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Post by Reese Ghislain on Jan 26, 2018 23:49:09 GMT
[attr="class","snailhouse"] [attr="class","Chromeleft"] [attr="class","Chromeleftoverlay"] [attr="class","NOSTALGIA"] [attr="class","Chromeright"] [attr="class","Chromeoverlay"] [attr="class","puppycat"]@open [attr="class","lemonsoda"] [attr="class","puppycat"]making bad decisions [attr="class","monody"]  they charge me for years I can no longer pay. Lady Luck was one fickle bitch of a mistress, especially when it came to card games. She tended to flit about from one man to the next, freely giving her attention to whatever poor sap caught her fleeting interest. It usually took less than a minute before the Lady lost interest and for a winning streak to go right to hell.
Of course, that was all bullshit. Casinos rarely relied on anything as insubstantial as luck to insure a win. Half of the time there were certain contingencies in place to make sure any one patron didn’t beat the house all too often. Enough to keep the players betting, but not so much that they got spooked. People had to think that they could get lucky and walk away with more cash than they knew what to do with.
It was all one hell of a complex mind game.
Reese knew that. He knew that the system was rigged so the little man would always lose in the end, had been on the losing side more times than he could count.
He knew it but . . . he couldn’t ever keep away from the tables and their siren’s song. It wasn’t the money that he was after by any stretch of the imagination. The trill of laying it all on the line was all that he ever needed. He’d be doing it every day if it weren’t for a niggling need not to incur the ire of his asshole boss, or even worse, Emiko. One usually led to hours of rolling around the floor and the other meant he wouldn’t be able to go over a certain limit with his betting. Both were punishments far worse than death.
But Emi was in her homeland for a vacation and the “Royal Asshole” was busy with whatever twisted little schemes he had planned. It was an opportunity that he just couldn’t pass up, so he hopped in his car, made the trip to Dagos, and popped into the first decent casino he could find. The place was themed after Surajan culture, albeit a highly glamorized version. The serving girls were all dressed as belly dancers and the men looked like bandits right out of some fantasy world. The décor was so grandiose it bordered on garish. It was all a moot point though because the money and alcohol still flowed. Cards were dealt, roulettes spun, slot machine levers were cranked, and somehow Reese still wasn’t in the red; Lady Luck had been kind to him all night and he had more chips than he’d ever had his hands on before.
There was a lot of money on the table and no one with any sense would still be sitting here. A sensible person would be cashing their winnings. But Reese was anything but sensible when it came to high-stakes game of poker. No, he wanted that thrill, could taste victory on his tongue. And it all came down to the next hand.
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Post by Pegasus on Feb 12, 2018 9:05:18 GMT
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Pegasus walked into casinos fairly regularly. However there was one particular casino in Dagos he didn't often frequent. This was because it was a powerful casino. A casino that he wouldn't get away with cheating. Pegasus did so like to cheat at cards. He had since he was a teenager. However, the water magi was nothing if not unpredictable. He took great pride in that actually. So today he was going to this casino for a fair game. At least on his end. He knew all too well that the casinos rigged things. But he had money to burn. His ship the Sea Dragon had delivered a valuable bit of cargo. He had put some of the money aside for the bar, and some for the upkeep of the ship. But there was still a decent amount leftover afterwards. Justin his business partner would have told him to invest it. What Justin didn't know wouldn't hurt him. Even if the cyborg had the ears of a bat and seemed to always know what Pegasus did with the money. Whatever. He was here to gamble. He didn't rely on Lady Luck for anything as Peg knew she was a very fickle mistress.
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He straightened out his suit jacket and brushed some lint off his matching navy blue slacks as he looked around. Where did he wish to start? He wasn't expecting to make any money. That wasn't the point of being in a casino after all. But it was a lavish environment that Peg occasionally liked to indulge in. Then he saw a table with a guy who seemed to be doing fairly well. He walked over and sat down. Someone with lots of money either cheated the house or was about to lose it all. He wasn't cashing out, so Pegasus was looking forward to seeing it go all up in smoke. Twas always interesting to watch. He had his chips. He wandered over, not sure whether he wanted to join in or not. There was a lot of money on the table but he honestly just wanted to watch. Perhaps he would just watch until the current game was done. He leaned back and grabbed a drink off a platter that was being brought around, taking a sip. He had his own alcohol in a flask in his inner jacket pocket, but that might be frowned upon so he was going to take the safer option.
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Post by Reese Ghislain on Jun 13, 2018 21:28:06 GMT
[attr="class","snailhouse"] [attr="class","Chromeleft"] [attr="class","Chromeleftoverlay"] [attr="class","NOSTALGIA"] [attr="class","Chromeright"] [attr="class","Chromeoverlay"] [attr="class","lemonsoda"] [attr="class","puppycat"]notes here, keep it short [attr="class","monody"] they charge me for years I can no longer pay. “Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for buying in. I will begin dealing the cards,” the dealer said. She was a cute little blonde placed there to distract, but Reese was too focused on the woman’s hands as she dealt the cards to each of the four players who’d placed bets. He barely registered when a newcomer sat himself down at the table. He was far too focused on the dealer’s hands as she dealt out the cards, on hoping that he got a hand that would net him the victory.
Reese took his hand and flipped the cards to view each face, revealing . . .
Three Queens!
It became a struggle to maintain his poker face. This was just too good to be true! There had to be something at play, some sort of trick to make him go all in. His luck couldn’t be this good. Could it?
He took a glance at the other players. Two of them were rank amateurs and wore their relative frustration on their faces as plainly as their noses while the fourth player revealed nothing. Did he have a decent hand? Was he better at hiding the fact that he didn’t? Or maybe he was in on an arraignment with the dealer?
Reese focused himself on his cards, then on his chips. This was too good an opportunity to pass up.
“Twenty chips,” Reese said.
Two calls. One fold. The odds went up.
“All in,” Reese said, pushing his pile of chips forward. Another look at the other players. The two amateurs were obviously worried. The experience one still gave nothing away.
Another fold. 50/50 chance of a win. Heart racing.
This was it! This was what Reese came here for! The utter thrill of the gamble!
“I’ll match you,” the final player said. The chips rattled as the moved. All that money just sitting there.
Seconds that stretched into eternity passed.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, all bets are now locked and final,” the dealer said. “Now. Show down!”
The other gentleman at the table was the first to respond. He threw down his cards to reveal two Jacks.
Reese smiled as he placed his cards down on the table and saw his opponent finally show something other than a blank mask. Suffice to say, it wasn’t pleasant for anyone when Reese gathered up his winnings and pulled them to his side of the table.
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