Jake Green

In every game and con there is always an opponent and there is always a victim. The more control the victim thinks he has, the less control he actually has. Gradually he will hang himself.

Dangerous combination, chess and cons.
Those two knew everything about me. All my dirty little secrets, how much money I had, where I kept it. Hustling bastards cleaned me out. My neighbors used to write down chess moves and concepts of the con in the back pages of books based on subjects like The Mathematics Of Quantum Mechanics. Wake up, Mr. Green. We were all going to go together, they swore to me. "You're coming with us, Jake." We were always going to take you with us, Jake. You just weren't ready to hear how hard that was going to be. We didn't do this because we like you. We did this because...we are you.

— This has become a large problem, Avi.
— There's no such thing as problems, Mr. Green, only situations.

One thing I've learned in the last seven years, in every game and con there is always an opponent and there is always a victim. The trick is to know when you're the latter, so you can become the former.

You know the rules, the longer you listened, the sweeter the pitch.

When you're winning, who thinks about losing? But when you're faced with what I'm looking at, a new and cold reality dawns. A fact we like to ignore. You can not win game. Jake GreenThe only prize they guarantee when you play this game is that you will lose.

It's a lovely color, purple, discretely sandwiched within the color spectrum between blue and white. Always a royal winner.

Don't let your mouth put you in more trouble than your body could handle.