It was cool that that while Sam got some luck, he won via acting. The witch was over-confident in his ability to read people, maybe distracted by having a girlfriend who wanted to die.
Also, this was a witch with his own code. Maybe turning Dean in would have violated it.
And I know the hero always wins in fictional poker games but Sam's hand seemed like rabbit's foot lucky.
Yeah,but I can take one lucky hand as a plot point, because he first bluffed the witch, and then played him into thinking he had gone reckless with grief and desperation. As to why he got the hand, maybe he had an angel on his shoulder.
Maybe manwitch knows about Dean's mortality because he took 50 of his years?
But, yeah, it's great that Sam got to act the hell out of his hand, but what a hand...
Come to think of it, I have won with four of a kind on a small pocket pair when my opponent was sure he had the pot with his full house. I forget the odds are funky with hold 'em. But that was a $5 buy-in, noone's life was at stake.
In a fictional sporting event, you have to win at the last moment. And you can't defuse a bomb with more than a second left on the timer.
Chad Everett was pretty damned funny, though.
"Dooood."
In a clip from one of the cons, both JP and JA mimic Everett's Dean: here, at about 7.57 Doooood.
At the same con, JA addresses the copious amounts of sweat JP produces, here, from about 3.15. I couldn't help thinking that the poker game was *finally* a good story-reason for the sweat.
Oh thank you for that Bev. I may have a permanent smile on my face. Dooood. Between that and little Sam watching the show because that is "him", my face is going to freeze this way!
Aw, Bev comes through with the con clips! I love to watch them together out of character. It's so nice to see that chemistry (and I actually don't mean anything porny by that).
Filming far away from home is so hard. And with just the two of them in the regular cast, I am chuffed to see that they get along so easily.
Exactly! Can you imagine if they hadn't hit it off? Although I think maybe the show wouldn't have done as well, if that had been the case.