Chapter 2384 Thy Neighbor's Wife(Exhibit-fuck):>Ep16
- Tommy, who I'd previously estimated as a high pair, now had two pair, the twos on the table and the king or queen pair he'd matched earlier. He bet. Jimmy just called. I could read it in his face, he had nothing and was ready to call it a night and go home.
- Larry, next up, raised. Larry never raised unless he thought he had, or might have, a winning hand. That was back to back raises for him, I suddenly realized with the third diamond on the table, he probably had a diamond flush, but it couldn't be a straight flush. This time, Richard raised. With three strong betters, he must have something too -- perhaps he also had a flush? He was actually a pretty strong player, I'd often seen him play it coy to begin with, enticing lower hands to stay in to raise the pot. Could he be doing it this time? I looked again at the table. A pair of twos? What if he had matched a pocket pair for a full house and also had a chance for a four of a kind? Maybe he could match my four of a kind if he'd done that but my four of a kind beat anything except a straight flush, or a higher foursome. Any foursome would be higher than my foursome, but the changes of that were slim and I knew "my" pair of twos beat "his" pair of twos, and decided to play him.
- "What have you got that you're playing with?" I asked aloud, playing dumb, looking at him as if he was crazy for having raised. "A pair of twos?" I paused, and then said, "You know that my pair of twos beats your pair of twos," and laughed, as did the other guys.