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• s  preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance
  a card-playing son of a bitch

• Whittington's card-playing buddy Joe Greenhill, a retired Texas Supreme Court justice, says, "He's been besieged with people who want him to be their lawyer.
• Frank lives in a tooth-and-claw, pre-civilized world, but with card-playing, geometrically shaped chickens, stick-figure devils that read books, and man-hogs who live in houses.
• Other card-playing businesswomen say poker can help sharpen business skills.

• dissipated
• betting
• sporting

News & Articles

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• A Quarter-Million-Dollar Card Tournament—That's Not Poker
  The Deal At the end of May, 350 professional card players descended upon San Diego to try to capture the Pro Tour championship, a coveted tournament title on the professional card-playing circuit. Matches spread out across three days of play, with players moving tables and facing constantly shifting competition. Top players—even international titans of the game—were eliminated every day during ...
  June 10, 2013 - Bleacher Report

Quotes

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• Michael Wilbon in Eurweb.com
  Washington Post columnist Michael Wilbon wrote of the ceremony, "It wasn't a speech so much as it was an entertaining rant, something you saw pretty often if you were one of Jordan's golf partners or card-playing friends or, to be honest, a...
• Scott Fischman in Charlotte Observer
  Las Vegas poker champion Scott Fischman, who writes about online poker, says that when he's invited to social gatherings, he has to decide: "Do I want to spend four hours answering questions (about card-playing) or should I just stay home?"