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Among the Players
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43 Among the Players Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C. The city swirls around them like a thought. Undisturbed grand masters of the streets plotting, huddling over boards of black and tan, moving plastic pieces with practiced ease. A furtive web of hustlers smiling the smile of those who know but do not tell, scanning unsuspecting marks. Poker-playing poets sit beside them, deep inside the music of the game, pulling rhythms from the rise and fall of stakes, the dance of knight and pawn, queen and sudden ace, the wheeling race of traffic with the dark and a lone jackhammer’s stuttered final song. ...