PoV Holden Folden
"All in," I said with a sneer, looking at the man across from me, and the old man's mustache bristled. He glared and stared at me. I leaned back and mocked him with a cocky smile that begged him to wipe the smile off my face. The old man had been savage at the table tonight with great hands, one after the other. I have been the only one keeping a semi-close pace and chip stack.
I was slightly ahead of him, and if he called me, he would lose it all. I could see the Old man bristle at my mocking smile. "What you got, you bearded bastard?" The old man sneered.
"I got what I got, you mustashed monstrocity," I replied back with a sneer, mocking him for the beard that flowed down to my chest, and I had been mocking him for that white, poofy mustache that he loved. He glared at me. This time, I was not sure if it was over the mocking of his mustache, and I grinned. "If you want to see it, put your money on the line," I said with a mocking tone in it. "That is if you have the grit to do so," I continued to mock, and the man frowned.
I had the nuts. The best hand this Texas Hold 'em hand could be. I had an ace of clubs with four clubs with no possible straight on the board. There was no chances of full house or anything to take me out and i watched as the man probably had a club. So we both had flushes, and I wanted to trap him.
"We both have flushes, you little twirp, I know that, you know that, hell even fucking nick across the room knows that, so tell me, can you beat a king?" The old man said, and I made my smile break to a frown before quickly bringing back a mocking smile.
"I might have the ace, Old man, so either bet, or back off like a bitch and let me take all the gold on the table," I said, motioning to the large stack of silver and gold on the table. Over a hundred gold coins were on that table, with probably a thousand gold coins. I was betting everything, and my heart filled with a thrill of the moment. "Come on, back off like a bitch, or bet!" I sneered, and the old me leaned back.
This was the tell that he was finally making his move.
Then he pushed a matching stack of gold and silver into the center of the table, and I grinned. I tossed the Ace onto the table, and the man's face fell, and he stood up and cursed. "FUCK~! FUCK!" he got up and walked away, and I grinned, taking in the chip stack, and I looked at the other men at the table and had pitiful change for the night and grinned. I pulled the stack of coins toward myself. "Get yourself something to eat, boys, on me," I said, taking a silver coin out and tossing one to each of them, then started to take my gold and silver. "I am done for the night!" I announced, and the other men groaned.
"Asshole, leaving with all our money without finishing us off," A man cursed, but the others started to take out their coin purses and started to put their coins away. A table manager came, and I tossed him a couple of gold coins for their take and security.
The night was dark, and I grinned as I wrapped everything up. Making my way out of the gambling house, not long after. My fake beard itched now that i was back outside and I strode into the alley way. I could not help the smile on my face. I grinned massively, and I thought about the reason that I was wearing the fake beard and grinned even wider.
Assholes thought they could keep me away from the gambling houses by putting a bounty on my head?!
I was a player, even if I died, I would come back! I could only chuckle at the noble's son and how realistic this game was. I was a poker player and gambler in real life, and even got a pod through gambling. It was a high-stakes game, and it was on the line from some rich asshole who thought they could use it as collateral and lost it to me.
Still, what an amazing way to help minimize my losses in the real world. I had already gathered debts, paid them off, and won more gold. The thrill of wins and losses was amazing, and I could only find myself loving this Grand Adventure Online more. The pods were hard to get, and that Rich asshole gave up such an amazing world for a few hundred thousand. Something a Serious gambler bets like nothing.
Bah, what an idiot.
I lived for the thrill. Watching as that old man decided he had the better hand, only to lose a moment later. An untractable moment that you regret seconds later. Learning that your decision was the wrong one seconds after making it. Fuck it was delightful. Either side, win or lose, I loved it, and I found that I might have taken too much money from a noble's son who did not seem to understand that the game was not just a game of chance.
It was playing the player, and he lost massively to me.
I grinned, thinking about the amount of money I took from that idiot. He had been made a mark and lost over a thousand gold coins, which I used to cover debts from my own losses. It was not easy to find a rich man who kept getting daddy's money without stopping.
Well, it did earn me a bounty, which is why I have to wear this damn fake beard.
God of Lucks bristly balls did it fucking itch!
My thoughts came to a halt as I arrived at the Peaches Inn. Sounded nice, but it really was just a shit hole that looked nice on the outside. I walked into the place, and the people there glared as I entered, and I moved towards the upstairs inn's rooms. I headed up the stairs and entered the diapliated room before tearing off the beard and sighing in relief. I turned on the lamp and hid my gold stack from the night with a massive grin. Then I got my character ready for bed. It was time to log off.
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PoV Gloria
It took me hours to find the asshole, and when I did, I almost cursed. That beard looked so fucking fake that it pissed me off. How do you find a gambler in a town? Gambling houses were the answer to that simple question, and then I had to watch the asshole gamble, and now I had to watch him mock and corral the table around him. He played on their emotions and finally got them to make bad decisions. Even I could tell that he had the winning hand from across the room, although the old man was right.
Everyone knew both of them had the flush.
I probably would have made that bet too. He had second nuts, and my mark had the actual nuts. I watched for hours till late into the night, and I knew that I was not going to be able to finish the quest tonight. But I needed to scout everything, so I watched.
And watched and watched.
I followed on the rooftops, and I grinned as he went into Peach Inn. Not long after, I watched as someone turned on a magic lamp in one of the rooms that had previously been, and I saw his face in the window.
Picture confirmed, I found my target.
Now it was time to log off, and tomorrow I will figure out how to make his death 'Accidental.'
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