You’ll never take him alive sir
Alright, listen up, people. Our fugitive has been on the run for ninety minutes. Average foot speed over uneven ground barring injuries is 4 miles-per-hour. That gives us a radius of six miles. What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse and pizza place in that area. Checkpoints go up at fifteen miles. Your fugitive’s name is Poker Dave. Go get him.
Okay, maybe it’s not quite that dramatic, but I spotted Poker Dave the other day while working a vollie shift for the races. He was driving a shuttle for the World Cup Biathlon down the way and was doing a pickup across the way.
He has obviously tried to change his appearance and has grown a full beard and dyed his hair blondish in order to avoid detection.
I was pretty busy talking to some of the spectators down by the hotel so I only spotted him with my peripheral vision. By the time I consciously noticed it was him it was too late, he saw me lock in on him and took off in the bus and I ran in pursuit down the middle of the road while screaming over the walkie talkie to close down the access before he made it to the highway, but it was too late by then.
I think if you guys just stake out Avalanche for the next few day you should be able to spot him there at some time.
For those that don’t know, the reason we are trying to track him down is he dropped some paper at the home game a while back, one that I wasn’t there for so I just have second hand knowledge. It seems Poker Dave showed up for the game with everything he needed, foot powder, phone cards, a couple roast beef sandwiches, but no money so he had to throw some paper in to get some chips. Now almost everyone at the home game has at sometime needed a little paper to get them through the night, and it would be unfair and down right unsporting of the rest of the players to deny a down player a chance to get back in the game because they forgot to bring enough cash for some reason, or you left the wallet in the other jacket, its happened to us all.
Anyways, Poker Dave played a little loose that night and ended up down a few buyins 4 or 5 to be exact, and Ontario and the Mouth each took a part of his action until PD could get it back to them. That was 6 months ago now, and the Vig has been on since the standard 4 weeks went by. With the juice that makes it over $15,000 PD owes between the two guys.
You may be wondering why I would care?
Well in short it’s a two part answer.
The first is that its just a poker code of ethics that when you have some paper out there you repay it as soon as possible. That doesn’t necessarily mean you have to make it to the safe deposit box the next day, but it should be in a timely fashion.
The second is since Ontario and the Mouth have been unable to collect on the funds themselves, they have opened up the contract for collection. That means 40% to me if I can nail him. Not bad work if you can get it. Problem is that PD has fled the city and is harder to track down there than when he was up in the hood.
But he can’t hide forever