The tell
Same move, every single hand
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Real deal
A shuffled 52-card deck, two down cards for you, two for him, five on the board.
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All in, always
The instant it's his turn, Jolly shoves the whole stack, blind to what he's holding.
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Real cards decide it
Fold and keep the rest, or call and let the board settle it for real.
The house keeps a record
A few hands from the log
Every hand he plays goes on the felt's own ledger, win, lose, or chop.
| Hand | Jolly held | How it ran | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| #0041 | 7♦ 2♣, the worst starting hand in the deck | Board ran ace high. No pair landed anywhere on it. | Jolly loses |
| #0117 | K♠ K♥, pocket kings, the best starting hand there is | An ace hit the river. | Jolly loses, same grin |
| #0284 | A♦ 5♣, shoved same as any other two cards | The turn completed a wheel straight before he had any way of knowing it. | Jolly wins |
| #0509 | K♦ 7♠, nothing special either way | Board paired kings. Both hands showed the same two pair. | Chop, stake returned |
| #0623 | 9♣ 4♥, shoved before he could have looked | Runner runner diamonds landed on the turn and river both. | Jolly wins, a flush with no business landing |
Before you sit down
House rules for this table
You act first, every hand. Jolly never opens, he only ever answers.
His answer never changes: the whole stack, the instant it's his turn, before he has looked at a single card.
Folding only costs what you already put in front of you. Calling puts the rest of your stack on the line too.
The deck is a real fifty-two, shuffled fresh for every hand. Nothing about who wins is decided in advance.
Jolly's bankroll always matches yours at the start of the hand, so his shove can never fall short of a full call.
Busted to zero costs nothing. The house restarts you at a fresh ten, as many times as you sit back down.
The player across the table
Meet Jolly
Jolly sat down at this table with a fresh stack and exactly one instruction, and he has followed it every single hand since. No folding, no slow play, no glance at his cards before he moves.
Ask anyone who has played him what his strategy is and you get the same answer: there isn't one. The shove happens before the thought would. Whatever he is holding becomes the whole stack the moment the action reaches him, win or lose, same face either time.
There is nothing to read across the table. He shoves before he knows what he is holding.