“Actually," Alan said, earnest and clear-eyed, "this is my first time playing poker.”
“I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.”
“This ain't my first rodeo!".~R. Alan Woods [1999]”
“When I was a junior, my school introduced badminton, which was clearly a P.E. department ploy to get me away from the wrestling room, and it worked, since the first time I played badminton was like the first time I tasted sushi or heard the Beatles or read Wordsworth. This was a sport? This counted for gym requirements?”
“You can’t write music right unless you know how the man that’ll play it plays poker.”
“Joe's blue eyes turned a little watery; he rubbed first one of them, and then the other, in a most uncongenial and uncomfortable manner, with the round knob on the top of the poker.”