So back for more then? Or maybe you just skipped ahead? Either way I don't blame you. Welcome or Welcome Back to Birthday Poker. In chapter one I was in love with Ramona but could never build up the courage to ask her out. We met new friends at a Gay, Lesbian Bisexual Alliance event, I earned the nickname Science Fiction Sam or Sci for short and Tony told me about his BDSM playroom, his relationship with Rachel and that he has a plan to hook me up with Ramona. This plan started with a fantastic pre-birthday meal he cooked for me (he is a chief) and some equally good wines, I'm happy to say the more I write of this the more I want to write and more and more details come back, the bad news is that it makes the story even longer. More to read and enjoy but also longer to wait until the really juicy stuff.
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"It occurred to me the other day," Tony stated, "that our little group talks a lot about sex."
Everyone jeered that and Sarah chipped in with "Yes, that's because were just so obsessed with it when looking at you."
James wolf whistled and everyone laughed as Tony simply shrugged. "What can I say, I have that effect on people. Now most of us have been here before," he glanced around the table and I suddenly felt uncomfortable. The others had been here before? "but I think it's time to see where this group is headed."
"Now most of you know about the room that I have downstairs, but Ramona would you mind following me?" Tony led the way and I was left with a group of people that I was beginning to think I didn't know at all. James looked at me and winked and my mind started to race about those other toys I was told not to use. I later found out I was wrong about that but I couldn't get the image out of my mind, would he let me take control one day?
While Tony and Ramona were gone me and James set about clearing the table and filling the dish washer before, under Rachel's orders, we returned to the lounge. I watched Ramona carefully as she rejoined us, she simply looked thoughtful as she came back in and sitting she met my eye for the first time in weeks.
We locked gazes for several seconds, I know just how expressive my eyes can be and right now I tried to show that I was willing to follow where ever she wanted tonight while holding back just how much I wanted to see her bound.
"So now we're all on the same footing I want to tell you that the room downstairs is where the winners of tonight's game will receive their prize. The game itself is quite simply strip poker. Ramona, Sam you are new to this, the rest of us have been here before, before we start I want to tell you that no matter what you decide we will still be your friends but I want to know now. Do you want to go through with this?"
Silence greeted the question while me and Ramona looked at each other, slowly she nodded causing me to smile so Tony continued, "Good then let me explain the rules. Each player will be given a limitless number of chips, only one of these is of major significance though, that is the marked chip." He pulled out half a dozen chips and handed them out, each chip was marked with the initials of the person he gave it to. "The others are dare chips. Now we are going to make it more competitive, we are going to play girls versus boys. Just like normally poker you can't communicate but if a woman wins the men strip and if a man wins, well lovely ladies we get to see you strip. The team which is naked first losses and become the slaves of the winning team for the rest of the party. Whatever orders are given by the masters or mistresses have to be followed as long as they are safe and sane, also if something is beyond your limits and you wish to stop then you can use your safe words, yellow for less, red for stop. Once again do either you want to back out?"
Ramona just giggled and said Rachel jumped in with "I hope you like being on your knees fellas."
Everyone laughed but me and Tony looked at each other and it suddenly became clear what Rachel's role would be, she was going to fold on good hands but bet high on bad ones, I was sure of it.
"Quick question," I interjected, "what about gags?"
"Well some gags will allow you to talk albeit in a slurred or muffled manner, if you absolutely can't speak, then make and uh, uh, uh noise. This will be treated as a red until the gag has been removed and the problem you have with the act in progress has been explained."
The tension in the room had definitely been knocked up a bit but everyone seemed more excited than nervous.
"Now the way I see it us men have got two shoes, two socks, shirts, trousers and boxers. Whereas all the women have opted for dresses and stockings, assuming bras..." he raised an eyebrow and all the girls quickly nodded. "that gives us seven items each. That means in thirteen hands we will have a winner, the game is Texas hold'em everyone know the rules?"
A brief chorus of affirmative answers came back.
"Good, now back to the chips, the marked chip represents you, if you lose this chip to a member of the opposite sex then after the game you are their personal slave. If you own more than one person at the end of the game you get to choose one to keep but must give the other away. Now let me just make it clear that being a personal slave does not mean that you will not be performing sexual acts on other people it just means that you will be directed and under the control of the person who posses the chip. But how to win someone if you have lost your chip and have no one else's to bet with is the dangerous part of the game, you can bet your back up chips but if you lose for every chip you must submit to a dare or challenge. Even if you bet an ownership chip you can then raise by betting dare chips, if you fold all chips are locked in and you have to complete the dares anyway so be careful. Once a challenge has been set the dare chips are restored to their original owner, if they fail the challenge a forfeit will be decided upon, hopefully we'll be able to think of something exciting based on the challenge. One final rule about the chips, if you still have your own chip you have to use it to start any bets or to call the bets being made. There are no blinds and entire hands can go by without betting a chip but then if no one bets no one will fold and it will simply be a game of high cards."
"Who would pass on the chance to win the chip of these beauties?" James butted in and everyone laughed as Ramona threw a cushion at him.
"If that's all clear then lets get the drinks in and get started."
I joined Tony in the kitchen and started pouring drinks, he added a measure of Southern Comfort to my first glass.
"May as well start with the shit but remember clear head." he muttered.
I smiled and carried the drinks through on a tray as James handed out stacks of a dozen chips. Seeing as the dare chips would return to the people who bet them that seemed a bit excessive but I let it slide.
Everyone was looking side long at each other and the background sexual tension which had always been a part of our group was beginning to come forward and take centre stage.
Tony retrieved a deck of cards and shuffled before taking his chair and handing the cards to Rachel on the couch who took her turn, then she passed them along the couch to James and Sarah, then Me and Ramona sitting in reclaimed dinning room chairs. As I handed her the cards I felt a lingering touch on the back of my hand and something told me that even if this all fell through and the game collapsed there was something beginning here.
Tony dealt first and the game began. The first few hands were fairly uneventful, either everyone would pass at every opportunity or someone would bet their ownership chip and the others would drop out. As it was it stayed perfectly even for the first four hands:
Sarah got a high pair in hand one, the boys grudgingly kicked off their shoes.
I got brave with the beginnings of a flush and bet in the second hand only for all the girls to fold and kick off a heal.
Then James got lucky with two pair but didn't bet till the river so we would be dragged in, but everyone folded immediately and off went the other heel.
Then Ramona got brave in the flop of the next hand and chickening out the men all lost their other shoe.
So as the fifth hand, and my deal, rolled around I was beginning to get impatient, glancing at my cards I knew I would be foolish to push it, with a three of hearts and a six of clubs there was not much I could hope for. Then Rachel finally made her play, betting her ownership chip and giving me a sly smile, I glanced at Tony who seemed engrossed in his card but I thought I saw the slightest smirk on his face. James and Sarah ducked out and glancing at the flop cards I tried to make a call. There was a Jack, a nine and a four, in the form of a diamond and two spades, sod it not much help there. All the same, you only live once so I chucked my chip in to call and to my surprise Ramona's chip followed it, I stared at her for a few moments but she was giving nothing away. Tony also called, all right then by the end of this hand someone was going to have a choice of two people at the end of the game. Burning a card I flipped the next one not even bothering to look at it simply sizing everyone up, wondering where this would end up.
Everyone checked in any case and I burned one last card and turned the River, I couldn't believe what I was seeing, the last two cards I'd laid out were a two and a five of hearts, with my hand I had a low straight. I quickly did the maths, could I be beaten? There were no three cards of the same suit on the table so no flush, no I didn't think so, there wasn't an obvious better hand there. Checks went round the table so as casual as possible I tossed a dare chip onto the pile. In a heartbeat Ramona followed suit, I did a slight double take but shrugged it off. Smiling his little smile James tossed his cards down, a fold. Rachel looked at me and grinned again tossing her chip onto the pile, then following it with another. I stopped again, could this all be an act? Or was Rachel working her own game, maybe she wanted to be the Dom tonight. Oh well, in for a penny in for a pound, besides what could beat me? Ramona's chip sailed in almost before mine had come to a rest, interesting.