Contributor: G.A. Rozen
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Never show your cards. Standard maxim, and everyone who knows better keeps it holy. Unless, of course, there's the tilt factor.
Before I even look at my cards, I know this is the hand to take him. I've had this guy on the hook for hours, and outside the casino, I have the feeling the sun might just be poking up from behind the mountains. Some people have work weeks, work hours, work seasons. I work when the right fish comes along and starts taking nibbles.
Jack seven, off-suit. Garbage. Excellent.
He's a math geek, a scientist from one of those countries that might as well be Russia. “Didn't even start playing til' I'm forty,” he'd said, back when he was still talking. He's short, fat, and has one of those god awful haircuts you'd swear was a bad piece. I've played his type before. Lovers of the order hidden...

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