History Main / LostHimInACardGame

* Done entirely seriously in the Darby the Gambler episode of ''[[JojosBizarreAdventure Jojo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' with souls.

*** Well, there ''was'' one in the third arc...

** If he'd stayed in, he could have maybe won the slave and then freed said slave.

* A variation of this in {{Kuroshitsuji}} when Ciel and Sebastian meet the spirit of a dead prince in a castle Ciel recently purchased. The prince and Ciel play a game of chess to pass the time, and Ciel reluctantly bets Sebastian, because the prince's [[CuteShotaroBoy dead little brother]] took a liking to him. [[spoiler: Ciel loses. Although he gets Sebastian back, [[StatusQuoIsGod of course.]]]]

* Hawk from the ''HawkAndFisher'' novels once claimed to have lost his missing eye in a card game, although he was joking. [[spoiler: It'd actually been clawed out by a demon in ''Blue Moon Rising'', when he still went by his birth name of Prince Rupert.]]

* The RobertAsprin novel ''Little Myth Marker'', part of his Myth Adventures series. The title is a reference to ''Little Miss Marker''. [[spoiler: Subverted in that is later revealed that this was done deliberately on the orders of the "kid" bet so as to infiltrate the hero's household.]]

* In ''StarWars: Episode I'', Anakin is won in a podracing bet. And whether it was Anakin or his mother was decided by a [[strike:die]] [[CallARabbitASmeerp chance cube]] throw. The Jedi didn't exactly leave it to chance, though...

* ''Last Call'' by Tim Powers is about a poker player who ''thought'' he won a huge pot in a game years ago... only to discover that he traded away his body and soul to the guy organizing the game. And now he's got to win it back before the guy comes to collect...

* In ''{{Pirates of the Caribbean}}: Dead Man's Chest'', Will Turner bets his soul against Davy Jones' key on a game of Liar's Dice. He loses but he never expected to win: he did it just to see where Jones kept the key so he could steal it later.
** Actually, he doesn't lose. His father intentionally loses, to spare Will.

* In ''{{Pirates of the Caribbean}}: Dead Man's Chest'', Will Turner bets his soul on a game of Liar's Dice.

* In the course of a long night of dice, Athos of ''TheThreeMusketeers'' stakes horses, a diamond that does not belong to him, and his servant Grimaud. After several losses, he retrieves the diamond and the horse's harness— but not the horse.

* In the course of a long night of dice, Athos of ''TheThreeMusketeers'' stakes horses, a diamond that does not belong to him, and his servant Grimaud.

* ''{{Collar 6}}'': Sixx bet herself (we have yet to see the results).

** Sad thing is, I can actually see that happening in Red Sox Nation. It was ''that'' bad (luckily, I'm still young enough that I didn't have to live through ''most'' of the misery. That said, the only known RealLife case of someone losing their nuts in a sports bet happened in Wales (or was it [[{{Scotireland}} Scotland? Maybe Ireland?]]), and it was regarding rugby.

* A certain lawyer in ''AceAttorney'' lost his client in a poker game.
** [[spoiler: Actually, the client in question played his lawyer in a poker game and decided to drop him, deciding on Phoenix Wright instead after playing him. Apparently, you can tell a lot about a man by playing poker with him.]]
*** [[spoiler: Maybe not a man in general, but poker's probably a pretty good way to gauge a lawyer's poker face and bluffing ability.]]
** [[spoiler: The client in question even entrusted his own daughter to Phoenix - a man he had only known for two days - after fleeing the courtroom and going into hiding for years.]]

* This happens to the protagonist in one of Angela Carter's retellings of "The Beauty and the Beast". Her father loses her to the "beast" (she notes that it's not that he cared more about gambling than his daughter, just equally much). And then [[spoiler: he turns out to be a tiger in human's clothes and she turns into one too and willingly stays with him while sending back to her father a clockwork version of herself because clearly that's all he wants.]] This must be symbolic of ''something''...

* In the course of a long night of dice, [[TheThreeMusketeers Athos]] stakes horses, a diamond that does not belong to him, and his servant Grimaud.

* The soul of oneself or loved ones at stake is a common setup in ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'', technically the good guys don't (usually) initiate such games; yet are forced to play them through anyway.
** Taken quite literally when Pegasus and Kaiba duel [[spoiler: for Mokuba's soul, which is literally in a card, and with Kaiba also offering his soul if he loses, which also... Goes into a card.]]

---> '''Oscar''': I'll win you back, buddy!
---> '''Felix''': No you won't. You'll lose double or nothing and I'll have to bring in my brother from Buffalo!

** Sad thing is, I can actually see that happening in Red Sox Nation. It was ''that'' bad (luckily, I'm still young enough that I didn't have to live through ''most'' of the misery. That said, the only known RealLife case of someone losing their nuts in a sports bet happened in Wales (or was it [[{{Scotireland}} Scotland? Maybe Ireland?]]), and it was regarding rugby. SoYeah...

** If he'd stayed in, he could have maybe won the slave and then freed said slave. SoYeah...

* In ''StarWars: Episode I'', Anakin is won in a podracing bet. And whether it was Anakin or his mother was decided by a [[strike:die]] [[CallARabbitASmeerp chance cube]] throw.