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Example sentences for: gamblers
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The Australian Jockey Club even advised bookmakers and gamblers to avoid using money slang: quid, spin, brick, and pony for ¥1, ¥5, ¥10, and ¥25, on Australian racecourses.
Another quirk, as gamblers and con artists know all too well, is that the brain is not good at weighing small chances of big gains (or losses) against large chances of small losses (or gains).
Similarly, the commission will try to reduce gamblers' access to cash by limiting the size of ATM advances and prodding casinos to remove the machines from their floors.
But profitable day trading certainly isn't, and the current mania for it is less a reflection of the moneymaking opportunities it offers than of the allure of easy credit and the seemingly unstoppable conviction of all gamblers that the house can be beaten.
Gamblers don't quite accept the cigarette analogy--though commission member Bill Bible, a former chief of the Nevada Gaming Commission, did concede that gambling was like alcohol--but they're happy to sign on to the specific measures.