Robert Arabella

If you want a symbolic gesture, don’t burn the flag; wash it.—Norman Thomas

[This is a work of poker fiction set ten thousand hands in the future. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is coincidental.]

“Operation Game Over,” the Puritan Government’s final solution to the poker problem, was nearing its climax. Freight trains filled with poker players continued to arrive at Las Vegas’ Union Station. Once there the players were imprisoned on the Las Vegas Strip.

We had to destroy the village in order to save it. —Vietnam Logic.

[This is a work of poker fiction set ten thousand hands in the future. Any resemblance

to persons living or dead is coincidental.]

On February 7, 1968 in South Vietnam’s Mekong Delta the small village of Bên Tre, a suspected Viet Cong hideout, was burned to the ground. The rationale for this act—“We had to destroy the village in order to save it”—has ever since been called “Vietnam Logic.”

“Operation Game Over” was The Puritan Government’s final solution to “The Poker Problem.” Based on the “Vietnam Logic” of salvation through destruction Operation Game Over was envisioned by its creator, the Revered President Biggs Brother, to be the extermination of all poker players in order to stop poker playing once and for all. Under secret provisions in The Poker Elimination and Criminalization Enforcement Act, the Reverend President Biggs Brother, in approving Operation Game Over, effectively signed the death warrants of tens of thousands of poker players.

When you’re going through Hell, keep going. —Winston Churchill.

If it isn’t broken, fix it till it is. —Samuel Johnson.
 

In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.—Andy Warhol.
 
[This is a work of poker fiction set ten thousand hands in the future. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is coincidental.]

Once I was a King, now I

Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State. —James J. Angleton.
 

I hold in my hands the names of 57 card-carrying Communists! —Senator Joseph McCarthy.

[This is a work of poker fiction set ten thousand hands in the future. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is coincidental.]

Lord above, Save us from the push and shove. -Fatboy Slim.

[This is a work of poker fiction set ten thousand hands in the future. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is coincidental.]

The World's Most Serious Poker Tournament's final table was down to four players. Three of them could play high stakes no-limit tournament poker. The one who could not was the chip leader.

If the odds are a million to one against something happening, chances are 50-50 it will. -Yogi Berra.

[This is a work of poker fiction set ten thousand hands in the future. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is coincidental.]