"Expert" was written by an enigmatic cardsharp named S.W. Erdnase.
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He weaves and finesses warm with cool and figure with ground like a cardsharp shuffles cards.
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As a boy he saw a movie about riverboat gambling, determined that he wanted to be a cardsharp and worked toward that end, at least for a time.
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"The truth began to dawn that no one wanted to play poker with a 12-year-old cardsharp," he told The Sunday Telegraph of Sydney, Australia, in 1996.
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Netflix Description: A gambler mired in debt thinks another cardsharp may just be his good luck charm as the two head for New Orleans to buy into a high-stakes poker game.
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He grew up in Ontario, the son of a Mohawk-Cayuga mother and — as he later learned — a Jewish father, a cardsharp who was struck and killed by a motorist early in her pregnancy.
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These include Josh Faraday (Chris Pratt), a cardsharp; Goodnight Robicheaux (Ethan Hawke), a marksman who saw action at Antietam; his sidekick, Billy Rocks (Byung-hun Lee), who keeps a lethal weapon in his hair; Jack Horne (Vincent D'Onofrio), a wild man of the woods; Vasquez (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), an outlaw; and a Comanche warrior, Red Harvest (Martin Sensmeier), whose horse wears even more face paint than he does.
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The second half of the series includes many episodes with Whip Morgan (Jeff Phillips), a young cardsharp whose attempts to assist Brisco and Bowler often end up causing trouble.
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The sleeve garter is often seen in modern depictions of the Old West, not only on musicians and gamblers but on the stereotypical well-dressed gunslinger. In this case, the suggestion may be that the sleeve garter facilitates freedom of movement and aids in gunslingers' ability to quick draw. A stereotypical Old West cardsharp/gunslinger image. Today, the sleeve garter sometimes accessorizes the costumes of rodeo participants.
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It detailed the special card work that Scott had perfected decades earlier and introduced the level of skill and practice necessary to survive as a cardsharp to an entire new generation. Gazzo is now living in Bath, England, and continues to give lectures and performances around the world and perform street magic. He has published several magic related books, manuscripts and DVDs. He also produces custom made magic items.
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A cardsharp using sleight of hand to win a game of cards. Sleight of hand (also known as prestidigitation or legerdemain ()) refers to fine motor skills when used by performing artists in different art forms to entertain or manipulate. It is closely associated with close-up magic, card magic, card flourishing and stealing. Because of its heavy use and practice by magicians, sleight of hand is often confused as a branch of magic.
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The painting shows an expensively- dressed but unworldly boy playing cards with another boy. The second boy, a cardsharp, has extra cards tucked in his belt behind his back, out of sight of the mark but not the viewer, and a sinister older man is peering over the dupe's shoulder and signaling to his young accomplice. The second boy has a dagger handy at his side. It was the second such painting Caravaggio created.
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Ullrich Haupt and Ruth Chatterton in Madame X Jacqueline Floriot (Chatterton) is thrown out into the street without any money by her jealous husband Louis (Lewis Stone) when he discovers she had been carrying on an affair. She is not even allowed to see their four- year-old son, and sinks into depravity. Twenty years later, she has become the mistress of Laroque (Ullrich Haupt), a cardsharp. When he finds out that her husband is now the attorney general, Laroque decides to blackmail him.
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This cardsharp was a mysterious player named 'Scott'. These letters raise some questions, such as why in 1922 McGuire was still talking to Downs about 'second dealing' specifics having already met Scott who he had alluded to being an excellent second dealer. Around the time Scott was touring with his band McGuire also wrote Downs telling him that Scott performed his music just for the fun of it. In 1929 he talked of watching Scott hustling other players at a game in Block Island.
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John Marsden, a famed and powerful New York gambler who refuses to throw a game, is devoted to his wife, Alma, and his impressionistic younger brother, "Babe," to whom he sends a wedding gift of $10,000, which Babe may keep on the condition that he does not indulge in gambling. Alma, dismayed by John's ruthless tactics and his obsession with gambling, threatens to leave him unless he takes his winnings and leaves the city with her. He agrees. However, that evening Babe, who has become a cardsharp, comes to town with his new wife, Judith.
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Maverick initially starred James Garner as Bret Maverick, an adroitly articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart Maverick, and for the remainder of the first three seasons, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Maverick brothers were poker players from Texas who traveled the American Old West by horseback and stagecoach, and on Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into and out of life-threatening trouble of one sort or another, usually involving money, women, or both. They would typically find themselves weighing a financial windfall against a moral dilemma.
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He fooled Houdini: Dai Vernon, a magical life by Bruce Cervon and Keith Burns (1992) At the time, Grey had just begun his career in magic but with little success and was only just managing to make a living.The Magician and the Cardsharp: The Search for America's Greatest Sleight-Of-Hand Artist by Karl Johnson (2006) Grey and Vernon decided to work together, initially setting up a booth along Kengsington Walk, in which Grey would sell small packs of cards and magic props while Vernon would cut silhouettes. During this time Vernon and Grey lived together in a room on Coney Island. Vernon later taught him how to cut silhouettes and they both worked together cutting silhouettes at the Toronto Exhibition in 1919 and at a booth in New York City in the 1920s.
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Commenting on Saxon Warrior's progress in the early spring of 2018, Aidan O'Brien said "He's done very well and is a massive, big, physical horse. He was a big horse last year but he's bigger this year... He'll probably go straight for the Guineas." As O'Brien predicted he made his seasonal debut in the 210th running of the 2000 Guineas over the Rowley Mile at Newmarket Racecourse on 5 May and with Moore engaged to ride Mendelssohn in the Kentucky Derby the colt was ridden by Donnacha O'Brien. Saxon Warrior was made the 3/1 second favourite behind Masar while the other twelve runners included Roaring Lion, Gustav Klimt (Superlative Stakes), Elarqam (Somerville Tattersall Stakes), Expert Eye, James Garfield (Greenham Stakes), Rajasinghe (Coventry Stakes) and Cardsharp (July Stakes).
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On his racecourse debut Sands of Mali was ridden by David Nolan when he finished seventh in a minor race over six furlongs at York Racecourse on 15 July. Eighteen later he started at odds of 5/1 for a similar event on soft ground at Nottingham Racecourse and recorded his first success as he won by three and three quarter lengths from Eirene with a gap of thirteen lengths back to the other five runners. On 26 August the colt was stepped up in class for the Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes at York and started a 14/1 outsider in a ten-runner field. His opponents included Cardsharp (July Stakes), Headway (second in the Coventry Stakes), Invincible Army (second in the Molecomb Stakes) and Nebo (second in the Richmond Stakes).
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A card sharp (also cardsharp, card shark or cardshark, sometimes hyphenated) is a person who uses skill and/or deception to win at poker or other card games. "Sharp" and "shark" spellings have varied over time and by region. The label is not always intended as pejorative, and is sometimes used to refer to practitioners of card tricks for entertainment purposes. In general usage, principally in American English and more commonly with the "shark" spelling, the term has also taken on the meaning of an expert card gambler who takes advantage of less-skilled players, also called an advantage player, without any implication of actual cheating at cards, in much the same way that "" or "pool hustler" can (especially when used by non-players) be intended to refer to a skilled player rather than a cheater or swindler.
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The Cardsharp with the Ace of Diamonds by Georges de La Tour, c. 1620–1640. Whether through Costantino or Orsi, Caravaggio came to the notice of the prominent collector Cardinal Francesco Del Monte, who purchased Cardsharps and became the artist's first important patron, giving him lodgings in his Palazzo Madama behind the Piazza Navona,The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) (1571–1610) and his Followers then as now one of the principal squares in Rome. From Del Monte's collection the work entered the collection of Cardinal Antonio Barberini, nephew of the Pope Urban VIII (whose pre-elevation portrait, Portrait of Maffeo Barberini, Caravaggio would paint in 1598), in Rome and was passed through the Colonna-Sciarra family.Note: Barberini's sister-in-law was Anna Colonna and his grand-niece married a Colonna family member also.
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In Religion, Arizona, gunfighters from the far reaches of the globe come to compete in a poker tournament where their very souls are on the line.Lealos, Shawn S. Renegade Cinema (2015) Renegadecinema.com The film opens in Arizona Territory in the year 1879 with a number of scenes that intermingle to provide glimpses of a handful of the main characters and their backgrounds— Saint John (Gary Douglas Kohn) who is hanging from a noose like a dead man yet still very much alive; the gunslinger Anton Stice (Claude Duhamel) who kills four men over an insult; Chinaman Dan (Peter Shinkoda), a wanted bank robber; and the multifaceted dandy Salt Peter (Louie Sabatasso), a cardsharp looking for the next big game, in this case the tournament in the dusty tent city of Religion. Town entrepreneur Harvard Gold (James Anthony Cotton) hosts the “first annual” poker game as a means of drumming up business for himself and putting Religion on the map.
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