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May or may not be a DeathDealer. Compare ProfessionalGambler. Has a good chance of being hit with TarAndFeathers.

* Faye from ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' is highly skilled in conning people in a game of cards (also dice, though then she just flat-out cheats with rigged dice).

* In ''Discworld/WitchesAbroad'', the witches run into some, but Granny manages to beat them without cheating or using magic, and supposedly without having played the game (the incredibly complicated Cripple Mr. Onion) before. She'd actually played it quite a bit while caring for a sick witch, but [[ConfusionFu used her newcomer image for an advantage]].

* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': Hiro tries this with his time-altering super-powers at one point. [[SubvertedTrope Unfortunately for him, someone notices the switch.]]
** Because he switched the cards [[WhatAnIdiot after his opponent had already seen them]].

** Moist von Lipwig created an alter ego to be this. Subverted in that the character was quite awful at being a card sharp, fumbling and missing golden opportunities to cheat. And when the mark left away, gleeful at having conned such a pathetic charlatan, they'd find that the few coins they'd swiped didn't make up for the wallets and watches they were now missing...

* Creator/ClarkGable's character Babe in ''Film/NoManOfHerOwn''.

* Matt Damon's character facilitates this role in the ''[[OceansEleven Oceans]]'' trilogy. Also, Brad Pitt and George Clooney clean out a poker school of celebrities in the first movie.

"Card ''Shark''" is a variant of the term which doesn't always imply cheating.

"Card ''Shark''" is a variant of the term.

May or may not be a DeathDealer. Compare ProfessionalGambler.

* Yelb from ''Literature/TheWayOfKings''. He plays against cops, and he mentioned that the game isn't "will they win or will he win?", the game is "will he cheat them out of their money or will they prove he was cheating, take all of his money and throw him in jail for the night to boot?".

* Gojyo in ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'' frequently cheats at cards. Hakkai can still beat him though, so one wonders if his playing style is completely orthodox .

* Fisk from the ''KnightAndRogueSeries'' is rather good at card tricks, though he usually sticks to cons that he can get more money out of and sneak away from easier. Unfortunately this skill doesn't see a whole lot of use. For Michael's sake, he'll usually stick to betting on whether or not he ''can'' do a trick than actually tricking people.

* Edward Norton's character, "Worm," is a card-sharp, or "mechanic", in ''Film/{{Rounders}}''. His more honest gambling buddy, played by Matt Damon, [[GenreSavvy warns him]] against utilizing his tricks against players with sharp eyes who might turn violent if they catch him at it. [[spoiler: Worm doesn't listen, and a group of cops [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beat the everloving piss out of them both]] and confiscate tens of thousands in winnings before kicking them to the curb.]]

* [[Series/{{Heroes}} Hiro]] tries this with his time-altering super-powers at one point. [[SubvertedTrope Unfortunately for him, someone notices the switch.]]

* When necessary, [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Data]] has shown that he can stack the deck (though in that case it was to send a subliminal message), [[SuperStrength squeeze a set of loaded dice]] hard enough to rebalance them, and count cards. When he needed money after being trapped in 19th Century San Francisco, he hustled another group of sharps using his abilities.

* Alex of ''Series/TheRealHustle''.
* Neal Caffrey is this in several episodes of ''WhiteCollar''.
* T-Bag in ''PrisonBreak''. Claims that maybe 5 people in the country can do what he can with cards. It's only significant in one episode, however.

* The first case of ''ApolloJustice'' has a witness who is a professional CardSharp, [[spoiler: hired to plant evidence to falsely accuse Phoenix Wright of being a CardSharp.]]

* Protagonist Allen Walker from ''DGrayMan'' is an expert at cheating in cards due to the horrible experiences with debt he had from being with General Cross.

* The Elegant Suit in ''RedDeadRedemption'' gives Marston the ability to do this, pocketing a single card to discreetly swap out at any time whenever it's his deal. Failing at the minigame causes him to lose his ante and initiates a [[ShowdownAtHighNoon duel]] with the player who caught him.
* Twisted Fate and Graves of ''{{LeagueOfLegends}}'' fame met in a card game where they both showed four aces for their final hand. Twisted Fate in particular embodies this trope, as he uses {{DeathDealer}} abilities in battle and has a repertoire of quotes related to gambling.

* In ''LiarGame'', the 17-Card Poker game becomes a battle of ''dueling'' card sharps: Akiyama uses skill and strategy, while his opponent uses superhuman reflexes honed from an aborted career in boxing to track the cards.
* Unsurprisingly, comes up frequently in both ''{{Kaiji}}'' and ''Manga/{{Akagi}}''.

* Nearly every major character in ''TheLegendOfKoizumi'' is able to cheat at Mahjong in some way.

->''Trust me, son. When '''''I''''' play cards, it ain't gambling.''
-->--'''Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell''', ''Series/PrisonBreak''

* The PersonOfInterest that The Machine spits out in "All In" is an old "Mechanic" from the mobbed-up Atlantic City days. He used his skill at switching cards to win enough money at a casino to pay for his wife's cancer treatments, only to end up being forced to work as a money launderer for the casino's owner. It ends up being a ChekhovsSkill when during the climax of the episode [[spoiler: he is forced to play Russian Roulette and is able to take the bullet out of the gun without anyone noticing]].

* Unsurprisingly, comes up frequently in both ''{{Kaiji}}'' and ''{{Akagi}}''.

* [[GentlemanBastard Locke Lamora]]. He cheats in the safest gambling place in the world, where the mere act of cheating carries the death penalty.