| 单词 | poker |
| 例句 | Dr. Adam Thomson’s Discourse for the Preparation of the Body, &c. cauterization with poker or rupture with lancet could stem. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He seized a poker and brandished it, slashing at the air and dancing back and forth over the hard-packed earthen floor. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Since that time he has withdrawn, no longer joins his men for the poker games he once loved, for which he was famous. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And things just continued along from day to day in their usual way Wed played poker a couple more times, always on Sunday nights, because that’s when the guys got back from their weekends. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Sometimes he called home to tell our mother not to wait up for him because he’d be playing poker with his buddies. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Lyddie recoiled as though someone had offered her the hot end of a poker. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z I had the impression he didn’t know how to play poker. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It made him think of torture racks and red-hot pokers. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z My fists clenched, though I knew this poker party couldn’t be real. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The dress sword clanked against the poker and the shovel as Matt came to the aid of his brother. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z As for me, I keep a poker face and don’t look at my dad as I pass. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “It’s because you have such a good poker face,” I said. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Her footsteps ignited with flame as she ran through the blackened flowers, like stabbing a poker into a slumbering fire. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z She fanned the bills like a poker hand—four tens. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z How he and I used to play poker and watch Wheel of Fortune and eat macaroni and cheese for breakfast. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I’ve never been a poker player, but now I bluff with the best of them. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z A year later, Odessa made national news again when someone made the fateful mistake of accusing an escaped convict from Alabama named Leamon Ray Price of cheating in a high-stakes poker game. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Gabe and three of his big goony friends were playing poker at the table. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z When it was his move, he pulled the visor way down and often rested his chin on his chest, almost as if he were a poker player secreting his cards. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I’m really sorry I interrupted your incredibly important poker game. Please go back to it right now.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “After lights-out, a couple of the guys are going to sneak in here for a poker game. That’s why. We always play poker here on Sundays. Twenty-dollar buy-in. Do you know how to play poker?” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “Whatever family opinions, or whatever the world’s opinions, on that subject may be, Pip, your sister is,” Joe tapped the top bar with the poker after every word following, “a-fine-figure—of—a—woman!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Behind me I could hear Dusty’s goon cussing and kicking at the spilled poker chips. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The Coral Queen was one of those gambling boats where passengers line up to play blackjack and electronic poker, and to stuff their faces at the all-yoU'Can-eat buffet. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z She puts on her poker face; I don’t have any extra faces to put on, just the normal Craig face. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z “You know it was the stove,” the mother said as she reached for the poker to push the wood back from the door. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry reacted instinctively: As Kreacher lunged for the poker standing in the grate, he launched himself upon the elf, flattening him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z She would sit and knit while we had our very proper lesson, no more poker or jokes, and afterward, she and the Captain would chat across my head. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The dwarf stirred the coals with a poker. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Won it in a dice game. Or maybe it was poker.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z It might not have been a regulation game, but it definitely had as many emotional ups-and-downs as the poker on TV. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z He thought it was a poker bluff in a high-stakes game for control of the virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d lost all of his poker chips long ago, but since it was his house, Robert and Dub let him continue playing. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “So he can beat himself up with the poker?” snorted Harry, kneeling beside the elf. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Nobody said a thing while the giant was working, but as he slid the first six fat, juicy, slightly burnt sausages from the poker, Dudley fidgeted a little. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z A spec four asked me if I wanted to play poker. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a keen mind, and a consummate poker face. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Some nights when Shorty was playing, I would take whatever Sophia had been able to get for me, and I’d try to ran it up into something, playing stud poker at John Hughes’ gambling house. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z We chased the scotch with Tusker beers and played a round of poker. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They come armed with shovels and fireplace pokers and baseball bats. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I held the remainder of the poker bank out in my hand. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She, in turn, fought back in a purely feminine way—with frying pans and pokers, and occasionally a flatiron would sail toward his head. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Captain Beatty, his poker cards in one pink hand, walked with exaggerated slowness to the phone and ripped out the address when the report was finished. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z He kept moving them from hand to hand as if they were a poker hand he could not figure. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z His ears started up glowing like hot pokers. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z The impact makes the wound in my right shoulder burn like it got stuck with a hot poker. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It was a cruel kind of scorekeeping, stacking up human lives like chips in a poker game. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Maybe she would beat him at poker, smoke cigarettes with him late into the night once they found a way to be together instead of several states apart. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z If you lose at strip poker, you forfeit your undies. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z So we rolled poker dice out of a deep leather dice-cup. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z What Cohen and Nisbett were seeing in that long hall was the culture of honor in action: the southerners were reacting like Wix Howard did when Little Bob Turner accused him of cheating at poker. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z She was looking at a little warm blotch of sunshine, about the size of a poker chip, on the tablecloth. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z “Oh!” said I, poker in hand; “it’s you, is it? How do you do? I was wondering who it was, who kept the fire off.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z It felt, I promise you, as though someone had laid a red-hot poker against my flesh and was pressing down on it hard. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z On Hula Lane, a family was dressing for Mass. At the officers’ club at Wheeler Field, men were leaving a poker game. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Me and Erlan were playing poker on the bench while the other kids ran around screaming. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Then he decided he was going to teach me poker, which I sort of liked. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z He’d never played poker before, only backgammon, and for the first half hour he lost again and again. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “I like poker myself—of course, it’s rather a vulgar game, and no fun at all with two—but still, there’s a certain random element in it which appeals to me.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z We are too little acquainted with one another to do more than joke a bit and play poker or nap in the evenings. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He also played exactly four hands of poker with Hurley every afternoon. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Then I reached out the window and dropped the poker chips. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Of course, all the consequences had to be performed in the middle of the night since just playing the poker game after lights-out would get the guys into a lot of trouble. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z We hear her inside starting the fire, rattling the poker in the range, then yelling at us, Are ye goin’ to stand in there all day? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I stared at the flat poker faces of the kings and jacks and queens and listened to the nurse talking about her hard life. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z She was interviewing him in our apartment, in the middle of a poker game, and there was a young blond lady sitting next to him, patting his hand. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “Your sister said he was a good poker player. I guess he travels to all the Indian casinos in the country.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Big blackjack and poker games went on in there around the clock. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She had a brooch on her lapel that looked like a spread of poker chips, with WINNER’S in shiny gold across the arch, but it was pinned crooked. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z I broke out crying and begging pardon, and hugged Joe round the neck: who dropped the poker to hug me, and to say, “Ever the best of friends; an’t us, Pip? Don’t cry, old chap!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z "He won more often than the others. I think that's how he sent me here. A couple decades of winning at small-stakes poker." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “Oh, well, that’s better than a whack on the nose with a rusty poker,” said Mrs. Cole with a slight hiccup. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Grandpa prodded the logs in the fireplace with a poker. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Some nights she played pinochle for money or ran a poker game at Mother Smith’s or stopped at Slim’s for a few drinks. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It could only be the employment of carriage whips, tongs, iron pokers, handsaws, stones, paperweights, or whatever might be handy to break the black body, the black family, the black community, the black nation. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “Shady won it in last night’s poker game. Want to take it for a spin?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z He never had a very good poker face. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “Remind me never to play poker with you.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z She could hardly move in the kitchen, large as it was, without tripping over the gangly legs of a man or having one of them bar her path to the fireplace with a poker. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z I wondered if he’d ever tried those little hands of his at poker. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to slice that package open, plop it on the poker table, and take out what was inside. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “He ain’t gone get far,” I say, and I keep my grip on that poker. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Shadrach took a poker and stirred it thoughtfully among the red coals. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The same person who would dash out a five-year-old's eye with a poker. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z In his heart there was a savage violence, and once he grasped the poker from the hearth and struck down his wife. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z When Dad gambled, he preferred poker and pool—games of skill, not chance. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z And anyway, I considered myself to be a pretty good poker player, so I wasn’t too concerned about the consequence. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “Paul,” he said, “you take it easy now, and tomorrow I’ll teach you to play poker.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He tried to show us how to be steely-eyed poker players, but I wasn’t very good. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe if you hurry with that seven-layer dip . . . And maybe if the kid apologizes for interrupting my poker game.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z They were watching poker on a huge, flat-screen TV hanging on the wall. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z “Almost the entire ship’s crew was gathered together below,” Haukelid said, “playing poker rather noisily.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z When they were gone, Arya took the letter and carried it to the hearth, stirring the logs with a poker to wake the flames anew. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z After dinner, the children drifted off to their rooms with their poker faces congealed and their imposed vow of silence unbroken. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It traced a line of fire all the way across Tyrion's face, and twisted a burning poker up his nose. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Ben rolled over toward the fireplace and armed himself with a poker. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z How queer he looked with his long poker face, and his drooping mandarin moustache. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He taught us how to play poker, which I had to be persuaded to do, but once I began it made me feel deliciously wicked. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you get it, Miss Truman? Four aces...the best get-well cards you can get—” “Yes, Mr. Pignati—’’ “You know, in poker?” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z I wanted him to get mad—to argue, to insist I was wrong—but instead he sat poker faced, drumming the arm of his chair with his pen. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z He arrived back in the city in the middle of the afternoon, but went directly to his club, where he played a few hands of poker and dined, without successfully quelling his anxiety and impatience. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Fact, he”—I struggle to catch the poker—“he might be dead.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I was still thinking about poker and how much I missed Grandma. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides his trips to the grocery store and his clockwork poker games, Gramps's comings and goings were mysteries to me. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “Well, Shady, it’s just that you don’t have the best poker face and we were afraid you might give it away before Burton could bid on the spring.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “One helluva good poker hand,” he said, “and an even better bluff.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I stared at the overflowing ashtray, the three-quarters-empty bottle of Famous Grouse, the game of poker solitaire laid out upon the table. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z One night Wix Howard and “Little Bob” Turner—the grandsons of Samuel and William, respectively—played against each other in a game of poker. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z She raised the poker over her head, and I knew from the mad look in her eye that she would hit Captain Betts if she had to. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I thumped on the first step with the fireplace poker. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Didn’t see her until it was too late. I live in 115. When I came back after the poker game, I found the door open and the lights on. I found her.” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z The mother grabbed a poker from the fireplace. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z It’s like everyone in New York is afraid they’re going to be caught cheating at poker. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The guy on the left threw in two poker chips, then said: You shall be betrayed by one who calls you a friend. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z It was three days ago that Harvey had won two hundred francs from me shaking poker dice in the New York Bar. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Archie was careful to keep his poker face, intent on not betraying an emotion. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Standing straight as a poker, she seemed to need her hickory stick not for support but for communication. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z We played poker for toothpicks, as though they were gold pieces. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Making the best of things, he took apart a walking stick made of whalebone discs threaded on a metal rod, and used those as poker chips. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Matt, who was banking the fire for the night, laid down the poker to enjoy the sight. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z The huge window framed a wild garden of foxgloves and red-hot pokers. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I could brain her with a poker, thrust her face into the flames. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I finally catch it and she lets go and the poker flies into the yard. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Just beyond it is a large pile of poker chips. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z "See, see! This man was no bobo! He didn't put all his pokers on a back burner. I kept telling you, one of these days my ship would pass me by in the night!" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z A group of men sit in a circle on the floor and immediately start a game of poker. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Joe’s blue eyes turned a little watery; he rubbed first one of them, and then the other, in a most uncongenial and uncomfortable manner, with the round knob on the top of the poker. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z His favorite was a type of poker where the players held a single card to their own foreheads so that everyone could see what you had but you. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “I have a good poker face, unlike someone else I know,” I say, and nudge him with my shoulder. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z My mother says I would never make a good poker player, whatever that means. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z When I come back around to the little concrete house beside the lake, I pause in the doorway and see Gale propping the crooked poker he salvaged against the wall by the hearth. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Two, three years ago, there was another girl here, slave like you. She talked back. Madam called her surly and took to beating her regular-like. One day she beat her with a fireplace poker.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z My brothers and I played with her when we were younger—freeze tag and street hockey with iron pokers and crumpled paper. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Although I was numb from the cold, the pain seared through me each time, like being branded by a poker. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z I snooped around until I found a rack of poker chips that the crew had forgotten to lock away. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Game Time and Crunch Time engaged in a particularly sweaty and determined fencing match, their improvised swords—a fireplace poker and a snow shovel handle—whizzing and clanking. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Chronicler gave a choked scream and jerked away as if he had been jabbed with a hot poker. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Because he was a very, very bad poker player, and I am a very good one.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Karen Singh was in constant motion, like a badly drawn cartoon, but she had the single greatest resting poker face I’d ever seen. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Jinx had seen Shady play enough poker hands to know that his friend had no knack for bluffing. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “We ought to rehearse tonight. Come here, Amy, and do the fainting scene, for you are as stiff as a poker in that.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z He put the poker back and got the cushion out of Mother’s chair and gave it to Ben, and he hunkered down in front of the fireplace and got quiet. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, well past midnight, after a few hours of poker between Baba and his cousins, the men lay down to sleep on parallel mattresses in the same room where we’d dined. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z As I drank, more slowly this time—bolting the first glass had made me slightly sick—I looked at Henry’s solitaire poker game. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “She best not come after me with a poker. Or hurt Ruth.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Hannah laughed and used the poker to push the logs to the back of the hearth. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I grab the poker and the broom handle from the grass. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Instead, Smelly Gabe was in the living room, playing poker with his buddies. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “Sounder’s blood would wettin the leaves,” the boy said after he had stood a long time with the poker in his hand. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Grab the fireplace poker and go down into the basement, and if any of those vermin are twitching hit them with the poker and knock them into the Promised Land,” she ordered. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I felt as though someone had stuck a hot poker through my back, into my insides. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t even steal a slice of pizza from Gabe’s poker party without getting busted. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Gabe took a break from his poker game long enough to watch me lug my mom’s bags to the car. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Let them play poker and carouse all they wanted, all Jean Louise wanted was for the old house to be taken care of. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z By the time Dusty Muleman got there, it had burned to the waterline—seventy-three feet of smoldering ash and melted poker chips. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “I had the night off. Watched basketball at a bar downtown, then went to a guy’s house to play poker. Won eighty bucks. Gave me a hell of an alibi.” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z “He asked me to play poker with some of the guys tonight after lights-out. “ Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “Interesting? Like strip poker interesting? I hope I’m wearing the right underwear for this,” Arthur says. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z A bunch of soldiers were sitting around a table playing poker, and there was real money in the center of the table. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I had a feeling she wasn’t talking about poker. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Mr. Freeman brought in the necessities and she earned extra money cutting poker games in gambling parlors. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z You used the end of the fire poker to unlock it, and it opened onto a secret stairway that led to Sefia’s basement room, just a small place for her bed and belongings. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “All right. As soon as we see that troll, we’ll kill him to death with your fire poker.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z He barricaded himself behind a bookcase while the players he was trying to kill hid under the poker table. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I could tell that when my mother agreed to host my dad’s poker game at the house, she didn’t really want to. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Smelly Gabe was probably up there right now, playing poker, not even missing her. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Clohessy sits by the fire rattling the poker in the grate and pushing the baby away from the fire. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Mrs. Weasley had appeared, holding a long poker like a sword. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z “Or my money. Were supposed to play poker tonight.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z We were playing poker for seashells, and Erlan had more shells than me, but not a lot more. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z On any given late afternoon or evening, up to a dozen serious men might be seated around this table intently playing cards—poker, blackjack, monte, hearts, even bridge occasionally, you name it. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z To the north, more bridges are superimposed like a poker player’s cards. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He liked to play poker and golf and to drink and, most of all, to chase women; in fact, his sexual appetites were the stuff of legend. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Otis paused to pull his poker from the flames and thrust it smoking through the center of the sumac spill he held. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z It's a poker game with a difference: that difference being the appearance of game characters including Claptrap from Borderlands 2, Ash from Army of Darkness and Sam from the Sam and Max games. 20 best iPhone and iPad apps this week 2013-05-24T14:21:06Z Colson Whitehead’s poker memoir, “The Noble Hustle,” is a throwaway, a bluff, a large bet on a small hand. Books of The Times: ‘The Noble Hustle,’ by Colson Whitehead 2014-05-08T20:03:16Z A novel with a poker player protagonist would actually require me to understand the game more than I’m capable of. Surviving at the Poker Tables: Colson Whitehead Talks About 'The Noble Hustle' 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Despite all the gambling lingo and strategy-talk that Whitehead throws in for poker newbies, the card game isn’t really the star of this book. ‘The Noble Hustle’: bets and bluffs in a high-stakes game 2014-05-08T22:06:01Z The poker was carried by actor Abbey Lee, the knife by body double Joanna Bennett. ‘Movie blood tastes so good’ – on The Neon Demon set with Nicolas Winding Refn 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z A redheaded playboy pal of Thabiso’s is suspiciously reminiscent of Prince Harry — “Prince Johan” was once caught on tape playing strip poker. Love Notes 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z After 25 years, he’s dropped the poker face and gone all loosey-goosey – a phrase he’s fine with, by the way. Ralph Fiennes: Loosey Goosey? ‘I like that!’ 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Entrepreneurial editor Harold Ross secured funding for the New Yorker from a backer who played in the same poker game at the hotel. Geek out over New York’s impressive array of specialty bookstores 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z A profile in People magazine said that Mr. Van Patten’s only vices were twice-weekly poker games and regular visits to the racetrack. Dick Van Patten, Father on ‘Eight Is Enough,’ Dies at 86 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z I was successful in finding a few short-lived friendships, women who invited me to play poker or to a Eurovision party, and ended up being good friends with a couple of them. 'Meeting new women became an addiction': one woman, 30 dates 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z A manager of professional gamblers, La Linda offers Tell the chance to up his game by going on the poker circuit with lucrative financial backing. ‘The Card Counter’ Review: A Gambler’s Existential Solitaire 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z In the first round, one of my opponents was Phil Ivey, who was considered at the time one of the best poker players in the world. Don Cheadle: 'Acting can be such a grind' 2011-08-11T21:00:00Z But legions of fans are still wistful for its raw depiction of a potty-mouthed, drunken Jane and her ilk in the poker dens of the feral town. South Dakota: wild beasts and Badlands make the silver screen come to life 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z Several others are considering similar laws, while lawmakers in Congress are also working on legislation to allow online poker gambling across the United States, giving casinos and TV networks a bigger market. U.S. networks bet on comeback for TV poker 2013-06-05T19:03:17Z In Killing Them softly he plays the likeable Markie, who is framed and subsequently punished for the poker heist. Brad Pitt mob movie portrays broken American dream 2012-05-22T11:33:20Z Eccles is insistent that fantasy sports and gambling are “completely different categories,” and says a recent survey showed that 70 percent of FanDuel’s players don’t partake in conventional sports betting or play poker for money. How Fake Sports Are Turning Man Cave Dwellers Into Millionaires 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z And weapons, like a poker, will be used to poke. David Fincher cast the wrong "Killer" in the Netflix thriller that lacks the auteur's usual edge 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z Larry Gerbrandt, principal of Media Valuation Partners, said the last poker TV boom helped offshore online poker sites to drive viewers to their sites. U.S. networks bet on comeback for TV poker 2013-06-05T19:03:17Z He joined the Army in 1946 and was stationed in Germany, winning his first camera in a poker game. After a Storied Career, a Nonagenarian Photographer Returns to New York 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z I’m not certain — Driewer has an impressive poker face — but I think I can detect the hint of a smirk. Dusseldorf vs. Cologne: A rivalry you can grin and beer 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Like the time you insisted on wearing the same pair of socks for a week because you won a game of poker in them? A New ‘M*A*S*H’ Scene: Written by ChatGPT, Read by Hawkeye and B.J. 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Leslie H.. The professional poker dealer has now cried twice over Sean and she hasn’t even gone on a date with him yet. The Bachelor Watch: The Girls Played Roller Derby. Sean Gets Played 2013-01-29T14:29:39Z Under deep red light, she wields a poker. ‘Movie blood tastes so good’ – on The Neon Demon set with Nicolas Winding Refn 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Sometimes, as when he imagines shoving the cold end of a red-hot poker up Michael McIntyre's backside, it's vividly inventive. Jerry Sadowitz – review 2012-12-12T17:28:45Z When Drew Layton dropped out of college in 2006 to play online poker full-time, it was a hard sell to his parents: “They were not thrilled,” he said. Veteran online poker players cash in during lockdown surge 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z The ravenous Mrs. Hughes, growling through a round of strip poker, imposes herself more forcefully on the narrative in five seconds than her “real” character has done in four seasons. 'Downton Abbey' Recap: Do We Really Want Anything to Change? 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z I'm a good poker player," and he says, "You're a good housekeeper. Patricia Neal (1926-2010): A Life of Tragedy and Triumph 2010-08-11T08:40:00Z Ray, an online poker whiz turned live player who exists “in pursuit of a perfect machinelike neutrality toward outcomes,” and whose tedious sections read as if they were generated by A.I. Las Vegas, ‘the Most Honest City in America’ 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z Debut novelist Caroline Hulse gets inside the minds of her characters not by working long days at a desk, but by putting in late nights at a poker table. Researching Your Book? Hit the Casino 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z At one point early in the book, Cool Girl Amy writes about a time Nick ditches her, her friends and their husbands in order to play poker. Is Gone Girl Feminist or Misogynist? 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Learn a game of skill like poker instead. Annie Duke On Las Vegas 2010-03-01T23:00:00Z A drug addict and criminal, Molly develops a brash, increasingly combative personality while running underground high-stakes poker games. ‘The messier, the better’: The righteously angry women who dominate this year’s Oscars 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z No one around this table was a particularly serious poker player. The Washington gambler 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z The two are poker buddies on Maui with Owen Wilson and Don Nelson, the Hall of Fame basketball coach, and Willie did not take kindly to a weed-free Woody. Woody Harrelson, Rogue Number One 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z The Moscow tower plan fell through and was replaced by a more modest project: annexing six acres along the Ukranian border for a bank of video poker machines. Who in the hell is Felix Sater?! 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z Ambler died March 28, 2019, after he was driving home following a poker game with friends, according to the report. ‘Save me’: Texas man’s in-custody death raises key questions 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z As Lance, the devoted football star in “The Best Man Holiday,” Chestnut “had to have his poker face on and cracks in the armor,” said Lee. ‘Best Man Holiday’ Revives Chestnut’s Lure 2013-11-14T16:51:50Z New York is a city on steroids, its poker scene equally alluring. Poker for girls: In New York’s male-dominated world of underground poker, I found my true strength 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z The district would be allowed to offer online poker and other games of skill and chance. DC becomes 1st in US to offer Internet gambling 2011-04-12T21:18:12Z Bloom says in a statement that for seven years she "reigned supreme" over the secret world of underground, high-stakes poker. 'Poker princess' Molly Bloom has memoir deal 2012-07-24T15:15:11Z How did a writer with a Ph.D. in psychology become a poker champ? New in Paperback: ‘Luster’ and ‘Sex and Vanity’ 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z The film shows the red-hot poker incident as a premonition experienced by the former king, but doesn't state it as fact. Edward II: Derek Jarman's striking reflection on homophobia 2012-08-16T11:00:05Z Where he finds his real drive is inside a dingy alleyway gambling room, where Eddie often plays — and loses — at poker. Joe Swanberg steps out: The filmmaker is still creating daring movies about normal people 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z The essay isn’t a bad read, but Colson Whitehead on poker is a much better one. In His New Collection, ‘The Rub of Time,’ Martin Amis Takes On Everyone From Travolta to Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z All the more credit, then, to Adelaide Clemens as the pluckiest, unluckiest heiress ever, and to Mr. Evans for maintaining Driver’s poker face no matter how loony his lines. Movie Review: ‘No One Lives,’ by Ryuhei Kitamura 2013-05-10T02:17:26Z The company plans to soon go live with an online poker site in Nevada and is awaiting approval in New Jersey. Casinos to spin Timberlake, Affleck poker film as cautionary tale 2013-08-23T11:16:28Z Returning to Cincinnati, he set up as a discount stockbroker and professional poker player. Richard Steiner, Producer of Broadway Hits, Dies at 69 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z That largely stopped in 2011, on a day known to gamblers as Black Friday, when the government shut down many poker sites. How Fake Sports Are Turning Man Cave Dwellers Into Millionaires 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Richards, who also represents others who were sued over their poker winnings, said none of the players faced any criminal penalties. Tobey Maguire, others are sued over poker winnings 2011-06-23T10:35:08Z Teach your guests to twirl their poker after each dunk to avoid drips, then get to dipping! The ultimate guide to hosting your first fondue party 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z Nonfiction author and New Yorker journalist Maria Konnikova, who started studying poker last year for a book about the nature of luck, became so skilled she soon turned pro. Researching Your Book? Hit the Casino 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z There's something — a deeply entrenched poker face — about his aura. "I was scared the entire time": "Sasquatch" director on investigating a Big Foot murder mystery 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z Instead, the most scintillating threesomes tend to be gatherings of star players who get together for the occasional bout of competitive Beethoven or Tchaikovsky as a kind of musical equivalent of poker. Review: All-star piano trio leaves listeners with a royal flush 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Given all the lying she does at the poker table, writing confessional pieces has been a welcome change. Researching Your Book? Hit the Casino 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Even in her 90s, in defiance of time and expectations, she still enjoyed a cocktail before dinner, a weekly poker night and wide-eyed interest in the world around her. Betty White, an ageless TV star, was America’s sweetheart 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z You’d think Anna Wintour would have the most tightly honed poker face, but the fact that she wears sunglasses leaves me to believe that, maybe sometimes, she can’t resist an eye roll. Q&A: Finding a Perch for Fashion Week 2013-09-06T18:29:53Z In his spare time, he plays poker professionally. Lou Diamond Phillips: "My entire career has been fighting against those labels" 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Also poker nights and mock trials, and Melba toasts, and a general celebration of most everything about me. Anorexia killed my grandma 2012-07-22T13:00:00Z Al is committed to everything he does, even if it's just playing poker. Pacino's late comedic turn also a homecoming 2013-01-29T17:46:04Z You have that kind of a poker face? The only addiction “that hasn’t tried to kill me”: Melissa Broder on confessional writing, anxiety, and how much honesty is too much 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z “We placed our order. Been there just five or six minutes, and Larry realizes he has a poker game at Steve Martin’s and leaves. And I’m eating alone, stuck with a $400 check.” Richard Lewis is not as miserable as he appears. But he’s still miserable. 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z Father Artifact: My father was a professional poker player, and I have his 24-carat belt buckle that says “Lucky” on it. Domains | Phillip Lim: House of Style 2010-03-04T23:06:00Z We are first introduced to your character at a poker game, but who is hosting the game? Goldie: 'Melinda Messenger is like a small, really powerful monkey' 2013-03-08T15:16:16Z Lustmord and Frost's poker faces just about worked, but a change of a couple of degrees could have turned the seriousness into silliness and misplaced grandiosity. Unsound of the underground ? the festival that feels like a s?ance 2010-10-27T15:33:00Z The film begins and ends with collages of people relating where they were and what they felt when they heard the news that the government was cracking down on poker Web sites. Movie Review: ?All In: The Poker Movie,? by Douglas Tirola 2012-03-23T04:11:55Z And if West is going to be honest ... well, it’s poker at the bridge table. Bridge: Just When Should You Believe a Falsecard? 2010-12-17T23:39:22Z He is widely believed to have been disembowelled with a red-hot poker, though some historians suggest suffocation was a more likely cause of death. Edward II: Derek Jarman's striking reflection on homophobia 2012-08-16T11:00:05Z Four years ago, Mr. Schneider was working in a job he loathed as art director at a small advertising agency in Los Angeles, developing projects for pizza chains and an online poker outfit. Bits Blog: Meet Lord Huron, a Musical Project That Is Also an Alternate Reality Game 2014-02-20T12:26:07Z It’s a poker game, a schmoozefest, a knife fight over technicalities and punctuation. What was COP26? A slog, a spectacle — and, for one youthful delegation, an opportunity. 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z Was all the post-show sniping just fashion’s version of a poker face? Front Row: A Look at September Fashion Magazines 2013-08-28T19:10:13Z He even hires a personal poker trainer to beef up his mind, if not his own unathletic body, for the main event in Vegas. ‘The Noble Hustle’: bets and bluffs in a high-stakes game 2014-05-08T22:06:01Z This, what I’m seeing, is real?—made the Video Music Awards feel like an overcostumed poker match organized by a cabal of very rich, very careless people. Miley Cyrus’s Quest for Realness 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z “Looks like there’s maybe some illegal gambling going on over here, though. Are you girls playing poker?” The secret weapon in Mom’s underground poker party sandwiches 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z As well as telling the story of gang violence after a poker game is hijacked, Dominik's third feature paints a bleak picture of the U.S. economic and political landscape. With kids, career, no time to direct, says Brad Pitt 2012-05-23T18:23:58Z Now the tiniest hip swivel feels like someone ripping her flesh with a hot poker. Down on luck diva faces surgery, mounting bills 2010-12-04T17:37:00Z The sites were closed to U.S. online players, sending shockwaves through the poker world and the TV industry. U.S. networks bet on comeback for TV poker 2013-06-05T19:03:17Z Perhaps this appealed to businessmen enjoying a little flutter at the contemporary art poker game. A Dreary Sense of Duty Reigns at Auctions 2010-07-02T16:30:00Z Last year she lost her job as a bar manager when the Oregon lottery demanded criminal background checks on staff because the establishment had video poker. 'Commercialization won out': will legal marijuana be the next big tobacco? 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z I have a reputation of being a good poker player, but I have yet to steal money from anybody in a major tournament. Jason Alexander to revisit his musical-theater roots at Strathmore and Meyerhoff 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z For now, he prefers to look at life, and life choices, as a poker player, since he loves the game. He called it, and now Silver's a pop-culture star 2012-11-09T19:29:10Z In addition, despite his “seemingly mystical abilities,” Postle rarely plays in any other poker games outside Stones, the suit says. When a poker commentator suspected a player of cheating, she called this lawyer 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z With his high-collared trenchcoat and melancholy poker face, K is as much of an old-school gumshoe as his gruff predecessor, even if the “runner” in their job description increasingly seems inaccurate. Sedate expectations: will Blade Runner 2049 give birth to the slow-burn blockbuster? 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Although there is no federal law banning online poker, regulations bar it most states and many online poker sites block users based on their computer location. Veteran online poker players cash in during lockdown surge 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z On the surface, its modern amenities attract wealthy men in the coal business, but to a select few it's the high-stakes poker game that's meant to do so. 'A Hanging at Cinder Bottom' is an engaging, clever con 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z In later years, he played himself as a member of a group of poker players on “The Sopranos,” and he did voice-overs of himself in the animated series “Family Guy.” Frank Sinatra Jr., who lived in the shadow of his famous father, dies at 72 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Her father, also the son of Korean immigrants, worked at a pachinko gambling parlor and was often abusive, she said, spending most of his income betting on horses or playing poker. Her Antenna Is Tuned to the Quietest Voices 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z Had the entire film been poker faced, it might not have had the same energizing effect on viewers, Mr. Hays said. Film: Surely It?s 30 (Don?t Call Me Shirley!) 2010-06-26T12:47:00Z Mr. Axelrad commences his lonely and debilitating obsession with online poker. Books of The Times: Casino Crazy in Josh Axelrad?s ?Repeat Until Rich? 2010-03-30T23:21:00Z The influx of online players are generally newer to poker and more inexperienced, making it easier for professionals to win. Veteran online poker players cash in during lockdown surge 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z Inside, officers seized 21 unlicensed video poker machines, as well as more than $38,000 cash from the money boxes inside them. Business faces new charges of illegal gambling 2012-04-19T08:17:00Z Then he’s whizzing downstairs where a vintage poster and etched mirror of a chimpanzee poker dealer by Michael Wilkinson keeps company with a washer and dryer. Andy Warhol in the Powder Room. Christopher Wool on the Floor. 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z But Jason finds Benny at the door instead, and not wanting to rock the boat, Jason agrees to play poker with Benny and his friends, who are in on the trap. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z There are happy hours being held on Google Hangout, and poker games taking place over FaceTime. True Tales of Quarantined Socializing 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z And, of course, there are the 3,300 slot machines and a 39-table poker area in the 125,000-square-foot gaming area. A telling set of numbers for a $1.4 billion casino facility 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Here's my community, and we're doing something more than just hanging out and playing poker. Rainn Wilson doesn't hold back: "Here's the guy from 'The Office' talking about suffering and death" 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z She confronts Matthau, and he confesses: “You hurt my friend,” meaning Chaplin, his poker buddy. Barbra Streisand Is Ready to Tell All. Pull Up a Seat. 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z Intrigued by the seedy world she enters, Margaret is drawn into a dodgy poker game. Review 2010-09-16T23:33:00Z Identifying a great deal with her personality, and where she's coming from, I can pick out her introvert "tells" like one would a poker player's. Jenna Lyons brings introvert representation to "The Real Housewives of New York City" 2023-08-13T04:00:00Z Other times, the dads leave the kids behind for an evening ballgame or poker tournament. A sense of community for at-home dads 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z The ruling doesn't affect poker games among friends, even if money is involved. Swiss crack down on Texas hold 'em matches 2010-06-02T11:31:00Z Several times over the last year," he writes, "I've attended meetings that started with everyone present gently placing their Jabscreen face-down on the table, as though commencing a futuristic game of poker. iPhone worship has seen the media lose all sense of proportion 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z The answer, it turns out, is that in those poker games, we see a microcosm of patriarchal society. Jessica Chastain: ‘It’s about dividing women and I’m not going to be a part of that’ 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z In one sense it’s close to poker, in the balance of luck and skill: anyone can beat anyone in a given game, thanks to the rolls of the dice. This Week in Fiction: Jonathan Lethem on the Poignance of Backgammon 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z He signaled his intention by imitating the gesture of a poker player pushing all of his chips to the center of the table. For ‘Jeopardy’ fans, Ken Jennings is the greatest 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z In the first, “Runner Runner,” he plays a Princeton student and online poker player who believes he was swindled out of his tuition money and goes after the site’s shady owner, played by Ben Affleck. T Magazine: The Enduring, Multigenerational Appeal of Justin Timberlake 2013-09-12T11:35:19Z He thought my concerns were overblown, even when one of the bar-based poker games he frequented in Madison, Wis., got held up at gunpoint. Please Take My Son’s Wallet 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z When he does leave the couch, it's to play poker or basketball with his guy friends. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: An angry, defensive couch potato — that’s a sloth to put up with 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z “We have nine people in this poker game.” Perspective | Gene Weingarten: I declare these jokes groundbreaking 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z Graham had great success at professional Scrabble, coming in second at the 1997 World Championship, and he's good at high-stakes poker, sometimes. Review: Comic loser in 'This Too Shall Suck' wins 2013-01-29T01:10:09Z The artist has a compelling poker face, and here was an impressive passive-aggressive maneuver. Critic’s Notebook: Queer New York Festival Is in Search of Broader Definition 2012-06-18T21:35:46Z He is also said to have been a homosexual, which possibly contributed to his overthrow and murder, which by some accounts occurred via the application of a hot poker into his royal wazoo. Perspective | Trump says he’s the victim of a witch hunt. These politicians were treated worse. 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z “I’ve had the worst year of my life,” she said of her poker record. Researching Your Book? Hit the Casino 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z I spent a fun evening at Bad Beat the same night Maria Ho, a poker player who is No. 11 on the women’s all-time money list, happened to be shooting a video there. Leaving Las Vegas for Natural Beauty and More 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z At its core, “Paradise, Nevada” is a moral inquiry into the profit motive, with poker a metaphor for the diminishing returns of a consolidated U.S. economy. Review | ‘Paradise, Nevada’ tries to capture our anxious American essence with a collision course through the gaming industry 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Players can toggle back and forth among a slots game called Rum Runner’s Riches and four kinds of video poker. Now you can lose money without ever leaving your bed 2013-02-11T22:51:00Z An avid poker player who won the U.S. 'Atlas Shrugged' producer: 'Critics, you won' 2011-04-26T07:00:00Z “But on some level, that can be good, too, because a lot of this is a poker game.” Noah Hawley Keeps Changing Lanes 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z Jennifer Tilly, the actress and professional poker player, swaggered, hand on hip, in a leopard coat with matching bag and shoes. Dolce & Gabbana’s Runway Experiment 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z Women are still a rarity in poker, less accustomed to the naked aggression and strategic deception required of great players. A 70-year-old socialite’s unlikely journey from Park Avenue to the poker table 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z “I feel like I spent a lot of time alone, a lot of time playing online poker, blogging.” Anger Management: Why the Genius Founders Turned to Couples Therapy 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Tributes came from the fields of music, acting, business, golf, politics, surfing, comedy, poker and others. Celebrities pay tribute to cricketer Shane Warne at service 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z SAT Trail ride and walk to collect cards for poker hand; tack sale, raffle, entertainment to benefit horse rescue, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-04-11T20:53:24Z “It’s the same thing at the poker table.” Researching Your Book? Hit the Casino 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z He somehow manages to let you see both the poker face and the thoughts and feelings it disguises. An arresting presence in 'Wolf Hall' 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z I'm afraid it's all rather icky, and her husband has to murder her with a poker just to stop the unpleasantness. Simon Cowell and the Witches of Eastwick 2010-07-15T18:59:00Z A guy’s guy — he loves beer, poker, bowling — he is also powerfully attracted and attractive to women, with what Williams called an “animal joy in his being.” Ben Foster Brings His Beast Mode to ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z They bonded over a late-night poker game; he proposed marriage just weeks later. Cate Blanchett: ‘I used to be very socially awkward’ 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z Rune maintains a poker face, his eyes alert and wary as he stifles any signs of fear and endures what amounts to continuous hazing as a newbie at the bottom of the pecking order. | 'R': Life in the Big House: The Danish Experience 2011-06-16T23:36:42Z Sean had bought a new, bigger, poker table; his game was growing. The Washington gambler 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z “I have a great poker face,” he said. Blitz Bazawule Is Building Bridges Between Worlds 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z In this memoiristic account, DelGaudio revisits his childhood in Colorado and relays the story of one game of poker he plays as a false dealer, all while engaging in philosophical questions of reality and self-image. New in Paperback: ‘My Year Abroad’ and ‘Amoralman’ 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Hitchcock walks into the tournament room at Maryland Live to a flurry of hugs from her poker buddies, other regulars she’s competed against for the past four years. A 70-year-old socialite’s unlikely journey from Park Avenue to the poker table 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Stanhope and Becker used to play poker here back in the day, and he said he once watched a cockroach crawl across the gambling felt. Stand-up comedian Doug Stanhope laughs in the face of self-destruction 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z How familiar were you with other poker memoirs before writing this book? Surviving at the Poker Tables: Colson Whitehead Talks About 'The Noble Hustle' 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Two weeks into the trip, they ate dinner in the ship’s saloon, then played poker with other passengers until two in the morning, pleased with their twenty-dollar winnings. Lost at Sea on the Brink of the Second World War 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z A young girl outwits drunken boys who have lured her into an increasingly ominous game of strip poker. Start the year in crime with Agatha Christie's children 2011-01-06T00:05:04Z Years later, he discovered that two male friends he regularly played poker with were having similar problems, but they, too, kept it quiet. The male infertility crisis: ‘My failure at fatherhood ate away at my very being’ 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z Otherwise, he is a master of the poker face. Art Review: Workers at Rest: Smoking and Playing Cards 2011-02-10T21:40:34Z "Runner Runner," which owes its name to poker slang, follows Timberlake as a graduate student who goes to Costa Rica to confront an online gambling tycoon played by Affleck, who swindles him. In thriller 'Runner Runner,' Timberlake, Affleck explore gambling's underside 2013-10-02T18:21:17Z Jamal denies any knowledge, hoping to stave off Gathers’ suspicions, but his poker face leaves a lot to be desired. Empire: season two, episode one – The Devils Are Here 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z It's no wonder many top athletes, even if they don't play poker, are known for turning almost any game, from golf to Scrabble, into a wagering opportunity. Alex Rodriguez's Poker Scandal: Why Athletes Love Gambling 2011-08-05T10:30:00Z Clean tamps down his emotions, but we can feel, from your performance, the rage simmering underneath his poker face. "Clean" star Adrien Brody talks "Succession" & daily injustice: "There is a lot to be angry about" 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z “Poise, mental agility, and a poker face,” writes Willetts, “were Edgar’s key assets,” though it didn’t hurt that he was also handsome, charismatic and, by all accounts, a mesmerizing orator. Review | The most shameless con artist of the Jazz Age knew that the biggest lies work best 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Sarandon plays the many disappointments of Florence's life like a winning poker hand — starting with the accident that ended her career as a dancer and left her with a wooden leg and a sour mood. Late-in-life Errol Flynn leers in 'The Last of Robin Hood' 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Baron appeared startled but quickly regained his poker face, Miller recalled. Marty Baron, Jeff Bezos, Donald Trump and the eight years that reshaped The Washington Post — and journalism 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z She's a beer-commercial ideal of a woman who likes football, poker and threesomes, whose figure and handbag are equally and impossibly compact. 'Gone Girl' powers up with formidable women taking lead 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z "You get steely nerves playing poker," he said. He called it, and now Silver's a pop-culture star 2012-11-09T19:29:10Z No one’s playing tennis or poker, no one’s having singalongs at Camp David or roughhousing on the White House lawn. Television Review: ‘Our Nixon,’ a CNN Documentary About White House Cameras 2013-07-31T22:11:25Z A short stack of photographic slides, rarely seen any longer, “felt good in your hand, like poker chips.” Review: In ‘The Accidental Life,’ Golfing on LSD Is Just Part of an Editor’s Job 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z Unlike online poker, it’s legal in most states. How Fake Sports Are Turning Man Cave Dwellers Into Millionaires 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Great for small spaces, it holds kindling, logs, a broom, a poker and a shovel in a little more than one square foot. Tools and accessories for a well-outfitted fireplace 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z That escape was Texas Hold’em, the game that spawned the poker boom of the past decade. A 70-year-old socialite’s unlikely journey from Park Avenue to the poker table 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z My wife and I were relieved when that poker room shut down and Zach began to apply himself to career planning, passing the first two four-hour actuary tests. Please Take My Son’s Wallet 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z At times this book reads like a cursory “Darkness Visible,” wrapped in dark sunglasses, with a side of poker chips and power bars. Books of The Times: ‘The Noble Hustle,’ by Colson Whitehead 2014-05-08T20:03:16Z Make sure you try the Hugo's Shrimp dish, named after my old friend and top poker player Hugo Meith. Phil Hellmuth's Vegas 2010-03-01T23:00:00Z It may seem troubling to see the fate of the nation treated like a cheap round of poker, but the gamification of politics is actually incredibly useful to economists and political scientists. Here’s how to legally gamble on the 2016 race 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Vegas' biggest players see online poker as a new market that can offset slowing growth from table-gambling on the Strip. Casinos to spin Timberlake, Affleck poker film as cautionary tale 2013-08-23T11:16:28Z He blinks repeatedly, as if a nervous tic was trying to upset his poker face. For the director of “Risk,” filming Julian Assange became a spy game 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z As he puts it on “The Joker and the Queen,” a music-box piano ditty on “=” that stretches a poker metaphor exhaustingly far, “When I fold, you see the best in me.” Ed Sheeran Sticks With a Familiar Formula on ‘=’ 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z He had been involved in a late-night poker game in nearby Hillsboro and got tired driving back to Austin, so he pulled over to take a nap. The Texas Tribune: When It Comes to Marijuana, Willie?s Punishment Seems to Vaporize 2011-04-03T08:00:04Z Was Bruno’s game always backgammon—could he have been a poker player, for example? This Week in Fiction: Jonathan Lethem on the Poignance of Backgammon 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z "There's going to be some jokes," the lawyer and professional poker player from Bronx, N.Y., said after signing up. Whistlers pucker up and blow into Carolina town 2012-04-19T06:53:09Z Halo and Call of Duty are ultimately more poker than movie, less video, more game. Critic’s Notebook: Call of Duty: Black Ops II and Halo 4 2012-11-13T08:01:23Z Mr. Robertson writes about the night he and Mr. Helm got guns and pulled socks over their heads, intending to rob a high-stakes poker game. Robbie Robertson of the Band Tells All in ‘Testimony’ 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z “Politics and poker, shuffle up the cards and find the joker,” he quotes the lyrics to one of the songs. A Republican consultant tries his hand at a different kind of political theater 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Poker rapidly descended into a drinking game and I, being a fatal combination of bad at poker and intolerant of alcohol, passed out. How I was raped – and pressured into dropping the charges 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z Taken in 1925, it depicts an intense young Zuni man with brilliant black eyes, wrapped in a blanket and looking very much as if he has narrowly lost a high-stakes poker game. Photographer Edward S. Curtis’s Southwest 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z With no live competition to show, broadcasters are offering a buffet of leftovers — “classic” games, old poker tournaments, spelling bee marathons — and constantly replenished chatter about what’s not happening. Starved for Sports? Here Are 5 Options That Aren’t N.B.A. Classic 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Sadly we are not talking with a red-hot poker. RuPaul's Drag Race recap: season seven, episode 11 – Hello, Kitty Girls! 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Favourite gadget: Bond's in-car defibrillator, which is used to restart his heart after LeChiffre poisons him at the poker table, is a realistic essential item of kit for a modern-day spy. My favourite Bond film: Casino Royale 2012-10-01T16:29:02Z Speaking of patience and discipline, how someone behaves at a poker table is usually how they behave in life. Lou Diamond Phillips: "My entire career has been fighting against those labels" 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Finally, he takes a fireplace poker to the flat-screen, just before his wife tells him she wants a divorce. Review | Aniston and Witherspoon outshine ‘The Morning Show’s’ rough start. But did Carell get the best role? 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z But much of the second season revolves around a happy event: the imminent wedding of Murray Hill's Fred Rococo, casually announced during a poker game. Why we all love "Somebody Somewhere" star Jeff Hiller: "Everybody feels like they're the outsider" 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z "When I got into poker, I didn't see myself going down the TV path," Ho said. U.S. networks bet on comeback for TV poker 2013-06-05T19:03:17Z In Ms. Massey’s novel, men also play power games at the poker table. Researching Your Book? Hit the Casino 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Some worry that the restrictions on online poker sites may cause novice online gamblers to turn to unregulated and dangerous offshore poker sites. Veteran online poker players cash in during lockdown surge 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z By 6, she was pretty tough to beat in poker, too. One upside to the divorce I didn’t want 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z My two older brothers had been raking in extra cash with paper routes, pool and Ping Pong competitions, and poker games ever since I could remember. My bad baby-sitter years 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z A poker face, after all, is essential to the tradition of soap opera acting. Review: Exploring the Edge of Soap Opera in ‘Shadowland’ at La MaMa 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z One colorful display shows the range of contraband hidden by soldiers in barracks walls and excavated in digs: tobacco, flasks, shot glasses, poker chips. The Presidio in San Francisco Presents a Fresh Face 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The smile “was like a tell in a poker game. A smile of someone enormously pleased with himself.” Perspective | ‘Nothing ever ends’: Sorting through Rumsfeld’s knowns and unknowns 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Howard Ehrenberg, the bankruptcy trustee who sued the group, said Monday the poker settlements total more than $1.7 million. Tobey Maguire, others settle over poker winnings 2011-11-28T18:27:08Z One shot features a chocolate cake topped with gold coins against a masculine collection of whiskey tumblers and poker chips, a photo Ms. Gokson said was inspired by Tom Ford. A Queen of Cakes Savors the Moment 2013-08-12T09:40:23Z The nerve required to play the long game is familiar to poker players. Researching Your Book? Hit the Casino 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z A posse of University of Montana frat brothers find a backroom poker game and then take their hobby global with an online poker business. I like my imagined literary nemesis 2013-06-01T22:30:00Z Koppelman added that he and Levien hope to one day write a sequel to "Rounders," the critically acclaimed behind-the-scenes look at New York underground poker. In thriller 'Runner Runner,' Timberlake, Affleck explore gambling's underside 2013-10-02T18:21:17Z Tom, an Italian immigrant and “hopeless beta” who overstays his visa to play professional poker. Las Vegas, ‘the Most Honest City in America’ 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z But my brief exertions don't include winning the gunfight at the OK Corral or 12 consecutive pots at poker. Why I'd like to be ... Val Kilmer in Tombstone 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z My roommates and I senior year spent every night after dinner drinking a case of beer and playing bridge and poker. Surviving at the Poker Tables: Colson Whitehead Talks About 'The Noble Hustle' 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z He'd invite us to his dressing room for cocktails after the show or even the odd poker game. Richard Griffiths by James Corden: goodbye Rizzo – we miss you already 2013-03-29T20:30:01Z The party ended in 2011, when the feds shut down the biggest online poker sites for illegal gambling. A 70-year-old socialite’s unlikely journey from Park Avenue to the poker table 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z The film, though, is so padded with cheerleading that it doesn’t have time for a serious exploration of poker’s place in the broader culture or the consequences of its rapid rise and global reach. Movie Review: ?All In: The Poker Movie,? by Douglas Tirola 2012-03-23T04:11:55Z And they have an occasion to commemorate: 2014 is apparently the centenary of the poker game at which the comedian Art Fisher coined the nicknames by which the brothers became known . ArtsBeat: Elephants and Pajamas: It’s the Marxfest of Course 2014-04-03T16:59:21Z “Put on your poker face, Brotha,” he mutters before trying the speech as the director asked; Mr. Cobb is quite expert at showing us how that approach must fail. Review: In ‘American Moor,’ an Insider’s Guide to ‘Othello’ 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z Its titular poker princess is based on the real Molly Bloom, who had a moment a while back when she was busted for running a high-stakes game, her world imploding when the F.B.I. came knocking. Review: The Big and Minor Stakes of ‘Molly’s Game’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z You might as well join a poker game and then complain when another player successfully bluffs you. Is "Boston" Rob Mariano the best "Survivor" player ever? 2011-05-16T13:17:00Z In a strange piece of fate, the poker players survived. ‘Dog Company’ details vital, valiant D-Day battle 2013-01-02T22:43:52Z Desperate to learn how to play poker, I had invited some friends over to teach me, one of whom brought two companions. How I was raped – and pressured into dropping the charges 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z A more controversial game is her "Tombstone Hold 'Em," where participants play a physical version of poker using tombstones in cemeteries. Author McGonigal on a mission to makes games matter 2011-03-17T17:48:22Z In poker, being all in is a lonely place to be. Going All In on “All In” 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z Decanted into another patsy, Riseborough goes wild, driving a poker into her target’s mouth and breaking his teeth like biscuits, before gouging out an eyeball for good measure. Brandon Cronenberg on gougings, knifings and pokerings: 'CGI is too floaty and unreal' 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z MPD would give each vendor a roadway vehicle number and affix that number to a poker chip. Food trucks on the Mall? Stationary vendors worry about the impending competition The title of Wilder’s film is taken from stud poker and refers to Tatum’s search for the competitive edge in the ruthless game of selling news to the public. Kirk Douglas: why his finest role was as a cynical newspaper hack 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z He will adapt Bloom's memoir, Molly's Game, which spills the beans on many of those attending her underground poker nights. Aaron Sorkin to adapt poker memoir 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z As the forces of celebrity, distribution, money, intellectual property and financing all squared off, an elaborate game of poker was taking shape. Why Sony's Steve Jobs movie fell apart 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z I met him in the late 1980s, when he was already something of a legend for his charm, poker skills and wild skiing. Witold Starecki obituary 2011-08-08T16:41:24Z The door was locked, and the group began puzzling over a table set with a poker hand. A Night Out With Renée Elise Goldsberry of ‘Hamilton’ 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z So-called “social poker sites” do not allow betting and thus are legal across the country. Veteran online poker players cash in during lockdown surge 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z The governor, who authorized a major gambling expansion of his own when he signed video poker into law in 2009, said the latest casino bill is still “too much.” Quinn doesn't rub in lawmakers failure on casino bill 2011-11-12T23:48:00Z Ms. Chasen was so dedicated to gathering intelligence that, knowing that the players at a neighbor’s weekly poker night were members of the Academy, she’d drop by the game to survey how they were leaning. The Missing Guest at Oscar?s Party 2011-02-25T19:30:12Z The painting “Dogs Playing Poker” was based on a secretly acquired photograph of dogs playing poker. Style Invitational Week 1293: Constitutional unconvention 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z I realized I could possibly move my ship so I said, 'Miss.' I had a horrible poker face. Peter Berg discusses bringing "Battleship" to film 2012-05-17T20:37:08Z The four US states with legal online poker sites – New Jersey, Nevada, Delaware, and Pennsylvania – reported record revenues in March. Veteran online poker players cash in during lockdown surge 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z He later became a world-class competitive poker player, and in 2009 he rocketed into space as one of the first astrotourists. T Magazine: Big Sky 2011-05-17T19:47:38Z He even told CNN he was practicing his poker face in the mirror beforehand. Paul Ryan “didn’t even applaud for the troops! That’s like booing apple pie!”: Stephen Colbert’s perfect takedown of the House speaker 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z They bond over poker and motor down to New Orleans to try to win enough cash to pay off Gerry’s debts. Ryan Reynolds: from buff buffoon to Hollywood heavyweight 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z Mamet was inspired by the lingo and behavior of Chicago con artists he often played poker with early in his career. A vigorous new staging of Mamet’s ‘American Buffalo’ at Seattle Rep 2013-01-18T21:38:59Z She pulled a poker face: “Doesn’t it show he adheres to his conservative fiscal principles?” 2010-02-06T05:10:00Z “It’s like a poker game,” Mr. Petersen said, rattling off a number of factors at play. 2010-02-02T11:17:00Z He played in a weekly poker game for very low stakes. Time off the bench: The social lives of Supreme Court justices 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z We might identify with her plight, every arrow poised against her as she plays high-stakes poker in a man’s world, her intelligence always read as conniving, her ambition as manipulation. Obsessed with Anne Boleyn 2012-06-18T22:01:00Z Hoffman said he has noticed about four times as much activity in the past month on his go-to poker site, which is legal and based in Nevada. Veteran online poker players cash in during lockdown surge 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z I’ve never been more moved by Stanley’s anguished remorse after his drunken outburst of abuse after the poker game. | 'A Streetcar Named Desire': Small Space, Big Egos: Something Will Explode 2010-06-18T23:18:00Z This crackdown, dubbed “black Friday,” left poker fanatics with two options: Get dressed and visit a card room, or break the law and log into an offshore site. Online Poker Thriller ‘Runner’ Quickly Politicized 2013-10-03T20:10:31Z IF you were to peruse all the decks of tarot cards listed on the Aeclectic Tarot Web site, you might want, in poker parlance, to fold then and there. Possessed: Alejandro Jodorowsky and His Tarot de Marseille 2011-11-11T23:31:31Z Mr. Ma plays with brazen emotionality; you get the impression he couldn’t pull off a poker face if he tried. Review: Yo-Yo Ma and Wu Man Play With Cinematic Sweep 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Try your hand at poker, blackjack or play the slots at the River Rock Casino Resort. Seattleites: Save big bucks by flying overseas out of Vancouver, B.C. 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z They are the stars of a new film about the murky world of unauthorized online poker that could cast an unwelcome spotlight on a fledgling legal market that Sin City's biggest players are betting on. Casinos to spin Timberlake, Affleck poker film as cautionary tale 2013-08-23T11:16:28Z His man on the inside is Simon, played by James McAvoy, a young art expert with some financial embarrassments due to his predilection for poker. 'A cauldron of iffy acting' 2013-03-20T15:56:11Z He spoke to Salon about zombies, fiction, poker and some of his other interests. Colson Whitehead: I had zombie anxiety dreams for years 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z She's more like the slow and steady poker player quietly stacking up chips in the corner. Please Give: As Good As It Gets 2010-04-29T23:55:00Z You must show your passport at the border and keep track of a poker chip a guard gives you before you can head out to the islands. Explorer: At the End of Eden, Rustic Tranquillity 2013-09-12T16:37:46Z Case File: In first-season episode “An Echolls Family Christmas,” Veronica investigates who took the winnings from a poker game and finds plenty of violence, romance and holiday cheer. Clued In: The Top 10 Television Detectives 2012-05-04T10:45:35Z Ray Liotta, who frequently shows up in movies like this one, shows up as the guy who oversees the ill-starred poker game. Movie Review: ‘Killing Them Softly,’ With Brad Pitt, From Andrew Dominik 2012-11-29T16:13:01Z "I'm not playing poker with my future any more." TV review: Digging for Britain and Mistresses 2010-08-20T05:45:00Z I'm not a good poker player, so I would lose my money. "It's been a life-changing experience for me": How a play about drinking helped Andre Royo get sober 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z While attending therapy in a bid to curtail his gambling addiction and save his marriage, he played — and beat — his therapist in poker. A ‘Battle of the Sexes’ Rages On, More Than 4 Decades Later 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z They taught each other to play poker, made cheese fondue and read Shakespeare and Molière aloud. Caution: Women Playing 2011-08-17T20:46:59Z It was on his advice, however, that Duke moved to Las Vegas with her family and took up poker full time. Annie Duke On Las Vegas 2010-03-01T23:00:00Z Your character’s poker face and emotionless voice, her severe mannerisms—how she folds the bag at the pharmacy—and her incredible fashion sense are very deliberate. Kate Bosworth on the delights of playing the villain: “We wanted to turn it so the Hitchcock blonde would be the psycho rather than the victim” 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z TODAY, when you hear the words “poker face,” you don’t think of Senate subcommittee hearings. Possessed: Yoga Mat Helps Doctor Maintain Extensive Regimen ? Possessed 2012-03-30T22:13:15Z We would play poker and eat our sandwiches and get ready for the second show. "Red Notice" star Chris Diamantopoulos swears he wasn't trying to break up Jim and Pam 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z While playing poker is legal in New York, organising games for profit is against state law, and Bloom was arrested. Aaron Sorkin to adapt poker memoir 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z Liang gets too drunk at his poker games with the other Chinese fathers in the neighborhood. In This Debut Novel, a Chinese Immigrant Keeps His Sleepwalking Sister’s Secrets 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z Then, it was time for the poker face. A Trove of Lincoln Artifacts Heads to Auction 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z On Tuesday, the poker winnings begin their journey home. Returning the Spoils of World War II, Taken by Our Side 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z There were five people from each of three professions, plus a “wild card,” and contestants had to correctly guess the professions to collect a poker hand. “Gonged at Last”: game show impressario and author Chuck Barris dead at 87 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z “It was either shoes or poker. And poker was more fun.” A 70-year-old socialite’s unlikely journey from Park Avenue to the poker table 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Last thing, any more charity events coming up for people who like poker? Hank Azaria: "For Mets fans, the bad news is there's no games. The good news is there's no games" 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z This is also the place to pick up decorative iron work such as a goat-head fire poker by celebrated local blacksmith D.J. After the fires: Autumn beauty and mountain-biking in Winthrop 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z McDonnell started playing at 22, after being cut from his college basketball squad his senior year and following a six-month spell as a professional poker player. Can the MVP of D.C.’s pro ultimate Frisbee team raise the sport’s profile? 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Families, tribes, book clubs, knitting circles, religious societies, or Rotarians, colleagues, poker players and members of a graduating class or a board: The group quickly becomes an essential element of personal identity. Four Not-to-Miss Photography Shows 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Like online poker, cash prizes can run to seven figures. How Fake Sports Are Turning Man Cave Dwellers Into Millionaires 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z A local gent, missing a few teeth, threatens the bird lovers with an implement resembling a giant fireplace poker. Review: ‘The Messenger’ Documents Avian Struggles 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Those were four-day weekends during which four or five of us played poker, got bombed, thrilled the grill and stayed up till 4 a.m. on the front porch, talking about nothing but laughing very hard. Cultural Studies: Can’t Guys Just Learn to Fight for a Friendship? 2012-10-28T01:00:16Z “It takes you to the heights and the depths. I rank it up there with baseball and poker and sex.” Richard Steiner, Producer of Broadway Hits, Dies at 69 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z His adventures — shootouts, bar fights and poker hands punctuated by musical numbers and bouts of genial, straight-to-camera philosophizing — set the tone for what follows. ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’ Review: The Coens Go Darkly West Again 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Every senator, representative, lobbyist and aide — including many historical figures — arrives with a résumé that gets dutifully unfurled over the ever-dwindling action, mostly meetings, hearings and poker games. Review | Jake Tapper’s new political thriller is at its best when it’s most bonkers 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Ms. Blakely was introduced to Mr. Itzler at a charity poker tournament in Las Vegas in 2006, but even before they met she felt an unexplainable energy and connection to him. Slow Dancing Their Way Out of Arguments 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z Konnikova, a writer for The New Yorker with a Ph.D. in psychology, decided to study poker for its interplay between luck and determination. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Barlow’s matter-of-fact approach, droll nature, deep voice and utter lack of a poker face never fail to crack me up. $60K rings, Diet Coke and fast food: The dichotomous tastes of "Real Housewife" Lisa Barlow 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z “They were out touring the world, living a life you couldn’t live. Art was an emerging documentarian at the time, and here was Bunker, whose great-grandfather had played poker with the king of Hawaii.” Art Brewer, Leading Photographer of Surfers, Is Dead at 71 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z He galloped over the moors on horseback and swashbuckled energetically with a poker, but displayed no talent for depravity. The classics revisited 2011-08-20T23:04:02Z He thinks the success of their relationship could be down to the fact she’s a professional poker player: “It helps because I’ve not got into the habit of telling even small lies.” David Mitchell: ‘I see myself as a coward’ 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z "Simon gets the Bird!" was the gleeful headline, last summer, in a report by the Sun that claimed he was playing "wages poker" with Inbetweeners producers. Simon Bird spreads his wings 2011-02-20T00:05:18Z Richard Nixon partly funded his first political campaign with money he won playing poker while in the Navy. Presidents' Day trivia: Surprising facts about each U.S. president 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z So if Ali, as her boss accuses, "doesn't connect" sufficiently with men, she's the one excluded from the boy's club bonding of the staff's secret poker game. The cosmic joke's on her: The antiheroine's journey through a cursed universe 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z Between hands, he found time in early October to file a federal lawsuit in California on Brill’s behalf against Postle, Stones and the gambling hall’s live poker director. When a poker commentator suspected a player of cheating, she called this lawyer 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z Bob: “There’s nothing more touching than a mother’s devotion to her child. We want you to have this beautiful set of burnished fireplace tools. There’s a poker and a shovel and everything you’ll need.” Tom Koch, Comedy Writer for Bob and Ray, Dies at 89 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Now, in anonymous, interchangeable gambling houses, he sits at blackjack and poker tables with strangers and sometimes other pros, counting, betting and often winning. ‘The Card Counter’ Review: A Gambler’s Existential Solitaire 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Poor Ray has backslid into the clutches of Frank Semyon, working security at the Vinci Gardens poker room and collecting rents from an apartment complex full of Hispanic immigrants. 'True Detective' Recap: Pain Is Inexhaustible 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Department of Justice crackdown on online poker and other gambling in the spring of 2011. Daily Fantasy Sports Join Hands With the NFL 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z In his new film “The Card Counter,” which premiered last week at the Venice International Film Festival and opens in North America on Sept. 10, the problem is guilt and the metaphor is poker. The direct line from ‘Taxi Driver’ to ‘The Card Counter’ 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z At that earlier poker night, Sean had demurred when one of his buddies asked if he ever bet on races he was working. The Washington gambler 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z In an attempt to limit exposure to slot machines and poker tables, Japanese citizens will be charged ¥6,000 admission to casinos, with visits restricted to three times a week or 10 times a month. Casino project will offer Japan's addicts a new way to lose 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z I feel guilty playing poker on my phone and looking up crossword answers. Jess Walter Doesn’t Have a Lot of Patience for Memoirs 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z Then, with a mountain of surprises piled up in front of him like poker chips, Brad began to barter away the ones he didn't like. The parent trap: art after children 2010-08-01T20:30:00Z “Deceivers typically omit hand gestures. They withhold information,” Givens said, like poker players. A video of Beto O’Rourke’s wild hand gestures went viral. Does distinctive body language help or hurt a candidate? 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z Still, he plunged in, telling his girlfriend “just think of it like I’m going to a weekly poker game.” ‘Of Dice and Men’: the lure of Dungeons & Dragons 2013-08-22T21:09:02Z “Whether he won them in a poker game or not, they were stolen property.” Returning the Spoils of World War II, Taken by Our Side 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Bryan was Ojibwe, a poet, a blackjack and poker dealer at a Native American casino, and he was unwell. My friend left this world – and I learned to let him go 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z When divorce Matt fumes at his girlfriend after she catches him lying about his marriage, he shows the same defensiveness of a poker player losing a hand. Researching Your Book? Hit the Casino 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z You might think that her fate was sealed the moment she walked onstage with about 15 poker visors on her head. The X Factor 2010: the lessons we've learnt from this year's show 2010-12-10T12:08:00Z These poker games went on for hours, fueled by coffee, cigarettes and neighborhood gossip. The ‘Inn’ Is Out at the Beatrice, but History Still Holds Sway 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Well, there are people who specialize in poker for a living. Nate Silver: ‘There were some models that gave Trump as little as a 1 or 2 percent chance’ of winning in 2016 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Premium cable has long reigned as the main stage for most scripted drama poker tournaments, purely as a matter of show. How "The Boys" measures up with regard to TV's full frontal assault 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z It might be one of the only places in the country where a psycho like Martin could blend in with his neighbors — and even have poker buddies. ‘My Absolute Darling’: A brutal, tremendous novel about a tough teen girl 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z “Pope’s momma so fat they give her a poker chip instead of a Communion wafer.” Style Invitational Week 1110: Write a [Someone’s] Mama joke 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z At the same time, it’s a grind for the workaday pros who play thousands upon thousands of hands, many of them drawn to Vegas after the government outlawed high-stakes poker websites. Review | ‘Paradise, Nevada’ tries to capture our anxious American essence with a collision course through the gaming industry 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z “Stop playing strip poker,” he wrote in 1938, in response to a letter about her recent exploits. Lost at Sea on the Brink of the Second World War 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z Tilly is a professional poker player who met him at a game. Return of the greatest, living monologuist. Only this time, he’s not on stage. 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z What got me over the hump was the poker machines. “Bar Rescue” boss Jon Taffer wants to show you how to argue better 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z Just like in poker, life is a gamble. A healthy lifestyle doesn’t guarantee a long life, but it will add life to your years 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z There are also vacuous soap operas, professional poker tournaments, Ultimate Fighting brawls, weight-loss infomercials. Review: ‘Donald Blumberg Photographs,’ Observing America on the Streets and From the Sofa 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z When I added those poker machines, I tell you, I couldn't get into the door in my own place. “Bar Rescue” boss Jon Taffer wants to show you how to argue better 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z With his dashing poker face, he leads New York society of the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s in an odd charade about the pleasures of Florence’s dreadful voice. Hugh Grant contemplates the complexities of a film actor’s life 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Key scenes include all-male poker games full of comic lines and wonderful opportunities for sight gags, sometimes overdone, but funny nonetheless. 'Odd Couple' at Village: bluster, but missing some of the bite 2012-02-23T21:29:04Z Other people had always said you should write about online poker, but I was never interested, and then I read the story that the guy would email me. I like my imagined literary nemesis 2013-06-01T22:30:00Z “That is bad for society, and bad for the viability of long term growth in the online poker community.” Veteran online poker players cash in during lockdown surge 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z Miller demonstrated his magic skills at the poker table, where a moment’s deficiency was paid for with one’s life. David Mamet on Ricky Jay, a Great Astonisher and ‘Truest Friend’ 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z The world champion poker player Barry Shulman, who has been on 70 cruises, said that people loved when you went beyond the call of duty, entertaining the women, personally helping someone get to a hospital. The Cruise Issue: Q&A: 25 Years on the Sea and Counting 2011-02-11T19:55:00Z In the presence of a superior officer he is apt to salute, smirk and push his career into the middle of the table like a stack of poker chips. ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Review: Will This Stuff Still Fly? 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z We just hit it off, and we started playing poker. "It's been a life-changing experience for me": How a play about drinking helped Andre Royo get sober 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z In the movie’s predictable world, there’s little doubt that romance will spark between Cole and a nurse or that he’ll win back his roommate’s lost poker winnings. Movie Review: ‘Happy New Year,’ Directed by K. Lorrel Manning 2012-12-07T02:21:36Z And on opening night, he got a look at the Met orchestra’s well-dressed, long-running intermission poker game. A Night (and Many Days) Backstage at the Metropolitan Opera 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Ashley Cole taking a poker to the nation's sweetheart, or at the very least texting her a picture of one? Simon Cowell and the Witches of Eastwick 2010-07-15T18:59:00Z A fragile but still commanding diva, whether playing poker with her friends on the lawn of her luxurious home or ordering a meal, she insists on getting her imperious way. Movie Review: ?The Salt of Life,? a Comedy by Gianni Di Gregorio 2012-03-02T00:28:51Z Our narrator joins a poker game in which the players wear adult diapers, so they never have to leave the table. Daniel Galera’s ‘Blood-Drenched Beard’ 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z If poker has helped Ms. Hulse’s literary career—the book already has sold to 14 territories—the reverse cannot be said. Researching Your Book? Hit the Casino 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Oh, and there’s a casino, too, a gorgeously designed, 130,000-square-foot one with 2,439 slot machines, 97 table games, 16 electronic tables and a poker room. Check In, Check Out: Hotel Review: Revel Atlantic City 2012-07-27T17:55:00Z It’s also thanks to television poker shows, Internet gambling and the lingering effect of films like “Rounders,” the 1998 Matt Damon movie about high-stakes card playing. Books of The Times: ‘The Noble Hustle,’ by Colson Whitehead 2014-05-08T20:03:16Z What went awry in their home where Eric, a loner with patchy mutton chops and a poker addiction, has arrived for the shortest visit he can get away with? ‘The Adults’ Review: Oh, Brother 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z Plaza plays the aftermath of the attack as an awakening: Emily apparently has a latent talent for fraud, a hustler’s backbone, iron will and a poker face any gambler would die for. The Reinvention of Aubrey Plaza 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z In his “group biography” of checkers, chess, Go, backgammon, poker, Scrabble and bridge, Roeder investigates not just the history of how we play, but why. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z One of the last poker nights I went to at Sean’s place was in September, less than two months before the midterms. The Washington gambler 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Nelson, 75, is a close friend of Mr. Kartsotis’s from Maui, where both have houses and play in a regular poker game that includes Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson and Willie Nelson. Shinola Takes Its ‘Detroit Cool’ Message on the Road 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Rossini’s overture is the work of a composer with a sly poker face. Review: In ‘Le Comte Ory,’ a Salacious Rossini Comes Through 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z As we waited for some stragglers to arrive, he dealt us a poker game. What Having A ManServant Is Like 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Wasting our time playing computer games and poker. Iain Banks, my Fife friend and storyteller extraordinaire 2013-04-03T16:39:26Z In “The Card Counter” his man in the room is Oscar Isaac’s William Tell, an austere poker player who travels around backwater casinos, staying under the radar and making sure to never win too much. The direct line from ‘Taxi Driver’ to ‘The Card Counter’ 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Annie Duke On Las Vegas Eric Arnold One of the world's best poker players shares her thoughts on visiting Sin City--and why she moved away. Vegas Destination Guide 2010-03-01T23:00:00Z A-Rod could have just played poker at an Atlantic City casino. Alex Rodriguez's Poker Scandal: Why Athletes Love Gambling 2011-08-05T10:30:00Z She inherited her 125-year-old fry bread poker, a trident used for flipping bread over an open fire at arm’s length. Fry Bread Is Beloved, but Also Divisive 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z The statement notably does not actually deny that Rodriguez played some kind of underground poker. Alex Rodriguez's Poker Scandal: Why Athletes Love Gambling 2011-08-05T10:30:00Z “Am I a professional writer who plays poker as a hobby? Or a professional poker player who writes as a hobby?” Researching Your Book? Hit the Casino 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Network is developing a new reality show called "Queens are Wild" that follows four top female poker players who room together as they travel the world and compete to win millions. U.S. networks bet on comeback for TV poker 2013-06-05T19:03:17Z He joined a small group of poker players that met every Thursday night in SoHo, dated a succession of young women and regularly went out to restaurants and clubs. Books of The Times: Peering Into A Reclusive Life 2011-02-10T15:17:01Z When the eyes of the entire world are trained on you during the most high stakes moment of your career, you’d be forgiven for not keeping a poker face. Ashley Wagner’s moment of honesty goes viral 2014-02-10T16:02:00Z Gloucester still loses his eyes in that grisly fashion, and in fact Mr. Farr’s production adds the innovation of a red-hot poker to this gruesome scene. | 'King Lear' : The Old, Inexorable Story of a King?s Disintegration 2011-07-17T21:53:11Z Where there’s “tilt,” the poker term for players who let their emotions rule them, there’s drama. Researching Your Book? Hit the Casino 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z People are very aware of their “poker face” she says, so she looks for self-soothing behaviours, such as someone stroking the back of their hand with their thumb. How to spot a liar – even if he isn’t a cabinet minister 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Earlier this week, it was reported that Major League Baseball plans to investigate allegations that Rodriguez participated in high-stakes underground poker games. Alex Rodriguez's Poker Scandal: Why Athletes Love Gambling 2011-08-05T10:30:00Z Who can resist a soundtrack full of well-chosen blues and country-and-western songs, many of which offer further testimony to the place of cards, poker chips, dice and racehorses in our national mythology? Review: ‘Mississippi Grind’ Keeps Its Cards Close 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z “I played cards in a poker group for a year and a half,” he told The Stamford Advocate in 2003, “before somebody said, ‘Somebody told me you were in broadcasting.’” Alan Kalter, Longtime Voice of Letterman’s ‘Late Show,’ Dies at 78 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Just staying away from poker is more prudent. Alex Rodriguez's Poker Scandal: Why Athletes Love Gambling 2011-08-05T10:30:00Z “Straight Flush” follows the partners around the world as they find ways to animate and monetize poker playing on the Web. Books of The Times: ‘Straight Flush’ by Ben Mezrich 2013-05-22T21:41:01Z On longer flights I like to read a lot, do the crossword, watch films, play video poker or backgammon. The Travels of Tony Shalhoub, From Paris to Austin 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z The second part of the book is an extended poker game. Now You See It: A Magician’s Memoir Promises Truth and Other Lies 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Like a gangster or poker player who doesn’t want anyone to read his next move, his eyes were constantly shaded by a dark Yankees baseball cap. Concert review: Watch the Throne at the United Center 2011-12-01T07:35:00Z Thank you for gambling responsibly Unpacking the deliberate way that poker machines are designed to entice players is the point of Ka-Ching, the last work of advertising guru Neil Lawrence before he died in July. Ka-Ching: pokies documentary reveals what makes the machines so addictive 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Tommy talks his way into the nightly poker game with the banker he’s supposed to befriend, but their budding friendship inspires no disclosures. Review | The hero of a new thriller learns a hard lesson: Never trust the FBI 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z He’s probably the worst movie character poker player ever. Joe Swanberg steps out: The filmmaker is still creating daring movies about normal people 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z He maintained a pretty good poker face no matter what was thrown at him. Ten amazing memories: Heartwarming stories of my dog, Brando (2000-2013) 2013-04-12T00:00:00Z "I was told that I didn't understand this player's poker game, or that I didn't understand poker that well." When a poker commentator suspected a player of cheating, she called this lawyer 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z You're an avid poker and you got famous stars together to raise money for those who are struggling right now. Hank Azaria: "For Mets fans, the bad news is there's no games. The good news is there's no games" 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Nationality envy, climate doom, energy, expat life, poker, cougar logistics, what was free on the menu. Blind date: ‘Did we kiss? Enthusiastically’ 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z As for my former classmate, he graduated from high school and later went on to shoot smack and scam video poker machines for a living. In praise of idle hands: Underemployed and unashamed in America 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z While Gianni's mother and her cronies in both films enjoy a blissful existence, thriving on Krug and the poker channel, the men are discontented. Gianni Di Gregorio: The incidental director 2011-07-28T20:01:01Z In fact, if drinking were like a poker game, $16 seems to be the point beyond which most bars and customers would fold. Gulp. How’d we get to the $22 cocktail? 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Much of the art was preserved, but three paintings by old masters somehow ended up in a poker game won by an American tank commander, Maj. Returning the Spoils of World War II, Taken by Our Side 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z In this one, it’s all shells except for the cards; even the pile of poker chips is an itty-bitty snail house. Style Invitational Week 1252: It’s a med, med, med, med world 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z In Ms. Hulse’s novel, no one plays poker, but the 41-year-old British author wrote in some of the psychological quirks she has seen at tournaments. Researching Your Book? Hit the Casino 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z How many Harvard grads with PhDs from Columbia, who have built careers writing for The New Yorker, are also phenomenal professional poker players? Ten books to read in June 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z Slots and four kinds of video poker will be the first games offered. Now you can lose money without ever leaving your bed 2013-02-11T22:51:00Z But if there’s one thing you need to be a good poker player, it’s optimism AND a faith in comebacks, not the inevitability of disaster. ‘The Noble Hustle’: bets and bluffs in a high-stakes game 2014-05-08T22:06:01Z Simmons chatted with Salon about his films, masculinity, fatherhood and his poker skills. J.K. Simmons’ strong silent types: “Some, because of their own upbringing, or pain or self-consciousness, have a difficult time letting it out” 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z I would argue that a visit isn’t all that different to taking part in a book club, a knitting group, a poker night or a sci-fi convention. Melbourne's cat cafe – like AA, only for cat owners 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z I dropped in once to see what this was all about, and the poker room manager chatted me up after I introduced myself. Please Take My Son’s Wallet 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Charles sometimes played poker with some of the jockeys — a slippery bunch, he said. Your Vacation Mission? Find This Stolen Horse 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z We even ended up using the poker chips. Motherlode Blog: Father's Day, With Autism: Rethinking the Cool Dad 2012-06-14T17:27:20Z Among the more benign activities the local residents engage in are deer hunting and poker playing, alongside the occasional dazed stare at a television screen. Theater Review: Thurber’s ‘Hill Town Plays’ Are Produced by Rattlestick 2013-09-06T02:00:01Z In summer, they host a bimonthly poker game, to which all are welcome. Blue Hill, a Literary Enclave, Grows in Downeast Maine 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z She hosted 15 adults for a ceramics class, where they sipped cocktails while spinning the wheels on her deck, shaping cups and bowls out of clay, followed by a paella feast and games of poker. The Latest Summer Fad in the Hamptons: Clay Catering on Demand 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z “Amis’s extraliterary interests, like chess and poker and nuclear weapons, are represented, but briefly,” Jenny Turner wrote in the Book Review. A Brief Guide to Martin Amis’s Books 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z Beneath the poker face of this wickedly entertaining film lurks an insinuating smirk on the verge of widening into a grin. 'Terribly Happy': a wickedly entertaining Danish thriller 2010-04-22T21:14:00Z The young, impertinent Adams was often called a maverick, a western accolade, referring to the rancher Sam Maverick who let the unbranded cattle he won in a poker game roam free on the open range. America's composer 2010-06-19T23:01:00Z In other musical collaborations, Joseph Gordon-Levitt duets with Miss Piggy on her late-night talk show before joining Scooter and the gang for poker night. TV listings: Tuesday, December 1, 2015 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z Less than 15 minutes after they start playing, the poker gods smile on Hitchcock. A 70-year-old socialite’s unlikely journey from Park Avenue to the poker table 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z She was a woman you could play poker with. Elizabeth Taylor, always leading lady 2011-03-24T15:29:00Z Like the one where CK is playing poker with his foul-mouthed stand-up cohorts. Jonathan Bernstein's Aerial View of American TV 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z Wayne falls back on the gambler’s truism about playing the hand you’ve been dealt, but that advice is more complicated than it sounds, and in any case rodeo isn’t like poker. Review: ‘The Rider’ Is an American Regional Film to Savor 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z The shop sells Stetsons cut from real buffalo fur and fire-engine-red rodeo shirts emblazoned with poker cards. 36 Hours in Steamboat Springs, Colo. 2012-12-05T20:27:07Z So a few of the guys and I would order food from one of the delis or one of the diners, and we had a poker table downstairs in the basement of the Imperial Theater. "Red Notice" star Chris Diamantopoulos swears he wasn't trying to break up Jim and Pam 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z A poker entrepreneur who ran a high-stakes game before slamming into trouble, Molly is a speed-talker and somewhat of a close one, too. Review: The Big and Minor Stakes of ‘Molly’s Game’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z Some did double duty, offering gumballs along with chances to win at poker. Antiques: Robert Megna?s Medical Device Collection Goes to Auction 2011-08-25T22:28:50Z A wordless poker game acted out to Beethoven, for example, has its comic appeal, but the synchronization was just as impressive for demonstrating Kovacs’s experimentation with sound and image. That Kovacs Touch: Comedy?s Lunatic Fringe 2011-05-06T23:24:49Z After a few wisecracks about poker games and old age, investigations editor Walter V. “Robby” Robinson, played by Michael Keaton, notes that the Globe’s enigmatic new top editor is arriving in a few days. Perspective | ‘Spotlight’ made Marty Baron a star. It also made him my friend. 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z In America, at least according to the rough romanticism this movie embraces, even the bad stuff — loneliness, regret, lousy poker hands, cheap booze, unpayable debts — can make you feel good. Review: ‘Mississippi Grind’ Keeps Its Cards Close 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Part of it was this period around 2000 where everyone was trying to launch Internet companies and they were poker players who decided to try. I like my imagined literary nemesis 2013-06-01T22:30:00Z She left him in the bedroom with the mink coats of guests who came to his barmitzvah only to play poker with her. Michael Winner 2013-01-21T17:28:09Z After online games were shut down, Hitchcock thought her poker days were over, until a friend invited her to a home game a year later, with eight guys around a dining-room table. A 70-year-old socialite’s unlikely journey from Park Avenue to the poker table 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z On the weekend before the finale, Mr. Brown chatted on the telephone about Mr. Darden’s terrible poker face and the experience of being part of a water-cooler show. The Breakout Star of ‘The People v. O.J. Simpson’ on the Emotional Finale 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z In this version, one of Oscar’s poker buddies is a little disappointed that Felix isn’t gay, because he thinks a gay friend would make him seem more “evolved.” Review: Matthew Perry in an ‘Odd Couple’ Refitted for a New Century 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Oh, and Burrows let the cast play poker in his dressing room. The Friends reunion was a total car crash 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z By the time Shepherd bought the town, three years after the mill closed, there were Thursday night poker games on the street, "and by Sunday afternoon, they were all drunk and shooting." North Carolina gets ready for 'Hunger Games' fans 2012-03-21T16:09:14Z He’s been playing for about a year and says it’s like the days when online poker was legal and full of amateurs. How Fake Sports Are Turning Man Cave Dwellers Into Millionaires 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z According to a new report from Star magazine, Rodriguez played underground poker on two occasions. Alex Rodriguez's Poker Scandal: Why Athletes Love Gambling 2011-08-05T10:30:00Z In the early 1990s, Michael Jordan admitted to losing $57,000 in golf and poker debts to a convicted drug dealer. Alex Rodriguez's Poker Scandal: Why Athletes Love Gambling 2011-08-05T10:30:00Z “I do not want to play poker with you.” Carly Fiorina killed in the debates. But how would she do in person? 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z “It was long hours. You finally got a Saturday off, you played golf or went fishing or had an afternoon poker party with fellow worker friends.” The hard-charging space program: Breakthroughs, breakups and breakneck 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z Joe plans to retire south of the border for some R & R — he’s fond of poker, liquor and “señoritas” — while Max has a new assignment to deal with. ‘Dead for a Dollar’ Review: How the Western’s Done 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z He’d make prop bets with his buddies around the poker table. The Washington gambler 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z An American Olympic-hero-turned-double-agent, Weston is a character plucked from a different era, and this subplot seems less about a national security threat than like a six-figure poker game. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 7: Whac-a-Mole 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z The only game they disagreed on was poker, because Sandberg didn’t much like to gamble. Dave Goldberg and Sheryl Sandberg's Unlikely Love Story 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Hitchcock started playing poker seriously just eight years ago. A 70-year-old socialite’s unlikely journey from Park Avenue to the poker table 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z My father and I routinely communicate like poker players, keeping our hearts as close as our cards. “Tell me this one, Momma”: Each snapshot revealed something new about who we were 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z Do you think online poker will be coming back? I like my imagined literary nemesis 2013-06-01T22:30:00Z As the co-author of one of the first textbooks on game theory, he took a coolly analytical approach to a range of situations that included bluffing in poker and the prospect of nuclear annihilation. ‘The Man From the Future’ Recounts the Life of a Restless Genius 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z That scene is a pivotal moment for the heroine, Minnie, as she gambles her lover’s life on a game of poker with the town sheriff. Review: Puccini’s American Opera Needs a New American Vision 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z She maintains a real poker face as she sizes up every situation she encounters, determining how to think, or feel, or react. In Netflix's captivating "Prayers for the Stolen," life goes on as one digs a grave to stay safe 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z What about them put them on the track … It could have been any frat guy that plays poker in an underground bar. I like my imagined literary nemesis 2013-06-01T22:30:00Z But she kept a poker face, swiveling her hips, controlling the moment. Rihanna’s fire-and-ice act | Concert review 2013-04-04T17:35:07Z Norman has a poker group that comes to the house often; sometimes I join in. Norris Church Mailer obituary 2010-12-07T18:30:00Z For years, Bloom organised high stakes poker games for Hollywood's elite at which hundreds of millions of dollars would change hands. Aaron Sorkin to adapt poker memoir 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z Aglialoro would fashion himself into a kind of Randian hero, owning and operating more than 30 companies and winning a U.S. poker championship. 'Atlas Shrugged' finally comes to the screen 2011-04-10T05:00:00Z He was among the first of the troops sent home after V-E Day, and it was while on a train from Germany to France that he racked up those $3,000 in poker winnings. William Greenberg Jr., Baker Who Sweetened Manhattan, Dies at 97 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z “People are at their very worst when they’re under pressure,” said the writer whose live tournament poker earnings tally more than $30,000. Researching Your Book? Hit the Casino 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z To coerce her to cooperate, they put a poker in the fire and threaten to brand her. "Those Who Wish Me Dead" wastes Angelina Jolie's action chops in a film that's more smoke than fire 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z Where a few hundred crusty desperadoes used to gather for major poker tournaments, thousands now enter them, including “Sarasota dentists,” Mr. Whitehead writes, “and hedge-fund dinks.” Books of The Times: ‘The Noble Hustle,’ by Colson Whitehead 2014-05-08T20:03:16Z The 48-year-old New Yorker, who speaks with the gentle lilt of her native Alabama, has totaled more than $120,600 in live tournament winnings, according to the poker database the Hendon Mob. Researching Your Book? Hit the Casino 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Lunacy presented with a poker face is the engine driving this classic comedy, which combines satirical verbal jousting reminiscent of Oscar Wilde with the frenzied energy of farce. Theater Review: Joe Orton’s ‘Loot’ Is a Comedy of Bad Manners 2014-01-19T21:36:48Z There is worthwhile, cinematic television happening on the margins of True Detective – stunning aerial shots of tangled Los Angeles freeways, a California Split-esque low-stakes poker room, musical homages to Twin Peaks. 'True Detective' Season 2 Is Halfway Over And It's Still Unclear What Is Happening 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z What else could they offer, besides poker and blackjack and roulette? Mandalay Bay embodied everything modern Las Vegas wanted to be. Until this week. 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z The 34-year-old New Yorker said that she is struck by how lousy most people are at just watching and listening, the key to good writing and good poker. Researching Your Book? Hit the Casino 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, in states like New Jersey and Nevada where gambling is big business, many avid poker players unable to go to casinos may be migrating online. Veteran online poker players cash in during lockdown surge 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z I recently withdrew from my monthly poker group, where I've played for the last 12 years. Perspective | Ask Amy: Bestie’s packed schedule doesn’t leave time to visit 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Bullhooks, which resemble fire pokers and were used to control elephants during training, were also banned in cities and states across the United States. Former circus elephants just arrived at a new sanctuary. They are swimming and grazing on fruit buffets. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Just for fun: “Family charades is a favorite activity. Or a game of poker.” 9 Fourth of July Entertaining Tips from Victoria Hagan 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z A few states have already begun legalizing Web poker, eyeing the tax revenues the games will bring. Casinos to spin Timberlake, Affleck poker film as cautionary tale 2013-08-23T11:16:28Z I preferred bridge, and it wasn’t until I started playing a weekly poker game in my mid-20s that I started to see the possible complexities. Surviving at the Poker Tables: Colson Whitehead Talks About 'The Noble Hustle' 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Some played poker backstage at intermission, a longstanding Met tradition. A 6-Hour Opera in a Pandemic? The Met Goes for It. 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Castle takes a break from teaching his daughter the finer rules of poker to get stuck into a case that points towards major police corruption. TV highlights 14/12/2012 2012-12-13T20:00:01Z I believe I saw him beat Colson Whitehead in a poker game a few years ago. A Poetry Collection That Squints Hard at the Culture, in Pain and in Joy 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z And then Marnie, the daft little sausage, got all hysterical watching the ensuring tussle – and killed that poor sweet innocent guy with a poker. What's wrong with Hitchcock's women 2010-10-21T20:30:00Z Finally, Bailey leans forward like a poker player who senses a winning hand and e-mails the U.S. sales agent two options for a new screening. Toronto film fest boss stays cool under pressure 2010-09-03T03:05:00Z She and Rance play a hand of poker over his fate, and hers. Review: A Good-Enough ‘La Fanciulla del West’ at New York City Opera 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z He rarely cracked a joke or showed any tenderness to his children, squandered his salary on rum and poker, and wasn't shy when it came to raining blows on Blossom. Bageye at the Wheel by Colin Grant – review 2012-05-25T21:55:10Z I taught my kids to play poker, which cost me all my spare change, but taught them about chance and human nature. One upside to the divorce I didn’t want 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z The riverside town offers little beyond a sandwich shop, a dusty diner touting Keno poker and, housed in a nondescript corner building, Brandborg winery, one of southern Oregon’s best. Only Hours From Napa, But a World Away 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z “Take off your shoes, your shirts,” Jay Johnson, a Factory member, recalled Avedon saying, slowly, one step at a time, as if in a game of strip poker. Richard Avedon’s Wall-Size Ambitions 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z The reporters, covering the Criminal Courts Building for a gallery of competing Chicago papers — this is the 1920s, remember — seem more dedicated to winning a poker hand than scoring a scoop. Why ‘The Front Page’ is the best newspaper comedy of all time 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z “You gotta suck it up and make him like you. Take up poker, watch ‘The Godfather’ 10 times or whatever.” 'Orange Is the New Black' Recap: All They're Missing Is a Black Market Etsy 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z This ability will also facilitate her careers as a private investigator and as a premier poker and blackjack player on the watch list of many Vegas casinos. Books of The Times: Safety in Numbers? Not for This Heroine 2010-08-26T22:32:00Z She would tell him when she thought he was playing too much online poker, which he seemed to be doing all the time, sometimes on multiple screens at once. The Washington gambler 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Eager to remain a mystery at the poker table, Ms. Ellis keeps her writing life quiet and tells her opponents only that she’s a housewife. Researching Your Book? Hit the Casino 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Paul is the golden child, handsome, athletic and charming, but with a weakness for whiskey and high-stakes poker games. Fly-Fishing in Montana, Where a River Still Runs Through It 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z After a poker game at his home, he corners Marnie, who threatens to slap him. Review: ‘Marnie’ Stays in the Shadows in Nico Muhly’s Opera 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z These weren’t puny bay scallops, but big, golden Atlantic scallops thick as a stack of four poker chips. Moose, Anyone? In Newfoundland, Food Both Rustic and Sophisticated 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z All the stuff I was studying wasn’t really appropriate to tournament poker. Surviving at the Poker Tables: Colson Whitehead Talks About 'The Noble Hustle' 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Meanwhile an online poker website steals the march. Drip-fed up: why don't theatres get Twitter? 2011-02-08T15:43:00Z The spirit of Charles Dickens, who also shows up, claims to play regular poker matches with Jane Austen in the afterlife. Only Second City would give you Dickens and Austen playing poker in the afterlife 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z I do, however, like to wander casinos and study the intense faces of the men and women crowded around poker and baccarat tables, always an interesting contrast to the nonchalance of the dealers. Frugal Traveler Blog: Atlantic City: Open for Business After the Storm 2012-11-14T00:18:19Z The lure this time is "RewardVille," a show of appreciation aimed at getting players even more absorbed in their online farms, cities, crime rings and poker games. With rewards, Zynga hopes to get you (more) hooked 2011-03-21T10:29:10Z One year, she lost a tooth, when the family were gigging through casino territory, and she woke up to find a poker chip under her pillow. Maya Rudolph: ‘I'm not a woman in comedy. I'm a comedian' 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z His “group biography” of seven classic games — checkers, chess, Go, backgammon, poker, Scrabble and bridge — is in many ways an interrogation of these questions: Are games more than their rules and playing pieces? It’s Just a Game. Or Is It? 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z He only bought two items in the entire eight-part series and otherwise kept his hands in his pockets and his face totally poker. Four Rooms: how to beat the experts 2011-07-08T23:06:59Z There are poker faces on both sides of the table. Television Review: ‘Final Offer’ on Discovery Looks at Memorabilia Sales 2012-05-30T22:28:43Z As famous last conversations go, well, that poker table chat was pretty special. Fargo recap: season two episode ten – The Castle 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z So he gets addicted to online poker and - worse still - takes the ignominious step of self publishing. The self-publishing travails of Ted Heller 2013-07-24T12:08:35Z These milder ways of celebrating might include a catered lunch, golf outing, scotch tasting, pickup basketball, shooting pool or a poker game, Mr. Dulac said. The Bro-dal Shower. Good, Clean Fun for Grooms. 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z I’ve always loved stories about gamblers: Walter Tevis’s “The Hustler,” and the film adapted from it, and Don Carpenter’s several novels and stories with pool and poker games, and the Dostoyevsky book, and some others. This Week in Fiction: Jonathan Lethem on the Poignance of Backgammon 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z So we started playing through Zoom with a poker app online through a poker website. Hank Azaria: "For Mets fans, the bad news is there's no games. The good news is there's no games" 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z But this was back when balloons came in standard colors and were associated more with pizza parties in movie theaters than poker nights at Charlize Theron’s house. How Balloons Blew Up 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Aaron Sorkin is set to step behind the camera for the first time, to adapt the memoir Molly’s Game, about a former skier who wound up managing the world’s most exclusive poker game. Aaron Sorkin to make directorial debut with poker drama Molly's Game 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z He opened up a spreadsheet of some of his bets with poker buddies. The Washington gambler 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Williams, like many accomplished Magic players, has made most of his money in professional poker. The Twenty-Five-Year Journey of Magic: The Gathering 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z Having done these poker tournaments, the live version, for years, I think my record before this was maybe getting 11 celebs to show up, because it's hard to schlep and play and do the thing. Hank Azaria: "For Mets fans, the bad news is there's no games. The good news is there's no games" 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Then again, in another sense, it’s poker’s opposite. This Week in Fiction: Jonathan Lethem on the Poignance of Backgammon 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z I think within the next decade, most of the states in this country will have online poker and eventually there will be some federal passage. I like my imagined literary nemesis 2013-06-01T22:30:00Z "Today is a black day for all amateur poker players in Switzerland." Swiss crack down on Texas hold 'em matches 2010-06-02T11:47:00Z Seems like the poker may not quite be over for Jessica after all. TV review: Digging for Britain and Mistresses 2010-08-20T05:45:00Z SAT 18-mile mountain bike poker ride on the statistically worst-weather day of the year; collect playing cards along the way to win a prize; proceeds benefit Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center, 9 a.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2014-01-15T17:29:21Z But he still talks about poker, which he now rarely plays, with the vocabulary of the art dealer he once was. After a Record Sale, Mark Grotjahn Changes Course 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z The Venezuelan, 11 years older, became a surrogate big brother to the anarchic rich kid, who supported himself partly by playing online poker. Into the void: the fast life and shocking death of a wingsuit-flying superstar 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z Some of those are my poker buddies and some guys I've never met before. Hank Azaria: "For Mets fans, the bad news is there's no games. The good news is there's no games" 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z His enormous, expressionistic set evoked a bomb shelter with a circular, lamp-lit table in the middle, designed to suggest a poker table. Ken Adam, who made Bond villain lairs and ‘Dr. Strangelove’ War Room, dies at 95 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z The mayor wants to take away Frank’s poker room and doesn’t care about Frank’s lost money or the fact that the murder investigation is metastasizing into an inquiry into his city’s profound corruption. 'True Detective' Recap: Big Blasts and Diminished Men 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z The group’s change in tactics—engaging walkers with knives, swords and pokers first—shows a huge advancement in their abilities. The Walking Dead Watch: From the Farm to the Prison 2012-10-15T12:00:21Z It’s the language of dominance that gives depth to his characters: a junk shop owner, his poker buddy and a dim assistant. Five Broadway Revivals Give a Tour of Our Theatrical Past 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z With his editors, Mr. Sorkin gives Molly’s poker education snap, cutting from shot to shot — from a drink being poured to a slammed-down stack of chips — and turning images into near-hieroglyphics. Review: The Big and Minor Stakes of ‘Molly’s Game’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z After getting a law degree at the University of Miami, where he lugged his law books to a local card room and studied during poker sessions, he took up politics. When a poker commentator suspected a player of cheating, she called this lawyer 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z “Seven friends can become true poker divas in one evening.” A Young Auctioneer Breaks Into the Gavel Clique 2011-10-28T22:42:28Z He also became a competitive poker player and hosted a program on Playboy TV featuring celebrities playing Texas hold ’em. Sam Simon, Who Helped Shape ‘The Simpsons,’ Dies at 59 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z They replace all the slick bros at the poker table and, taken together, make quite a paternal choir. Review: The Big and Minor Stakes of ‘Molly’s Game’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z |
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