Columnist Raul Fain Binda, BBC World
To play, Minardi must-adapted to the rules of the table.
World Poker Championship has started in Deadwood. Ten players are huddled around a circular table covered with a green cloth, greasy and frayed.
Smoke, drink and hate each other. All sweat and have hoarse voice snuff, alcohol and nerves.
light, perpendicular, ruthless, gives them a sickly, tired.The dealer is small, restless, angry-looking. His name is Bernie and he owns the place, the Silver Dollar Saloon. Deck like a pro, his hands seem a whirlwind of nails.
When Bernie starts dealing a hand, the player to his left, Wild Bill Hickock, stops.champion
-Do not give Minardi, no rest for this game, he says.When Wild Bill speaks, everyone listens. Has been a champion many times and wants to be many more. He has eyes of gunman and gambler's hands caress the sheets as if they were women. Accompanied by his lover, Calamity Jane, whose ample cleavage peeks a wad of cash.
In the game of love, Wild Bill's "Ferrari" and Calamity is "Fiat" for their preferred brand of whiskey.Behind the couple, the chronicles of the time located at a certain Jack McCall, who has been drinking more than necessary. Minardi
is obviously the poorest player around the table. His coat needs a darn, no one comes and your stack is negligible."Bernie, you and Max told me they would credit. And in the world championship measure the quality, not quantity. I know I will not win, but I have the right to participate.
If Bernie is considered the brains behind Formula One, Ferrari may be the heart.
Rules are rules
Max, seated at the right of Bernie, is the president of the Deadwood Poker Club, which gives the title and the game dictates. He shrugs, looking for I do not come with these things."Sorry, but rules are rules, responds.
"I'm sure this can be arranged, Bernie says, glaring with an eye to Wild Bill.The other players are agitated, angry.
"This is the height of chutzpah," says the second player, Tim McLaren, who is accompanied by his wife Mercedes.The third player, Frank Williams, after hearing what he says to the woman heard the accompanying German accent, gives a punch on the table.
The hidden reason -Wild Bill
ball at Minardi for us to be a warning to others, because we want to change local and organize our own World Cup, said.-Oui, that they will fall very badly to you three, Renaud narrows, the fourth player, watching with a wry smile to Wild Bill, Bernie and Max. The other players
settle and vigorously beat the table. A glass of whiskey is spilled on the tiles of Max, who dries them one by one with the sleeve of his jacket.Jack McCall is closer to the table, pushing through the curious. Fiat makes a face of disgust when she gets her breath. Minardi
laughs suddenly and spread on the table a document:
"Never mind, never mind. I came prepared. This is a decision of the judge in Deadwood, allowing me to play the championship.
The president of the FIA, Max Mosley, could be playing his last game.
Two decks
"Sounds good. I always keep the rules, says Wild Bill."Yes, true because Bernie and Max are the rules that I agree with you. If you do not agree, they would other says another player, Japanese-looking.
"Rules are for everyone, says Bernie, his face obscured by cigarette smoke."If so, why did you give him a deck of cards and us from another? Why should you pay a premium for participating and we do not?
"Because he is the champion and television We pay much less if he was not. That's why you should stay with me. A world championship poker without Wild Bill would not be viable. Would not even local.Ferrari, the preferred leads. McLaren and Williams follow.
Dead Man's Hand
And Bernie the dealer, with a knowing wink to Wild Bill and a hearty nudge Max. "Everyone admires
Wild Bill, so this table of poker attracts many people, he adds Max."Yes, we all admire, but also many people hate him, mumbles McLaren. Wild Bill
focuses on their cards. The strokes, begins to open like petals of a flower, spying on her one by one. Nobody does it better. So is the champion.The first card is an ace, another as the second and the third is an eight, the fourth another eight. The four were black.
Ferrari Fiat's bottom pinched, for luck. And he begins to spy on the fifth card.At that time, Jack McCall shot in the nape of the world champion with his 45-caliber revolver.
"He killed my brother says when he silenced the echo of the shot. Nobody seems to listen.Very slowly discovers the fifth McLaren letter of Wild Bill. Is the two of spades.
"You're out of luck, champ," someone says. ************Wild Bill Hickock , Calamity Jane and Jack McCall really existed. Jack killed Wild Bill on August 2, 1876. Since then, poker is famous "dead hand", two aces and two black eights. As for racing, do not believe that Ferrari will suffer the same fate as Wild Bill. At last, after all, everybody loves Ferrari. ************
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