poker

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But when you’re iterating so quickly in poker — hand after hand, decision after decision — it gets into your bones in a way that reading about it doesn’t.

From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026

“All of sports betting, all of playing poker, all of options trading, is making sure you’re betting against someone you’re smarter than,” Susquehanna co-founder Jeff Yass said on a sports betting podcast in 2020.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

She’s appeared in Maxim and cleaned up in poker tournaments when that was a thing.

From Salon • May 4, 2026

Everyone says I've got a bit of a poker face - so they never know how I'm feeling and stuff.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

I stared at the flat poker faces of the kings and jacks and queens and listened to the nurse talking about her hard life.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath