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.
There was a magic revealed program on TV this weekend and I am sure that the magicians were bluffing with their revelations.
And they know you aren't bluffing because, well, they'd do the same, and they know you've backed yourself into a corner.
But by bluffing and showing confidence and strength simply as a base attitude, I prevented anything getting out of hand.
By bluffing and faking, you have to somehow provoke and deceive this system of defense.
The psychology of poker involves bluffing and detecting the bluffs of others.
Now it seems he may have been bluffing all along, thus the efficacy of such a coalition seems doubtful.
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.
Corruption, where there are both hidden and exposed cards, as in stud poker, is a game of bluffing and intimidation.
Poker also requires analytical skill, but above all it requires skill in bluffing and dissembling.
Do not shy away if the bird hisses at you and fluffs up its feathers, it is only bluffing.
I still could see Marleen in front of the class throwing her coin again and again, deliberately bluffing us about chance.
As menacing as those automatic rifles were, I felt the Somalis were bluffing.
That kind of bluffing and rhetoric, not backed up with solid actions, is a source of frustration.
His information minister said no, that they were only bluffing and that they could continue.
He could have been bluffing, but we couldn't take that chance.
The dominance hierarchy in both females and males is maintained by a bluffing show of force or chasing rather than by actual fighting.
The next player must always bid higher than your bid or suggest that you are bluffing.
Even a bluffing superpower can be forced to ante up ... or perhaps fold as casualties mount and treasury accounts go bust.
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.
I could get into their heads, so I knew if they were bluffing.
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.
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?
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.
For the first time since the 1992 election anyone who claims to know who will be prime minister by Friday night is bluffing.
All the time, Milosevic was advancing his strategy of ethnic cleansing while we were finding out the costs of our high stakes bluffing.
Whether they're bluffing or not, I don't think at this stage we can take a chance.
By bluffing, you may induce players with better hands to fold before the showdown and thus win the pot with a poor hand.
A revolutionary and thoroughly bluffing skincare ritual that works instant wonders and boasts lasting effects as well.
It may sound absurd at first flush, but politics and poker have a lot more than just bluffing in common.
Bluster and bluffing are weak tools with which to build self-confidence.
Previously they had apparently thought that we were bluffing, when we openly said that the Soviet Union possessed powerful rockets.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This provides a bluffing element to the game.
I realised at an early stage that you don't get very far by bluffing.
You can also try to trick your opponents by bluffing where you might go.
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.
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.

They got somebody, or else they were only bluffing when they waved that scalp.
Not bluffing exactly, either, because they'll go through with it as long as they last.
You fancy a chap's bluffing when he's doing nothing of the sort.
Come right on to the shore, then, and don't try any bluffing.
As soon as Mike started bluffing, the robot went into a tizzy.
A quarter of men admit to regularly bluffing about their ability under the bonnet suggesting that they are more car bluffers than car buffs.
I gave them their choice, and they chose to take their chance of bluffing off the charge and convicting me of fraud.

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