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* In ''Film/WithinOurGates'', a dealer is caught using a mirror to see the other players' hands, which precipitates a shootout.
* In ''Film/{{Rounders}}'', the character called "Worm" attempts to cheat a bunch of cops in a game, and ends up getting violently beaten for his troubles.

* Parodied (of course) in ''Film/{{Airplane}}'': During Striker's first flashback, there's a close-up of two people playing poker, with only their hands visible. Suddenly one of them pulls out a knife and they start fighting. [[CloseUpOnHead The camera pulls back]] to reveal that the players are [[GirlScoutsAreEvil Girl Scouts]].
* In ''Film/BloodrayneIIDeliverance'', Flintlock accuses Rayne of cheating, accompanied by FlippingTheTable. He calls her out for a ShowdownAtHighNoon. At midnight. In this case, it seems that Flintlock was just a sore loser, rather than there being any cheating on Rayne's part.
* In ''Film/TheLegendOfFrenchieKing'', the Sarrazin brothers realize that the Leroi sisters are cheating at poker and denounce them, which leads directly to a BarBrawl.
* ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'': Subverted. Jack wins a game of poker fair and square, and the guy who lost seems like [[SoreLoser he's about to start a fight with Jack]] when he instead punches his friend for betting their tickets away. Hilariously, this restraint ends up [[LifeSavingMisfortune saving their lives]].
* ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'': A group of Gremlins are playing poker in the bar when one of them tries to cheat. Stripe pulls out a gun and shoots the other Gremlin dead on the spot, which causes the rest of his ilk to [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor burst into laughter]].
* Played with in ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows''. The actual fight is between Holmes and a Cossack assassin, but during the struggle they knock over the kitty at a table where Watson has just won a large sum of money. After a momentary pause, all the losing gamblers start fighting Watson and each other for the money.
* ''Film/MissileXTheNeutronBombIncident'': Alec swings one punch and instantly creates pandemonium in the Baron's casino.
* ''Film/{{Rimfire}}'': After being bluffed out of a winning hand in a game of poker by The Abilene Kid, Blazer loses his temper and punches the Kid. The two get involved in a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, which remarkably does '''not''' spill over into a BarBrawl.

* In ''Series/AuctionKings'', the fact that this trope ''can'' be TruthInTelevision is implied when Paul sells an antique gambler's chain that has a hidden pistol on the end. While the viewer never sees it, the expert is able to determine that it had been fired.

* Subverted in ''Series/TheAlmightyJohnsons'': Mike, whose divine powers make it ''impossible'' for him to lose a game of chance, has already been thrown out of the local casino, so he seeks out an underground poker game, at a dive filled with bikers and thugs and other undesirables. His brother is sure they're both about to be killed, but when violence starts to erupt, the club's bouncers intervene and throw the pair out on their asses.

* In "Me & My Uncle" by Music/TheGratefulDead, the uncle is accused of cheating in a poker game with some cowboys, one of whom starts to draw his gun, but the protagonist is quicker, manages to shoot all the cowboys, and he and his uncle escape with all the gold.
* In "Little Willie the Gambler" by Music/TownesVanZandt, Willie ends up being shot during a poker game by someone who was angry at losing all his money.
* In "Lay It Down'' by Music/SamanthaFish, the protagonist shoots a man who tries to cheat her in a card game. The official music video features her dragging a body off to the woods and digging a shallow grave.
-->''Got an ace up his sleeve and a pistol by my side\\
And if he calls first, I'm going to give it to him right.''
* In many versions of the African-American folk/blues/whatever song ''Music/StaggerLee'', the dispute between Stagger Lee and Billy Lyon begins with an argument over a dice game. The versions vary over whether Billy was actually cheating or whether Stag was just a sore loser.

* ''Theatre/PorgyAndBess''[='s=] first scene centers around a crap game that abruptly turns into a fight to the death between Crown and Robbins, the latter just having made a nine and the former having taken his bad luck with generous doses of liquor and "happy dust."

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* The LovableRogue Sam Starfall of ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' plays poker with two men in the Friday 4 August 2000 strip, and claims the pot because "I've got four kings. You've only got two." The angry faces indicate the other players are well aware there should be only four kings in the entire deck. Sam is face down in a garbage dumpster by the next strip.

* One of the ''WesternAnimation/IlEtaitUneFois'' series (likely "the Americas") has two such instances in one episode showing saloon scenes. In the first one, the cheater's opponent calls him out and draws his gun, but the cheater out-draws him, killing him while being able to claim self-defense. In the second scene, both players cheat and end-up [[MutualKill shooting each other dead]].

[[caption-width-right:350:A Smith & Wesson beats four aces!]]

* ''Un morto da vendere (Corpse for Sale)'' by Dario Fo: The main characters are {{CardSharp}}s who cheat at poker, swindling the drunkard. When the customer arrives, he quickly deduces that it's a card-in-sleeves variant, requests a new version of the game called "Merceilles Poker" where he springs up two different rules in two deals, before pulling out three pistols. Eventually, Marco and Father grab the pistols, enter a standoff. The drunkard arrives pulls out a pipe, and the first shot is fired. [[spoiler:It's revealed that the former customer is Pietro Gambone also known as Magnaccio with a 1,000 gold sovereigns reward.]] The team argues about how to handle the corpse, eventually making the decision. [[spoiler:Also, the customer's death was also a ruse involving the daughter Mario and the shoemaker's son, and the real Magnaccio was the drunkard who's [[SwordCane pipe is a weapon]].]]

* In the ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' episode "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS1E11TheMagnificentEight The Magnificent Eight]]", when the team is visiting the Old West, an outlaw accuses Snart of cheating at cards, and tries to shoot him, only for Snart to shoot him first. The result is a big BarBrawl.

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-->Got an ace up his sleeve and a pistol by my side
-->And if he calls first, I'm going to give it to him right.

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* In the second chapter of ''VideoGame/{{Killer7}}'', a group of diplomats are playing mah-jongg. One is accused of cheating, and all of them end up shooting each other dead.

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* Parodied (of course) in ''Film/{{Airplane}}'': During Striker's first flashback, there's a close-up of two people playing poker, with only their hands visible. Suddenly one of them pulls out a knife and they start fighting. [[CloseUpOnHead The camera pulls back]] to reveal that the players are Girl Scouts.

Will often involve the ProfessionalGambler and/or the CardSharp. Often started by TheGamblingAddict on a losing streak. Will sometimes be foreshadowed by revealing the DeadMansHand, which is, according to legend, the hand held by Wild Bill Hickok when he was killed in just such a scenario. Despite that possibly-real example, though, this is far rarer in real life than Hollywood suggests.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'': When Tulio and Miguel were caught cheating with loaded dice, the two knew that they were in for a brawl so they started accusing each other, and began a fight with each other, using the guards' swords. They used this fight to get away from the guards and the angry gamblers.

Will often involve the ProfessionalGambler and/or the CardSharp. Will sometimes be foreshadowed by revealing the DeadMansHand, which is, according to legend, the hand held by Wild Bill Hickok when he was killed in just such a scenario. Despite that possibly-real example, though, this is far rarer in real life than Hollywood suggests.

* On ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' episode "Paw and Order", a bar fight breaks out over a game of Go Fish.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back", Bender plays poker with Fry, Leela and her former co-workers. He cheats using x-ray specs and, when he's exposed, is chased into Hermes' newly-cleaned office and beaten up.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'': When Tulio and Miguel were caught cheating for loaded dice, the two knew that they were in it for a brawl so they "dueled" themselves with accusations to each other and with the guard's swords. They used this duel to get away from the guards and the angry gamblers.

* The LovableRogue Sam Starfall of ''Webcomics/{{Freefall}}'' plays poker with two men in the Friday 4 August 2000 strip, and claims the pot because "I've got four kings. You've only got two." The angry faces indicate the other players are well aware there should be only four kings in the entire deck. Sam is face down in a garbage dumpster by the next strip.

-->'''Got an ace up his sleeve and a pistol by my side'''
-->'''And if he calls first, I'm going to give it to him right.'''

* In the ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' episode "The Magnificent Eight", when the team is visiting the Old West, an outlaw accuses Snart of cheating at cards, and tries to shoot him, only for Snart to shoot him first. The result is a big BarBrawl.

* In ''Film/{{Rounders}}, the character called "Worm" attempts to cheat a bunch of cops in a game, and ends up getting violently beaten for his troubles.