well as the stock market or the races could, and could also satisfy his creative and artistic impulses as well," Ms. Landesman says.

If David Haye follows his gambling instincts tonight and unleashes something dangerous but special on Nikolai Valuev, the real prize will be much greater than a quarter slice of a world title.

He later travelled to Spain, where his gambling instincts won him almost £30,000 - on the lottery, according to one version of events; on a complicated accumulator bet on the horses, according to another.