poker night

[deadthenred]

WHO: Bucky + OPEN
WHERE: Bucky's actually surprisingly nice apartment.
WHEN: Wednesday evening.
WARNINGS: The promise of manpanties.
SUMMARY: Bucky decided to have a poker game and invite… whoever wanted to show up. THIS MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN VERY SMART.
FORMAT: Tagger's choice.

Bucky wound up solving his food problem by ordering three bags of something or other stacked high with white take-out boxes from the Chinese place his neighbors were always going on about. He also made sure his apartment was spic and span. It was a remarkably tidy space: nothing interesting on the walls, no television, and now a couple orders of cashew chicken placed on a big card table in the center.

He'd bought a few decks of cards from the corner store and unwrapped one of them, flipping the cardstock between his fingers. Yeah, he was ready to play poker.

Comments

[nottheanswers]

[Which, as with most things, nets her a smirk.]

The thing about tells is they're subconscious. Few people will realize that they even have them, and they only come out when put to the test.

[bests]

They may be subconscious, but it is possible to train yourself out of some of them.

[nottheanswers]

Only the ones you're aware of.

[bests]

It's interesting that your more focussed on my tells and not your own, Mr. ...?

[nottheanswers]

Vic Sage. And I've had time to worry about my tells and work them out. I'm not exactly an amateur at this game, either.

[bests]

And yet you're skeptical of anyone else having done the same.

[nottheanswers]

I wouldn't call it skeptical so much as curious, Ms. ...?

[bests]

Danvers. Carol Danvers.

[nottheanswers]

The syntax works perfectly for Casino Royale. I guess that makes it appropriate, then.

[bests]

I've got too many syllables in my name to really pull off the Bond effect.

[nottheanswers]

Depends on who's counting.

[bests]

I'm fairly certain three is always more than two.

[nottheanswers]

Sure, but it maintains a kind of symmetrical rhythm.