My wife decided the climax of her book would be a poker game and I was like “If you do this, DO NOT use the royal flush takes all trope. It is a tired cliché.”
She did something a little different and I’m very pleased with how she subverted that trope.
It ends with a chop and the protagonist cashes out and walks away. Not exciting from a poker perspective but the protagonist develops as a person between the last bet and the reveal.
My wife decided the climax of her book would be a poker game and I was like “If you do this, DO NOT use the royal flush takes all trope. It is a tired cliché.”
She did something a little different and I’m very pleased with how she subverted that trope.
I hope it was beating the nut flush with a full house made from a pocket pair.
Now THAT’S exciting to a poker player!
It ends with a chop and the protagonist cashes out and walks away. Not exciting from a poker perspective but the protagonist develops as a person between the last bet and the reveal.
Turns out the real pot was the friends we made along the way, or something.