The following story is a work of fiction. The only part of it that is remotely true is that I really did work with a woman named Suzanne who matched the physical description of the character in this story. However, her last name has been changed and the company mentioned in this story is entirely fictional.
Charley Ross, Bill Chambers, Terry Donald, and I are all employees of the Western Department Stores, Co. We all work together in the IS department. The four of us had all been hired within a period of 1 month and have remained close friends ever since. That was about 4 years ago. I should mention that we are all in our late twenties. Terry is married, but the rest of us are single. About a year ago, we started getting together every Friday night for a little poker game. Four people isn't really much of a poker game and we don't play for much money anyway. It's mostly a chance to get together, have a few drinks, and sit around and talk.
One of our favorite topics of conversation is Suzanne Williams, who we all just call Suzy. Suzy was hired in about 2 years ago. She's a little younger than we were, probably around 25. It's her physical attributes that are our favorite topic of conversation. Suzy is not a particularly pretty woman. She is average looking with sandy blonde hair. She's also a little on the heavy side, but not much. She has a rather large ass and the biggest set of knockers any of us have ever seen. At the time we didn't know what size they were, but we figured her bras had to be special ordered.
The four of us were hired as senior programmers. Terry and I are now project managers, Charley is the senior systems guru, and Bill is our DBA (for those of you who don't know what this means don't worry, it doesn't matter for the story anyway). Suzy is a tester. She is one of a group that runs all the new programs with data we supply and let's us know what changes need to be made. The four of us work with Suzy on a regular basis and frequently the five of us will have lunch together. At some point, I don't really remember exactly when, we mentioned our weekly poker game at one of these lunches. Suzy said that she played a little poker and would like to join us sometime. We just told her that if we had an opening sometime we'd let her know. Of course we really had no intention of ever inviting her. Our poker game is kind of a private ritual that we just keep to the four of us. Besides, we frequently discuss Suzy's boobs, and how we would all like to get our hands on them. We didn't think she was likely to want to join in that conversation.
Over the last month or so, Suzy has asked several times to join our game. Charley tried flirting with her a little to see if she would be any fun, but Suzanne just made it very clear she didn't get involved with people at work, so he let it drop. We all figured if she was that uptight, she wasn't going to enjoy our conversations, and we continued to avoid inviting her.
That all changed last week. Monday, Terry told the rest of us that he wouldn't be able to play Friday. His wife had tickets to the theater, and if he didn't go he was dead. We couldn't argue with that, so we just told him we would get together next week.
After Charley left, I think it was Bill who suggested we invite Suzy in his place. We both told him he was crazy, but he wondered if maybe a couple of drinks would loosen her up and she would actually turn out be fun. Charley and I both told him that the only thing we wanted to loosen was her bra. Bill just smiled and said that maybe that was a possibility, too. We asked him what he meant, but he just told us we would have to wait until the next day, so he could work out his plan.
The next day, Bill came over to my office first thing in the morning and he brought Charley with him. He had a wonderful idea. Bill had been an amateur magician as a teenager and he could play all sorts of games with a deck of cards. Suzy didn't know what kind of money we played for, so we would raise the stakes this Friday. We would play table stakes with $200 in play for each person. $200 wasn't really much money to the three of us, but to a woman on a tester's pay it would be very significant. The table stakes part was important, nobody could add anything to a bet that wasn't brought in initially. You couldn't borrow money and you couldn't raise beyond what you had. Bill would make sure that Suzy lost gradually for the first hour or so, then he would deal a very specific hand. He would deal Suzy 3 kings and 2 other cards. When she took two cards, he would deal her the fourth king. He would deal me a hand that I would take 2 cards from as well. Those cards would be obvious from what I had. The two cards he would give me would fill a straight flush. We wouldn't deal this hand until Suzy was down somewhere below $50. She would want to raise like crazy, but wouldn't have enough money. Bill thought we might talk her into betting her bra. He told us to think about it and we'd discuss it over lunch.
Suzy asked to join us at lunch, but we told her we had an important project to discuss and we'd get together with her on Wednesday. Terry joined us for lunch and the four of us discussed Bill's idea. Terry laughed and said since he was married, it was a good thing he was the one out, but he wished us luck and if it worked we had to tell him all about it. I asked Bill why we were limiting it to her bra. The other guys just looked at me. I said that if she was desparate enough to bet, she might bet more and more. Especially if we increased the money, say to $500 a person. Charley and Bill didn't think Suzanne would even be able to get that much money for one game, but I told them that as much as she wanted to be included, she would find a way if she was invited. We would need to invite her as soon as possible, so that she would have plenty of time to get the money together. We agreed that tomorrow at lunch would be perfect.
Wednesday afternoon the five us were eating lunch. We had scripted the conversation carefully. After we'd been eating about 5 minutes, Terry casually mentioned how sorry he was that he would miss the game Friday. We all told him that was okay, we would just play next week. He, of course, said to just play without him, but we told him that three people just wasn't much of a game. Right on cue, Suzy piped in that she would be happy to take Terry's place and then we would be able to play. I said I didn't know, we'd have to think about it. Suzy insisted that it was perfect. I turned to her and told her that we didn't want to hurt her feellings, but we didn't think she could afford to risk the kind of money we played for. I thanked her for her offer, but told her that she just wasn't ready for this game. She asked me how much we played for and I explained the $500 ground rules. Suzanne hesitated for a minute, and then said that was no problem. She'd played for that kind of money lots of times. Just tell her where the game was and she'd be there. I look at the other guys. They all shrugged their shoulders. I then told Suzy, "okay, the game is at my house at 7:00. Please understand we're all friends but the money we play for is serious. Don't come if you can't afford to play." Suzy just said not to worry about her and she'd be at my house by 7:00 Friday evening. Then she said she had to get back to work and left the table. We all waited until she was out of sight, then we all fell on the table laughing. We all knew that Suzy had never played more than 10 games of poker in her life, and that the biggest game she had ever played in was about $20.
Thursday afternoon the game got even better. Charley and I were working with another tester, Sharon, who asked us if it was true that Suzanne was playing poker with us the next night. We said it was and asked how she knew. She told us that Suzy had told her. She said that Suzy was so excited to get to play, that she had borrowed the $500 from her brother. Sharon had asked Suzy what would happen if she lost, and Suzy told her that her brother would kill her if she didn't pay him back Monday. Sharon started to ask her if she was crazy, but Suzy told her not to worry. She was such a good poker player there was no way she could lose. When she had been in college, she had won her sorority poker game. Sharon asked her how much that game had been for and Suzy told her it hadn't been for real money, they had just used chips and pretended. Sharon then asked us if this would be okay, and we just told her not to worry, it would all be all right. Charley and I had to walk down the hall very quickly after that. Sharon would have thought we had both lost our minds, if she had seen us both doubling over laughing as soon as we were out of sight.