Grrl Power #853 – Pyrrhic poker
I guess strip poker is on hold while Sydney plays a few hands. She might have her brain in neutral at the moment, but she’d still probably figure out what they were doing the first time someone sells their boxers for $100 in chips to stay in. I assume that’s how strip poker works. I’ve only ever played a version on the Amiga with cartoon chicks.
Sydney is actually quite bad at poker. I know, you’re all shocked. As pictured here, her only shot at winning is this slow attrition, because she’s all tell. If she’s not leaping into the air, she’s giggling maniacally, wailing dramatically, or giving someone a death stare while drawing her finger across her throat.
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I can’t tell if she’s bluffing trolling or some mixture of the two!
Or just following American Millitary Doctrine
https://i.imgur.com/nCmRKxJ.jpg
But is the American Military Doctrine a bluff…Or real? The world may never know.
I’ll tell you a secret, it will get me killed. But, the american military isn’t that good. It’s not even great. Those doctrine manuals? All a big lie, a feint, a fake just one big overly complicated decoy. Honestly, the american military SUCKS…but we don’t suck as much as everyone else. We fake it better than anyone else can.
Keith is right.
The US Armed Forces can beat others, because a large chunk of the US economy is poured into its military. It spends about 700 billion per year.
That’s about THREE times the next biggest, China. and about TEN times the third and fourth biggest, India and Russia.
And both China and Russia are forced to spend most of that because they are afraid of the huge US military and what the US will do to their countries. (India is more scared of Pakistan and China.)
The USA is involved in an arms escalation, driven by its own crazy expenditure. Meanwhile, the average American is scared to get sick or break a limb, because they can’t afford the cost of a doctor…
I guess this is not the time to talk about
ObamaMedicare… You know, Socialism?Not unless you can figure out the difference between socialism and the Affordable Care Act. Or you could be like my mother’s neighbor who ranted about how horrible Obamacare is, and then praised the ACA as being the best thing that happened to him.
You appear to be one of those who cannot distinguish between “social contract” and “socialism”.
Pretty sure they were being sarcastic there. Like 70%.
Poe’s law is nasty these days though.
the flaw of poe’s law is it assumed no one would want to be a Nazi. when in real life you can personally arguing with like 20 people a day that are openly and proudly nazis.
its the problem when the real world is stranger then we like to think it it
Is that openly claiming to be actual, by name, Nazi? Or just openly claiming to be something that you equate to Nazi?
Br’er Tiger you would be amazed at how many people will openly admit to being Nazi today, neo or otherwise. I mean what do you expect when you have a president that call openly self identifying nazi good people. and a major news network making up stories and saying anti fascists are the real evil lol
you still get a lot of people doing the “i’m not a nazi” i just like what Nazi said, see Nazi as hero’s and use their langue but don’t call me a Nazi.
Poe’s law is you can’t tell if someone is being sarcastic on the internet because of no vocal inflection. The one about calling people Nazis is Godwin’s law. Which Mr. Godwin has suspended for the duration of the Trump administration.
This is probably gonna start a flame war. Here is the source I am grabbing my facts from to base my opinions and suppositions around.
https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/industries?cycle=a
The reason medical expenses have gotten so high and why there is such a push to prevent useful socialist(socialism is not a dirty word – we don’t live in the 50s) policies such as the ACA is because there are large industrial complexes attempting to prevent any form of Universal Health Care. If not for their efforts and money spent we probably would already have some form of it rather than the version of the ACA we currently have.
Lets tally up all medical and insurance lobbying since 1998.
Pharmaceuticals/Health Products $4,450,373,773
Insurance $2,973,247,470
Hospitals/Nursing Homes $1,794,639,211
Health Professionals $1,625,086,893
Health Services/HMOs $1,259,619,230
Total = 10,843,347,347
Compare that to:
Oil & Gas $2,317,233,106
or
Defense Aerospace $1,175,832,400
If you combine oil & gas with defense lobbying it is less than 1/3 of the amount spent by the various medical sector lobbyists. Part of the reason your medical bills, medication costs, and insurance premiums keep getting higher is because these people are paying lawmakers to turn a blind eye to it.
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Your 10843347347 number only includes the first four lobbying numbers; the sum of all five is $12102966577 ie about 12.1 billion.
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Imagine Americans were like 100 people in a room. The 100 people have 1000 dollars between them.
– Joe in the corner has 900 dollars.
– Nine of Joe’s friends share another 50 dollars.
And the the other 990 people share the other 50 dollars. But they listen to Mr. Fox, who tells them, “You would have 5c more, if Jose or Abdul wasn’t taking it from you” or “Mr. Lee next door is stealing all your money,” or “If you object you are a workshy socialist”.
And they all fight each other, and vote for Joe’s friends.
Thank you
Occupy Wall Street would have been so much more effective if they had occupied K Street in DC instead. Especially if they had made everyday business crawl to a standstill in the area by blocking the streets and such.
One of the reasons medical costs are so high is insurance itself. If you pay your bills with other people’s money, it allows you to pay bills you otherwise could never afford, which allows people to continue charging high amounts of money for things. Just as people continuing to take out loans to go to college allows colleges to keep charging exorbitant amounts for an education. And people taking out mortgages to buy homes allows housing prices to be sky high. The entire American economy and most of the world economy as well are built on borrowing other people’s money to pay for things you can’t afford. Not just individuals, but business and government as well. Everything is run on borrowed money around the world.
Government-paid healthcare won’t actually fix the cost of healthcare, though it may enable some people to afford it who otherwise couldn’t. Even what government-paid care we do have contributes to an extent to the overall costs, as private care often gets charged more to make up for both delays in government payment and locks on prices in government payment. And government-paid care is never free care. The government has no money of its own, and can only take money from one person to give to another.
except that how insurance works in North America is for the insurance company lawyers are a tax deductible business expense, and paying customers what they are owed, or fixing cars, or paying hospital bills are NOT tax deductible, so they would rather deny your $10,000 medical procedure and spend $100,000 in court fighting you over it, and hoping you die before the judge says “just fucking pay what you owe!”. The government needs to step in and say legal fees are NOT tax deductible, or that customer payments ARE. and really, the latter would be better.
Just to add more fuel…
Medicare is basically funded by a 2.0% levy on gross income (before tax). Low income earners do not pay, and very high incomes pay an extra 0.5% levy. It was introduced by the Whitlam Labor government as “MediBank” in 1975, and was cemented in place as “MediCare” by the Hawke Labor government in 1984.
Everybody except tourists is covered for “basic medical care”: all paid for. Due to pure cowardice by the Labor Party, “the Gap” (the difference between the Medicare rate and what the doctor actually charges) is not covered. Dental cover was not included as it would have required an extra 2.0% levy, since the overall Australian dental health was very poor.
Because State hospitals are better funded and equipped than private hospitals, an imbalance arose. This forced the Commonwealth Government to mandate Private Health Insurance for medium and high income brackets so people could afford to utilise the empty beds in the private sector and take the load off the public hospitals. However, fee hikes for private health are subject to Commonwealth supervision and restraint. Many private insurers now charge a small amount over the annual to cover ‘The Gap”.
It’s not perfect. OTOH, everybody in Oz can now get sick and suffer the exquisite pain of an intact bank balance. True socialism would mandate all medical providers be employed either by the State or large private-sector corporations with corporate OH&S policies. I can’t see that happening.
Not just Oz, both mum and me had cancer, had the surgery (with little to no wait, for me, it was: talk to the doctor on a Thursday, straight down to the hospital same day, surgery following Wednesday, and this was a poorly funded Teaching Hospital, not a ‘Big City’ hospital), and no bills (oh, and no more cancer either)
Ah, lobbyists, the worst thing to plague americans since political parties.
or socialism “We all drive on the street, so we pay part of our income into building and maintaining the street, and we share the bill for fire department and schools and hospitals so everyone who needs them can use them” and communism “government owns everything and decides what you deserve, in theory everyone gets equal shares, but in actuality the people in charge live much, much better than everyone else”
Do note that Soviet Russia was NOT a working communism, and neither is North Korea or any of the other dictatorships claiming to be a communist nation. Humans as a species are too underdeveloped to be able to do communism yet – we’re too greedy, basically. Let’s breed that out of our species and then communism will work just fine.
I’m not sure communism — after the French Communards — is a doable thing outside of small areas. Large areas is why our species invented the concept of money. However, I am sure that when we grow up we can swiftly develop equitable value for the goods and services that underpin “money”.
That’s the thing, communism can only truly work in small, semi self-sufficient communes, larger than that and it all starts to fall apart
And a big enough chunk of the American population is afraid that if we cut military spending the rest of the world will squish us like bugs. I’ve never understood why unless they just don’t know how much we spend.
the people that feel that way don’t use facts to come to that view they use fear.
If they’re scared that everyone wants to squash them like bugs, perhaps they should stop being such dicks? Currently, it seems that their own citizens want to squish the government and police like bugs…
I’ve said it before, but it bears repetition: “The English are the world’s worst xenophobes.” By English I mean ancestry from England, no matter how far back, at the very least past the other side of 1066. My own upbringing tried to quietly insert those attitudes into my head, and Australia is not a racially tolerant nation.
Individuals in this set do certainly earn an honoured place in history, we remember that England mandated the end of slavery back in 1830. However, so many of those who set forth from Albion seemed to be terrified of the naked savages they came into contact with. In fact the only peoples they appeared to respect were the Maori tribes in the Land of the Long White Cloud, who actually fought them to a standstill.
I wonder if this is why so many in the Land of the Free are terrified of the rest of the world, and of each other. In my nightmares, I never dreamt that some Americans maintain a constant armed watch on the rest of America, in case the government would come in the night and confiscate their rights. And lands. Which were stolen from the Indians. Perhaps this is why so many choose to ignore the first 12 words of the beloved 2nd Amendment. It’s sad that so many allegedly free people must seek lethal protection from each other.
I’d be scared too, if I believed that everybody was out to get me. And I can see why so many governments are leery of the USA.
Back when I was playing soldier for the Canadian government, I remember talking with one of our Airbourne sergeants. They had a joint war-games with U.S. Green Berets (so, elite/special forces brigade from each country) that was scheduled to take 3 days over a weekend down at one of the U.S. Army bases. The Canadians won the thing in three hours. And our forces were (and are) much less funded than the Americans. As I heard a few times during my time in uniform, “We have so much with so little for so long, that we are qualified to anything with nothing.”
That has been my observation as well, having grown up in the Canadian air force and serving over 20 years in the army reserve, and including stories from friends who served in Afghanistan. The U.S. military have lots of gear and all the cool stuff, but they aren’t all that well trained.
Well, in fairness, and no offense to the US, but their only actual special forces are Delta Force and the SEALs.
The Green Berets and such are just to weed out candidates for the latter. Still Elite, but that pretty much just means they have close to the training countries who don’t have a bunch of tech to lean on as a crutch.
There’s a reason the US has a list of “Special Forces we want with us going into an area” and the first three are Delta Force, Canada’s JTF2 and the SEALs. I think the only “secondary” American special forces that actually makes it into the top ten is the Rangers and Marine specialists.
Irish peacekeepers with the UN make similar comments about US soldiers. Massively over-armed, but under trained in how to deal with the local people. No understanding of local issues and history, little sympathy with the problems of locals. Too keen on blowing holes in things and people, to “solve problems”.
That’s why people like the Irish Army (and the Norwegians, Fijians, Canadians and many others) are usually called into war zones, when the UN is trying to cool them down. It’s a dangerous thing, trying to keep peace, and only a brave man can take fire without retaliating.
And it’s why the US isn’t called upon. (It’s too busy starting proxy wars, anyway.)
I live the last comment. Terrorist Obfuscation Operations. If I don’t know where I’m going, neither do they. So I never have to ask for directions either that way :P
Panel #9 for the win.
Sydney does have a cute butt
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-chapter-2/
Sidney knows that she’s got the world’s nicest butt.
Her butt has gotten more defined. I guess it’s all the working out and fleeing for her life.
I did not avert my eyes… (I don’t have to link the page, right guys?)
No need to link that page. I remember it well enough.
Link the page. I do not know to what you refer.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-707-a-fickle-modesty/
Pretty sure she’s playing them with the tells at that point. She’s not stupid ether though. Pretty sure she’s already clued in to what’s going on but is keeping that one to herself.
Sooo… She’s turned her weaknesses into strengths (one might say she’s “grinding” the game)… three steps ahead… I seee…. (three callbacks in there for those playing at home)
Given that she apparently forgot whatever her reason was for coming in here in the first place, I’m going to guess this is more a sign of loopiness because her meds wore off.
No, no. Forgetting why you came into a room is a common ADD/ADHD experience. You start going to the room for some reason, get distracted on the way, and by the time you get there your train of thought is gone and you’ve no idea what you were going to do there. Happens to me constantly and my ADD is nowhere near as bad as Sydney’s.
My Attention Deficit Disorder was later overturned with other diagnosis, but:
1. Be told to go into a room to do a thing
2. Enter room
3. Forget why you’re there
4. Decide that you must be in that room for the reason you usually are
5. Do whatever it is for hours at a time until someone yells at you wondering why you didn’t do the thing yet
+1.
I — well, my 5 braincells — get distracted whenever a thought enters the room. They immediately congregate and figure out how to make a committee… Some time later one of them will say “We actually came here to do something…” “But this thought! We can’t abandon it!…”
I read one that in pro poker there are certain advanced stratagys that you only use on other pros.
They don’t work on amateurs because amateurs are too dumb to realize they’re being played.
They just plow straight ahead like idiots, shattering the pro’s well-laid scheme.
Seems unjust, somehow….
once….
In college I used to do fairly well against the chess club president, on that basis; Never actually beat him, but I pulled off draws on a regular basis. I wasn’t all that good at chess, but I wasn’t falling into his traps, either, because I didn’t see the bait. I’d just bull forward into a deliberate slaughter, to simplify the board to the point where I could cope before he got something clever set up.
Then I’d massacre him in backgammon. (Our deal was that we’d alternate.) There’s strategy there, but I don’t think he was familiar with it.
In high school, I once managed to beat the chess club president, on that basis. I never saw it coming. We were still at a point where the board was too cluttered with pieces for me to make sense of it.
Ok, sure, I saw opportunities to put him in check, at ridiculous risks. And i took them. But I just thought I was chasing his king a bit before another loss.
To be fair, I may have had a few more attempts made against our chess club president. We were the same year, he founded the club when we were freshmen, and none of the other members showed up more than a couple of times. We had enough people the first day to establish the club, but apart from that… I think we averaged about two games per meet, four games per week, but it’s possible we did more at the beginning. There were about five weeks when we either didn’t have a game or only had one, because there were other people for him to play against.
I should probably admit that I didn’t play him to a draw ‘regularly’, unless once every month or two counts.
“The world’s greatest swordsman fears not the second greatest, but the worst, because their actions are unpredictable”
This is why one of the more important skills in anything to do with bluffing (and all combat is about bluffing) is being able to judge your opponent’s skill level, so you know what level of bluff to use on them.
My Ded taught me to play cards at a very early age, and I have always loved card games my whole life. Especially poker. I unfortunately learned, early on, that I have a horrible poker face. If I get a good run of cards, i will smile. And watching me try and not smile is apparently entertainment in its own right. So I had to learn to compensate by grinning like an idiot no matter what kind of cards I got. Ironically, that exercise helped me to learn to control my expressions better, so I can usually keep it under control, to a degree. Sadly…most of my friends won’t play poker for money with me anymore.
You can experience this in real life as well. Play online in your game of choice, vs playing with your friends for real money.
Even at that minor of a level, the games become totally different, as bullying out other players with big bets becomes effectively worthless, since no one cares about their money. Vs in real life, even penny poker, victory can mean a free meal on the way home, so people are less willing to all in on hole cards.
Omar’s skin looks paler here than his original appearance. Not sure if that is just lighting the 1st times or accident because we don’t see him too often yet, but I thought I would point it out just in case.
I’ve changed how I color skin, and it looks richer and healthier on caucasians IMO, but I’m still trying to figure it out for darker skintones. It’s this dumb trick with layers intended to change the hue as the skin becomes darker in shadow, but I might have to abandon it and go back to just picking the colors I want, which I’d argue is slower, but I spend time on every page fucking with all the little trick layers I have.
I figured that with black people, they’re harder to draw because it requires a higher degree of skill. With lighter colored skin, you can just draw a circle and vague eyes and a mouth, and it’s fine. For black people, you have to master both “shading” and “negative space”.
For those people who can draw them correctly, they’re genuine artists.
So you spend more time trying to save time than you would the “time wasting” way.
Only until he perfects it, like he did with pale skintone
Y’know, if there’s one cliché about Superhero Strip Poker that I hate, is that no matter the male-to-female ratio, it’s always the guys who end up butt naked, while the girls never lose a single piece of clothing
I know it’s not actually happening here, but this sprit of it is with how Sydney’s winning. At least have her experience some loss, lose her shirt or whatever
Fairly sure Jabbs is now topless
You can see her bra under Sydney’s ponytail
Did say ‘fairly sure’ :P
Figured the reason why Sydney’s balls were partially obscuring her was because she lost a hand (or two) since last time
Plus Omar and Maths appear to still have their clothes.
That’s probably a sign of Maths growth as on ethe one hand I would expcet his to clean up at poker but on the other hand I’d expect his to fall apart as more and more female flesh gets revealed.
More to the point, it looks like Omar and Math can SEE Sydney’s cards before they fold, so… they may be assisting in the trolling.
They could be helping Sydney bluff since they really want to see the “super” ladies naked. Sydney doesn’t have the hyper sexy physique that the others have, so the guys have little interest in getting her naked.
That’s what they want you to think. What they really want to see is if “less” is actually “more”…
Is this the “quality vs quantity” that I’ve heard so much about?
:)
I dunno about that. There are LOTS of guys (*coughmecough*) who prefer Sydney’s body type to that of the superladies. Society’s propaganda aside everyone’s got a different idea of what the idealized version of the opposite sex looks like. I think most guys would agree that all the women at the table are attractive, but you’d get wildly differing answers as to who’s the most attractive and all of them would have their fans. And, incidentally, the same is true of the guys.
That’s for sure. I’m married to the cutest little filipina, 5 foot even and 80 pounds soaking wet. Love at first sight 14 years ago. Plenty of men would find Sydney attractive.
Let’s see, she shows Math 6-7-8 of spades and shows Omar J-Q of hearts. I think she very much knows what she is doing. Wait, why does she only have 3 cards?
They still have have clothes on above the waist. What they wear below that is up to our imaginations.
Sydney’s using her Plot Armor to stay covered up…
I think you missed that the nature of the game seems to have changed with the addition of Sydney. I get the distinct feeling that everybody still feels she’s enough of a prude to report them to Max, despite her Frix experiences in the comic. (Note that I’m not saying those were her Frix experiences ever, though it’s probable that any preceding experiences of that sort would’ve probably been dreams or shortly prior to a mind wipe or something, based on how surprised she seemed by the whole thing.)
To be fair, that’s done because it’s much easier to draw naked men while being PG-13 than naked women.
So Sydney is only winning because she’s erratically throwing random “identifying behaviors” out there, making it impossible to actually figure out what’s going on with her? Yeah, that sounds about right. How does that saying go? If you can’t fascinate them with facts, baffle them with…. bovine excrement? Sydney is definitely doing the 2nd part…
Heh heh heh, I am learning big words…
I was hoping that Sydney was a secret card shark, but this is fine too. Now the next page needs to be Max barging in about to yell at them for playing strip poker when she stops to see Sydney has somehow cleaned them out
And, since Sydney is fully dressed, that just goes to show it wasn’t strip poker, too. Just laundry, honest.
Next time on Grrl Power, Sydney some how convinces Max to play but it just turns into regular poker. I would imagine the laundry cover will back fire on them and they end up having to do laundry for the entire building for a month
So, is Sydney doing an inverse bluff or something? Or the poker face equivalent of confuse-fu?
Never attribute anything to something difficult when what comes naturally will do the job.
Nah, Sydney knows damn well what she’s doing, and it’s bullshit
It’s always wise to expect that people are smarter than they seem. In some cases like for example Sydney they are almost certainly smarter than they seem.
Studies have shown a strong correlation between severe ADHD and high intelligence. Just saying.
Is Dave intentionally making the table arrangement impossible?
I think some people have changed placement since the last page. I was originally going for boy/girl seating, but maybe someone cashed out between pages?
Table seems smaller , so maybe just some of em play a few rounds of normal poker with sid on a side table to distract her
Told ya it was Math :P
Sydney used Confusion!
It’s super effective!
Shes going to end up owning a lot of clothes that don’t fit. Or that she use as a tent. Or watermelon transports.
Or double barrel slingshots….!?
oh dear, that’s looks like me in basically any game… i never played poker, but I suppose I’m really bad at it.
What we’re seeing here is someone failing upwards.
If Sydney masters this skill then nobody could stop her.
It’s her glasses, it took me about 30seconds to figure it out!!!.
You think her glasses come with a “poker mode”… or xray..?
Expand the reflection of the cards in her opponents’ eyes, maybe?
Looks more like Omar and Math having direct lines of sight on her cards most of the time.
Should Sydney change her hero-name from Halo to Card Shark?
Sydney butt view!
Sydney got back!
…actually she doesn’t have that much but it’s a nice skinny nerd butt so good for her
Hey, nice butts can come in small sizes too.
Wow… was glad i wated on pins and needles for another riveting entry to a dynamic tale that wastes no time gets straight to the point and has a clue as to what kind of story it is
@Thatguy – you know that’s why we love this comic, right?
I mean, all those tells? They’re not a bad thing. I once had a book (not sure sure why or where from) a book about power. There was a blurb in there from the author about how the best poker player they knew was some girl. It didn’t matter what she drew she *always* started giggling like a maniac whenever she drew a card. People just assumed she had drawn a good card for her and thus, with her dramatic overreaction, she won. All because she made people lose their nerve and their confidence in their ability to bluff or in their hand. Sydney’s winning because she’s all over the place and they haven’t figured her out.
Poker. I typed in poker. Bloody autocorrect. >: (
Eventually they would figure her out if it wasn’t for her very random personality. She is a extreme case of a chaotic neutral character by DnD standards.
I disagree. Sydney is more likely Chaotic Good (Lawful good could be argued I guess) with maybe a good dash of Lawful neutral Probably depends wear she is at with her meds. Can’t really see her doing evil if she willing to help a decidedly generally well known “evil” race simply because they needed help.
Chaotic Neutral people are guano insane. Being just as likely as to save a kid from a burning building as setting that building on fire and tossing a box full of puppies in for good measure. Completely depends on how the short hairs are tickling them at that moment. Essentially they will do whatever they want whenever they want good or evil does that sound like Sydney?
Yeah you are right. She is definitely Chaotic Good who fails hilariously when trying to be Lawful Neutral like Maxima.
She’s definitely learning their tells, and they are likely doing the same with her.
Thank you Dave. Of course everyone knows North by Northwest, but I’ve always thought Cary Grant did much better in comedies, and Arsenic and Old Lace is one of my favorite movies of all time.
After this,all will agree that Sydney should be barred from ALL poker type games and gambling in general!?
In the near future, if they’re caught playing strip-poker, the punishment will be having to play against Sydney until they’re totally “sky-clad”.
I was thinking about this over the weekend and going back-and-forth on whether or not Sydney would be good at poker. Sure the knee-jerk reaction is that Sydney wouldn’t have the patience or focus for poker, but she DOES have a lot of gaming experience and a fairly cut-throat attitude towards winning.
Practice and effort can often go a long way towards compensating for a lack of natural talent, at least against other amateurs.
Reminds me of the one and only poker tourney I played in….which I won. I was so nervous about playing ANY hand, no matter how good or bad, that people had no clue what I really had.
And, if people can remember the CGI in Babylon 5, we can imagine how good the graphics of that Amiga game might’ve been.
Math clearly saw her hand and he still folded. So did Omar (is it Omar?), who is likely to have seen her cards too. I suspect they both saw something there, that was better than their hands.
So, I suspect that Sydney had something like two pairs. but not a higher level hand. Her comment about the straight is a bluff, to psych out some of the opponents. “This is how I behave when I get a bigger hand – trust me to be an idiot.”
Sydney has ADHD, and often talks without thinking, but it has always been clear that she is intelligent. She shows good analytical skills when faced by strange situations/ It’s also clear that she is good at D&D games and similar.
She ain’t no dumb blonde.
Note she was looking at one card to four cards. It wasn’t a four card straight, ahe drew to two pairs.
Also, both Math and Omar can calculate that a win by Sydney will reduce everyone else’s cash. That means an increased likelihood of general nakedness at some later point
So they are happy to let her go, even if they have better hands.
Except that a win by them does the same, and they also get the chips.
It is hard to read tells on people who are not “working” the game. My mode, when playing poker, is “happy” mode. I am happy to be playing a game with friends. I am happy if I have a bad hand, because I am bluffing and suckering my friends. I am happy if I have a good hand, because I am trying to suck in my friends to get their money. I don’t really care if I lose, because I only brought the money with which I intend to gamble, and so consider it the cost of having so much fun. I’m talking smack with my friends, who are funny as heck when talking smack back. So, no matter what I am holding, I am happy, and I express this. Makes it hard to read me when all the tells are the same. “The idiot is happy.”
My brother cousins and I all played with our Christmas candy one year out of our stockings my brother can’t Bluff for s*** and cleaned all of us out
Ooh, I had that Amiga strip poker game!
It was flawed though. First, the hands were not random. There was always a better hand lurking if you dropped the right cards. Second, the computer was vulnerable to bluffing. If you dropped the highest amount of money, the computer would almost never call you, so you could just load up the pot absurdly high until it folded.
I just wanna know why they’re playing poker on Dazzler’s summoning circle. ;)
Remember, Sydney has been playing with gamers all her life. If there is a dirty rotten cheat out there, gamers will find and exploit it.
She would be hilarious on any televised poker championship, win or lose. The professionals wouldn’t know how to handle her and it would be entertaining ratings gold.
I remember the first time I saw this gag. It was on I Love Lucy when I was a kid. Let Lucy win too.
I assume she wasn’t playing strip poker.
Simple: You are too good at the game!
Serious poker involves reading the other players, almost more then managing the odds.
And she is unreadable. If you went back to pure propabiity optimisation, you would stand a chance.
Panel 8 is me taking a long, hard look in the mirror about a year and a half ago.
Coming out to yourself?
Yes, and I’ve been doing just fine :)
This page made me laugh out loud!
Glad to see some other fans of the Amiga in here. Sadly, I haven’t booted my A4000 up in years; don’t know if it would even run any more or if the hard disk is readable. It took 20 years for Winslow machines to multi-task as efficiently as the Amiga did in 1985 when it was released, but once they finally caught up (and Commodore’s inept management drove the company into the ground) the PC became my main computer.
I was a hard core Amiga user until I read the writing on the wall and sold my machines before the market fell out, and went into PC, tried Apple at the time but hated it.
The Flake, is a valid poker strategy. It’s annoying but it can be effective.
she winning because you are underestimating her harem.