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1. A card player dealt a royal flush _ the best hand in poker _ instinctively treats the cards as a treasure.
2. Comic effect: This 1'77 PG Tips advert portrayed a chimp as a card player – in reality they are natural gamblers It means the apes – who share '8 per cent of their DNA with humans – are the only member of the animal kingdom prepared to gamble.
3. Amir Vahedi, a Tehran native who fought in the Iran–Iraq war and is currently ranked seventh in the world by Card Player (and has his own cigar–chomping bobblehead), explains, "In order to live in a no–limit tournament, you have to be willing to die." Going for broke can work just as well in a satellite.
4. "Sometimes I would tiptoe into the kitchen for a soda, and I could hear the desperation creeping out of his voice, the stretch of silence that followed when the people on the other end explained why Thursday wasn‘t good and Tuesday not much better, and then Gramps‘s heavy sigh after he had hung up the phone, his hands fumbling through the files in his lap like those of a card player who‘s deep in the hole." By the time Barry returned to Hawaii, Toot had become the stable financial source in the family, well known in the local lending community.