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"The Happy Wanderer" is the nineteenth episode of the HBO original series The Sopranos and was the...

"The Happy Wanderer" is the nineteenth episode of the HBO original series The Sopranos and was the sixth of the show's second season. It was written by Frank Renzulli, directed by John Patterson and originally aired on Sunday, February 20, 2000. During College Night at Meadow's school, Tony reunites with an old school friend, David Scatino, who owns a sporting goods store in Ramsey, New Jersey. Davey then casually asks Tony if he can play in the "Executive Game", a high-level poker game established by Tony's father, Johnny Boy, and Uncle Junior in the 1960s, and now resurrected by Tony himself since Junior's house arrest. Tony warns Davey that because of the high stakes, he recommends that he not join the game due to the fact he believes that Davey lacks the capital to "sit in" such a high stakes game. The following day, Davey begins to owe serious debts after playing at Richie Aprile's small poker game, and falls behind on payments. Richie warns him that missing payments will only cause his debt to escalate faster (missed payments are added to the principal), and bars Davey from the Aprile poker game until he can catch up. At his therapy session with Dr. Melfi, Tony discusses that