Houston Hold 'Em

"But I'm still not done."

With four players vying for three moneyed slots, the play has become tight. Everyone's trying to wait it out -- especially one player, whose digital representation is just sitting there. "I don't know what he's doing," says Toby. "He must be playing in more than one game."

Daniel Kramer

At Jim Burrell's house, the tables are felt and the money's real.

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Toby folds the next two hands. Then he says, "Hello, ladies." He's got two queens. "I'm the short stack with pocket queens," he says. "There's no question what I do." He goes all in.

And he's out. No fanfare. No rush of the draw. No money.

"I made the right call statistically," he says. "It just didn't work."

A few clicks later, and he's signed up to play again.