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* A few characters suffer from this in ''VideoGame/OctopathTraveler''
** Russell, a professor in Atlasdam and the boss of Cyrus' Chapter 1, steals and sells ancient tomes to pay his gambling debts.
** H'aanit's master Zaanta, while a renowned hunter, has a bad habit of gambling an ending up in debt.
** In a sidequest, Kevin, a prisoner on death row, remarks that gambling ruined his life and led him to drive away the one woman who cared about him. His LastRequest before his sentence is carried out is to find out what became of that woman.
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* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': The motivation of the theft of some loose diamonds from a jeweler in "[[Recap/CSIS13E13InVinoVeritas In Vino Veritas]]" is for a pair of brothers to pay off $50,000 in gambling debts they owe to some Egyptian mobsters.

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* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': The motivation of the theft of some loose diamonds from a jeweler in "[[Recap/CSIS13E13InVinoVeritas In Vino Veritas]]" is for a pair of brothers to pay off $50,000 in gambling debts they owe to some Egyptian mobsters.mobsters in NYC. The case concludes there in "[[Recap/CSINYS09E15 Seth and Apep]]."
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** A later episode has Krusty's gambling debts to the Mob get so bad that he's forced to open a clown college and (when he blows all the money from that [[TooDumbToLive betting against the Harlem Globetrotters playing the Washington Generals]][[note]]the joke being that the Generals ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Generals always]]'' deliberately lose[[/note]]) fleeing to Europe. [[spoiler:His debts turn out to amount to $48. The mob even gives him change for a $50.]]

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** A later episode has Krusty's gambling debts to the Mob get so bad that he's forced to open a clown college and (when he blows all the money from that [[TooDumbToLive betting against the Harlem Globetrotters playing the Washington Generals]][[note]]the joke being that the Generals ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Generals always]]'' deliberately lose[[/note]]) fleeing to Europe. [[spoiler:His debts turn out to amount to $48.[[ComicallySmallDemand $48]]. The mob even gives him change for a $50.]]

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