I smiled and said, “So, listen to me, take the 150 dollars and go find the guy you played cards with last night. I'll go with you.”

When I brought my distraught husband to his friend, Isaac Gonzales, he was still playing Poker with a group of people.

Seeing my husband, Isaac immediately put on a proud smile, “Loren, you still want to play today? Come on, we are just short of one person.”

Isaac and my husband, Loren Franklin, were elementary school classmates. He dropped out of school in middle school and went to work outside. 

But he soon got tired and went home. He spent his days idling around in his hometown and could not get married.

Every New Year, Isaac would join forces with a few people who also had nothing to do in his hometown, shamelessly make connections everywhere and invite some people who returned home for the New Year to a party.

I had reminded my husband a long time ago to have less contact with Isaac.

But my husband was a simple and honest man and Isaac used his relationship as his elementary school classmate and childhood friend to drag him to the card table.

When my husband heard that Isaac wanted to invite him to play again, he trembled all over and looked at me timidly.

I pulled my husband behind me, gave him a reassuring look and then smiled and said to Isaac, “My husband is not playing today, can I come to the table and play with you guys?”

“Oh, this is rare. I did not expect that a good woman like you, Adela, would also be interested in playing cards. That's great. Make room for Adela.”

Isaac was a little surprised, but more delighted and immediately asked someone to make room for me.

I glanced at the card table and noticed that they were playing very small, with a minimum of one dollar and a maximum of 15 dollars.

 

 

This kind of situation, it was absolutely impossible to lose twenty-five thousand in one night!

After I sat at the table, Isaac impatiently asked the dealer to deal me three cards.

I did not even look at my cards and just bet 15 dollars.

Everyone at the card table was stunned. Emmett Nichols, who was dealing the cards, frowned unhappily, “Adela, do you know how to play? How can you bet the maximum right away?”

In this capped game, once someone places the capped bet, everyone could only choose to fold or follow and then the cards were opened directly.