Title: The stakes are high
Description: A mainstream anthology of stories on gambling themes, edited by Brent K. Ashabranner and published by Pennant Books in 1954.  There was no hardcover edition.

Contents:

"Blood Money" - David Karp
"Taste"              -                               Roald Dahl
"Everything is Wild"  -                       James Thurber
"The Most Dangerous Game" -          Richard Connell
"The Wager"                            -        Anton Chekhov  (trans. A. E. Chamot)
"Two Days Wasted in Kansas City" - William Saroyan
"Swindler's Luck"                             -Ben Hecht
"Katz"                                             - Nelson Algren
"A Piece of Pie"                               -Damon Runyon
"Elementals"                                   - Stephen Vincent Benét
"The Rocking-Horse Winner"          - D. H. Lawrence
"The Resourceful Miss Railey"         -Irvin S. Cobb
"A Watcher by the Dead"               - Ambrose Bierce
"A Fowl Disaster"                          -  John Taintor Foote
"Gambler's Luck"                            - Albert Richard Wetjen
Subjects: Gamblers in fiction, Short stories, Gamblers, Fiction