Daily Dialogue — March 5, 2016

BETSY: You went in there with $500, right, we had this whole discussion!
JACK: I had a straight flush! Do you know what a straight flush is? It’s like … unbeatable.
BETSY: “Like unbeatable” is not unbeatable.
JACK: Hey, I know that now, okay!

— Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), written by Andrew Bergman

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Gambling, suggested by David Proenza. Today’s suggestion by Melinda Mahaffey.

Trivia: At the poker game staged by Tommy Korman (James Caan), perhaps as an omen of bad things to come, Jack Singer (Nicolas Cage) wins with the “dead man’s hand”, a pair of 8’s and aces, before losing 65,000 to Korman with the “unbeatable” straight flush.

Dialogue On Dialogue: The gambler’s lament: It was an ‘unbeatable’ hand. Until it’s beatable.