Portfolio Recovery Associates’ Attorneys Are Sharks

“Balls of Crystal and Steel: What it Takes to Play Poker Without Losing Your Assets”, the book I co-authored with my son Sean Lynn, is available on Amazon. It is a fun anecdotal romp through the mind of a poker genius (my son) and a nitty old lady (me).

Y’all probably know poker is a passion with me. It puts me in a meditative state and calms my soul.

In poker, amateurs are called “fish” and those that eat them up are called “sharks”.

Sean is a shark.

Here is an excerpt from one of the stories he contributed:

“This old man is really lost, he just decided to take up poker and is here playing 1/3 no limit because there isn’t a 2/4 fixed limit anywhere around. He brings a little cheat sheet to the casino every time that has the hand rankings on it; straight flush at the top, then quads, three of a kind, two pair. As confusing as it is to remember if trips beats a straight or not, if he really doesn’t have that stuff memorized I know he doesn’t know the odds of anything.”

One of my stories that did not make it into Balls was about my first trip to a card room. It was in Commerce, California. Sean brought me.

As we walked through the parking lot, I asked him again, “so, two pairs beats what? What if I have a straight and someone else has a full house?”

“Mom…”, exasperated, “look at your two cards and say ‘fold’. Unless you look at your two cards and see two aces. Then say ‘all in’ and push all your chips forward.”

My play really hasn’t changed much from that night.

Lawyers for debt buyer Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC are the sharks of law. The lawyers I am up against on my FDCPA, invasion of privacy and outrage case against PRA Group, Inc’s subsidiary are from Rose Law Firm and Troutman Sanders, LLP. Plus PRA has an inhouse litigation team hundreds strong.

I need a cheat sheet for everything I do in court.

SPOILER ALERT: The old man won the hand against Sean. It was crazy. You’ve got to read the whole chapter.

The title: When you’re ahead, you’re ahead.*

Buy the book here.

*You may still lose if the dealer looks at your royal flush and says you mucked your cards. Then you have to go to the pit boss and then the Gaming Commission and hope for the right thing to be done.