"There are those who believe that the sole duty of the poker gamesman is to build up his reputation for impenetrability and toughness by suggesting that he last played poker by the light of a moon made more brilliant by the snows of the Yukon, and that his opponents were two white slave traffickers, a ticket-of-leave man and a deserter from the Foreign Legion. To me this is ridiculously far-fetched, but I do believe that a trace of American accent – West Coast – casts a small shadow of apprehension over the minds of English players."
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The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship (1947) pp. 82-83
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Stephen Potter
Stephen Potter (1 February 1900 – 2 December 1969) was an English scholar, critic, broadcaster and humorist. He is best-known for coining the words gamesmanship and one-upmanship, and explaining the concepts behind them.
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