Shut Up and Deal by Jesse May

Author:Jesse May [May, Jesse]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-76654-0
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2013-01-09T00:00:00+00:00

LORD, WHAT A night. A confluence of the moons or something, but everybody is in town—Iberville Tom and Floyd and Lester and Crazy Roger and Wiggy the cheater—and there are two big games going right next to each other. One of the games is half Hold’em half something else, but the lineup is kinda tight and so I’m playing in the juicy game, the action game. We’re playing 100-200 half Stud Hilo and half Stud—the game changes every half hour—and I have never played Stud Hilo before except twice $1-4 limit at the Mayfair Club in New York City, and here I am playing it one and two hundred. But I figure that I’ll play real tight and that there are some people at the table who will play even worse than me. I’m wrong and I’m right.

First of all, it’s not possible to play real tight if you play bad. It is possible to get lucky and win a lot of money, but it’s not possible to play tight. But there are people at the table who play worse than me. Well, at least I know the rules.

Nobody at the table really knows the game except for the Fresca Kid, who is the reason we’re playing the game in the first place, except that if you ask him he’ll explain that it’s really Lester’s idea and everyone wants to play and it’s the best game and all right already! Fresca Kid—shit, he’s like a lawyer. But he’s really one of the best Seven Stud Hilo players that there is and I guess he cut his teeth on the Seven Stud Hilo games in Vegas back when they were so tight and tough there wasn’t any money around and everyone was cheating except for Fresca Kid, who’s proud of the fact that he only had one losing month in four years and it was surrounded by huge net months on either side to cushion the blow.

So we’re playing Stud Hilo—me, Fresca Kid, Floyd, Lester, Johnny World, some other dude, and it’s a rocking game but then Josh Vasaki comes in like a whirlwind and throws a pile of money down and sits down in the open seat and stands up and then sits down and then gets up on his knees and lights a cigarette and says, “Deal me in. Hello, boys, what are you playing? Let’s raise the limit. Yo, World, Johnny World, I want to play you head up, World. Fresca Kid! Kid, Kid, Kid, how’s it going? You think you’re the king. They say you’re the best, Kid—I’m gonna beat you, I’m gonna break you, I’m gonna take all your money, Kid. Who’s it to? Is it to me? Raise. I raise! What is this game, it’s eight or better, right?”

And he went on and on like that, never stopped talking, never stopped moving up and down and fidgeting around and basically we all just smiled and ignored him, so that maybe I should explain about Josh Vasaki.

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