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Someone has added the gambler may have not died in the song and he may have "just been sleeping". This would hardly be "breaking even" (a phrase the song uses) after he states "the best you can hope for is to die in your sleep". This is a symbolic song throughout, why would they change the pace at
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I'm not mentioning Bobby Bare, nor Johhny Cash as their mentions are a few of the things The
Gambler wiki has done correctly. I can go on for pages, but.. This is someone elses job to decide what should be done with this Wiki, personally I would like to see it done correctly as it is, a separate
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This song cold be about almost any variant of poker. At the time the song was written, Texas Hold 'Em was nowhere near as popular as it is now, so it is much more likely that an aged gambler being sung about in 1978 would be talking about a more traditional type of poker, like draw or stud.
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The "Chart (1978–1979)" table shows the UK chart peak as 22. But that peak was in 2007; the song didn't chart at all in 1978-1979. I'm not sure how to fix this - I don't want to simply remove all mention of the UK chart peak, but clearly it shouldn't be shown as if it occurred in the 1970s.
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Gambler as a single in early 1978 on Capitol Records. (see how could you fail to know the year it was released by the writer himself and still write a Wiki entitled "The Gambler"???)
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