He lived a rackety version of the artistic life, gambling, picking up rough trade and shoplifting with his old nanny, like Soho's answer to Brideshead Revisited's Sebastian Flyte.
The O'Driscoll gamble: Picking a Grand Slam-winning centre combination would ordinarily seem a good idea, but Gatland's decision to drop Brian O'Driscoll has bewildered many.
Donaghy, 40, a 13-year veteran referee, is accused of using his knowledge of officiating crews, injuries and "interactions between certain referees and certain players and team personnel" to make his gambling picks, according to the F.B.I. affidavit.
"If you're a gambling man, pick us to click tomorrow," Millar said of Boston's struggling hitters.
Johnson was considered a "gamble pick" for the Packers because of lack of major college experience and his relatively small size for a defensive end.
This might seem to suggest a less than promising match, but the men remained together until Haxton's death, from alcoholism and tuberculosis, in 1944, with Maugham apparently content to stay at home while Haxton roamed the Riviera, gambling and picking up boys.
Selectors gambled by picking Lynsey Sharp for the 800m despite her recording only a B qualifying time this season.
You can scroll through these reviews or select a feature called Gambles, which picks an event or restaurant at random.
But, even if he is correct, the question remains: is Mr Chirac ready to gamble by picking a man whose success in the job could threaten his own?
His success was yet another feather in the cap for the British Cycling coaching team, led by performance director Dave Brailsford, who took the calculated gamble of picking Kenny ahead of Hoy.
The dilemma for the team captain, Leon Smith – who already has gambled in picking 300th-ranked Evans in favour of the injured Kyle Edmund and the out-of-form James Ward – is whether or not to repeat his quarter-final formula.
