Runner-Runner - Nikk Pilato

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Runner-Runner derives from a "bad beat" I received at a poker tournament in 2015, the night before I sat down to write the music. I was in fairly large pot with a set of fours, and was facing an "all-in" from my opponent. Calling, we turned over our cards, and I was happy that he only had a pair of threes. Everyone at the table could see that the only way my opponent could win the hand would be to hit a three on the turn, and another three on the river, an event known in the poker world as "runner-runner."
You can guess exactly what happened next.
And just like that, I was out of the tournament. The following morning, still a little ticked about the turn of events, I set out to write the fanfare that had been on my to-do list for a while, and the idea of 4s (sixteenth notes) against 3s (triplets of all forms) began to gnaw at me, hence the rhythmic "dissonance" to be found throughout much of the introduction.