Jack bided his time, his wins slowly growing.
Misty didn't seem to tire of the routine, and since Jack never went back to the same casino, she never seemed to get bored. Her role was simply to ask questions about everything and provide that low-level irritant distraction that allowed Jack to do his work relatively freely.
The independent sharks inevitably got word of him. The house sharks were a clique to themselves, frequently sharing information from house to house, many of them moonlighting elsewhere. They knew who the current marks were and how much they could be milked; further, they'd often tag-team to wear customers down. There was some predatory, casino-to-casino sharking, where a shark from one casino would lure a mark from beneath the noses of another casino, but most of them t
