Definition of Poker

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Definition of Poker

Poker

One who pokes.

That which pokes or is used in poking, especially a metal bar or rod used in stirring a fire of coals.

A poking-stick.

The poachard.

A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the Southwestern United States.

Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.

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Poker Quotations

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
Steven Wright

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
Jackie Robinson

The best part about poker is there's no down side.
Samantha Bee

Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
Samantha Bee

When I play poker, I don't like losing the pot.
Drew Carey

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
Paul Newman

As for poker, I've stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven, I would get accosted by these guys begging me to play. They just want to take my money. They see me, think "actor" and see some easy money.
Matt Damon

I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.
Antonio Banderas

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
Vannevar Bush

Initial feedback we got from people was that Poker could and should be a product in its own right. For us, that was definitely a case of us not seeing the forest for the trees since we are Poker nuts.
Tim Page

Poker Translations

poker in Dutch is poker
poker in French is tisonnier
poker in Swedish is eldgaffel

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