California Split Page #10

You know, I wouldn't do that.

- I'm here to win, Doctor.

- Okay. No hard feelings.

No hard feelings at all.

A pleasure to do business with you.

Pleasure doing business

with people who like to do business.

Not many do.

You don't think there'll be five?

I'll say that there will be five, okay, Steve?

- Coca-Cola, please.

- Yes, sir.

I feel like a winner,

but I know I look like a loser.

We busted? We got anything left?

What's up in that game?

- We're up $11,000.

- $11,000.

We are up $11,000.

Well, let us pack this place in.

Let's go back to LA now.

You're my hero. My new hero.

$11,000. We're rich. $5,500 each.

Let's go. Know how long

we can live at the track for that?

- I can beat the game for 15...

- Famous last words. 15, 20.

You're here now, right? You won $11,000.

We could be at the track for 50 years

with that kind of money, right?

Charlie, I got the heat.

You gotta give me $200

so I can play some roulette...

or do something while you're in there.

Don't look at me like that.

You're not going... $50?

The man's having a good time.

I'm sitting here going... Wait a second now.

Okay, knock 'em dead, William.

What are you doing?

- Sixty cents for the Coke.

- Wait a second.

He hardly even drank the Coke.

That's my keno money.

One time I made 14 parlays and let it ride.

And every time I'd do it in the bootleg days,

I'd take a drink.

And I finally ended up with an old dealer

around here who said:

"Doctor, you don't know what you had.

You had that house, had the whole point...

"from old Felix Terwiller

and you just don't know what you had."

- And it ended up by me owing him $2,600.

- Ante up, gentlemen.

And that was back in 1926,

and that was a lot of dough...

- and it took me six months to pay it off.

- Doc, ante, please.

You can win that much in this game

if you hold the best hand.

We've been playing fine.

This game's getting good.

You just keep on playing,

everything's going to be okay.

You talk with your cards and start breaking.

She owes me a blackjack.

I won $7,000 more.

I lost the rhythm of the game.

- I'm going to play some blackjack.

- $7,000 more?

- $18,000.

- Lucky man.

- I'm a rich man.

- I should say you are.

You're being kibbitzed

by a very wealthy man.

- Good luck.

- I'm going to tell you, Chester...

- you just hang on to your cards.

- $18,000. Boy!

- Money, please.

- $18,000.

William, you're... What a streak.

You put me in the game, okay?

Put me in, I'll go play poker...

- and you can knock this table...

- What'll you play with?

You're going to give me some of my money.

William, I got no nails.

I'm going to throw... A 10!

How could you do a 10 like that?

Never bust nothing.

I guess you think I did that?

I come over here and sit

and you're gonna lose.

I'm having a nervous breakdown.

The money can't do me nothing...

'cause I ain't got none.

Just keep on winning, okay?

Jimmy, can I get a little credit here?

- What do I gotta do to have credit?

- Go to the cashier.

He said I couldn't do it anymore.

What's happening?

Why did you disappear from the blackjack?

Is that all that's left of our money?

All that cash?

- How're you doing?

- Very good.

What's very good? How much did you win?

- What do you have...

- I did very good.

Very good could be something or nothing.

- What is happening?

- It bounced out of 22!

What the hell is that?

What do you want to know?

Ask me what you want to know.

You're over here, ask me!

What do you want to know?

- Bounced out of 22.

- That's right.

Will you get out of here?

You're gonna kill the streak!

Nobody's drinking this. I'll bet a Milky Way.

Sorry, sir. The limit's $1.

You just finish this hand and then you see.

You want to bet a Milky Way.

You're liable to get hungry.

Twenty-nine is not mine!

How much money is in there if he wins?

I'll take $1 million on the field

and I'm coming.

Twenty-six.

How much are those chips worth?

- Do you mind?

- How's my field coming...

with my lucky Milky Way on the field?

Give me a field on the hard way.

$100 a number.

Where's my lucky...

Twenty-six!

We gotta shoot craps.

William, I'm not going to get

in your way no more.

- You come with me.

- No.

- No, I'm shooting, you're betting.

- I'll bet $100 on 11.

Okay, that stuff will just wash the dice off.

Number 11.

- Twelve, your line away.

- Look, maybe I ought to go.

No, you stay right here.

Charlie, now you stay right here.

And we start now.

Okay, we start now.

Okay, table, we're starting now.

I got it, Charlie.

Let me see it.

Nine the winner.

He's got us out there, William.

I never saw so many

bumble-bee chips in my life.

$100 chips.

They give us real money for this?

Numbers!

Easy eight, okay.

Eight! It is eight!

Okay, that's number two.

Come on. Let's have the dice.

Come on, we're all with you, everyone.

Don't worry now.

Numbers.

Eight!

Give me a pair of fours.

A pair of fours and I'll sh*t in my drawers.

Put your money on double four, lady.

This man's going all the way.

$500 chips!

I never saw $500 chips.

Seventy-five!

Three 11s in a row.

I wanna bet a million dollars. 14-to-1.

- You making that kind of money?

- You bet I am.

Don't distract the man.

Just stay right on the table, William.

Eleven. Four 11s in a row.

The man throws four 11s in a row.

Where's my $14 million? I meant what I said.

$1 million on the line for an 11.

Nine!

Nine! The man throws nines, eights, sixes.

Wake up the world, William.

Roll these numbers till it comes down.

Aren't you going to change

the pit guys now?

You guys aren't getting tired, are you?

Hard six.

You get a hard six,

they'll put your picture up here.

- Try it.

- Hard six.

Hard eight. Come on.

Hard six.

Have you ever seen a greater roll than this?

I think you're not gonna believe

what I've seen.

This the biggest one you ever see?

- Almost.

- Almost? We gotta make it the biggest one.

Excuse me. Can I put $1 on number seven?

What is that? $1 on seven.

Here, lady, you got $100 to get out of town.

Give that lady $100,

tell her to go play that, all right?

Come on, shoot.

Nine.

Come on, 66.

I don't believe it.

- You won't be here next game.

- That's right. That's your comeback.

- You are the shooter.

- Well, man, okay.

- All right, I'll pass the dice to the lady.

- Okay.

- You are the shooter, ma'am.

- Let's go check out.

Is that the longest roll

you've ever been here for?

That man is unconscious.

That's what they said.

- Don't you go grabbing none of these.

- How many points?

Could you buy us a drink?

Here. Give this to the sweeper.

- Thank you very much.

- Excuse me. Sorry.

Excuse me. Excuse me, please.

- There he is.

- No, we's about even now.

He's in there.

I've got the world on a string

Sitting on a rainbow

These chips, they're just falling out.

William, you okay?

I suddenly got very tired.

I know, I could see that. I was amazed.

You walked away from the table

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