“The group of friends gathered around the table to play a riveting game of poker, eagerly bluffing and strategizing as they exchanged cards to improve their hands.”
“One night after the game I cashed in more in poker chips than I started with.”
“Thanks to all who attended and contributed at the charity auction, the poker classic and the whist drive.”
poker
Any of various card games in which, following each of one or more rounds of dealing or revealing the cards, the players in sequence make tacticalbets or drop out, the bets forming a pool to be taken either by the sole remaining player or, after all rounds and bets have been completed, by those remaining players who hold a superiorhand according to a standardranking of hand values for the game. [from earlier 19th c.]
“The group of friends gathered around the table to play a riveting game of poker, eagerly bluffing and strategizing as they exchanged cards to improve their hands.”
“One night after the game I cashed in more in poker chips than I started with.”
“Thanks to all who attended and contributed at the charity auction, the poker classic and the whist drive.”
poker
(US, colloquial) Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.
“The group of friends gathered around the table to play a riveting game of poker, eagerly bluffing and strategizing as they exchanged cards to improve their hands.”
“One night after the game I cashed in more in poker chips than I started with.”
“Thanks to all who attended and contributed at the charity auction, the poker classic and the whist drive.”
“Arnold, formerly a designer in the textile industry, now employs his artistic skills in pyrography, which effectively is pokerwork, in his case using electrical implements.”
“Here is a thing to carve in pokerwork and hang over your typewriter.”
“The bird and the branch are decorated using the pokerwork machine.”
