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...
15 KB (1,823 words) - 02:45, 24 April 2024
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...
74 KB (7,626 words) - 07:29, 10 July 2024
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...
46 KB (517 words) - 15:11, 26 June 2024
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...
44 KB (5,576 words) - 19:22, 18 July 2024
A person who practices card manipulation may be called a card sharp, card shark, or card mechanic. Dealing Bottom dealing Second dealing Shuffling Faro...
2 KB (125 words) - 22:36, 7 April 2022
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)...
5 KB (566 words) - 06:48, 24 June 2024
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...
8 KB (811 words) - 22:10, 23 May 2024
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...
20 KB (2,147 words) - 04:54, 22 July 2024
an English actor and filmmaker, best known for his role as Eddie the card sharp in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. He appeared as Scabior in Harry...
13 KB (1,230 words) - 09:36, 28 January 2024
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...
3 KB (412 words) - 23:22, 17 April 2024