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...“We had fully expected this,” said Vladimir Putin’s poker-faced spokesman....
...Whether you like Brown or loathe him, you would enjoy playing poker against him. People say he’s more relaxed now. Such things are relative. He wears no tie with his suit....
...But the absolute charmlessness of the hotel is overpowering....
...In many competitive realms, including investing, the skills of the participants have improved on an absolute basis but have shrunk on a relative basis....
...(Chuckle) My family, especially my grandpa, big poker players, card players and horse players....
...My family, especially my grandpa, big poker players, card players and horse players....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Henry Mance Michael, it’s been an absolute pleasure seeing you and hearing you talk through this amazing character and set of events, as you say....
...This is an absolute pleasure. Thom Brooks A great joy. Thank you. [MUSIC PLAYING] Lilah Raptopoulos That’s the show this week....
...Her subject in most of her 20-odd books is the stuff of her life, excavating her memories and trying to reproduce the feeling of living with absolute fidelity....
...He describes a “relational” universe in which there are no absolutes and everything depends on interactions between objects....
...“If you have a guy who is playing poker and he starts with two aces, better not to play against him,” says a foreign executive with years of experience in Abu Dhabi....
...It’s just an absolute fear of being irrelevant. I don’t have that fear. “There has been so much talk, for so many years now, about how the fashion system is broken,” she continues....
...“They are absolute poker players,” says one former associate. “They use the legal equivalent of baseball bats to recover non-performing loans.”...
...Joseph Nye of Harvard argued that the oil and gas resources of the US were one crucial reason why it “still holds the aces in its poker game with China”....
...He labels that investigation an “absolute joke”....
...And when you look at the absolute strengths of top human players and machines, the gap is huge in there....
...This was absolute proof. You didn’t need financial theory, no nothing. It was as if I had a video of him pulling a trigger.” Nobody took any action....
...Instead they decide to invest $100 each for him to play in a much bigger poker game in a casino....
...This will also thrust the former law professor, whose political poker face hides a more risqué personal life, into the full limelight of the presidency....
...But, poker-faced, she ignored questions about the shortcomings of the official probe listed in the report....
...The high-stakes poker player who goes all-in with 7-2 unsuited, the worst hand possible, and comes unstuck is the one we remember....
...For a man with a reputation as a consummate poker player, Gen Soleimani has overplayed his hand....
...Sir, I respectfully and strenuously disagree with many of John Gapper’s opinions expressed in his article “Fiat’s lone poker player needs to find another deal” (Comment, January 9)....
...Tuesday’s announcement also included a settlement with Absolute Poker that would require it to forfeit its assets. That deal was pending approval from a US court....
...Mr Burtnick remains at large, along with Isai Scheinberg and Paul Tate of Poker Stars, and Scott Tom of Absolute Poker....
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