History Main / LostHimInACardGame

* [[http://khakipants12.deviantart.com/art/APH-Request-Poker-Face-245028666 This]] ''[[Manga/AxisPowersHetalia Hetalia]]'' fanart.
* In Creator/{{Vathara}}'s ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3218251/1/Witchy-Woman Witchy Woman,]]'' [[Manga/RurouniKenshin Megumi Takani]] is passed off as a girlfriend belonging to a very unfortunate gambler who had no money with which to settle his debts. Kaoru was not pleased.

* Shows up in the backstory of one of the protagonists in ''FanFic/KyoshiRising''; WanderingMinstrel Sun almost lost his previous travelling partner to a bunch of sandbenders when he bet too high in a game. He won, fortunately, but his partner thanked him by taking the winnings and framing him for robbery.

* ''Webcomic/MarriedToTheSea'' provides the current page image.

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* In ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'', "Uncle" Duke isn't ''really'' [[HonoraryUncle Zonker's uncle]]. He himself isn't sure of their relationship, but he thinks he recalls winning Zonker in a card game.

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* 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, "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.

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** Done entirely seriously in the (Daniel J.) Darby the Gambler battle in [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'', where people bet their souls in various forms of gambling. Darby's younger brother Terence has a similar power, except the bets are always over video games.

** Done entirely seriously in the (Daniel J.) Darby the Gambler battle in Part 3, where people bet their souls in various forms of gambling.
** Darby's younger brother Terence has a similar power, except the bets are always over video games.
** 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 parts of their body based on their going rate on the black market.

* This happens to the protagonist in "The Tiger's Bride", one of the retellings of ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast'' in Creator/AngelaCarter's ''Literature/TheBloodyChamber". 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''...

* This happens to the protagonist in one of Creator/AngelaCarter's retellings of ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast''. 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 backstory of ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13259895/1/A-Strange-Engagement A Strange Engagement]]'', [[ProfessionalGambler Stan Pines]] entered a [[AbsurdlyHighStakesGame High Stakes Poker Game]] involving [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Bill Cipher]], [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Him]], [[WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack Aku]], WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom, [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Morrigan]], [[WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy Grim]], and [[LightNovel/HighSchoolDxd Sirzechs Lucifer]]. During the game, the topic of families came up, which eventually led to all of the [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy drunken]] players [[LostHimInACardGame betting marriage contacts involving their respective kids (and in Stan's case, his newly born Great-Niece and Nephew)]]. [[DidYouJustScamCthulhu Stan won the contracts (among other riches)]], forcing Dipper and Mabel in the present to enter a [[MagicallyBindingContract Magically Bound]] ArrangedMarriage with several children of the Underworld.

* In the backstory of ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13259895/1/A-Strange-Engagement A Strange Engagement]]'', [[ProfessionalGambler Stan Pines]] entered a [[AbsurdlyHighStakesGame High Stakes Poker]] involving [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Bill Cipher]], [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Him]], [[WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack Aku]], WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom, [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Morrigan]], [[WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy Grim]], and [[LightNovel/HighSchoolDxd Sirzechs Lucifer]]. During the game, the topic of families came up, which eventually led to all of the [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy drunken]] players [[LostHimInACardGame betting marriage contacts involving their respective kids (and in Stan's case, his newly born Great-Niece and Nephew)]]. [[DidYouJustScamCthulhu Stan won the contracts (among other riches)]], forcing Dipper and Mabel in the present to enter a [[MagicallyBindingContract Magically Bound]] ArrangedMarriage with several children of the Underworld.

* In the backstory of ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13259895/1/A-Strange-Engagement A Strange Engagement]]'', [[ProfessionalGambler Stan Pines]] entered a [[AbsurdlyHighStakesGame High Stakes Poker]] involving [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Bill Cipher]], [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Him]], [[WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack Aku]], WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom, [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Morrigan]], [[WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy Grim]], and [[LightNovel/HighSchoolDxd Sirzechs Lucifer]]. During the game, the topic of families came up, which eventually led to all of the various (drunken) players betting marriage contacts involving their respective kids. [[DidYouJustScamCthulhu Stan won the contracts (among other riches)]], getting Dipper and Mabel into an ArrangedMarriage with several children of the Underworld in the process.

* In the backstory of ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13259895/1/A-Strange-Engagement A Strange Engagement]]'', [[ProfessionalGambler Stan Pines]] entered a [[AbsurdlyHighStakesGame High Stakes Poker]] involving [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Bill Cipher]], [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Him]], [[WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack Aku]], WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom, [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Morrigan]], [[WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy Grim]], and [[LightNovel/HighSchoolDxd Sirzechs Lucifer]]. During the game, the topic of families came up, which eventually led to all of the various players betting marriage contacts involving their respective kids. [[DidYouJustScamCthulhu Stan won the contracts (among other riches]], getting Dipper and Mabel into an ArrangedMarriage with several children of the Underworld in the process.

* Happened in the ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' episode "Hunted", where Johnny was bet and lost by Momma to a big game hunter [[VillainousGlutton (a character homage to Sydney Greenstreet)]] in a poker game. He cheated in an obvious manner (five cards in a standard four suit deck of cards) but it took the length of the episode for Momma to realize this and come to Johnny's rescue.

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[[caption-width-right:346:I see your wager of Alexander... and raise you a Tristan! Tristan, come over here. Sit on the table.]]

* The Franchise/LooneyTunes from ''Film/SpaceJam'' are already playing a basketball game versus the Monstars to win back their freedom rather than become fixtures on Moron Mountain. Michael Jordan, however, offers to raise the stakes in an effort to reclaim the LiquidAssets absconded from the [=NBA's=] star players. Jordan and Swackhammer have a ''tete a tete'' at midcourt.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5338251/1/Poker-Night Poker Night]]'' sees Ciaphas Cain join a poker night with the God-Emperor of Mankind, the Four Chaos Gods, [[Literature/{{Discworld}} Death]], and [[Franchise/StarTrek Q]]. [[spoiler:In the end, he succeeds in bluffing Tzeentch and cleaning everyone else out.]]

* The plots of ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3480341/1/The-Night-The-House-of-Cards-Was-Built The Night the House of Cards was Built]]'' and ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8247643/1/Demon-s-Luck Demon's Luck]]'' basically amount to "Naruto enters a poker game with the most influential people in Konoha and wins (among many other things) several women and girls". [[ChildrenAreInnocent Thankfully, he's only a young child]] in both of these fics, so nothing ''too'' [[NotSafeForWork NSFW]] happens.

* The plot of ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3480341/1/The-Night-The-House-of-Cards-Was-Built The Night the House of Cards was Built]]'' by drakensis basically amounts to "Naruto enters a poker game with the most influential people in Konoha and wins (among many other things) several women and girls".[[note]]The total by the end is Anko, Kurenai, Hinata, Hanabi, Ino, Tenten and Uchiha Mikoto (Sasuke's mother). It's a good thing he's [[ChildrenAreInnocent still only six years old]] in this story. He also wins a puppy from the litter of Inuzuka Tsume's canine companion Kuromaru which, considering how the Inuzuka treat their dogs, is roughly the same thing.[[/note]]

* One ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fanfic, [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4081016/1/The-Poker-Game ''The Poker Game'']]by Enterprise1701d and Joshua the Evil Guy, has Harry win Luna Lovegood, Susan Bones (both of whom bet themselves) and Pansy Parkinson (bet on by Draco Malfoy, using a life debt) as concubines in a high-stakes poker game. [[spoiler: But that's just the beginning as Harry later gets more women as the story goes, mostly through the actions of Karma, it's said later by Luna.]]

* Happened in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' where Johnny was bet and lost by Momma to a big game hunter [[VillainousGlutton (a character homage to Sydney Greenstreet)]] in a poker game. He cheated in an obvious manner (five cards in a standard four suit deck of cards) but it took the length of the episode for Momma to realize this and come to Johnny's rescue.

* The [[WarOnTerror Islamic State]] [[http://www.ibtimes.co.in/isis-ramadan-competition-memorise-quran-get-yazidi-sex-slaves-prize-636749 offered]] {{Sex Slave}}s as first prizes for a Koran memorization contest for Ramadan.

* ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'': Prince said he'd give the indebted Yeon to the person who'd win the World's Strongest Shinsu Competition. He really didn't count on losing against Baam, but when he does, he gives Yeon up, albeit under great protest.

* ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'': Prince said he'd give the indebted Yeon to the person who'd win the World's Strongest Shinsoo Competition. He really didn't count on losing against Baam, but when he does, he gives Yeon up, albeit under great protest.

* In ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'' it's mentioned that the Bloody Baron won [[ChekhovsGunman Uma]] in a card game in Novigrad.

* In ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'' it's mentioned that the Bloody Baron won [[ChekovsGunman Uma]] in a card game in Novigrad.