As an ex-gambler teaches a hot-shot college kid some things about playing cards, he finds himself pulled into the world series of poker, where his protégé is his toughest competition.
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Nothing but silence. Nothing but a revolutionary song. A story in five chapters like the five fingers of a hand.
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