poker-player

Do you know, he skins his words as a professional poker-player skins the cards that are dealt out to him.

Chapter 27 2010

As he drank in the air, the scene, and the distant song of larks, he felt like a poker-player rising from a night-long table and coming forth from the pent atmosphere to taste the freshness of the morn.

Chapter VIII 2010

This is a deep misunderstanding: as any chess or poker-player knows, you need to understand your opponent.

Carlo Strenger: Lessons from 9/11: Cool-Headedness More Effective than Rage in Fighting Terrorism Carlo Strenger 2011

Since the midterm election, Obama has displayed his worst characteristics as a poker-player and negotiator, telegraphing his bottom line to the opposition and folding his hand long before the final cards are dealt.

Miles Mogulescu: You Gotta Know When to Hold 'Em and Know When to Fold 'Em -- Obama Doesn't Miles Mogulescu 2010

I had my own poker-player aspirations at the time, but after spending just a few nights watching Peter close up, I saw the truth: I was a writer who liked to play poker.

TAKE ME TO THE RIVER Peter Alson 2006

I had my own poker-player aspirations at the time, but after spending just a few nights watching Peter close up, I saw the truth: I was a writer who liked to play poker.

TAKE ME TO THE RIVER Peter Alson 2006

If a poker-player got dealt this kind of hand of cards, he'd shoot himself.

San Andreas MacLean, Alistair 1984

If I may continue to mix my metaphors, the American is psychologically a poker-player, who prefers to match bids and bluffs with an opponent, with the winner sweeping in the whole. pot and ending the game.

Power and Responsibility 1952

It is not easy for a sprinter to learn how to run a marathon, or for a poker-player to switch to chess.

Power and Responsibility 1952

He had dropped back quietly from the crowd that ringed her in, and become a looker-on, sometimes barely that, for he was a great poker-player, and spent much time in the smoke-room with one or two hard-looking citizens who were plainly not drawing-room ornaments.

Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa Cynthia Stockley