Talk:A Big Hand for the Little Lady

Poker commentary
This is not Card Player magazine. The anonymous editor who keeps putting his/her commentary back in should consider several objections:
 * Unless you are a published writer, your opinion on the improbability of the rules constitutes WP:POV.
 * This is a special, once-a-year, semi-private game. They can use whatever rules they want.
 * The rules as they exist today do not mean they were set in stone from the beginning of time. You need to cite a reference about the rules at that time before you can even begin to address the previous issues.

See The Cincinnati Kid for how to comment in an encyclopedic manner. Clarityfiend (talk) 21:01, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

If the subject of the dispute is, was poker ever played with the possibility that a pot could be lost because a player could not match a bet, the answer is, probably. This movie is not the only place where this sort of situation is discussed: Jim Thompson mentions a real-life game that worked that way.--67.113.25.163 (talk) 04:26, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Gunsmoke
Similar story. Season 3, episode 34 (May 3, 1958) is called "The Big Con" where a group of men stage a high stakes card game in Dodge City's Long Branch saloon. One goes to the town banker and asks for $20,000 loan with a card hand of four aces and a ten, saying he needs the money "to call" and that he cannot lose. The banker hands over the money and the man loses to a 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of hearts. The loser promises to pay the $20,000 soon but Marshall Dillon suspects it is a con game, as it is, and he tricks the gang into running, so he can catch them.(5.8.190.86 (talk) 18:48, 6 September 2017 (UTC))