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Answer for the clue "Cheat exactly behind joker ", 10 letters:
card sharp

Word definitions for card sharp in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A card sharp (also cardsharp , card shark or cardshark , sometimes hyphenated) is a person who uses skill and/or deception to win at poker or other card games . "Sharp" and "shark" spellings have varied over time and by region. The label is not always intended ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games [syn: cardsharp , cardsharper , card sharper , card shark ]

Usage examples of card sharp.

Wardlaw Browne aside immediately after we came out of the card room, it was his intention to-to denounce me as a card sharp.

Call suspected him of being a card sharp, but if so he was a careful card sharp.

After spending a month or two in ZeeZees company, however, Han was pretty sure that Mako, an experienced card sharp, had cooked that deck to make sure he lost.

The phrase 'card sharp' had never reached her side of the Ramtops, where people were friendly and direct and, should they encounter a professional cheat, tended to nail his hand to the table in an easy and outgoing manner without asking him what he called himself.