Show MARK OF THE POKER PLAYER never failing sign pointed out by experienced man that man la fa a poker player naia the elevated road ticket seller es or be he had pushed a bit of pas pasteboard taboa rd through tho window to a hurried man carrying a suit case there a a great deal to be learned from the way a passenger lays down his fare take that chap who just dropped hia 1 ticket into the choppers box he lie paid tor for one ticket with a quarter g getting eting four nickels in change the thins that gave him away was the nay say be he laid down his coin the average man slaps his nickel down and lets it lie this man held his nickel curved in the first joint ot of his forefinger and toasted it gently toward me across the counter with re reverse serse english the trick of 0 a poker player who woo can flip nip a coin upon a table and make it settle to the fraction alon of an inch ho ile take the nickel that way intentionally its simply a habit new now york eye evening n ing post |