Ultra Cool Billard

Ultra cool billard by the British fashion photographer Miles Aldridge.

Legendary: The Sting

Poster of "The Sting" (1973), probably one of the best known gambling movies with Paul Newman and Robert Redford.

Poker with Satan

Cover of a German Pulp. If people are playing poker Death or even Satan aren’t far.

Modernist Gambling Cover

A modernist cover of the 1920s for the novel "The Gambler" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Game of Light and Shadow

"The Dice Players" by the French Baroque painter Georges de La Tour who was here much more interested in the play of light and shadow than the dices.

Hitler and Stalin

Hitler and Stalin are gambling with lifes of their people. It should be noticed that real political leaders would have played chess.

Jeanne Moreau Gambling

Jeanne Moreau in the 1963 film "La Baie des Anges" (Bay of Angels in English).

Donald Bond

Cover of a German Donald Duck edition. At least it looks like if Donald is playing James Bond, maybe an interpretation of casino royal.

Deadly Checkmate

Great cartoon (sorry I haven’t any idea by whom). Death is playing chess, and it’s already sure how it will end.

Gambling Prostitute

A baroque painting showing an officer playing Backgammon with a prostitute. Maybe it was a popular game in brothels because there quite a few of these paintings.