Now the gamblers are becoming long-term investors, and the balance of power is shifting.
Banks used to be as eager to lend to brand-new companies as to professional gamblers.
The report also included detailed surveys of gamblers that showed their habits and preferences.
And gamblers are superstitious folk who do not like to remain in one place for long.
Who in their right mind would turn to wildly irresponsible gamblers for financial advice?
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There would also be no need for the public to bail out the gamblers.
But the referees reviewed the play, and ended up nullifying the touchdown, crushing the gamblers.
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Gamblers might enjoy the thrill, but this kind of uncertainty is anathema to business.
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Fascism was not, or not simply, a capture of the state by thugs or gamblers.
"It's the online gamblers on the whole who are not contributing, " Mr Foster said.
And what are the consequences for us all as we become a planet of gamblers?
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Jennings, for one, says the industry is paying the price for reaching too far into gamblers' pockets.
The Republican Party's sudden concern for the welfare of vulnerable gamblers comes just before the mid-term elections.
Shares in Betfair, whose betting exchange allows gamblers to bet against each other, rose as much as 14%.
Instead, like gamblers down on luck at closing time they buy risky stocks hoping to recover all losses.
Bought Roy Disney's (see) Cessna 206, then created airline to haul gamblers from New England to Atlantic City.
One of the series' most remarkable achievements comes with the four characters who function as racing's typical degenerate gamblers.
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They're trying to get Wall Street's gamblers only a little bit drunk so they'll dive into the market again.
Others have written to the Missouri Gaming Commission to say the change would lead problem gamblers back to temptation.
The mostly male gamblers, however, wear tacky windbreakers, polyester pants and golf shirts.
So gamblers might pick a current star from the 1980s and 1990s--such as Madonna, Tom Cruise or Calista Flockhart.
Gamblers have Vegas, movie buffs have Hollywood and romantics will always have Paris.
But like most gamblers, he is also quick to relate the bad beats.
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By contrast, video gamblers get to that stage in just over two years.
Under the code, "problem gamblers" would be able to apply for voluntary orders banning them from bookmakers in the area.
Most states with casinos now maintain such lists, though most allow gamblers to get off them after a few years.
This is obviously a non-scientific study, but gamblers with extra capital (if there is such a thing) may take note.
On the flight to Baghdad, Mansoor recalled, he handed the chip to Petraeus and invoked the mantra of high-rolling gamblers.
They fought off an attempt to open a betting shop at South Horizons, for fear that working-class gamblers would invade.
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