poker stories
After being fired by the poker news site for asking relevant questions, talking to the wrong people and not Him, I sort of fell into the whole subject: I mean, what else is more important than the very future of the economy and how can I can get involved when I know so much and…
Dr. Peng was the first to respond. A man had slipped past me and security’s ID check in their usual daytime ease. His clothes were dark and his face was shaven; only a hint of white stubble placed his age. He wore a baseball cap and shades. He kept his head down. He spent some…
I’m standing there, fists aloft, middle fingers both extended. The cameras love me. The rail is exploding with approval and derision; I have probably never been so loved. I wish Courtney could manage such passion for me, but the truth is we spend so much time making sure she has an orgasm that I’m beginning…
Daniel knew it wasn’t really a problem. He simply got ready for bed, not too late, knowing the solution would present itself in the early morning. This had always been his superpower. As a B+ student, math major and econ minor, a career consulting Fortune 500s from the discomfort of a thin dark suit had…
Marcus folded, but the knot in his stomach hadn’t relaxed. The price to call – his whole tournament – had been too high. Blister Chris collected the pot, turning over an oblique jack. “You’re never going to get out of makeup,” Blister Chris laughed. “Gamble gamble.” “Oink oink,” replied Marcus irritably. Marcus checked the tournament…
“Just fucking open the gate!” Morales sucked his finger, waiting for a response. There wasn’t that much pain. However, after slamming his fist into the card slot, some of the blood might have gotten into the reader. It was extraordinarily tilting to think that now it was possibly his fault when really it was the…
Fuming she lit the cigarette. -What an ass, Brian told her. -He did nothing wrong, she said. She walked. She didn’t want sympathy, especially from someone who played with that reg all time. From someone who talked to him and treated that piece of shit like a human being. She didn’t want to see Brian’s…
The QUIPS poker group still gets together once a year. Lonestar Lainey, who won the initial tournament back in ’98, won’t be coming for the first time, however. Rumor is her son passed; in any case, no one has wanted to reach out to her. That’s left the so-called Twins, Mary and Jerri Sue, to…