(http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/9088/normaldsc3564.jpg)<br/><strong>Claire Vitler</strong><br/>36 year old American female<br/><br/>A hundred and two jobs.  That's what was riding on Claire to win this tournament.<br/><br/>The credit crunch had left Miller Aerodyne with twenty days to fill a sudden $1.36m hole in its cash flow, and the money just wasn't available from any of their normal credit sources.  When Claire had been called into the boardroom earlier in the week she'd thought it was to be fired - her sales figures had been terrible this quarter.<br/><br/>In fact, it had been to convince her to gamble the company's last quarter mil in a high stakes strip poker game.  She'd somehow let them talk her into it, which was why she was now in a hotel room in Vegas, peering unhappily at her naked reflection in a full length mirror.  She felt tense and nervous, and she really wanted to hit the bar, but she didn't want to take in one more calorie than she had to until after the tournament.  This whole thing was really forcing her to confront her age: the other players were probably going to be fifteen years younger.  Maybe she'd be kicked out for being too old?<em>Oh God please don't let that happen.</em>She tried not to think about it.