was and is regarded as a form of robbery, and hence outside the jurisdiction of the court; at times, money lost has been held recoverable. The fallacy in such thinking is that the man who gambles does so voluntarily. If we agree that gambling is robbery, then we must say that the man who gambles, loses, and refuses to pay his debt is simply a failed thief. Short of demonstrable fraud in the gambling, all parties involved must be held to be on a common level, good or bad. To penalize only the winner