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[cs=5][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=cellpadding,0,true][atrb=style, width: 475px; padding: 10px, true] APPEARANCE | 149.8cm | 48kg | MediumBrown | CopperAmber | Flawless/Light | Petite/Slender |
[cs=3][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=cellpadding,0,true][atrb=style, width: 475px; padding: 10px, true] PERSONAL | [cs=3] Personality | [cs=3]Impartial A lot of times, Christyna keeps a very professional look around her. In fact, she may even seem unapproachable and cold. After all, she prefers to keep most of her relationships with most people professional and business like - she did happen to grow up with not a lot of 'normal' friends to say the least. She doesn't like choosing sides between people and is the kind of person that would prefer to keep herself out of trouble between two groups of people.
Sociable She keeps most people on good terms with her for she doesn't want an enemy and she simply loves getting information from many people. She likes holding intelligent conversations and even gossiping about the latest scandals. In the end, it's all for the information, no? She must look presentable and approach people with the right attitude. Of course, once people get to know her personally, she's a very friendly person who doesn't mind doing favors at all. A very nice person she is really.
Polite A polite lady must not be forceful or insistent. A polite lady is patient and gentle. Truer words have never been spoken. Christyna would never pressure anyone into doing anything for her against their wills... even if she has some sour relationships with other people. She does not refer to people in any informal ways. She always observes the situation before walking into a conversation, she would wait until the older person holds out their hands to shake. Christyna is very fussy about manners and she even expects people to have good manners too - to her and her employees.
Vain She really does hold herself with high regard. However, people don't really know about it. She keeps it in her head out of politeness. She's constantly comparing herself to others and perhaps by how much she can do things better than them. Oh, they think they're lucky at gambling, hm? Well honestly, she's much more of a better gambler - was there ever a time where she lost a bet? No, of course not. Of course, it's hard not to know that she's showing off her wealth with a Ferrari FXX Evolution that drives at 262 km/h or how much she pampers herself.
Independent Christyna is a very independent woman who just loves to do things herself. She hates when people start doing unwanted favors from her. Who said that she needed someone to pick her up from work while her car is getting a check up? She could have walked perfectly herself, thank you very much! Don't underestimate her because of her small size, in fact be careful of her because of her deck of metal cards and very high boots! She doesn't like her life to be dictated by her parents and those around her, Christyna would like to forge her own path and marry the man who she wants to marry.
Knowledgeable As much as strength could mean power, do does knowledge. Knowledge can make the world go around and around you know. If you leak the right information, if you word the right things, the next think you know, there can be an uprising just outside your home. You can do things with knowledge that force cannot, such as winning a battle without any blood shed at all. Of course, this makes Christyna very not creative. If she was told to write a story that's based on nothing at all, she would fail at it, but because she's terrible at writing, but whatever she would write about would resemble some story that she had read about already. The only sort of creativity she could come up with is interior designing.
Agitated A major source of her agitation is the fact that she wants to know what's happening around her all the time. The feeling of not knowing something greatly troubles her and most of the time, causes the princess to feel nervous under her poker face. In fact, that's one of the reasons why she has a poker face, aside from the advantages of having it while gambling - she doesn't want other people to be greatly concerned about her due to all of that agitation. Yet, there are signs that she's agitated when she's alone, it appears like symptoms for an illness... Yes, getting agitated is almost like an illness. Curiosity is the bacteria, agitation and anxiousness is the illness; the only antibiotic would be information, more and more information.
Anxious Something that goes hand and hand with agitation. Christyna is a big worrywart: what if she doesn't meet her quota? Honestly, she can't take any more money from the family treasure or else they will know that she's in Britain. She's living off of the money that she earned, it's not like she can waltz into an international bank and say, "Please withdraw €1,900,000". She's always worried about the welfare of her casino, her employees, herself, and if she has enough information about the latest of international news to the local gossips, if her fiancé is going to find her and drag her back to Monaco - in which she would soon move to France. A girl has her problems, Christyna is the type to constantly worry about them, even if she likes to think positive.
Flirtatious Most people don't know this, and they would never expect it from a proper lady, but Christyna is a flirtatious lady and she is a woman after all. Being proper doesn't mean that she can't go on dates. In fact, if there's anyone that's brave enough to ask her on a date, be prepared to play a game of poker. She isn't afraid to approach any man and she's willing to give people chances. Just be prepared to learn that she somewhat talks like... well, your grandfather.
Risk-taker Oh, Christyna loves to gamble, in fact as the boss of Fortuna Magnus, she works as a dealer herself. Oh no, she would never buy those automatic machine dealers - it isn't very fun at all. Yes, more money of course of course. After all, most dealers only work at minimum wages, their main source of income are actually the tips that they get from the players. Of course, those tips are usually returned to her staff because they would probably need it more than her. It isn't rare to find someone betting with her instead as the casino is very social to say for the lack of a better word. Yet, there's that chance that people can find out that she's none other than a member of the Grimaldi family, who's reigning monarch at the moment have assets valued at more than 7.6 billion euros. Yes - that much money. | Likes | Hates | Fears | ♥ Cosmetics ♥ A woman needs to look beautiful and cosmetics enhance it - not make said woman beautiful.
♥ Gossip ♥ The woman likes to be informed about a lot of things, gossip included.
♥ Interior Designing ♥ What? It's an enjoyable interest and its good to focus on something else rather than world affairs, economy, and the casino all the time.
♥ Marine Science ♥ Christyna loves studying about the marine life, thus she often visits the Oceanographic Museum as a child very often. It contains various species of sea fauna.
♥ "Older Brother" ♥ Only to the point where she relies on him and sees him as a brother.
♥ Organization ♥ It's simply crucial when one is heavily informed and has a lot of information. Not to mention, everything looks clean and professional.
♥ Poker; Card Games ♥ Christyna enjoys playing a good game of cards as she is the one who usually wins. She drops the professional look once offered a game to join into, and after all, as much as she like's all types of casino games, a deck of cards is very portable.
♥ Professionalism ♥ It's good to look professional; makes it seem like she knows how to handle herself.
♥ Racing ♥ It has a trill and risk that gambling gives her sometimes. She enjoys driving in fast (and expensive cars).
♥ Reading ♥ From historical to fiction, from non-fiction, to fantasy, she enjoys a good read.
♥ Schedules ♥ Keeping a schedule means that things are orderly. Order is the foundation of being professional.
♥ Tourism ♥ The more tourists the more money she makes, the more she can less worry about if she can pay everything with her costly spending. | ♠ Arranged Marriages ♠ Because she doesn't like marrying people her parents select for her.
♠ Being Uninformed ♠ Simple, information equals power. Christyna does not like to not know everything that is happening around her. It just makes her anxiety worse.
♠ Cheaters ♠ Cheating is bad. Cheaters are sore losers and most likely, cannot even imagine the thought of losing to the "master" of gambling.
♠ Disorganization ♠ Unprofessional, completely unprofessional! Also, with so much information managed, it would be the worse nightmare for her!
♠ Losing ♠ The very thought of losing a game is insane. However, if something does happen, one can be sure that she shall request for re-matches until she comes out as the victor.
♠ "Older Brother" ♠ She likes him, yeah, but has a person to depend on as an older brother, not some husband or anything! She wants to marry her own man... perhaps an Italian man.
♠ Spaniards ♠ She isn't racist or anything, but she had bad experiences with Spaniards being too friendly with her and that they kept on trying to do favors for her.
♠ Tardiness ♠ Consider it as a sub-category for being disorganized, yet important enough to be mentioned. If one does not have a schedule in place, the chances of getting tardy is even higher.
♠ Unwanted Favors ♠ Things that she does not want are favors. If she wanted a favor, Christyna would have asked for one. Besides, she's perfectly capable of handling things on her own and hates it when people think otherwise because of her height. | ☢ Complete Loss of Networks ☢ Christyna, being a rich lady she is, would hire quite a few people to keep open ears and eyes out for any bit of juicy information there is for her to hear. Not to mention, she's always up for research when learning about a certain topic. Being so connected with so many types of information, there's a fear that she will lose it all one day. That somewhere in the future, she would be stuck without knowing anything. She hates and fears being ignorant.
☢ Being Dependent ☢ She never wants to return to her life of being constantly guarded over - even if she does like having the money. She doesn't want her life to be controlled by someone else or have anyone hold her down. The worse thing is, something might happen to her where she is forced to rely on someone else for the rest of her life. Now, that might just sound like a petty fear, but it's always on the back of her mind, no matter how much she tries to see things in a positive light.
☢ Being Discovered ☢ Very much like how she doesn't want to be dependent on anyone, this is similar... yet different. Christyna, as much as she loves her life of pamper and money, doesn't want to return home. She had found a new passion - running a casino, and it's law that residents of Monaco cannot gamble. Sure, it's to stop the citizens from getting into further indebtedness, but what that isn't fun at all. Besides, she doesn't want to marry her fiancé the moment that they discover that she's in Britain. |
[cs=3][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=cellpadding,0,true][atrb=style, width: 475px; padding: 10px, true] BACKGROUND | [cs=3] History | [cs=3]Born into a rich noble family, is it not every girl's dream to become a princess? Well, Christyna Grimaldi lived those girls' dreams. She was spoiled, yet she was a quick learner. The young girl had private tutors and took ballet lessons from the best of the best the family could have gotten their hands on. She was a cute girl who liked to talk to other people of high status (only because of the fact that she doesn't interact with a lot of the 'common' people), the brunette was raised to be a proper lady.
She had her friends of course, especially a very close friend of hers that she could consider to be an older brother to her. Despite how flirty he was, it sort of rubbed off on her - most to her parents dismay, but they had no say for it was an arranged marriage between the son of a very influential French politician and their own daughter.
Of course, she didn't knew about it then. Her "older brother" was very much like a bodyguard for her - even if she often denied that she didn't need his help, she was secretly thankful. Though, at this time she was really getting into gambling with a couple of friends - betting to see this "important man" is going to be some old guy with a lot of money or perhaps even guessing what their parents would wear in the morning. They had their shenanigans, and it soon became a really big 'habit' for Christyna to gamble, seeing as most of the time, she would win.
As she grew up however, she spent two years in Spain and absolutely detested it. Everyone there was too busy trying to do her favors because of the fact that she is indeed, royalty and not to mention, she looked small and frail and cute. She then quickly returned back to Monaco with her familiar French and Monégasque customs and swore to herself that she would never go to Spain ever again. Yet as time went on it was apparent that her parents was planning on marrying her with her "older brother".
The news was an outrage for the young teen. She liked him yes, but as a brother figure, not as a husband. He would be honestly the worse husband there is in the world. It was then that she started to sneak out of the Palace to go to Monte Carlo Casino. Yes, the very Casino. With enough persuasion, bribing, threats, and blackmailing, she was able to gamble there for a short while until she was discovered by her parents.
It was then when she is eighteen years of age where her marriage was coming close that she took all of the money she could without getting noticed and left to the United Kingdom. There, within the heart of Greater London itself, she bought a building, repaired it, refurbished it, got a licence, and opened up her own casino - not to mention, hire numerous staff members. From there on, for six years, she had been running the casino and it was good. | [atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellpadding,0,true][atrb=valign,top][atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=style, width: 1px;] T H E 0 L A D Y | [newclass=.scrollthing ::-webkit-scrollbar] width: 5px; background-color: #000000;[/newclass][newclass=.scrollthing ::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb]background-color: #ededed;[/newclass] |
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Post by Asunara Wisdom on Dec 18, 2012 22:41:15 GMT -8
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| Christyna Grimaldi
You would never expect that Christyna Grimaldi was the Princess of Monaco in the first place... Well, she's the daughter of the Prince of Monaco, so she's a sub-princess? Anyway, royal blood still runs in her veins and there's no way that makes her pretty confident in herself. Her pride call came from her own skills with the slight of hand and cards. You'll probably won't meet any other successful casino owner in your lifetime except for her. |
Female | Twenty-four | Heterosexual |
Monégasque | Casino Owner | Civilian |
CopperAmber | Flawless;Light | Petite;Slender |
Impartial A lot of times, Christyna keeps a very professional look around her. In fact, she may even seem unapproachable and cold. After all, she prefers to keep most of her relationships with most people professional and business like - she did happen to grow up with not a lot of 'normal' friends to say the least. She doesn't like choosing sides between people and is the kind of person that would prefer to keep herself out of trouble between two groups of people.
Sociable She keeps most people on good terms with her for she doesn't want an enemy and she simply loves getting information from many people. She likes holding intelligent conversations and even gossiping about the latest scandals. In the end, it's all for the information, no? She must look presentable and approach people with the right attitude. Of course, once people get to know her personally, she's a very friendly person who doesn't mind doing favors at all. A very nice person she is really.
Polite A polite lady must not be forceful or insistent. A polite lady is patient and gentle. Truer words have never been spoken. Christyna would never pressure anyone into doing anything for her against their wills... even if she has some sour relationships with other people. She does not refer to people in any informal ways. She always observes the situation before walking into a conversation, she would wait until the older person holds out their hands to shake. Christyna is very fussy about manners and she even expects people to have good manners too - to her and her employees.
Vain She really does hold herself with high regard. However, people don't really know about it. She keeps it in her head out of politeness. She's constantly comparing herself to others and perhaps by how much she can do things better than them. Oh, they think they're lucky at gambling, hm? Well honestly, she's much more of a better gambler - was there ever a time where she lost a bet? No, of course not. Of course, it's hard not to know that she's showing off her wealth with a Ferrari FXX Evolution that drives at 262 km/h or how much she pampers herself.
Independent Christyna is a very independent woman who just loves to do things herself. She hates when people start doing unwanted favors from her. Who said that she needed someone to pick her up from work while her car is getting a check up? She could have walked perfectly herself, thank you very much! Don't underestimate her because of her small size, in fact be careful of her because of her deck of metal cards and very high boots! She doesn't like her life to be dictated by her parents and those around her, Christyna would like to forge her own path and marry the man who she wants to marry.
Knowledgeable As much as strength could mean power, do does knowledge. Knowledge can make the world go around and around you know. If you leak the right information, if you word the right things, the next think you know, there can be an uprising just outside your home. You can do things with knowledge that force cannot, such as winning a battle without any blood shed at all. Of course, this makes Christyna very not creative. If she was told to write a story that's based on nothing at all, she would fail at it, but because she's terrible at writing, but whatever she would write about would resemble some story that she had read about already. The only sort of creativity she could come up with is interior designing.
Agitated A major source of her agitation is the fact that she wants to know what's happening around her all the time. The feeling of not knowing something greatly troubles her and most of the time, causes the princess to feel nervous under her poker face. In fact, that's one of the reasons why she has a poker face, aside from the advantages of having it while gambling - she doesn't want other people to be greatly concerned about her due to all of that agitation. Yet, there are signs that she's agitated when she's alone, it appears like symptoms for an illness... Yes, getting agitated is almost like an illness. Curiosity is the bacteria, agitation and anxiousness is the illness; the only antibiotic would be information, more and more information.
Anxious Something that goes hand and hand with agitation. Christyna is a big worrywart: what if she doesn't meet her quota? Honestly, she can't take any more money from the family treasure or else they will know that she's in Britain. She's living off of the money that she earned, it's not like she can waltz into an international bank and say, "Please withdraw €1,900,000". She's always worried about the welfare of her casino, her employees, herself, and if she has enough information about the latest of international news to the local gossips, if her fiancé is going to find her and drag her back to Monaco - in which she would soon move to France. A girl has her problems, Christyna is the type to constantly worry about them, even if she likes to think positive.
Flirtatious Most people don't know this, and they would never expect it from a proper lady, but Christyna is a flirtatious lady and she is a woman after all. Being proper doesn't mean that she can't go on dates. In fact, if there's anyone that's brave enough to ask her on a date, be prepared to play a game of poker. She isn't afraid to approach any man and she's willing to give people chances. Just be prepared to learn that she somewhat talks like... well, your grandfather.
Risk-taker Oh, Christyna loves to gamble, in fact as the boss of Fortuna Magnus, she works as a dealer herself. Oh no, she would never buy those automatic machine dealers - it isn't very fun at all. Yes, more money of course of course. After all, most dealers only work at minimum wages, their main source of income are actually the tips that they get from the players. Of course, those tips are usually returned to her staff because they would probably need it more than her. It isn't rare to find someone betting with her instead as the casino is very social to say for the lack of a better word. Yet, there's that chance that people can find out that she's none other than a member of the Grimaldi family, who's reigning monarch at the moment have assets valued at more than 7.6 billion euros. Yes - that much money. |
♥ Classical Music ♥ She grew up listening to an orchestra rather than most kids with their radio on the current top-listed pop songs, and honesty, she was glad that she was exposed to the classics rather than... songs like... "Stupid Hoe"?
♥ Cosmetics ♥ A woman needs to look beautiful and cosmetics enhance it - not make said woman beautiful.
♥ Gossip ♥ The woman likes to be informed about a lot of things, gossip included.
♥ Interior Designing ♥ What? It's an enjoyable interest and its good to focus on something else rather than world affairs, economy, and the casino all the time.
♥ Jazz ♥ Surprise, surprise. The little princess loves jazz. It's very smoothing and at times can be quite intense - like classical music in a way.
♥ Marine Science ♥ Christyna loves studying about the marine life, thus she often visits the Oceanographic Museum as a child very often. It contains various species of sea fauna.
♥ "Older Brother" ♥ Only to the point where she relies on him and sees him as a brother.
♥ Organization ♥ It's simply crucial when one is heavily informed and has a lot of information. Not to mention, everything looks clean and professional.
♥ Poker; Card Games ♥ Christyna enjoys playing a good game of cards as she is the one who usually wins. She drops the professional look once offered a game to join into, and after all, as much as she like's all types of casino games, a deck of cards is very portable.
♥ Professionalism ♥ It's good to look professional; makes it seem like she knows how to handle herself.
♥ Racing ♥ It has a trill and risk that gambling gives her sometimes. She enjoys driving in fast (and expensive cars).
♥ Reading ♥ From historical to fiction, from non-fiction, to fantasy, she enjoys a good read.
♥ Schedules ♥ Keeping a schedule means that things are orderly. Order is the foundation of being professional.
♥ Tourism ♥ The more tourists the more money she makes, the more she can less worry about if she can pay everything with her costly spending. | ♠ Arranged Marriages ♠ Because she doesn't like marrying people her parents select for her.
♠ Being Uninformed ♠ Simple, information equals power. Christyna does not like to not know everything that is happening around her. It just makes her anxiety worse.
♠ Cheaters ♠ Cheating is bad. Cheaters are sore losers and most likely, cannot even imagine the thought of losing to the "master" of gambling.
♠ Disorganization ♠ Unprofessional, completely unprofessional! Also, with so much information managed, it would be the worse nightmare for her!
♠ Losing ♠ The very thought of losing a game is insane. However, if something does happen, one can be sure that she shall request for re-matches until she comes out as the victor.
♠ "Older Brother" ♠ She likes him, yeah, but has a person to depend on as an older brother, not some husband or anything! She wants to marry her own man... perhaps an Italian man.
♠ Spaniards ♠ She isn't racist or anything, but she had bad experiences with Spaniards being too friendly with her and that they kept on trying to do favors for her.
♠ Tardiness ♠ Consider it as a sub-category for being disorganized, yet important enough to be mentioned. If one does not have a schedule in place, the chances of getting tardy is even higher.
♠ Unwanted Favors ♠ Things that she does not want are favors. If she wanted a favor, Christyna would have asked for one. Besides, she's perfectly capable of handling things on her own and hates it when people think otherwise because of her height. |
☁ Marrying ☁ Okay, it's a cliché dream, but a lot of women have this sort of dream or goal right? To get married and start a family? Well anyway, she doesn't really have any plans arranging any dates at the moment, but it would still be interesting to meet people of her interests. Besides, she plans on giving her casino to (hopefully) her daughter in the future if it ever came down to that point.
☁ Her Own Romance Story ☁ Okay, she doesn't want her life to be something akin to being ripped off of a fanfiction that seems a lot like "Fifty Shades of That Color Between Black and White". Actually, she's pretty sure that she doesn't want that kind of life at all. It's just that little wish to find that soulmate where she can marry and grow old together with. For Christyna, that's actually quite a romantic story there. Loving through the ages despite all else.
☁ Opening Up Another Branch ☁ The thought of expanding her casino is a very likely idea, but she might want to actually open up another one. Maybe in another location of the United Kingdom, or maybe it'll be in a whole different country. Just having an international company would be good enough.
☁ Joining an Orchestra ☁ Yeah, that wasn't really expected, but as a child and going to the Palais Garnier for performances that was definitely was the root for this dream. Since she was a princess, she was obviously been made to know how to play the piano at the very least, but she finds enjoyment in playing a piccolo or a flute. | ☢ Complete Loss of Networks ☢ Christyna, being a rich lady she is, would hire quite a few people to keep open ears and eyes out for any bit of juicy information there is for her to hear. Not to mention, she's always up for research when learning about a certain topic. Being so connected with so many types of information, there's a fear that she will lose it all one day. That somewhere in the future, she would be stuck without knowing anything. She hates and fears being ignorant.
☢ Being Dependent ☢ She never wants to return to her life of being constantly guarded over - even if she does like having the money. She doesn't want her life to be controlled by someone else or have anyone hold her down. The worse thing is, something might happen to her where she is forced to rely on someone else for the rest of her life. Now, that might just sound like a petty fear, but it's always on the back of her mind, no matter how much she tries to see things in a positive light.
☢ Being Discovered ☢ Very much like how she doesn't want to be dependent on anyone, this is similar... yet different. Christyna, as much as she loves her life of pamper and money, doesn't want to return home. She had found a new passion - running a casino, and it's law that residents of Monaco cannot gamble. Sure, it's to stop the citizens from getting into further indebtedness, but what that isn't fun at all. Besides, she doesn't want to marry her fiancé the moment that they discover that she's in Britain. |
Born into a rich noble family, is it not every girl's dream to become a princess? Well, Christyna Grimaldi lived those girls' dreams. She was spoiled, yet she was a quick learner. The young girl had private tutors and took ballet lessons from the best of the best the family could have gotten their hands on. She was a cute girl who liked to talk to other people of high status (only because of the fact that she doesn't interact with a lot of the 'common' people), the brunette was raised to be a proper lady.
She had her friends of course, especially a very close friend of hers that she could consider to be an older brother to her. Despite how flirty he was, it sort of rubbed off on her - most to her parents dismay, but they had no say for it was an arranged marriage between the son of a very influential French politician and their own daughter.
Of course, she didn't knew about it then. Her "older brother" was very much like a bodyguard for her - even if she often denied that she didn't need his help, she was secretly thankful. Though, at this time she was really getting into gambling with a couple of friends - betting to see this "important man" is going to be some old guy with a lot of money or perhaps even guessing what their parents would wear in the morning. They had their shenanigans, and it soon became a really big 'habit' for Christyna to gamble, seeing as most of the time, she would win.
As she grew up however, she spent two years in Spain and absolutely detested it. Everyone there was too busy trying to do her favors because of the fact that she is indeed, royalty and not to mention, she looked small and frail and cute. She then quickly returned back to Monaco with her familiar French and Monégasque customs and swore to herself that she would never go to Spain ever again. Yet as time went on it was apparent that her parents was planning on marrying her with her "older brother".
The news was an outrage for the young teen. She liked him yes, but as a brother figure, not as a husband. He would be honestly the worse husband there is in the world. It was then that she started to sneak out of the Palace to go to Monte Carlo Casino. Yes, the very Casino. With enough persuasion, bribing, threats, and blackmailing, she was able to gamble there for a short while until she was discovered by her parents.
It was then when she is eighteen years of age where her marriage was coming close that she took all of the money she could without getting noticed and left to the United Kingdom. There, within the heart of Greater London itself, she bought a building, repaired it, refurbished it, got a licence, and opened up her own casino - not to mention, hire numerous staff members. From there on, for six years, she had been running the casino and it was good. |
As busy as usual, but that is good business, very good business. The place was crowded, the drinks are escaping the restaurant as quickly as the orders came in, the people were gambling and socializing, and more people kept on moving in. As to be expected around this time of year, so many people busy in the holidays, so many tourists... so many Americans to be exactly correct.
Americans must love to visit their, "mother nation" perhaps.
Yet anyway, here was Christyna working out on the grounds this evening. As owner, people would have expected to see owners just walk around and stalk all of their workers while talking to the customers. That was simply too boring for the lady of course. She wanted a bit more thrill in her job - which was why she usually works as a dealer at one of the many tables in the Felicionem Charta. It was more fun that way; you get to talk to people and not to mention, hear information. Much, much better than just walking around and doing nothing - one would probably be creeping the workers out like that really.
Speaking of workers, she couldn't help but think about the people she had hired - females, most of them are... aside from the chef for the restaurant (though, it is sort of independent), bellhops for the hotel (but once more, somewhat independent), and various other roles. It was a more female dominated place, as one would probably compare it to a society of geishas... aside from the fact that everyone wasn't trained to do this since they were children. Yes indeed, those Japanese geisha societies... wasn't there the thing with the Geisha girls during allied occupation of Japan? Never mind, that's history - but perhaps might be an interesting topic starter for conversation someday.
Anyway, she was playing blackjack at the moment with a man. It helps her with the boredom and it's amusing to watch people respond - what's more interesting that it seems like he couldn't believe that he lost, especially to a woman. Yes very amusing. Do you know how it started? Curious no? It all started when Christyna was playing another blackjack game with a customer - they left of course, seeing as they didn't want to lose every single cash they had left on them. This man as cocky as they come, asked for a game and she merely agreed. The basics, aces either means one or eleven for the sake of a better hand, two to nine has the amounts equal to the face value, and the Jack, Queen, and King have a value of ten. Not to mention, this man was a tourist - so it would be the American version of blackjack, not to mention, a face-up shoe game.
Simple, of course - house has been winning lately, and any regular visitor knew about the "stroke of luck" this lady has.
The Lady shuffled the minimum of decks - six. The stranger gives in his wager - it was a table with a black sign - meaning there was a minimum of a bet of £200. He turned his his chips for his bet. Four green chips, and one red. That means it should be £250, he's just skimming over the minimum. She dealt the cards and the man gets to upward facing cards while she herself has one facing up and one facing down. Th cocky mean, having the total value of sixteen, tried to push his luck and tapped the table for another card - Christyna complies and gives him another card. Bust.
She takes his bet, she didn't even need to show him her hand - it was an automatic lost after all.
This was merely the first round, or so, that's what she believed happened. That was how it started really... perhaps. They continued to play with many people watching, most of the time, that man kept on having too low of a hand or kept on busting. Some times, he indeed get the better hand, but lost his winnings immediately in the next round.
"Eh, what is this madness?! Are you freaking cheating me here? To be beaten by a woman! Give me another hand, hit me!" He exclaimed as the owner showed no rising emotions from his comment.
She had words to say to him, but her face was as blank as ever - she was really giving it her all in it, despite having limited as dealer. Of course the "Dealer hits soft 17" rule was very helpful if it gives a slightly higher advantage over the players... But an advantage is always an advantage... and in a game like this, it's always welcomed.
However, the browned haired lady noticed on of her employees - Ms. Arlovskaya - place a margarita next to a man at the table who was observing the 'fun'.
"Lay off on them, will you? How much money have you got on them?" The Belorussian whispered into the Monegasque, and well... to be exact the man wasn't very careful with his bet. He wanted to go big - he thought that he was better than Christyna at blackjack... oh how wrong he was. She was the self-proclaimed master of gambling, she held herself at even a higher pedestal than this man would ever dream of.
"He was the one placing the big bets..." The woman said in a state-of-the-matter tone, as she gave the man his card. He was supposed to tap the table, since it was a shoe game, but out of frustration and anger, he resorted to shouting out and slamming the table.
It was at nineteen. Very close. Christyna knew that she had a soft hand, her first card was an ace. So at the moment, a soft if she counts it as eleven and a hard if that ace is a one... Then the other card was revealed - an eight - it was a tie, she has a soft nineteen and it was allowed for the dealer to stand at a soft nineteen. Of course, it was a tie and house rules are to be determined...
Dealer takes all. The lady proceeded to take the bets in the betting circle.
"I'm simply playing by the cards in my hand." Not hands for it was blackjack - rules dictates that the person can only hold the cards in one hand, and since it was a shoe, no one was supposed to be holding any cards aside from the dealer. |
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