House Of Cards
April, 1989
House of CardsWhen Martin Oakes got the word that Smooth Jake Warner had finally agreed to play poker, he tried to sleep, but he couldn't, so he got into the car and drove all night to Virginia.Smooth Jake was a legend. Ace Roldan, one of the men Martin Oakes had beaten, called Smooth Jake "the meanest, roughest, hardest-bitten card-playing snake east of Vegas," and Roldan had seen enough gambling pits to be reliable about identifying the reptiles that managed to crawl out of them.Smoo...