It didn't take Floyd Miller very long to learn one bitter fact that a bankroll when subjected to a pummelling from the adverse left hand of lady luck can become immune in next to no time. Cards, dices, horses when they're wrong they're all wrong. Floyd found that out .  Of course he told him self it was just a run of bad luck and it would pass but there obligations to meet, pressing ones and he has to turn to drastic measures to pay off his gambling debts.