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Two mistakes (warning, spoilers inside)

posted 19 years ago by bizerta
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When it's Joanne's turn to bet, Kevin McCarthy(?) says that everyone's got $3500 in that pot except her and that she's got to come up with $500(?) or drop out. At this point Jason Robards(?) says that the pot is gonna get bigger and bigger because all the other players with good hands are going to raise. If everyone else has $3500 in the pot, then Joanne only needs to call the bet and the betting is over, period.

Paul Ford (the banker) says that they did nothing dishonest. It was just good ol' fashioned poker bluffing. Huh? The deck must have been rigged for all five of the other players to get whopper hands.

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[–] dsjensenn 14 years ago

All the players at the table thought they had a fish (a very bad poker player) hooked in Henry Fonda. He played their greed to to fullest by letting them think he was done for and then the tables were turned on them. Greed is always a key element in a good scam. It blinds people what is going on. It wasn't the banker that said that it was Meredith (Henry Fonda) that said that and Ruby chimes in that they may have bent things a little but it was all within the spirit of the game. That could mean a couple of things, 1) You can't cheat a cheater or 2) The other players had the option to pay the $5,000 and see hand.