Word: pokerful
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...only 1.1 of every 10,000 voters in Harlem, compared with 62.6 of every 10,000 voters from the city's fashionable and predominantly white East Side. A statistician testified that the chances of obtaining that disparity in a random selection were smaller than the probability of a poker player being dealt 24 consecutive royal flushes in a fair game of five-card stud...
...besides, there's no keeds anywhere," said Alyosha, the person who always knew where all the kees were at the way the best poker players magically know the location of all the aces...
...time, all-night, pot-limit poker games, and Lincoln "Mack" Kinicutt was locked into an unbeatable hand. As he glanced at his hole card, and suddenly realized that there was no way he was going to lose 50 per cent of that heavy $150 pot. he threw his hands into the air, thrust his head back and bellowed, "All right! Call me Doctor...
Like the big, blistering serve, the terror came naturally. A high school dropout who taught himself tennis on the public courts of Los Angeles, Gonzalez trained little, feasted on tacos and beer, and whiled the nights away playing poker and snooker. On the court Gonzalez displayed the temperament of a tiger. He snarled at opponents, drilled balls at judges' heads, once even rushed into the seats to strong-arm a heckler...
...thing that he will not do, however, is move from his three-room Greenwich Village apartment. All his friends live on his block, he says-Terrence McNally, Paddy Chayefsky, Robert Drivas, the actor, and Playwright Israel Horowitz. "We get together once a week to play poker. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else." Which sounds about as Barney Cashman as a guy can get and still be James Coco...