cardshark
cardsharp BrE

And it finally dawned on me that he was a freelance professional - a player - a cardshark.

"He's like a cardshark with a new victim.

She watched while his mind cooly riffled plans and probabilities with the speed of a cardshark setting up a gull.

A card sharp (also spelled cardsharp, card shark or cardshark) is a person who uses skill and deception to win at poker or other card games.

Ownership of the copyright has recently returned to the author (along with two other books Darwin Ortiz At The Card Table and Cardshark) and the books are once again being made available to the trade.

He wrote several shareware games: CardShark Hearts, CardShark Spades, and CardShark Bridge Tutor.

A ludicrous mental image of herself flashed through her mind: She must resemble a character in one of those movie scenes where the deceived cowboy cottons to the truth and overturns the poker table on the dishonest itinerant cardshark, except that she was playing the drama in slow motion, as in a Western underwater.

In the mid 1980s, Nelson Ford wrote CardShark Hearts, for playing Hearts against three computer opponents, CardShark Spades, for playing Spades against the computer, and CardShark Bridge Tutor, for learning to play Contract Bridge.

A guy with more tricks up his sleeve than a cardsharp!

He tapped the back of the top picture like a cardsharp looking for luck.

I felt like a bush league cardsharp holding a royal flush.

He looked too cool, like a cardsharp with an ace up his sleeve.

"I had forgotten that you were once a cardsharp."

In fact, one might even conclude that a cardsharp stood higher on the ladder of respect.

A cardsharp could lose his shirt trying to keep up with the confusing variations they play.

He looked like a kindly country doctor and like a cardsharp.

Then there is a sports jacket with enough secret mechanisms to keep a cardsharp flush for decades.

A Caravaggio cardsharp has a face that's a monument to innocence - and also a card behind his back.

A cardsharp to be warranted any good must make 'is play in the best o' conditions.

Don't do it yourself, or it will be immediately concluded that you are a cardsharp.

However, that evening Babe, who has become a cardsharp, comes to town with his new wife, Judith.

He shuffled his little deck like a cardsharp.

He was supposed to be a boastful lackwit, not a cardsharp.

"Rosalind is not going to be a cardsharp."

To entice the suckers, the cardsharp would "toss the broads."

A dishy redhead who takes pride in her skill ("I am not a cardsharp.

She could also deal cards like a Vegas cardsharp, a talent that flat amazed her husband every time she demonstrated it.

They knew his background as a one-time cardsharp, and had observed his uncanny proficiency with mechanical things.

Arithon matched her play like a cardsharp.

But I would scarcely classify a thief or a pickpocket or a cardsharp as one of those!"

This cardsharp was a mysterious player named 'Scott'.

When she'd told Papaw her news, he had immediately demanded to speak to the "no-account cardsharp" who had stolen away his little girl.

Mr. Chestnut grew up as a saxophone-playing cardsharp son of Alabama's schizoid black middle class.