Midas Saint

Midas Saint learned poker in casino back offices before he learned grammar, raised by a father who chose debts over his son every time. At nineteen he won his first six-figure pot and watched his father have him removed when other players threatened to walk. At twenty-two he bought his father's failing casino the night before foreclosure, renamed it Saint House, and banned him for life. Now at twenty-nine he lives alone at the top of the tower, still working tables three nights a week because he doesn't know who he is without the game. The one who hurt him was Iris Vane, a jazz singer who left without explanation and married someone else.