[Johnny Hughes]

Johnny Moss won three million from Nick the Greek alone in an honest heads up game in 1949. That would be like thirty million in today's money. At the first World Series, the players voted Johnny Moss the champion. He won it the next year.

The gun quote is from Al Capone, noted American gangster. He said, "You can get further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."

I haven't posted one of my stories in a very long time and now you know why.

Morality? I am a poker player. Society and the law consider me an outlaw here in the Lone Star State. I have been arrested several times at poker games and once at a dice game. They used to put KG by our name for Known Gambler. Nearly every poker game I played in was very honest. I never cheated. I'd bet my left nut they were more honest than the Internet. I was too lazy to work and too nervous to steal so I became a gambler. It is going to come as a huge shock to some of you, most especially the original poster, but I sometimes write humor that you do not understand. That is a big part of the point.