Last week I binge-watched the Netflix series Jessica Jones set in the Marvel comic-book universe. The title character is a private investigator in Hell's Kitchen who just happens to have phenomenal strength (and a really bad temperament).
The villain throughout the first season's story arc is a man known only as Kilgrave. His superpower is his ability to control completely other people's actions just by telling them what to do.
In Episode 6, we learn at least one of the ways that Kilgrave gets money to fund his evil plots — poker.