31.   Poker player.

32.   Presidential candidates, like calculating poker players, once believed they had more to lose than gain by mentioning guns.

33.   Phil Jackson will stroll into Madison Square Garden on Sunday looking like a poker player holding all the cards.

34.   Skilled poker players know they must wade through a lot of bad hands before finding a hand worth betting.

35.   Still, Young the poker player is never going to reveal his hand.

36.   SuperSonics Coach George Karl would make a lousy poker player.

37.   The hard-core poker players were upstairs in the library, their dinners served on trays.

38.   The legacy of those athletic years is incredible stamina and discipline and even concentration, all critical to the persona of a successful poker player.

39.   The nickname conjures up images of a Western gunslinger, riding sidesaddle into town, or a Las Vegas poker player.

40.   The private Truman, however, was a poker player who kept his cards close to the vest.