Dan takes off his wristwatch and tosses it into the pile. "We'll save our acts of arson until after eleven o'clock, out of respect for our hosts. Ace! Glad you made it!"

He gestures for Ace to come sit with them. "You arrived just in time. I'm about to lay down the river, so we're wrapping up this hand."

He burns the top card and reappears the three of diamonds he stowed away last turn instead of drawing from the deck, all while chatting and very deftly masking that he's doing anything suspect. He suspects that this gives Dean another pair. He gets his own three-of-a-kind. Henry gets bupkiss.

Not that anyone has to know that until they bet. Dan clinks his shot glass against Ace's bottle of arak, beckoning Ace to share a little. "You ain't even put ice in that? Your funeral."