Gambling
Gambling noun - The act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize).
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Pot and gambling are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pot" instead a noun "Gambling".
Pot
Pot noun - The total of the bets at stake at one time.
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He ran away once to try to escape gambling debts, has dealt with his problems with food and pot.
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Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels is the intersection of four lowlifes trying to pay off a gambling debt, a group of thugs stealing from a black gang's pot growing operation, and a crimelord ordering the theft of some valuable muskets.
Source: Colliding Criminal Conspiracies - A Big Hand For The Little Lady: In a high-stakes poker game, everyone gets monster cards on the same hand and raise the stakes to a huge pot, threatening to push sad-sack gambling addict Henry Fonda out of the game in spite of the fact that he think he's got an unbeatable hand.
Source: The Magic Poker Equation
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