Profile: The Gambling King is a non-Japanese man who cons people for a living to get their money and property out of them. His preferred targets are most especially children, who he preys on to steal money from.

10 years before Ranma's arrival at the Tendo dojo, the Gambling King targeted Ukyou Kuonji, a little child at the time. After easily beating Ukyou at poker, the Gambling King was challenged by 6-year old Ranma, who had stepped in at Ukyou's request to win back what she had lost. However, the Gambling King beat Ranma too, and ended up getting an IOU from little Ranma signing over the Tendo dojo to him. Unfortunately for Ranma and Ukyou, the Gambling King was cheating, and Ranma and Ukyou beat him up for doing so. This, however,did not change the fact that Ranma had signed over an IOU to him, which he kept.

In the present, the Gambling King showed up an claimed the Tendo dojo per the IOU that Ranma gave him. Soun, angry that Ranma had been so careless, kicked him out of the dojo, and Ranma ended up having to stay at Ukyou's place temporarily.

The Gambling King immediately set up the dojo as a casino, all the while (cheating) to win against Nabiki and Soun, who were attempting to win back the dojo from him. Even as Ranma began his training to become a better poker player, however, the Tendos and Saotomes ended up staying at Ukyou's mostly because Soun had lost everything to the Gambling King.

Eventually, Ranma's weakness was pinpointed (he had a horrible poker  face), and, swathed in bandages, he managed to go back to the Tendo dojo and win it back from the Gambling King, even though he too, had to cheat to do it (the bandages were hiding many good cards). The Gambling King thus left, having been unable to swindle Ranma for a second time.

Personality: The Gambling King does not care to pick on players that are better than him at poker - this is why he targets children most of all. He aslo tends to resort to cheating to win his games and has no regard for fair play. Bombastic and confident, he thinks he can win any poker game against any player as long as the cards are stacked in his favor.

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