Sentence examples for won gambling from inspiring English sources

The friend showing me around bought a brand-new black 5-Series BMW with money she won gambling.

With some money he won gambling, his girlfriend's credit card, and $10,000 his father set aside for college, Anderson decided to make a twenty-minute film that would be his "college".

He continually demanded a vote which he knew he could not win, gambling that the Senate would cave in.

A mathematical genius and bon vivant, according to Mackay, he developed a winning gambling system that got him kicked out of a number of countries until he ingratiated himself with the Duke of Orleans, who became regent to Louis XV.

If he loses on the first two tosses, he doubles his bet again, betting $4 on the third toss, etc.This doubling approach, known as the Martingale Strategy, is one of the oldest "sure win" gambling strategies around: B keeps doubling his bet until he wins.2 When he does, he is a dollar ahead.

That could also describe the winning gamble Disney took in 1997 with Julie Taymor and the African elements she added to her stage version of "The Lion King".

It is a remarkable turnabout for Mr. Paulson, whose winning gamble against the housing market plucked him from obscurity and transformed him into one of the most celebrated money managers in the business.

Their winning gambles can be financial windfalls, but they often come at the expense of two, three, four, or more losers for every one winner.

Regardless of how it works out, Mr Priebus's elevation to this powerful position represents the culmination of a winning gamble for the Wisconsinite.

In his acclaimed account of the 1981 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, the author captures the wild ups and downs of a ruthless, high-stakes sport in which "the next best thing to gambling and winning is gambling and losing".

"The next best thing to gambling and winning is gambling and losing".