Maverick

I was up WAY too late last night. Most of it was worth it because I watched Joey kill zombies on the 360 and observed Jake work on the next great B2F masterpiece. After all that and a couple of beers, I decided to hit the sack. However, I turned my TV on in my bedroom and found the Mel Gibson movie "Maverick" was on.

It's been a while since I watched this movie, but I did remember liking it for the most part. It's about a poker player in the old western setting and he's trying to scrounge up enough money to enter a five card draw poker tournament. (Oh, and he's a really good poker player too. Just like me. LOL)

After watching it mostly til the end (when the poker tournament takes place on an old timey steam-powered riverboat) I got REALLY fed up with the final hand in the tournament.

The main antagonist is clearly in league with the dealer and they are cheating. First, the dealer switches out the deck to a fixed deck. Then he is seen OBVIOUSLY bottom-dealing from the deck to the antagonist. Maverick doesn't say anything, even though he knows it's happening.

The kicker is, THERE IS ONLY ONE SECURITY GUY IN THE WHOLE ROOM!!! WTF?

I know it isn't Vegas or anything, but holy crap. You'd think that a tournament where $500,000 is on the line that there would be a few more safety precautions for cheating. James Garner's character is the lawman in charge of security and he's able to catch lame card cheats, but he doesn't notice the dealer is fucking up?

Even though Maverick does win the hand (in a seemingly miracle draw to fill out a Royal Straight Flush) the whole hand really makes me glad I live in a time where cheating like that is very rarely found.

Cheaters can kiss my ass.

~Nate-O