Bret rides into Echo Springs and discovers that the mining company owner is a card cheat. The owner orders Bret to get out of town and has him beaten when he doesn't, so Bret plans revenge on the man by starting a rival company.

Southern belle Samantha Crawford takes Bret at poker: twice. He makes her a deal for her to stake him to take down a crooked saloon owner, but Samantha owes some money of her own.