The sums he had lost at poker, or had borrowed; the debts he owed to the merchants; the reputation he had for "talking big and doing little;" the trouble he had had with this man and that man; and what he did not know for a certainty he guessed at, and so kept the subject alive.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
I've just broken in my wife's 'ead with a poker.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
Waiting For Success It takes a good poker-player to know when to lay down his hand.
"Dollars and Sense"
Col. Wm. C. Hunter