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 townâIberville Tom and Floyd and Lester and Crazy Roger and Wiggy the cheaterâand there are two big games going right next to each other. One of the games is half Holdâem half something else, but the lineup is kinda tight and so Iâm playing in the juicy game, the action game. Weâre playing 100-200 half Stud Hilo and half Studâthe game changes every half hourâand 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 Iâll play real tight and that there are some people at the table who will play even worse than me. Iâm wrong and Iâm right.
First of all, itâs not possible to play real tight if you play bad. It is possible to get lucky and win a lot of money, but itâs 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 weâre playing the game in the first place, except that if you ask him heâll explain that itâs really Lesterâs idea and everyone wants to play and itâs the best game and all right already! Fresca Kidâshit, heâs like a lawyer. But heâs 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 wasnât any money around and everyone was cheating except for Fresca Kid, whoâs 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 weâre playing Stud Hiloâme, Fresca Kid, Floyd, Lester, Johnny World, some other dude, and itâs 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, âDeal me in. Hello, boys, what are you playing? Letâs raise the limit. Yo, World, Johnny World, I want to play you head up, World. Fresca Kid! Kid, Kid, Kid, howâs it going? You think youâre the king. They say youâre the best, KidâIâm gonna beat you, Iâm gonna break you, Iâm gonna take all your money, Kid. Whoâs it to? Is it to me? Raise. I raise! What is this game, itâs eight or better, right?â
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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