Security chief Odo places El-Aurian Martus Mazur in a holding cell after accusing him of swindling aboard Deep Space Nine.
While in his cell, Martus acquires a gambling device that alters the laws of probability after his cellmate, an old man named Cos, dies.
As part of a ploy to regain lost business for the bar, Quark is able to trick O'Brien and Bashir into participating in a public tournament that people can bet on.
The crew discover the effects of the devices in Martus's establishment, and O'Brien and Bashir agree to cancel the rest of the game.
He criticized the main story for "the fact that it spends too much time on a character we’ve never seen before" and the secondary plot for feeling incomplete and sloppy.