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129 examples of Poker in a sentence

After all, nothing we know about Lucy suggests an affinity for art, but statistics and probability are useful in poker.
But even though it’s far easier to imagine her playing poker than making art based on the background information, the second statement is only true if she does both of these things.
But it will necessarily be bigger than the subset who are portrait artists and play poker.
The additional detail about her playing poker gives us a narrative that resonates with our intuitions— it makes it seem more plausible.
I rented this movie hoping that it would provide some good entertainment and some cool poker knowledge or stories.
NO Do I want to see about everything that went on in this guy's life except poker?
As a professional poker dealer for over 25 years I found this movie very hard to watch.
The card tricks are something you never would see performed in a real poker game.
This is one movie to watch when playing poker, when you're drunk, or just vegging.
An insult to both poker and cinema, this movie manages to make the most dynamic, brilliant, and fascinating figure in poker history into an utter bore.
They couldn't even get any real poker players.
Why do I care so much about this little Sopranos summer camp trying to cash in on the poker craze?
Speaking of turkey's, here's a traditional story hoping to piggy-back on the current poker craze - without success.
Wow, i just witnessed one of the greatest poker tragedies and I'm not talking about the premature death of the great stu ungar.
Having just finished reading the book "One of a Kind" a week ago, I was thinking "This would make a great movie, especially now, when people know a little about poker and poker players".
When the club is put under pressure to install poker machines in it's premises they need to raise $8000 to keep this from happening.
The title refers not to a questionable poker hand, but to six comic players.
Machine's daily cycle from depressing walkup to depressing bar to depressing burlesque hall to depressing smoke-filled poker games and back home again, you get a weird sense that somebody, somewhere is trying to give a faithful depiction of the junkie's life circa-1955.
Pulled in the direction of increasingly slighter spaces, the film shuts itself off, as the local gangster's long-drawn-out poker game shuts itself from the daylight, bolts itself in, as Sinatra's Frankie Machine has himself locked in a room in the celebrated scene of his harrowing struggle to overcome his habit.
He had been arrested originally not for any drug-related charge, but because he was caught dealing in an illegal poker game.
His skill at poker has earned him the nickname of The Man with the Golden Arm, and the men who run the game, one of them being his former heroin connection, want him to deal again.
Whoever plays the part of J. Douglas Williamson in the strip poker scene does a wonderful job.
If I had to name the best thing he ever did, though, it would be his performance as Frankie Machine, the heroin- addicted musician and poker dealer who is saved, just barely, by the love of a good woman (played by an exceptionally babelicious Kim Novak).
Rupert and Julie are great together with Rupert being almost poker faced against Julie's animation, which worked well.
alex (hutz) plays his guide part perfectly and provides a great counterpoint to elijah woods' poker faced earnestness.
When the club hits financial trouble, he is forced to bowl competitively in an attempt to raise the funds to save the club from becoming a poker machine haven.
The little target is a mute child named Derek(William Thorne)whose stepdad was murdered by a red ball with extending arms that ensnare his face, causing him to land on a fireplace poker.
Beaudray Demerille(a weak Peter Fonda, who also directed), an aging gambler, wins young teen Wanda "Nevada"(pretty, but not talented Brooke Shields) in a poker game.
The perfect murder is foiled when a wife(played by Mary Ellen Trainor, once the wife to director Robert Zemeckis, who helmed this episode), who murders her husband with a poker, has the misfortune of receiving a visitor as she is about to move the body outside..an escaped insane madman dressed in a Santa Claus suit(played by a deviously hideous Larry Drake).
If you know anything about poker, you will find it absolutely appalling but also entertaining because it is so clueless.
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