A card sharp (also card shark, sometimes hyphenated or spelled as a single word) is a person who uses skill and/or deception to win at card games (such...
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A playing card is a piece of specially prepared card stock, heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic that...
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Look up Sharp or sharp in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sharp or SHARP may refer to: SHARP (helmet ratings) (Safety Helmet Assessment and Rating Programme)...
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whether the next card drawn is higher or lower. The title Card Sharks is a play on the term "card sharp", a person skilled at card games. The concept...
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The Card Sharp with the Ace of Diamonds is an oil-on-canvas painting produced c. 1636–1638 by the French artist Georges de La Tour. It is now in the Louvre...
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A person who practices card manipulation may be called a card sharp, card shark, or card mechanic. Dealing Bottom dealing Second dealing Shuffling Faro...
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1969) is an English actor and filmmaker. His roles include Eddie the card sharp in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and as Scabior in Harry Potter...
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heist involving a confident young card sharp who loses £500,000 to a powerful crime lord in a rigged game of three-card brag, prompting him to pay off his...
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anthropomorphized dogs, but the eleven in which dogs are seated around a card table have become well known in the United States as examples of kitsch art...
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Queen of spades (section Card reading)
The queen of spades (Q♠) is a face card in decks of French-suited playing cards and Tarot, depicting a queen of the spades (♠) suit and associated with...
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The Card Sharp on the Boulevard is an oil on panel genre painting by the French artist Louis-Léopold Boilly, from 1806. It is held in the collection of...
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school teacher, Sarah Bunting, and Tom begin a friendship. Sampson, a card sharp and previous guest at Downton, steals a letter written by the Prince of...
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X68000 (redirect from Sharp X68000)
MC68882, with 6 MB RAM Sound card: Sharp CZ-6BM1: MIDI card System Sacom SX-68M: MIDI card System Sacom SX-68M-2: MIDI card Marcury-Unit: 16-bit stereo...
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Simon Lovell (born 1957) is an English comedy magician, actor, and card sharp, who specialises in magic using playing cards. Lovell was a regular performer...
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bombing that killed her husband. She served as fem fatale and had skills in sharp shooting and voice mimicry. Jim recruited her initially to catch Tom Copperfield's...
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High Card (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese multimedia franchise created by Homura Kawamoto, Hikaru Muno, and TMS Entertainment. It consists of a manga...
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Chow's apprentice beats an overweight card sharp in a "fixed" high-stakes poker game. When taunted, the card sharp jumps onto the playing table and defeats...
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such as by bending or adding visible marks to a card. This allows different methods for card sharps to cheat or for magicians to perform magic tricks...
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1837 – 1877) was an English-born confidence artist, riverboat gambler and card sharp in Canada and the United States. He has been described by historians,...
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of hand easier in the process. List of card manipulation techniques Card flourish Card marking Card sharp Card throwing Sleight of hand Trick deck Citations...
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It is not until 1408 that the first card game is described in a document about the exploits of two card sharps; although it is evidently very simple...
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work The Fortune Teller Joseph the Carpenter Magdalene at a Mirror The Card Sharp with the Ace of Diamonds Movement Baroque Patron(s) Henry II, Duke of...
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James as Brad Marion, a hedge fund manager Bill Camp as Harlan Eustice, a card sharp who gets in over his head Graham Greene as Judge Dustin Foxman Justin...
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by many of Deadwood's citizens and the service is conducted by former card sharp Andy Cramed, who has returned to Deadwood an ordained minister. George...
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Financial Corp.: Card sharp". Institutional Investor. January 14, 2005. Retrieved May 22, 2024. "COMPANY NEWS; SIGNET BANKING TO SPIN OFF CREDIT CARD BUSINESS"...
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pg. 141 Bradshaw, Peter (February 14, 2019). "The Lady Eve review – card sharp Barbara Stanwyck steals the show". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved...
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in the courthouse basement, and scores big until Gurgs and Olivia (a card sharp in her own right) help the sailors win back their money. Separately, Jasmine...
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Bath; The Valpinçon Bather La Tour: The Adoration of the Shepherds; The Card Sharp with the Ace of Diamonds; Joseph the Carpenter; Magdalene with the Smoking...
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author and visual artist, who is perhaps best known for her role as young card sharp and trouble-maker, Alexis "Lexie" Patterson in television series Prisoner...
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stacks the card(s) while doing a riffle shuffle. This form of stacking is the most difficult to master and the most respected under the card sharps and magicians...
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