Thanks so much for the kind words and reading my stories. I'll try to do better about posting a little more promptly.
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It was another couple weeks before I had my chance to use my power again. I was really playing good poker but somehow consistently losing to women. I'd run super hot, make great reads, and then just get sucked out on every time. It got to the point where I just stopped going heads up with women unless I had the absolute nuts.
It wasn't all bad though, Jaime proved to be an enthusiastic, if slightly airheaded, lover. She'd come to the games with me and cheer me on whether or not I won or lost. And she'd fuck me like crazy afterwards. I learned that she had a TON of gambling debts and apparently had a very real addiction problem. She had actually been pretty good at poker, ironically. But she couldn't stop betting on other things as well. All of that was gone now. If I forced her, she could still play poker pretty well, but she just had no desire to.
The only problem was... uhmm... how should I put this. Well, she was pretty slutty. I mean REALLY slutty. She didn't cheat on me. Not per se. But she'd flirt with anyone that even looked her way. She wore the most shockingly revealing clothing (which I didn't actually mind) and she was constantly talking about how cute various people were (Girls and guys). Still... the sex was insanely good and I wasn't looking to marry her or anything. I figured as long as she didn't contract something that would make my dick fall off it was probably fine.
That went on for about a week. If I hadn't had the constant sex with Jaime the air-headed bimbo sex queen, I might have forgotten the strange dream with "God". I still wasn't sure how I felt about that. It all felt so surreal. And then one day I was sitting at an Omaha table playing pretty casually. The game was Omaha hi-lo. That's not particularly important except you need to appreciate what happened a little. In most casinos, the low has what's called a "qualifier". Usually that's 8 or worse. And in Omaha, you MUST use two cards in your hand. What that means is that if there's only two cards lower than a 9 on the board, there cannot be a low.
So I was playing against this girl heads up. Now I'd already talked about how I'd had just terrible luck against women lately. But in this case, the pot had gotten pretty big and I had a lock on the high. The board was QQ87 rainbow and I had KQQJ. Quad queens. I knew I couldn't scoop the pot if a low came but I was going to get the high no matter what. When the board came a deuce, I groaned. That almost certainly meant that she was going to take half now. She bet and I quickly called, knowing that we were just going to chop the pot.
"River screwed me... did I luck into the high?" she asked as she flipped her cards over. I felt the strange sensation just like I had with Jaime. I looked up and she had 2287. Literally any other low card that had come would have given her a low but the deuce just meant she had trip two's and I managed to scoop the pot.
I flipped over my cards to show her the bad news. "Good hand... bad beat," I said. She looked at me, her eyes flicking behind me for just a moment. I hadn't really paid much attention to her before that. She was very cute in a girl-next-door kind of way. Long, dark brown hair. Maybe 24 or 25. She had a nice, friendly smile and a twinkle in her eye. She also had a very pronounced ring on her finger. Shit.
"It happens, don't sweat it," she said. Something about the way she said it made it sound almost flirty. At least she didn't sound like an imbecile.
I played a few more hands, watching as this new girl played. She wasn't the best player but she wasn't bad by any stretch. She seemed to have no problem with the amount of money she was betting. Judging by her clothes she seemed pretty successful and this wasn't a super high stakes table. I tried to imagine what could possibly warrant my intervention. Eventually, she decided to cash out. She was up about $100 or so. I decided to find out what her deal was and I got up as well. She noticed me collecting my chips and tipping the dealer and gave me a sly little smile. Before I could say anything, I was suddenly hugged from behind by Jaime, whom I'd completely forgotten.
"Like, how much did you win you big stud?"
"Uhh... About $800," I said, trying my best not to come off as humble bragging.
"I saw that one big pot you had with her. Sorry... he like totally never beats girls. It was just his lucky day," she said.
"Yeah," she said quietly, suddenly seeming very shy now that Jaime was around. She tucked her hair behind her ear, "I played bad. I didn't deserve to win that."
"Are you kidding me? I think that hand you played perfectly. Anyone else staying in for a low would have almost certainly had an Ace that got counterfeited and you might have backed into a high by accident. You did nothing wrong there."
She blushed at the praise but didn't say anything else.
"I'm Phillip and this is Jaime," I said and offered my hand.
"Kennedy," she said, staring oddly at Jaime as she took my hand.
"Nice to meet you Kennedy," the young woman finally took my hand and shook it. "What brings you here. Are you and your... uhh... husband visiting or do you live here?"
She rubbed her ring self-consciously and glanced away. "Uhmm... it's a getaway weekend. Things aren't great at home," she said in a sort of quiet sadness.
"I'm sorry. If you want, I can just listen. I promise not to hit on you," I said, trying to flash her a disarming smile at the same time.
"No... it's fine... my, uhmm... my husband left me. I put him through law school...," she looked at me and flashed a cute smile before looking away, "I guess I should have realized there was a problem when he started talking excitedly about divorce law."
I couldn't help but laugh a little, "I'm sorry. I shouldn't laugh."
She smiled at me again, this time holding my gaze for just a moment before her eyes flicked again to Jaime and back to me. "It's really okay... you want to know the funniest thing?"
"What?" I asked, curious.
"I walked in on them... uhhmm... fucking, you know," she said. She didn't look upset about it... well... kind of... she was hard to read.
"You don't have to..." I started but she waved her hand dismissively.
"No... it's funny. I mean, I don't really blame him. The girl was super hot. If he'd asked me, I might have even given him a hall pass, you know," she said. Her eyes looked up, as if she was remembering something. Jaime squirmed a little beside me, obviously getting turned on. "But it wasn't that he was fucking her, you know."
"I'm sorry... what was it? Ohh... were they, you know... intimate and making love?" I asked, thinking I'd figured it out.
"What? No!" she exclaimed, laughing uncontrollably. "No... sorry. I guess I can see why you thought that. No, she was fucking him. Like full on strap on right up the ol' toocus."