Nerds and the illegal poker sting
Again a dream in which I didn’t see it all.
It started with a documentary, but sort of one of those schlocky crime ones that were popular in the 90s on U.S television.
The documentary had to do with a high stakes illegal poker game that was run from a Boeing 747 because then, for some reason, it would be really difficult to bust, and how it was ripped off by three young hustlers from NYC.
At any rate at some point it switched from being a documentary to being a movie about these hustlers -. Either that or it was 3 other young poker hustlers from NYC because other than them it really didn’t seem to have anything to do with an illegal poker game on a Boeing 747.
In fact they were in a hotel in Las Vegas. So first it focuses on one of the trio going downstairs in the hotel lobby, and somehow ending up getting cornered by FBI agents and totally spilling his guts. This guy looks like a young, slightly geeky, scrawny guy who’s going to grow up to be muscular and good looking, but isn’t there yet.
His face is innocent and dumb and has an instinctively puppyish urge to please. Which I guess explains him spilling his guts, it is really like one of those scenes where the guy wants to be friends with the cops who are trying to put him away and he tells them everything. It made me sort of disgusted watching because obviously his friends didn’t deserve that.
With which thought a switch to the friends in the hotel room.
Frankly this was not a high class Las Vegas hotel room. It was more like an extremely white and cleaning product free broom closet. This is what you get when your dreaming mind decides to scrimp on location costs. They were sitting on something white, I think supposed to be a bed, and they were playing poker.
The cards were a mess, they were playing a sort of speed poker to hone their card counting, and so when done they just threw the cards aside. And when done instead of gather up and starting again it seemed they just opened another deck and started in on it.
They were going a bit on this deck and I remember at one point the guy had a killer hand — maybe 4 spades, and because of what had been played before he just said “calling it”, held up his hand and the other guy pointed at him and said “Logic”
Now these guys had the look of relatively well off Jewish teenagers from the late 70s New York. Central casting for this dream really did a good job I gotta say, if you were playing what ethnicity and where are they from you’d yell out “Jewish from New York!”
I’ve wondered in the past if my Dreaming Mind is racist, but here I don’t think so. Here it is just good solid casting. And the accents are great. The way the kid says “Logic” Sometimes my dreaming mind is not good with accents. These accents are spot on. Very much appreciated, especially considering the lousy Irish accents in my last dream where I wasn’t even in it
Something else happens again he says “Logic” the inflection he uses to give different meanings.
There’s a knock on the door. The one dealing opens — not the feds but a call girl he reserved. He says something about also being a good idea to unwind, and the other kid replies with “logic” again.
Then they headed out and the dream ended,, good thing because I didn’t want the sex scenes. Although the girl was extremely attractive — sort of a cross between Rebecca De Mornay in Risky Business and Kate Hudson in Almost Famous.
