“Good vibrations. I like that! Sounds uplifting.”
“C’mon, Merle, you wanted to learn all this, right? Listen up.”
The conversation about cards ended, and the two stared out onto the highway into the east.
So returning back to the game at the Golden Nugget…
Leroy laid out his A A 7 4 2 against the board A K 9 5 2 to win a pot of $625 the first hand. A Filipino guy, later Leroy came to know him as “Mars,” was wearing a straw cowboy hat was his only competition, going K K 2 4 7, as the others folding once these two went out through the river card. “I knew that son of a gun was a player. I could just sense it. He had lower odds than me and played it out anyway.” Leroy knew he was a “Filipino guy” because he had a Philippines flag sewn into the hat. “You’d think a guy would be from there,
