His relationship with girlfriend Marion Gina McKee begins to deteriorate when he lets her read part of his book about a cold, unfeeling croupier who enjoys seeing gamblers lose — a character transparently based on Jack himself.

Bella confronts Jack at his apartment, accuses him of getting her fired and tells Marion about the one-night stand.

One gambler, Jani Alex Kingston , tries to befriend Jack — another serious violation of casino rules.

Jani shows him bruises saying she got them from gambling creditors and asks Jack to be the inside man for a planned robbery at the casino.

All he has to do is raise the alarm when a gambler cheats at his table. In doing so, Jack notices that Jani's injuries were faked.

Marion reconciles with Jack but discovers that he is involved in something criminal and tries to foil it. On the night of the robbery, Jack raises the alarm anyway and gets beaten by the gambler as a distraction while others try to grab the money.

They fail, and Jack and Marion have an argument but she stays with him. When a late-night knock at the door comes, Jack assumes it to be the casino robbers demanding the return of their advance money.

Instead, it is a policeman, who informs him that Marion has been killed in an apparent hit-and-run. Jack finishes his book and gets it published anonymously.

It is a big success, but he doesn't change anything about his life, continuing to work as a croupier and live in his basement flat, not even buying the new car he wanted.

Jack goes on with his life and gets another call, this one from Jani, who congratulates him on playing his part in the attempted robbery and implies that she benefited significantly.

Then she puts his father on the phone, and he implies that he set up the croupier job for Jack in order to arrange for the attempted robbery, and he benefited as well.

As we all know, croupiers in casinos receive psychological training in order to spot players with addictive behaviour.

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There are those in which members play simply among themselves, and where the croupier employed by the casino is merely a spectator and referee.

The strong feeling in the west midlands is that we have a lottery with a corrupt croupier. It will have arbitrary powers over individual croupiers.

That will become obvious from the dismissal of the croupier , even though the owner of the premises is sheltering behind him. A croupier has cheated, there is a disturbance, and the police move in.

The fact is that one rarely has conclusive evidence of misconduct by croupiers and so on. The croupiers were all young people only recently out of their teens.

The comparison with croupiers may not be an exact one. Labour permits for foreign croupiers are granted initially for a period of six months but this period may be extended.

I think that there is a difference with the croupier. The fact that a croupier , say, has had his operator's licence withdrawn during the period of the licence should put the justices on guard.

The croupiers seem to be always on the look-out for cheating. These croupiers are the most extraordinary race of men it is possible to conceive.

Jack Manfred Nick Reding Giles Cremorne Nicholas Ball Jack Snr. Alexander Morton David Reynolds Barnaby Kay Car Dealer Gina McKee Marion Nell John Radcliffe Barber Sheila Whitfield Manicurist David Hamilton Casino Supervisor Carol Davis Table Supervisor Eddie Osei West Indian Punter Doremy Vernon Woman I Claudine Carter Woman II Ursula Alberts Madame Claude Neville Phillips Edit Storyline Jack Manfred is an aspiring writer going nowhere fast.

Edit Did You Know? Goofs When Jack removes his shirt at Bella's place, we see the wound on his left shoulder across the collarbone.

Later on when he removes his shirt in front of Jani at Giles's house, the wound is further down on his chest. Quotes [ first lines ] Jack : [ self reflection ] Now he had become the still center of that spinning wheel of misfortune.

The world turned 'round him leaving him miraculously untouched.