Word: poker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME erred in its article on Super-Bridge in the March 7 issue when it stated that to the poker crowd, the five-suit deck of cards opened new vistas of more easily filled straights. . . . With a four-suit deck, the chances of drawing the right card to the middle of a four-card straight are four out of 47; whereas, with a five-suit deck, the chances are only five out of 60. In other words, the probabilities would be .085106 in the former instance and .083333 in the latter. TIME, therefore, is nearly 18/100 of one percent...
Displaying a dynamic knowledge of baccarat and the higher nuances of poker, the Crimson motor yachtsmen whiled their way to victory over the Mystic launches on the difficult mile course of the Charles yesterday...
...warm California afternoon, summer before last, every major Hollywood cinema producer put on his best double-dealing poker face and disclaimed to his colleagues any interest in Authoress Margaret Mitchell's magnum opus, Gone With the Wind. All knew only too well that any open move to bid for it would send the price kiting. Hence young Producer David O. Selznick was highly pleased with himself when three days later he was able to announce that for mere peanuts ($50,000) he had bought the film rights to the book that was becoming the best-selling best seller...
This time the fallen financier was taken to the Criminal Courts Building. While photographers ran ahead of the poker-faced broker, snapping his long, elegantly dressed frame and the little Porcellian pig glistening at his watch chain, several hundred idlers trailed in his wake. "Who is it?" cried a woman. "It's Whitney!" screamed a group of giggling schoolchildren...
...editors, tiring of wire stories from all ends of the earth telling of miraculous one-suit hands being dealt to people with weak hearts, welcomed a card game in which a one-suit hand was impossible. Other card players found the possibilities of the new deck intriguing. To the poker crowd, for example, it opened bright vistas of more easily filled straights, green flushes, and a new one-eyed jack for the wild games...