All of this amounts to some pretty high stakes poker, political experts say.
There is not -- this is not a game of poker, high-stakes poker, as one Republican congressman deemed it.
Mr Sikorski has also been playing high-stakes poker with America, demanding money for military modernisation, and high-tech defences for Warsaw, in return for hosting a missile-defence base.
It's a movie with a clever concept, an all-star cast and a high-stakes poker tournament.
In the 1966 TV series "Iron Horse, " Robertson played a character who won a railway in a high-stakes poker game.
Moreover, the delay now certain to result from the Yeltsin postponement may actually strengthen Japan's hand in this high-stakes poker game.
The second push came in the mid-1980s, when California legalised high-stakes poker.
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In the high-stakes poker game that the labor negotiations between the NBA owners and players have become, the players have moved all their chips to the middle of the table now.
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This is not about high-stakes poker or political brinkmanship.
Ineos is no stranger to high-stakes poker games.
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Whether confessing that important piece of information to either my colleagues urging me to join in a game of high-stakes poker or to my father in a best-of-three pool match down the pub, I can honestly say that I have saved both a fair amount of embarrassment and incalculable amounts of money by putting my cards on the table at the outset.
The stakes are extremely high in this game of political poker, so it is important to know the ramifications of the bets, particularly when it comes to the potential substantial costs of inaction.
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He even hosted a poker game for some of his prey, fun you can read about in "High Stakes".
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