gambling hell

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gambling hell - a public building in which a variety of games of chance can be played (operated as a business)

gambling den, gambling house, gaming house

business enterprise, commercial enterprise, business - the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects; "computers are now widely used in business"

building, edifice - a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice"

casino, gambling casino - a public building for gambling and entertainment

business establishment, place of business - an establishment (a factory or an assembly plant or retail store or warehouse etc.) where business is conducted, goods are made or stored or processed or where services are rendered

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"Or a gambling hell," said his brother reflectively.

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But there was also about him an indescribable air which no mechanic could have acquired in the practice of his handicraft however dishonestly exercised: the air common to men who live on the vices, the follies, or the baser fears of mankind; the air of moral nihilism common to keepers of gambling hells and disorderly houses; to private detectives and inquiry agents; to drink sellers and, I should say, to the sellers of invigorating electric belts and to the inventors of patent medicines.

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He had evidently lived in varied cities and very motley societies, for some of his cheerfullest stories were about gambling hells and opium dens, Australian bushrangers or Italian brigands.

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DESPERATE Twaddle says footballer thought about jumping off the Forth Road Bridge after gambling hell

GAMBLING WITH LIVES; EX-PLAYER'S BETTING FEARS FOR FOOTBALL; A lot of players are struggling with major gambling problems. I was talking to a boy who was totally and utterly broken and had thought about jumping off the Forth Road Bridge. He'd actually driven there to do it Kevin Twaddle

Willie, who spent two decades on the professional snooker circuit, says his gambling hell can be traced to the moment he retired 15 years ago.

My wife burst into the hotel room... I had a knife... She saved my life; SNOOKER LEGEND WILLIE THORNE ON WHY HE'LL GO BANKRUPT THIS WEEK; STAR HIT ROCK BOTTOM WITH PS1MILLION GAMBLING DEBTS

Keith Gillespie's book is an honest and graphic account of his descent into a gambling hell and how he lost the best part of PS10million.

An honest footie book is a rarity; Autobiographies only work when a player opens up

A gambling hell next door to the local pork butcher?

End of era for gambling world

Now the lotto is looking more like a tawdry money spinning machine straight out of a Las Vegas gambling hell.

Lotto cash must go to the needy

The gambling hell of SPL star Kevin Twaddle has caused other footballers to seek help.