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  • He has been making his living through internet poker for a couple of years, playing several six-handed cash tables at once.

    Poker: Life lessons of the new world champion Victoria Coren 2010

  • Farlow and Mooney play so pianistically that in both cases the results sound like four-handed keyboard duets -- or maybe six-handed duets, since Tatum always sounds like he's got at least 20 fingers himself.

    Tatum's Art Changed Jazz 2009

  • We started with 780 players at seventy-eight tables, which means that after this round is completed, there will be seventy-eight players left, and according to the director, these will then be divided up into thirteen six-handed tables.

    TAKE ME TO THE RIVER Peter Alson 2006

  • We started with 780 players at seventy-eight tables, which means that after this round is completed, there will be seventy-eight players left, and according to the director, these will then be divided up into thirteen six-handed tables.

    TAKE ME TO THE RIVER Peter Alson 2006

  • A late-night session of six-handed 13-point Pitch ensued, with the spare members sitting around to kibbitz, or waiting to take their turn at playing cards or, more importantly, restraining the Boston from her search and destroy mission to find and kill the trespassing pug, who was tiredly trying to find a lap or table to sleep on.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2003

  • But I ain't 'lowed to dance nothin' but de six-handed reel.

    Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration

  • Before leaving, both Maitland and I were invited to become parties to a six-handed game to be played the following week, after the grounds had been redressed with gravel.

    The Darrow Enigma Melvin Linwood Severy

  • "I allus did like a six-handed game best -- all the cards are out an 'there's some excitement in it."

    Bar-20 Days Clarence Edward Mulford 1919

  • We'll make it six-handed -- the three trail foremen and ourselves -- and damn the expense so long as the cattle are sold.

    The Outlet Andy Adams 1897

  • The union of two friends -- or three, let us say -- is like Geryon in the pictures: a six-handed, three-headed individual; my private opinion is, that there was not one Geryon, but three

    Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 of Samosata Lucian 1895

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