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  • 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

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