Sentence examples for high-stakes games from inspiring English sources

The yakuza operated high-stakes games with hanafuda cards in casino-like parlors.

He dressed well and was an expert gambler, favoring blackjack and other high-stakes games.

Executives could belly up to temporary gambling tables for high-stakes games of poker.

Perhaps it is time to implement Levein's suggestion that foreign referees take charge of high-stakes games.

With high-stakes games over the next week, Klinsmann has ample opportunity to make everyone forget last year's failures.

Most teams have neither the money nor, in some cases, the motivation to play the high-stakes games of the Yankees and the Red Sox.

To Ward, the site is a delicate, mutating mesh of counterweighted considerations a high-stakes game of pickup sticks.

Now states from Maryland to Maine are lining up to join the high-stakes game for tax revenue and middle-class jobs.

Nor did she have any idea of the high-stakes game she was entering, although an attack by militants soon opened her eyes.

LUCKY YOU This gambling movie is tight and focussed at the Vegas tables where men (and the occasional woman) play the incomparable high-stakes game of Texas hold'em but is conventional, weak, and dumb everywhere else.

Senator Mitch McConnell, the minority leader, called it "an entirely avoidable high-stakes game of chicken with the single-minded goal of taking more money from those who earn it".