1.   Like two poker players, each raises its level of hormonal bidding, until one of them feels outbid, and folds.

2.   And everyone is waiting to see if UCLA folds like a gutless poker player.

3.   And once communities succumb, they must begin to behave like bad poker players chasing their losses.

4.   And unlike craps or roulette, the strategies needed to be a successful poker player can translate to everyday life, Caro said.

5.   Any poker player will tell you that two of a kind is good and one of a kind does little.

6.   As the poker player in Mamet must have known, the odds were against him.

7.   A good poker player knows when he has a good hand, and Jones does not seem overly concerned by the matter.

8.   Bringing the ransom price down is a nerve-racking waiting game that can be won only by exercising the cool deliberation of a high-stakes poker player.

9.   Browns head coach Butch Davis was like a poker player on Friday.

10.   Brownmiller was not a poker player, but she played anyway, losing every hand.