Words similar to gambler

Example sentences for: gambler

How can you use “gambler” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Showlow started out as a cattle ranch and got its name when it was won by a gambler who showed the low card in a game of seven-up.
John Law, a Scotsman, financier, and high-rolling gambler, on the run from England after a fatal duel, saw the possibility of promoting this distant marshland as a paradise.
After all, the use of a hyphen in adverb/adjective compounds is a matter of style, which can be described in a rule: in position before a noun, compounds with well --indeed, any not ending in - ly --like well-heeled, well-known, well-thought-out , are hyphenated, as in well-heeled gambler, well-known man-about-town, a well-thought-out plan ; but when they are in predicative position, as in Is she well heeled enough to sit in on our game?
Since Thursday, I have been wondering if an unlucky gambler has ever opened fire in a Las Vegas casino, or if any of the stockbrokers who committed suicide in '29 or '87 ever hurt anyone but themselves.
There are minor variations in the kinds of slot machines you'll find, and casinos are always coming up with mindless variants on the classic table games, but in essence what every gambler is buying is simply opportunity.