It is often a winning card. In one kind of poker game, the first card to each player is given face down.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

I was watching a poker game once on TV and somebody who lost said, and I quote, "They beat me like an ugly stepchild" and the fate of the ugly stepchild is, in fact, not a very good fate but this is not a good study.

有一次我看电视扑克比赛，一个输的人说，我引用他的话”他们把我像丑陋的继子女一样揍了“,丑陋的继子女的命运，确实不是好命运，但这个研究也不是好研究。

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I mean, one thing--I play a fair amount of I play a little bit of poker and I'm very interested in the game.

举个例子说，有一件事情-我自己也玩的很多,我会玩一点扑克,而且我对这个游戏非常感兴趣。

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It is surprising how many expressions that Americans use every day came from the card game of poker.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

He set one by playing poker for seventy-two hours, which was a record for that card game.

VOA: special.2011.05.16

To take part in a card game such as poker, my friend would have to ante up.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

They represent money. A poker player may,at any time, decide to leave the game.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

"I think poker has spread like wildfire. Obviously the ability to play online, to learn more about the game,you know, from the comfort of your own home definitely, probably increased it more than anything else."

VOA: special.2010.07.26