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Previously on Phil, this is Eddie, my daughter, Dee.

Hey.

Well, there are two ways we can play this then.

Pretend it didn't happen.

I thought we could have had all this together. I'm really happy for you. What

you need to do is satisfy your margin goal, $20 ,462.

Look, I need $100 cash for a venture I'm getting into.

Tell you what, I'm going to write you a check for $20 ,000.

$10 ,000 for your initial investment and $10 ,000 because you did come up with

the algorithm.

I'm sitting in the big game and he's bankrolling me and I keep half my take.

Guess who's back in town?

Our old pal Seymour.

Son of a bitch.

If there's anything you want to tell me, you should tell me now.

Maybe like...

Why you're here?

I was warned.

You were warned?

By Everest himself.

What are these? Your fingers.

Spades. Diamonds. Clubs. Hearts.

Understand? Yeah, I understand everything now.

Hey.

Yo.

See this?

I don't know what the hell we should do now.

Can't believe you're dead.

Where's Miami?

Thought she'd be with you here.

No. Left her a message. Her phone was off.

She must be playing.

She doesn't know.

Breathe it.

At the poker table, above all else, you gotta keep your emotions in check.

You don't want to show a thing.

And you can't show.

What you don't feel.

Hmm. You know, I read this thing. It says that people usually make their best

decisions after the first two seconds.

After that, they think themselves out. I like that.

I'll play.

All right.

I'll check in the dark and let you do the thinking for both of us.

Outside concerns need to drop away so they don't affect you.

There are no clocks in a casino because there's no time.

There are no newscasts because there's no news.

Vegas is the place where the news comes to die.

If it's not happening at the table, it's not happening.

Remember, think quick.

Or take your time.

No need.

Good, I read.

Now I'll take my time. Consider my offer.

Call, raise your phone, the usual.

You know what happened at the Palais?

Guy took a header over the railing, landed on a bank of slots.

He hit the jackpot.

I call.

He could say that. Fell four floors. Didn't land on his feet.

To you.

I bet.

So, who was he anyway?

Some guy forgot to take a serotonin cocktail.

Birdie used to run the sports book here.

Anything gets to you. You breathe it in, you breathe it out, and let it go.

What else are you going to do? You're at the table, you play the hand. That's

what you're there for.

That's Vegas for you.

Where else can you plunge to your death without leaving a building?

Well, lady, you got a little quiet over there, but you're still in the hand.

Your bet.

Think quick.

Think quick.

Feels weird being in here.

Let's just find the bank room and get out of here.

Hey, Eddie.

If Everson didn't clean the house... I know.

I might be next.

Hey.

Ah, Seymour was too... You're smart, but that man is too obvious. Well, it's

locked. Something's got to be in here.

He always bet the yo.

11 -11.

Whoa, whoa, what are you doing? I want to kill that son of a bitch. Get off me!

You can't do it that way.

Getting shot down on your way out afterwards isn't what Seymour would have

wanted. What then?

Look, like we were planning, we'd break him at the table.

That's not enough.

Yeah, this guy. The young one.

He's been popping up at tables with Everest all over the place.

I know who he is.

Yeah? Yep.

You've watched tons of this stuff. What do you see?

I'm not sure, but there's definitely something funky going on.

My eyes are swimming.

I don't know what I'm watching anymore.

Authorities are investigating the apparent suicide of a once well -known

in Las Vegas.

Seymour Anisman was the longtime manager of sports betting at the Colorado

Casino. He had left his job there several years back, some say under murky

circumstances.

Authorities are characterizing the death as a probable suicide.

This is bad.

I gotta go.

We'll suspend these get -togethers for now. They'll be watching too close.

But you keep feeding me tapes when you can.

Hey.

Safety deposit box, Nevada Trust.

All of our initials are on the back. There's a whole bunch of notations. Last

one says 502. 500 or 2 ,000. Seymour did say that we'd have enough ammo with

half a mil.

Triple up and double it.

Unless he knows about me.

Which case? Probably doesn't.

If he did, he'd be dead by now.

You mad at all?

Yeah.

Yeah. Well, don't answer it.

No, I was right in there. Seconds.

We got Don Everest to thank for that.

This is bad for the bottom line.

Especially if this kind of thing keeps happening. Our board of directors is not

going to like that.

My board of directors.

Listen, I'm just trying to... I know exactly what you're trying to do.

What are you doing?

Baby, where you been?

Around.

I didn't give you a key.

Hotel guys can't say no to me.

What's the matter?

Losing session?

Yeah, something like that.

Why are you on such a downer? You want to talk about it?

I don't do that.

No, that'd be too normal.

You know, Eddie, if you're going to make poker your job, you're going to have to

learn to leave it at the office.

You learned that from your father? Sure.

He taught me everything I know.

Except for this.

You got any quarters on you, Skip?

All right, Don.

You catch these in for me?

Go ahead, put it on.

Does this mean I'm, uh... Yeah, it does.

You earned your way back.

Don't forget this.

I'll see you up in the top section.

Ray.

Don't see a flop, little sister.

Never been anyone's little sister.

Never been anyone's little anything.

My next bedding can be so little, either.

Are you going to turn those or are you going to sit there like a freaking

statue?

Suddenly your big pair isn't big enough anymore.

Let's go.

Lock that seat down. No one's getting away today.

What? What the hell is your problem?

I'm winning money off suckers. And telling them how?

It's a technique.

No, not one that can last.

Look, you messed up over Seymour.

Okay, and I understand that, but you shouldn't be playing in a state like

Clark, do you have big, beautiful breasts full of mother's milk? Whoa,

you talking about? Then stop trying to be a wet nurse. Look, I'm not leaving

here, even if you want to act like a bitch.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Look, I'll be over there if you need me.

Yeah, I won't.

Dr. Marsh?

My name is Roberts. We spoke on the phone. I'm from Paulson Brothers

You can't be on a request like this on a regular basis.

I know, and I appreciate it. My boss told me to... All arrangements are to be

made after you've received the body.

Good enough for every home in town.

You tell that to your Mr. Paulson.

This is unusual.

Don't want to rush.

Oh, it seems the deceased was Jewish.

There are strict laws regarding burial.

I know how the Jewish people handle their bodies.

Of course you do.

Of course you do.

They bury them right away, and I've been instructed to get measurements so that

a suit can be tailored.

The family wants it all properly. Fine, fine. I understand.

Just be quick about it.

Give it back.

Don't disturb anything.

Hey! What the hell's going on here?

Look. You're not from Paulson Brothers.

I don't know what brand of sick bastard you are.

Whether you work for the tabloids or you just get off seeing dead people.

None of these.

I'm just trying to set this right.

Please, help me prove this was not a suicide.

What I see here... Death.

And after you've been working here for 20 years...

What I learned is you want to wait as long as possible before you get there.

You may want to think about that if you plan on messing around in this town.

Now, get the hell out.

Mm -hmm.

Good hands.

Yes. Yes.

Lucky. You always had a feel for this game, huh?

Then again, if it was back room or back alley, back anything, really, you had a

feel for it. Yeah, we all have our individual strengths, Dean.

Yeah.

Except that I never knew anybody who liked to slum it up more than you,

Is there anything you like better than swimming in the mud?

Money, Dean. M -O -N -E -Y.

Clark always had a little yen for money. Yeah, I'm trying to get some right now

if you let me get back to it. Well, that's what we're here to discuss with

Come have a drink.

I'm going to talk to you straight, Clark, because of our history and

the fact that, well, I have so much crap on you that you could never turn on me

without going down yourself.

That's friendly.

Yeah, it is what it is. Now, I've picked up a couple of clients recently who

have, for whatever reason, decided they want to pay me in cash for financial

services. See, that's really not that important.

What is important is that we... We can't deposit this cash in a bank account.

We have to filtrate it.

Casino is a perfect place to do that kind of thing, and Clark, you, my

you are the perfect man to help us do it. No, so you're asking me to commit a

felony. Okay, money laundering, that's not my thing. No, we are giving you an

opportunity... with very little risk. Clark, you came to me, you said you had

something good going that you thought you could capitalize on. I'm prepared to

give you 10 % of everything you put through that casino case. Let me break

down to you. First, I have to exchange the cash for chips. Then I got to put

chips into play.

I'm putting myself at risk. I'm not doing it. Clarky, we could do that.

You need to find a ship boss who'd like to make some easy bucks, grease them,

and get them to vouch for the fact that you put the money into play.

Then you're going to go to the cashier and you're going to get a check.

It'll look like the money was won in the casino.

And at that point, it becomes clean money.

It's a violation of gaming commission regulations.

Okay? Casinos clock me. Feds will be all over me like freaking Tara Reid on a

jockstrap. No one will ever know. Yeah? It's like our little secret. Really?

Then you do it. Oh, respectable businessmen.

I'm surprised you bother with those online games.

I like the challenge.

There's no names, no faces.

Only the bets.

After a while, I know what everybody's holding anyway.

The turn card's an eight.

Now, a slow poke here. Whoever gets around to betting, he's going to be

on queens and eights.

He's betting a hand now.

You watch. It's going to be queens and eights. Top of them every single time.

That's just what I wanted to hear.

There it is. What did I tell you? Queens and eights.

The line on the main ballot is four to one for the Russian.

Ukrainian, whatever.

Like that makes a difference.

No, we don't have a line on that ballot. That's six to five pick 'em.

You know why the Russian looks so good?

No, why's that?

Because those people were built for war.

How were they built for?

They've been warring with each other for as long as they've existed.

It was hardwired into them.

Even before anyone knew that expression.

Well, that's Siberian cold, man. Yeah.

You might say the other kid, the Mallorcan, is fast and smart.

But I say this.

Pure, practiced, inbred aggression will win over speed and calculation any day.

I've kind of built my life around that notion.

So, Bart, here's a lesson for you.

Don't get in the ring with a puncher.

Or more often than not, you're going to end up on your back on the canvas.

You get my meaning?

Well, I see someone's on a run.

Why don't you take those stacks up to the top section and give me a play?

It's not enough yet.

Well, um... I hope to see you.

You will.

One time you're gonna get caught, though.

Call.

They're good.

I know they are.

And by the way, you know why I left you those few chips?

Because you remind me of my little sister.

I've already been over all this with my cop.

I gotta go over it again.

I'm humping two bags, and both of them are heavier than a dead preacher.

And, um, I got this guest on my elbow telling me how Jerry Bell kept on

eyeballing her from the stage.

Tell me what you saw.

There were a couple of guys. A big guy and a bald guy.

Did they push him?

I don't know.

I saw them in the hall, then I saw the old guy flying through the air.

That's it.

Uh, yes. I'll vouch for him.

At some place.

There you go, Mr.

Marcellin.

Thank you.

Thanks a lot, man. My pleasure, sir.

All right, take it easy.

So...

Technically, which one of us is the bag man?

Both of us, I think.

Yeah, but I don't want to carry it.

If somebody kicks that door in, who do you think they're going to take down,

huh?

Your Pillsbury Doughboy -looking ass or the brother?

Pillsbury Doughboy, that's vintage Clark.

Love it.

There's half a unit in there.

The test run went smooth enough that we've accelerated our projection for the

rest.

Accelerated? Hyperspeed.

We're going to take 600 ,000.

Actually, you're going to take 600 ,000 and spread it out over half a dozen

spots in one 24 -hour period.

Whoa, one damn day?

No, they'll find out. Yeah, they're going to dial in on you, but so what?

By that point, it's going to be too late for them to catch up with you.

Finish the job.

And you leave town.

With 10 % of that number, you're going to have a hell of a head start on

whatever it is you need to capitalize on next.

And when you're moving that kind of money, be sure you tip your inside man a

little bit more.

You know, get him in deeper.

Say that.

And why would you have a problem with it if I did?

Huh.

I got a problem with 10%.

I get 20 now.

That's vintage, Clark.

That's just vintage.

I tell the police already, do you know?

Well, now you can tell me.

Give you a chance to practice your English.

I am in a room.

I come out to take soap from the cart, and he jump.

All by himself?

There is two men with him.

What do they look like?

One is... ¿Cómo se dice?

Hombre gordo.

A fat man.

Sí, fat.

Y con pájaros.

A fat man with birds?

Gracias.

Want to tell me what I'm doing here?

Having dinner.

Boy and his mom.

Why not?

You seem a little jumpy.

You know that guy that died at the Palais? He was a friend of mine.

You lived long enough?

You had to lose a lot of friends.

Sorry, there's not much warmth in the truth.

Well, I know people die.

It just bothers me, though.

What, that you care or that you don't care?

It's one or the other.

I just can't tell which.

I kind of sit down at the card table and I don't feel a damn thing.

Because you're good, Eddie. You're not supposed to.

That was one of the first things that I learned from your father when I was

married to him.

Detachment is everything.

I saw him play plenty when I was a kid.

He was a hothead, never detached at the card table.

No.

Your father, his problem was that he was detached at the dinner table.

I already told this. To the cops?

I thought, you know, it was a bit they were doing, the three of them, like

putting on an act, like, oh, I lost so much money, and they're like, don't do

it, Joe.

They called him Joe?

I didn't hear anybody say anything. I'm just giving you my impression.

I didn't want to look, because even if they were clowning, I had this thing

heights, I can't even watch scenes like that in movies, so I didn't see.

Exactly what happened.

But you saw the men who were with him.

Well, I saw them, but I didn't see them. I wasn't paying much attention.

I understand one of them was heavy.

Not particularly. Not that I noticed, anyway.

The other one was bald.

Bald?

Huh? Did one of them have birds?

Birds?

You mean like in cages?

Or on his shoulder?

That I'd remember.

Parrots.

On his shirt.

He was wearing a Hawaiian shirt, all bright colors, and had these parrots on

Nope.

You weren't on the heavy side now that I come.

Hey, Mom.

You be home?

Yeah. Nah, I was just hoping that maybe you felt like speaking.

No, I can't, Mom.

Okay? I need to be out here.

Well, maybe you can come down.

Yeah, I know.

Well, just tell him that I called and that I missed him.

Love you, too.

Make sure he has my number, all right?

You ready to conduct your transaction, sir?

You are selfish, young man.

We all chose a profession where we're not giving a damn about another person

the positive.

But I think that's the part you like best. Just being out for yourself at the

table. That's vintage, Clark.

That's just vintage.

Are you ready to conduct your transaction, sir?

No. No, I'm not.

Yeah, I know who you mean.

Tropical Henry?

Haven't seen him.

My favorite shade of green, but... I haven't seen him.

Put that honey away.

But keep it handy. I'd like to earn it.

I know you.

From the game of the Colorado.

And I know who you are.

Tropical Henry.

I want to get in touch with him.

No kidding.

I ought to be tall, boy.

Syracuse women's lacrosse team.

First. Let's have the hunt.

the rest.

Out here, you don't cop at all.

You're just a sucker with a bunny on your head.

Took you long enough.

Yeah, you're the one who picked this place.

I had to make sure it was off the beaten path.

Off the map is when I like it.

We still in Nevada?

Been dodging Everett's call all day.

Still coming?

She'll be here.

I got that out of my system.

Are you okay there?

The bad play.

The angle.

I'm ready to sit across from him at a table and do what we have to do.

I wish there was a way we could hurt him more.

If Seymour was still here, we could.

But for now, a shot at the money is all we have.

Let's take our 500 large, turn it into 3 million.

Triple up and double it.

Right.

Let's do it.

Yeah? Are you sure now?

Because you got the month to live it.

If he sees through this, this game will never come together, and that will not

be the worst of your problems.

Bank in the morning.

Table after that.

When he invites me to play, I act reluctant and agree.

Let's set up a game.

Take his ass down.

Let's do it.

these photos.

You've taken them as a violation of the family's privacy and the law.

Is there any other copies?

No. Files are in there, too.

How'd you, uh... How'd you know I took them? The coroner called me.

See, law enforcement's kind of like a club out here.

We're clubby.

Just take a look.

It's a belt loop.

You see?

The shirt right there, the way it's torn.

Only way that could happen is if he was pushed.

Look, Sheriff.

I'm showing you a courtesy by not prosecuting you this time. Next time, I

I'll tell you who you should prosecute.

Wait outside, boys.

I know what you're doing.

You're trying to turn the suicide into a murder. That's the point.

It's no suicide.

Your days of strutting around here with impunity are over.

Next time I see your face, it better be through the window of a departing

airplane.

What kind of game are you talking about? You can't sit down and play with a

pocket full of petty cash.

Yeah, how's 200 wrong?

That's a two with five zeros after it. Right, plus two more after the decimal

point. I don't know.

I guess I could find a chair for you.

MF.

Munsters. Take a look.

Kid named Clark Marcellin.

Girl calls herself Miami.

Well, that's a good thing she's not from St. Augustine.

I already slated you in.

Hold on a second.

Where the hell have you been?

Busy. Busy?

Doing what?

You want... Take a look at that.

You're gonna want a piece of this.

Yeah, maybe I should sit this one out.

Might not be objective enough.

You're gonna be fine.

I insist.

The most powerful play in no -limit poker is the all -in wager.

Execute it correctly at just the right moment, and you can break a man.

But if you're going to commit all your chips to a pot, you'd better make sure

that you actually have the best of it.

Because when you're all -in, there's no middle ground.

You either win, or you lose everything you have.

I'll play.

Okay, Skip.

We're on for nine o 'clock.

Gonna have ourselves a hayride

On

the neck hill and the gaming commission a

thorough agent investigates complaints of wide -scale Institutional cheating

ripoffs, which is why I am prepared.

We're prepared To throw open our books our house

You have full access.

The hotel sent me up to take your order.

They want you to know you can have anything you like.

Anything.

If you don't find the button that magically makes that gentleman

change is going to be a wind that blows all of us out of here.

I'll find it, sweet tooth.

I want you to use Everest to help you.

I said I'll find it.

And Don's not the solution. He's the problem. That's the point. It's not?

It's all yours.

Membership has its privileges, Eddie.

Tonight's the night.

So if you guys do anything special to get ready for a big game, I suggest you

it. It's a game we've been waiting for.

We're taking the matador down tonight.

This is Henry Dufour.

People call him Tropical Henry.

I've got three witnesses who can put him on the fourth floor balcony with

Seymour Anisman when he was killed.

Now there's no way you can avoid taking action.