Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Two cheating poker player end up showing the same hand.
Evidence displayed at a poker table expresses that we are in the final hand of a Texas Hold-em poker tournament. The room is dim and smokey and the atmosphere is serious. Two remaining players, both cheating, stare at one another across the table, attempting to read one another. A large amount of money is at stake and the stress and anxiety of the game can clearly be read on both players. All but the last card are on the table, aiding neither of the players. The first of the players (holding four aces) lays down an exorbitant bet with a confident air hoping to bluff out the other. The second player (also harboring four aces) defiantly calls and then raises the bet. The first is temporarily surprised but recovers quickly, making a deliberate display of doubling the current bet, then looks challengingly at his opponent. Eventually after much guffaw, the bets come to a close and the players are required to show their hands. The first player motions for the other to show first, he declines and requests the hand of the other. Neither is willing to lay down first, so they lay down at the same time. Both throw four aces without looking at the table or the other hand and smugly look at one another each believing they have won. When they finally look at the hands and realize what has happened, they both accuse the other player of cheating and as tempers rise an all out brawl ensues ending eventually in a physical stalemate and a game of rock paper scissors.
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I like the layout and flow. We could really build tension through the whole animation. I am thinking two things though. I think it should take place in a bar somewhere with two cowboys or something. Also, it should be about some type of five card poker game. I think the audience would have an easier time relating to that structure.
ReplyDeleteIn a grungy bar filled with bikers wearing sleeveless leather vests revealing monstrous tattoos, sits the last two players in a highly publicized poker match. The players are both fairly confident in their playing abilities and are very sure they are going to win, considering both gentlemen are cheaters. Each holding two aces, they continue to raise and mock each other while feeding off the crowd's constant cheering. When the first three cards are flipped, it reveals another two aces. The raising and cockiness continues until they are finally all in. With a towering pile of poker chips, they flip their hands showing that they have the exact same cards! Accusing one another of cheating and exchanging of words, the two men look as if they are about to jump in a fight when it breaks out into a rock paper scissors game.
ReplyDeleteHere is what Jeff wanted to post:
ReplyDeleteBetween the original paragraph and the two posts afterwards, I can’think of much that would need to be changed. Though, as far as Nate’spost goes, I don’t think it is a super huge deal which card game isbeing played as not everybody would know the rules to Hold-em orPoker but generally, people recognize the Ace as a powerful card inany game. As far as cowboys or bikers, it could work equally as welleither way.
I think the tension built into this has tremendous potential. Perhaps as a story telling device and since this is texas hold em, we can use moments like the turns, rivers and flops as a means to build up to the moment of the story through flashbacks. Hope that made sense.
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