Now she lives in a trailer park and ekes a living as a waitress in the casino. An evil, shadowy casino boss has rumbled her, and threatened her (why? Why doesn’t he make use of her skills instead?), and forced her to stop gambling. Instead of playing poker, for example, at one of those high-stakes competitions in Vegas, and allowing herself to lose the occasional hand so as not to give the game away, she has gone around the country, playing for low stakes, and always winning, till word has got out - because gamblers always talk. Hence the tortured premise of Rian Johnson’s Poker Face, in which we are invited to believe that our heroine, Charlie Cale (Natasha Lyonne), has blown her skills spectacularly. Admittedly, though, your life and adventures would make for a very boring TV series because everything would be so easy. You’d have it made, wouldn’t you? The intelligence services would be lining up to employ you for interrogations top law firms would pay you top dollar to act as their advisor you’d win gazillions in all the poker championships you’d never buy a dodgy second-hand car, not that you’d need to with all that money you’d have. Imagine if you had the power always to tell whether or not someone was lying.
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