you going to tell the kid, shooter?
it's where he's been headed for years.
what you say, kid?
oh, one of those.
you're too good, that's your trouble. people who know you're the cincinnati kid, they don't want to sit down with you --
hiya, kid. getting yourself in shape for the man? shooter still on the job?
boyer. one to two on the sacrifice.
mark it.
bunting, sokal.
chance to invest your profits. bet you an even fin he make first.
they come from the st. louis bridge club, but they're poker size cards. they been bonded by the club steward and i seen him take them out of the safe. shooter, lady fingers and me pick them up and come straight here with them.
that's him.
nobody heard from me what the cards were for, kid.
shooter won't stay on a king or an ace if there's another one showing.
ten or better. with no other ten showing.
what do you expect first five or six hours?
pig's ahead about a grand, shooter maybe three hundred.
pig don't think so.
he probably thinks pig's faking the queens. anyhow, doc's liable take them both with a straight or a flush.
naaa, kid paired kings. he wins a hundred.
mark it.
the kid is pushing it and making it stick.
fifty to one hundred says lancey paired his jacks.
fifty to seventy-five he's got the jacks wired.
he'll run. he's beat on the board anyway you look at it. even if he has the jacks it is better than eight to one against improving.
if the kid bets into the flush he's filled up with a queen in the hole.