if you think about who was playing poker on the Enterprise you will lose your mind. -Data: cannot help but count cards -Geordi: can perceive both skin flush AND see through cards -Deanna Troi: an actual empath -Worf: Worfhttps://twitter.com/CinnamonHH/status/1225930137549639682 …
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Replying to @meakoopa @AlexandraErin
They usually played five-card draw, where card counting per se doesn't really help you that much (The Texas Hold 'Em poker boom of the 2000s was because Hold 'Em makes the odds calculations much more fixed and defined)
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That's the No-Limit part not the Hold 'Em part but yeah that's my impression of Matt Damon's little speech about how No-Limit Hold 'Em is the only real way to play poker in Rounders (it concentrates all the action into a few big decision points)
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I guess you could headcanon that since the Federation doesn't actually have money the overall excitement of high-stakes gambling has faded and they like poker more for the social aspect, hence going back to these "grandma" games conducive to people staying in the game longer
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