1.   Heavy stakes poker games.

2.   In Austria, where ski racing is the coin of the realm, the downhill is the big stakes game.

3.   In the sexual stakes game, I was lost and wandering.

4.   President Bill Clinton has outlasted the Republican-led Congress in a high stakes game of budget chicken.

5.   Their military forces regularly confront each other in a high stakes game of brinkmanship that could plunge the eastern Mediterranean and Balkans in a new post-Cold war confrontation.

6.   There was little or no segregation between the English and Argentine fans behind one goal, raising security concerns for the high stakes game.