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Definition of Poker game
1. Noun. Any of various card games in which players bet that they hold the highest-ranking hand.
Generic synonyms: Card Game, Cards
Specialized synonyms: Draw, Draw Poker, High-low, Penny Ante, Penny Ante Poker, Straight Poker, Strip Poker, Stud, Stud Poker
Examples of category: Raise, Poker Face, Jackpot, Kitty, Pot, Ante
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poker Game
Literary usage of Poker game
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Diary of a Forty-niner by Chauncey L. Canfield (1906)
"... FASCINATION OF THE "THREE MUSKETEERS"—A REFORMATION AT SELBY FLAT—AN EXPERIMENTAL
VEGETABLE GARDEN ON ROCK CREEK—THE BIGGEST poker game TO DATE. ..."
2. Madeleine by Gide, Madeleine Louise Mathilde Rondeaux (1919)
"my companion began a long-drawn-out story of a poker game in which he had sat
... I had no interest whatever in a poker game, but one thing was much like ..."
3. Easy Money by Harry Brolaski (1911)
"In my career of ups and downs, I once tried to beat a poker game in Cincinnati.
I landed in that city one fall with about twenty thousand dollars, ..."
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