Sentence examples similar to stake 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.

In need of $50,000 for their fake passports, she starts hustling in New York pool halls at high-stakes games arranged by her friend and mentor (Rip Torn).

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.

Higher stakes games played more frequently might allow them to do that, whilst affording those languishing in lower echelons a better chance of crashing the party.

"Poker Nation" focuses on low- and medium-stakes games, which today means contests with buy-ins below $10,000, the figure Matt Damon calls "high society" in "Rounders".

It forbids gambling, but makes several exceptions, like horse race betting and low-stakes games run by religious and charitable groups.

RICHARD A. NORTON Brooklyn The N.C.A.A.'s Real Interest To the Sports Editor: Re: "High-Stakes Games," June 20: After student-athletes are out of college, the N.C.A.A. has no hold on using their likenesses.