| Furthermore, when I asked in the staffroom if the little horror was bluffing, I was told that in all likelihood, he was telling the truth. |
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| There was a magic revealed program on TV this weekend and I am sure that the magicians were bluffing with their revelations. |
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| And they know you aren't bluffing because, well, they'd do the same, and they know you've backed yourself into a corner. |
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| But by bluffing and showing confidence and strength simply as a base attitude, I prevented anything getting out of hand. |
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| By bluffing and faking, you have to somehow provoke and deceive this system of defense. |
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| The psychology of poker involves bluffing and detecting the bluffs of others. |
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| Now it seems he may have been bluffing all along, thus the efficacy of such a coalition seems doubtful. |
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| We also take more risks than men give us credit for which means it can be very hard to tell when a woman is bluffing. |
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| Corruption, where there are both hidden and exposed cards, as in stud poker, is a game of bluffing and intimidation. |
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| Poker also requires analytical skill, but above all it requires skill in bluffing and dissembling. |
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| Do not shy away if the bird hisses at you and fluffs up its feathers, it is only bluffing. |
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| I still could see Marleen in front of the class throwing her coin again and again, deliberately bluffing us about chance. |
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| As menacing as those automatic rifles were, I felt the Somalis were bluffing. |
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| That kind of bluffing and rhetoric, not backed up with solid actions, is a source of frustration. |
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| His information minister said no, that they were only bluffing and that they could continue. |
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| He could have been bluffing, but we couldn't take that chance. |
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| The dominance hierarchy in both females and males is maintained by a bluffing show of force or chasing rather than by actual fighting. |
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| The next player must always bid higher than your bid or suggest that you are bluffing. |
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| Even a bluffing superpower can be forced to ante up ... or perhaps fold as casualties mount and treasury accounts go bust. |
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| The first is whether the Greeks are bluffing about being able to make the IMF payment. |
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| Jonathan Chait thinks Speaker Boehner is bluffing on allowing the sequestration to take place. |
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| I could get into their heads, so I knew if they were bluffing. |
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| Thankfully, I never discovered whether this gang of kids were bluffing or not because a strapping man who had been drinking in the pub opposite sauntered on to the street. |
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| What private assurance did he have from the French that they were bluffing about a veto, or, if he had none, who advised him that they were probably bluffing? |
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| At one point, when it was just me and her and I had nothing I thought about betting big and bluffing her out, but decided that that would be ungallant on a first date. |
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| For the first time since the 1992 election anyone who claims to know who will be prime minister by Friday night is bluffing. |
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| All the time, Milosevic was advancing his strategy of ethnic cleansing while we were finding out the costs of our high stakes bluffing. |
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| Whether they're bluffing or not, I don't think at this stage we can take a chance. |
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| By bluffing, you may induce players with better hands to fold before the showdown and thus win the pot with a poor hand. |
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| A revolutionary and thoroughly bluffing skincare ritual that works instant wonders and boasts lasting effects as well. |
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| It may sound absurd at first flush, but politics and poker have a lot more than just bluffing in common. |
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| Bluster and bluffing are weak tools with which to build self-confidence. |
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| Previously they had apparently thought that we were bluffing, when we openly said that the Soviet Union possessed powerful rockets. |
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| This last condition is actually part of a larger disjunct for Feinberg, the other half of which allows that the coercer may be bluffing, and thus does not actively do anything to constrain the coercee's options. |
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| His fascination with game theory, for example, prompted him to investigate the mathematics of bluffing and to develop a theory on the optimal moment for an advancing duelist to open fire. |
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| He found the intense atmosphere of the card table, the fantasizing of a perfect hand, the exhilaration of bluffing other players, and the triumphant feeling of an occasional winning hand irresistible. |
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| The act of bluffing is a common in most Poker format, and we can go to the extent of terming the art of bluff making as integral to sustained success at Poker Betting. |
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| Uruguay's asperity has been sharpened by continuing protests in Argentina against two big paper projects, which critics claim will pollute rivers. Uruguay may be bluffing. |
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| The no side headed into spring in nervous mood as polls showed that a larger number of people agreed with Salmond's assessment that they were bluffing. |
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| On this occasion the Indiamen also succeeded in bluffing their way to safety, and without any shots even being fired. |
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| That need not be disastrous unless the child finds his parent bluffing. |
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| This provides a bluffing element to the game. |
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| I realised at an early stage that you don't get very far by bluffing. |
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| You can also try to trick your opponents by bluffing where you might go. |
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| Thirteen cameras capture the action, including tiny cameras that reveal the player's hole cards, which let viewers see who is bluffing and who is not. |
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| Alistair Darling believes the City bigmouths are bluffing, I hear, and they don't fancy swapping London, one of the world's greatest cities, for the land of the cuckoo clock. |
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