card shark
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Those were the things that interested the grizzled Ricky Jay, the sleight-of-hand artist, card shark, author, actor and scholar extraordinaire on all of the above who died in 2018 at age 72.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 23, 2021
An upstart card shark has a marathon game with the king of stud poker in 1930s New Orleans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2019
In John Sayles’ 1984 movie The Brother From Another Planet, a card shark is riding a northbound A train that is about to make the 66-block jump from Midtown to Harlem.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2018
John Malkovich plays Teddy KGB, a card shark in New York with a vaguely Russian accent, in Rounders.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2014
Eileen, the little card shark she is, won it, and she was keeping it hidden away there to use as a gift for my birthday.
From Her Father's Daughter by Gene Stratton-Porter
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