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* In ''Literature/{{Mahabharata}}'', Dhuryodana wins Yudhistra's kingdom and freedom in a gambling game.

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* In the ''Series/SamAndCat'' episode Killer Tuna Jump, Dice wins 12,00 Ibs of Killer Tuna fish that he has no use for.

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* ''Series/FraggleRock'': In the episode "Wembley and the Great Race," Gobo and Wembley are competing against each other in the Rockbeetle Race, where the participants roll mossballs (giant balls of moss) with their noses, jump up, and shout, "Rockbeetle!" all the way to the finish line. Rumple proposes a bet with Boober: Boober will owe one radish if Gobo wins, and Rumple will owe five radishes if anyone else does. Although Mokey tries to discourage gambling, Boober starts cheering for "anybody but Gobo!"

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* ''Literature/WagonsWest'': In ''Oregon Legacy'', Tim Holt wakes up after playing poker while drunk only to find out he won a failing newspaper operation while losing his silver mine.

Compare to LostHimInACardGame, when the object won is a sentient being and/or their soul, or a {{Zonk}}, which is a gag prize on a game show which is typically very unusual. See also AbsurdlyHighStakesGame.

* ''ComicStrip/DeRechter'': in one story arc, the judge and his wife go to a casino and win the jackpot at a slot machine, but after heading home they get robbed. The thief not only takes their money but also the Judge's toga. The thief is eventually caught in the same casino, where he has already gambled away the stolen money again. But he had more luck when betting the toga, as he somehow won six new togas, which the Judge can have now.

* ''ComicBook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': In Season 10 it is shown that demons still play poker for kittens like the did in the TV show but it's now considered "not good for the public image" so they try and keep it on the down low. When Spike discovered this, his relatively newly returned soul can't ignore the kittens adorably meowing at him and he winds up rescuing a pot of kittens and bringing them back to the apartment he shares with Xander.

* ''ComicBook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': In Season 10 it is show that demons still play poker for kittens like the did in the TV show but it's now considered "not good for the public image" so they try and keep it on the down low. When Spike discovered this, his relatively newly returned soul can't ignore the kittens adorably meowing at him and he winds up rescuing a pot of kittens and bringing them back to the apartment he shares with Xander.

* ''ComicBook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': In Season 10 it is show that demons still play poker for kittens like the did in the TV show but it's now considered "not good for the public image" so they try and keep it on the down low. When Spike discovered this, his relatively newly returned soul can't ignore the kittens adorably meowing at him and he winds up rescuing a pot of kittens and bringing them back to his shared apartment with Xander.

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* ''ComicBook/BuffyTheVampire'': In Season 10 it is show that demons still play poker for kittens like the did in the TV show but it's now considered "not good for the public image" so they try and keep it on the down low. When Spike discovered this, his relatively newly returned soul can't ignore the kittens adorably meowing at him and he winds up rescuing a pot of kittens and bringing them back to his shared apartment with Xander.

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* In ''Literature/Mahabharata'' Yudhistra gambles away his kingdom and freedom.

* In ''Series/Mahabharata'' Yudhistra gambles away his kingdom.

* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheSpiralCity'': Early in the adventure, Doraemon partakes in a futuristic lottery where the prizes are ''planets''. Nobita sounds delighted, until Doraemon reveals most of the prizes are random scrap planets from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, which are too small, polluted, fragile, or otherwise uninhabitable.

* ''ComicStrip/DeRechter'': in one story arc, the judge and his wife go to a casino and win the jackpot at a slot machine, but after heading home they get robbed. The thief not just takes their money, but also the Judge's toga. The thief is eventually caught in the same casino, where he has already gambled away the stolen money again. But he had more luck when betting the toga, as he somehow won six new toga's, which the Judge can have now.

* ''Literature/{{Ivory}}'' by Creator/MikeResnick: During an insanely high-stakes poker game, a malicious cyborg woman called the Iron Duchess manipulates casino owner/operator Tembo Laibon into betting his greatest treasure: the gigantic ivory tusks of the Kilimanjaro Elephant. For her the tusks are just a way to defeat Tembo Laibon, but to him, they are a sacred artifact, and their loss means the end of his life.
* ''Literature/LegendOfZagor'': The player comes across one of Castle Argent's long-abandoned armory where two goblins are gambling, with ''toenails'' as betting chips. Turns out the goblins are so filthy, overgrown nails are a sort of delicacy for them.

* ''Literature/WagonsWest'': In ''Oregon Legacy'', Tim Holt wakes up after playing poker while drunk only to find out he won a failing newspaper operation, while losing his silver mine.

* ''Series/KnightRider'': Michael deliberately lost [[CoolCar KITT]] in a game with the episode's bad guy, as part of a plan to take him down. Unfortunately he didn't bother to ''explain it to KITT'' beforehand.
* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS17E1 The Dagger Club]]", TheGamblingAddict is playing poker in an attempt to win his way out of debts. After going all in, the woman who holds his gambling debts goads him into betting more: his share of the book store he co-owns, and the missing manuscript that is the MacGuffin of the episode. He accepts and loses. When it turns out he never had the manuscript, the woman claims his wife's share of the book store as well, as recompense.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'': ''[[AllThereInTheManual Eorzea Encyclopedia III]]'' reveals that Merhyde challenged the former proprietor of what is now known as Merhyde's Meyhane to drinking contest and won, earning herself the deed to the tavern that now bears her name.

* ''[[Webcomic/{{SSDD}} S.S.D.D.]]'': Tessa apparently won a sex robot named [=ST1X=] or "Sticks" in a card game, she removed the blocks preventing him from becoming fully sapient so he'd be more interesting for resale, but wound up dating him instead.

* According to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilber_Hardee the man himself]], Wilber Hardee; the founder of the Hardee's fast-food chain, reportedly lost control of the chain to the partnership of Leonard Rawls and Jim Gardner[[note]]Gardner would eventually become the chain's vice-president but left to pursue a political career, serving one term as a Republican Congressman from 1967-69 and later becoming Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina from 1989-93 while also making three unsuccessful runs for Governor of North Carolina in 1968, 1972 and 1992[[/note]] in a poker game, and upon realizing he lost control sold the remaining Hardee's shares to the Rawls-Gardner partnership.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'': ''[[AllThereInTheManual Eorzea Encyclopedia III]]'' reveals that Merhyde challenged the former proprietor of what is now known as Merhyde's Meyhane to drinking contest and won, e

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "The Dagger Club", TheGamblingAddict is playing poker in an attempt to win his way out of debts. After going all in, the woman who holds his gambling debts goads him into betting more: his share of the book store he co-owns, and the missing manuscript that is the MacGuffin of the episode. He accepts and loses. When it turns out he never had the manuscript, the woman claims his wife's share of the book store as well, as recompense.

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* ''[[Webcomic/{{SSDD}} S.S.D.D.]]'': Tessa apparently won a sex robot named ST1X or "Sticks" in a card game, she removed the blocks preventing him from becoming fully sapient so he'd be more interesting for resale, but wound up dating him instead.

* ''[[Webcomic/{{SSDD}} S.S.D.D.]]'': Tessa apparently won a sex robot in a card game, which she then modified to make into her robot boyfriend Sticks, which would also make him more interesting for resale.