Chapter 5: Play by the game

              During Jungkook's lecture in college, the younger was distracted with the necklace and kept gazing at it, the saphire really was beautiful. Jungkook almost felt bad for winning it. But yet again, Jungkook loved to think that Jimin actually allowed him to keep the necklace and not beat him up for it like a sore loser.

             "I should.... I should let him win one of my watches!" Jungkook thought as he looked at his watch and tucked away the blue sapphire necklace in his shirt. Ignoring the professor. "He can have this one by winning! I can let him win my watch... It seems like a nice thing to do." Jungkook said to himself as he started to smile.

            Jungkook suddenly started to feel excited to see Jimin on friday, he just hoped he can have a match before seeing Jimin. Just to practice. After the lecture, Jungkook walked out of his class with a smile on his face as he walked to the campus courtyard where he would always meet his friend, Hoseok in between classes.

              Jungkook sat down on a stone seat with a stone table and opened his bag, taking out cards to help practice with Hoseok. There was alot of time for the two to practice and Jungkook was actually willing to teach Hoseok how to play. Jungkook has brought cards to school and actually played with some students who were actually pretty good at the game before.

       Hoseok then ran up to his friend with a smile as he sat down with the younger. "Hi, Jungkook! Oh-" Hoseok then gazed down to see Jungkook holding out a deck of cards. "I see you brought your cards today..." Hoseok added as he made a smile. "Oh well! Are you going to teach me how to play now? I thought I would learn at your house."

             "Oh, I know but this one is much more faster. Since we have classes, I'll just teach you what we do in Poker!" Jungkook added happily as Hoseok quickly reached over to the younger and covered his mouth.

            "Jungkook! Careful! Poker is known as a game of gambling! Just tell me the baisics and we can practice at your place." Hoseok said as Jungkook nodded. Making a cute bunny smile.

          "Ah, it'll be so much fun!" Jungkook claimed, setting the deck of cards to the side and pulling out a few combinations. "Okay, let's start! In "Texas hold 'em" it's a type of game in Poker. Very popular. So in this game, you hold seven cards. Two cards will be your two hole cards."

            "Oh! Do they have a hole in them?" Hoseok joked.

            "No!" Jungkook laughed as he showed Hoseok the seven cards in his hands and took out two cards and placed them faced down. "There. Two hole cards!"

           "What about the other five?"

           "These are the cards you play with. They are called community cards. In the round of 'Showdown' every player shows their cards, two hole cards, and look for the winning hands." Jungkook said as he showed them to Hoseok. "I'll show you how to play later, but let me show you the winning hands."

          "Winning hands? The winning cards you mean, right?" Hoseok wondered as Jungkook nodded.

          "Well, yeah players just call it as winning hands. Cards are hands. Good hands, bad hands... And so on." Jungkook claimed as he looked up at Hoseok. "There will also be poker chips there. In the starting round, you get 100 to start off but it depends how long the tournament can go. Denominations will be 1,2,5 and 25 for 100 chips. If they hand 1000 chips, you go by the denominations of 5, 25, 500 and 100. There can be up to 10 players maximum, here are some tips in playing. Never show any emotions! This can give away many things. If you have good cards. Don't look excited. Hold a blank face! Every little thing you do, do it without emotion and stare at the opponent with no emotions."

            "A-And if I do?"

             "Then you will give away your cards. Basically a good player would be able to pick out your reactions. Worried, scared, happy. This is all based on your cards and they will be able to strike you easily!" Jungkook advised Hoseok.

             "Here are the winning hands.. There are ten winning hands. Let me show them to you." Jungkook claimed, pulling out many cards and making combinations while Hoseok watched him quickly set up ten rows of the combinations.

           "Alright. This first row is 'One pair' and it's any two numerically matching cards. The next one is 'High card' Where Ace is the biggest card in your hand. 'Two pairs' is two different pairs in the same hand like two J's and two 7's. 'Royal flush' is a combination of Queen, Jack, King, Ace, Ten, all of the same suit. This over here is 'Straight flush' it means five cards in the same order from 1,2,3,4 and so on. 'Three of a kind' is any three numerically matching cards such as 10, 10, 10 cards. 'Four of a kind' is the same thing like three of a kind but with four matching cards. 'Straight' Five cards of any suit, in sequential order. Like 4,5,6,7,8 in order. 'Flush' Five cards of the same suit, in any order! So as long as they are the same color, you got it. And finally, 'Full house' Combination of three of a kind and a pair in the same hand." Jungkook explained as Hoseok stood up to take pictures of the rows of cards, showing the ten winning hands.

           "Ah, you really are talented... Is this a talent? I sure hope it is because you are an expert!" Hoseok complimented as he looked at Jungkook.

          "It was just the baisics. This is only in 'Texas Hand 'em.' there are different variations to poker! But I like this version more. It's played often in the club." Jungkook stated, glancing at the time and setting the decks into his bag. "I'll see you later at my place. We will be in my room since my Mother hates it when I mention gambling or Poker."

             "Alright! So, I see you are still wearing your boyfriend's necklace!" Hoseok snickered, watching Jungkook's face light up.

             "Oh yeah! I- wait a second... Boyfriend? Come on, Hoseok! I just mentioned him today." Jungkook chuckled. "Although, I really do love this necklace... I plan to 'give' him this watch too!"

             " 'Give'? And what does that mean?"

              "I'll put this up to bet when I'm going one on one with him. He's going to win this and he will accept this. Just like how I won this necklace."

          "You say you don't like him, but hmm... I'm sensing a little romance on you!" Hoseok giggled and looked at Jungkook blush and shove the older boy.

          "Oh come on! I'm just trying to be nice. I'll let him have my watch instead. It seems only right since I'll never give this back.."

           "What if he wants just the necklace back? It could mean something to him..." Hoseok claimed as Jungkook chuckled and shook his head.

          "He won't be taking this from me anytime soon. If it meant the world to him, then he should know to never put up something that means the world to him." Jungkook said looking at the necklace. "Besides... Looking at it makes me feel happy...."   

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