Litteraturprofessoren Jim Bennett er uforbederlig ludoman. Han skylder det lokale kasino en anselig sum og får en uge til at betale. Men Jim lever og ånder for at satse stort. Han låner penge af gangsteren Neville og stiller sit eget liv som sikkerhed. Efterhånden som fristen udløber, søger Jim dybere ned i underverdenen og bliver stadig mere kynisk i sin handlemåde. Mark Wahlberg spiller hovedrollen i dette remake af 1974 filmen af sammen navn, med James Caan.

New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.

This Western adventure, inspired by Kenny Rogers' hit song, tells how fictional gambler Brady Hawkes, going in search of a young son he never knew he had, teams up with an impetuous young admirer and a shady lady on his journey, which also involves him with an arrogant railroad owner and a gang of villains.

Under pressure from his publisher, Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky gets work on his latest piece, 'Rouletenberg'. In the 27 days it takes for him to complete the novel reality and fiction become blurred; in this feverish atmosphere of excess Dostoyevsky's characters come to life as he struggles to complete his work.

The story of a wealth Eastern European family in Las Vegas, whose misunderstanding of American ways results in the loss of their dignity and self-respect.

Jonathan Rendall's broke, he's been given £12,000 to gamble with, and he gets to keep any winnings. He'll bet on anything: from racing to roulette, boxing to blackjack. All he needs is luck.

Mrs. Dove has gambling debts. She doesn’t want her husband to know about this, so she pawns her ring to get money. She is invited to an intimate soiree by Marie Carrington, where she runs into the Count and Countess Bulger, to whom she is in debt. But once again, she loses at the card table.

Brady Hawkes, Billy Montana, and Jeremiah Hawkes are on a train bound for a huge gambling event when the train is taken over by a gang of vicious killers in search of money. As ransom, the gang takes young Jeremiah hostage. Brady and Billy embark on a quest to rescue him and form a small gang of their own along the way.

Brady Hawkes and Billy Montana join forces once again in this new adventure. This time around their goal is to help the Sioux fight the government and get the supplies they need. They also uncover corruption within a government outpost and find themselves in a dangerous position.

Mark Fallon, with partner Kansas John Polly, tries to introduce honest gambling on the riverboats. His first success makes enemies of the crooked gamblers and of fair Angelique Dureau, whose necklace he won. Later in New Orleans, Mark befriends Angelique's father, but she still affects to despise him as his gambling career brings him wealth. Duelling, tragedy, and romantic complications follow.

An outlaw kidnaps a dancer and her lover in order to win a bet.

Hawkes, Jones and Cassidy are on their way to the biggest poker game in history. But a few folks want to see them fold before they even get there.

Two mortal enemies must band together to defend the ranch they've both staked their claim on.

A discharged army Captain returns home to New Orleans to take revenge on the men who murdered his father.

A father-and-son team of cons gamble their firm’s assets. The son is caught investing money that doesn't belong to him and is indicted on a swindling charge. The plot gets spicy when the District Attorney handling the case is his former sweetheart's husband. This situation gives the DA an opportunity to prosecute his romantic rival.

Card cheats travel by cruise ship to the Adriatic coast to fleece a wealthy aristocrat.

A greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he falls in love with a blue-blooded lady. But first he must mend his ways and then dump his nightclub singer girl friend. She's not so easy to get rid of, neither is his past.

Lui is the tyrant of gamblers in Macau. He puts forward a masked Saint Of Gamblers to cover for him in the casino. Meanwhile, Uncle Sam has lost his livelihood since the real Saint Of Gamblers retired. So he sets out in search of the new Saint. He discovers God Bless You, who possesses extraordinary powers and takes him under his wing. God meets Ho, the Goddess Of Gamblers from Thailand, and learns that she has planned to kill Yuen and her younger brother, Lung. Lui, knowing that God is in love with Yuen, abducts her so that God will be too depressed to perform well in the competition. But then something unexpected turns up...

Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him.

The professional gambler of the old-fashioned sort is a fast disappearing type in the west, but Kenyon was one of the best of the old school.