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Hi Smash,You raise a very good point. My initial thought was to have MBG lose the money to our hero but with the game of choice being the high roller NL table at Bellagio making that scenario play out in a realistic fashion becomes problematic. As the end goal of the sting is to relieve MBG of the cash he has in his possession as opposed to our hero winning the money for his own personal gain I wrote the scene such that MBG ends up losing his wad to one of the ancillary characters at the table. Our hero also ends up a big loser on the night and after some shared tears and 25 year old scotch o

Hey fellow poker junkies,I am currently at work on a book. While I have no illusions about writing great literature I do pride myself on churning out fast moving yet factually accurate airport trash which brings me to the purpose of this post. One of the pivotal scenes in the book (which is of the techno thriller genre) has one of the minor bad guy characters spending time in Las Vegas where he is relieved of a large sum of other people's money by way of a high stakes poker game. This unfortunate turn of events is exploited by our intrepid hero to swing minor bad guy over to the good guy team

The feedback is much appreciated. The boss' eyes tend to glaze over when I talk to her about poker.Speed your coment about the full house was bang on. I hadn't even thought about that possibility crossing her mind as I had been beaming straight thoughts at her with every neuron at my disposal. I strongly suspect any player with 10 more minutes of experience than MK would have picked up my tell (is it a tell or a yell when you say it out loud?) and bailed.I had another hand tonight where I was in the big blind and was dealt a poor hand ( Q 5 I believe). Everyone called (did no one have a hand

Greetings to all the members of this great community. When I approach a swimming pool my first instinct is to climb to the top of the tallest diving board and plunge right in. In that spirit my first posting might be a bit on the long side but should make whomever taught me to spell reasonably proud. With that in mind read on at your own risk.As is probably true of many of you here I have warm fuzzy memories of childhood card games, played for endless hours on a Saturday night for penny pots and peals of laughter. Then lightning struck several months ago when terminal insomnia and a twitchy t