History Main / LostHimInACardGame

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack''. K'nuckles bets Flapjack in a card game, and wins, getting another cabin boy as the prize. However, Flapjack is so insulted about this that he leaves and becomes a banker.

** A more gruesome example comes in the form of Part 6's Marylin Manson, a stand which immediately and invariably enforces the terms of the bet it oversees. If the loser doesn't have the money they bet on their person, it collects their internal organs based on their going rate on the black market.

* After the Boston Red Sox won the World Series in 2004, after an almost 90-year drought, a fake ad was aired for [=MasterCard=] that showed various Red Sox fans saying things like, "Oh, I'd trade my car," "I'd trade my house," "I'd trade my firstborn son for the Red Sox to win the World Series!," followed by a montage of these people's pledged items being ruthlessly confiscated - right up to the toddler who delightedly squeals, "[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Go Sox!]]" as he's carried away... It ended with the logo of two interlocking circles... followed by one circle falling away with a "snip" noise while someone voiced-over, "OW." Denis Leary had pledged his left nut.

* The Davy Back Fight in ''Manga/OnePiece'' is essentially a sporting event with [[FlexibleTourneyRule very selectively enforced rules]] and the competing crews members hanging in the balance.

* [[TabletopGames/HoylesRulesOfDragonPoker Hoyle's Rules of Dragon Poker]] allows you to bet anything, including people, but the winner has to return them before the police get involved.

* ''Film/TheQuickAndTheDead'': When the Lady wakes up in the Kid's shop with no memory of how she got there, the Kid claims he won her in a game of poker. As the last thing she remembers if him puking and passing out behind the saloon, she is pretty sure he is lying.

** Burns and Rich Texan once [[AllOrNothing waged all their wordly possessions]] on a scavenger hunt. Once Rich Texan won, he started riding Smithers as if he was another prize. Sure, Smithers' employment contract was more likely to be linked to the power plant rather than Mr. Burns but still...

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'': In episode 11, Hilda gets lost in the woods. She runs into her old acquintance the Woodman, who is playing poker with some elves and, as we eventually learn, a forest giant. He bets Hilda without her knowing, and loses her to the giant, who takes her back to his lair. However, he did so on purpose since he hoped Hilda would thus be able to help him get back some other items he lost to the giant.

* In ''Anime/{{Jewelpet 2009}}'', the BigBad sets up the Jewel Games where he bets several powerful Jewelpets for the heroes to recover. In exchange, he demands that the main heroine, Rinko, bet herself, as she is the only one capable of wielding the Jewel Stick, which he needs to complete his plans. [[spoiler:He wins her in episode 45, but she escapes one episode later without him managing to carry out his intention.]]

* A man returns from his weekly poker game to tell his wife he lost her in a poker game. When she demands to know how he could have done that, he answers that it was very close, but fortunately he'd managed to stack the deck so the other guy had four aces.

* A ''{{Simon}}'' episode featured Duke Stone at a poker table betting his butler because he was ''two'' dollars short of the money needed to match the last bet and his nephew wouldn't allow him to pay later. Simon won that round. In the end, Duke offered his gardener in exchange to get his butler back.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': In [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS1E09IdiotsArray "Idiot's Array"]], Zeb bets Chopper in a game of Sabacc, believing he has an unbeatable hand. Unfortunately, his opponent is Lando Calrissian, who uses the titular hand to beat him, winning Chopper in the process. The ''Ghost'' crew has to help Lando in his schemes for the rest of the episode in order to win Chopper back.

** In ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', Anakin is won in a podracing bet. And whether it was Anakin or his mother was decided by a [[CallARabbitASmeerp chance cube]] throw. The Jedi didn't exactly leave it to chance, though...

*** When introduced, Anakin mentions offhandedly that mom and son used to belong to a Hutt, but were lost in a pod race bet.

* In a chapter of ''Fanfic/ShadowchasersTournamentOfShadows'', Bruno gets the idea to up the ante in one duel, wagering Alice of Despairland for his opponent's card Lost Time. Unfortunately, Alice is a sapient card, and she is ''very'' upset he would do so without so much as asking her. He nearly loses the duel as a result, as he is unable to draw her card if she doesn't allow it, and does badly until they come to an agreement - with a rather thorough apology from Bruno.

** In ''[[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Episode V]]'', it is revealed that Lando lost the Millennium Falcon to Han in a card game called sabacc. The way they talk about that ship, [[CargoShip it could be considered a person.]]
*** In ''[[Film/Solo]]'', we see exactly how Han wins the ship from Lando. Han needed the Millennium Falcon for a job, so he played a few rounds of Sabacc with Lando, constantly upping the stakes until he bets the Falcon. [[spoiler:However, Han loses because Lando was cheating, but Lando agrees to work with them anyways. After the job was finished, they had a rematch, but Han steals the cards up Lando's sleeve first. This time,]] Han wins the ship fair and square.

** In ''[[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Episode V]]'', it is revealed that Lando lost the Millennium Falcon to Han in a card game called sabacc. The way they talk about that ship, [[CargoShip it could be considered a person.]][[spoiler:Turns out, the main computer of the ship used to be Lando's droid L3-37, [[=Robosexual= who he may have had feelings toward]]]]

** In [[Film/AttackOfTheClones Episode V]], it is revealed that Lando lost the Millennium Falcon to Han in a card game called sabacc. The way they talk about that ship, [[CargoShip it could be considered a person.]]

* ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'': Who thought you couldn't lose your wife in a [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=481 monopoly game]]?

* In Ruthanne Lum [cCunn's ''Thousand Pieces of Gold'' novel and [[FilmOfTheBook the film based on it]], American pioneer and experienced gambler Charles Bemis engages in a card game to the Chinese Hong King for the stated purpose of winning the Chinese's maid Polly. (While based on a true story, it appears the way RealLife [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly_Bemis Polly]] got her freedom was different.)

* In Ruthanne Lum McCunn's ''Thousand Pieces of Gold'' novel and [[FilmOfTheBook the film based on it]], American pioneer and experienced gambler Charles Bemis engages in a card game to the Chinese Hong King for the stated purpose of winning the Chinese's maid Polly. (While based on a true story, it appears the way RealLife [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly_Bemis Polly]] got her freedom was different.)
* Nikolai Gogol's novel ''Dead Souls'' takes place in Imperial Russia during the first half of the XIX century, when it had especially hard laws on serfdom making it essentially slavery. The protagonist, Chichikov, runs a scam that involves buying serfs that are already dead but aren'r yet legally registered as dead. At one point he meets a landowner named Nozdryov, who is a compulsive gambler, and they play a checkers game in which the bet is serfs.

* In the first ''Literature/{{Spellsinger}}]]'' novel, Jon-Tom and Mudge are hiding out at the local ThievesGuild hideout waiting for the heat to die down after a crime they got involved in when Jon-Tom tries his hand playing cards with some of the locals. He ends up doing quite well and winning a bit of money when another gambler puts up his girlfriend, a vixen, as his stake in a hand since he's broke. Jon-Tom wins again, but he's {{Squick}}ed out by the thought of having sex with someone from a different species and ends up accidentally insulting her. The resulting fight forces Jon-Tom and Mudge to [[EveryoneChasingYou flee the guild]].

* The Davy Back Fight in ''Manga/OnePiece'' is essentially a [[LoopholeAbuse sporting event]] with the competing crews members hanging in the balance.

** Done entirely seriously in the (Daniel J.) Darby the Gambler battle in Part 3 with souls and various forms of gambling.
** Darby's younger brother, Terence, also does this, albeit with video games instead of gambling.