Word: hustler
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...Cincinnati Kid, Norman Jewison's favorite of his own films, and quite likely his finest. Steve McQueen is the kid who forsakes love and security to challenge Edward G. Robinson's supremacy at five-card stud. This film is for poker what The Hustler was for pool, and powerful performances by McQueen, Robinson, Karl Malden, Joan Blondell, and Tuesday Weld overcome some weaknesses in the script. Despite this glittering cast, however, the entire show is stolen by a cameo appearance by the Jack of Diamonds. Channel...
Immediately after that match, the runty tennis hustler talked about a women's match "to see who gets to play me next...
...Young Hustler. It has been a long time since $19,000 meant much at Slim's level in the demimonde of professional gambling. He has been at it for more than 30 years. He began hustling pool in Texas as an adolescent and later graduated to craps and cards in "country games." By his early teens, he was an acknowledged billiards expert...
...articles from a whole year of reporting, simply because he made so few mistakes and so many shrewd prophecies. He predicted a first-ballot victory for McGovern at the convention when the Senator had only 95 delegates to his name and he was opposed to Eagleton as a "cheap hustler" from the beginning. In fact, of fifty or sixty bets with fellow reporters during the campaign, Thompson lost only...
...number of regular customers, including one who brings in a different opponent every time he arrives. One day this regular confided to Schaut that "it's as easy to lose your shirt in here as it is outdoors." He may be the world's first indoor golf hustler...