0 someone who often gambles, for example in a game or on a horse race: --
a self-help group for compulsive gamblers
1 a person who risks losing money in the hope of winning a lot more money: --
The gambler's expected gain is infinite.
Bassano, a compulsive gambler, in return for his titles; immediately after the wedding, the happy couple went their separate ways.
Such a divine takeover seems to undercut not only the freedom of the gambler, but also his very individuality as a person.
On this understanding, we are simply gamblers, forced to concede that the favourite sometimes comes in last.
The gambler's fallacy is the belief that when a series of trials all have the same outcome then soon an opposite outcome will follow.
The trick has to be to cover up the original text, meditate on the illustrations, and write what real cowboys and gamblers might have said.
Our gambler, for instance, may honestly have a desire not to gamble.
We are utilitarian gamblers who bet that what makes taking an organ from a child unjustifiable will not happen.
