Who is the best poker player when cheating is allowed?

[at Quark's]

Wouldn't it be fun if a scene had revealed that it's Picard that knows the dirtiest tricks, outconning everyone else?

Come to think of it, would have made for a nice unexpected addon scene after the closing credits and the Paramount logo in All Good Things, the entire group minus Picard and Beverley leaving the poker room being robbed blind - Worf without sash, Geordi without visor, and so on, and Riker and Deanna quibbling about those extra duty shifts they had wagered and lost.

 

[Finn]

Data only get to deal 1 of however many players are playing hands; I'll still bet on the person who can see every one's cards every hand.



No, he changed the rules...

Not with the approval of those who designed and conducted the test...

 

[dupersuper]

Not with the approval of those who designed and conducted the test...

They gave him a commendation for original thinking.

 

[Finn]

Still technically cheating.

 

[Verteron]

If the Computer was allowed to cheat, Holodeck Stephen Hawking would beat Data in their game we saw in Descent Pt 1

After all, it's literally creating the cards out of thin air - Royal Flush every hand!

 

[at Quark's]

If the Computer was allowed to cheat, Holodeck Stephen Hawking would beat Data in their game we saw in Descent Pt 1

After all, it's literally creating the cards out of thin air - Royal Flush every hand!

It wouldn't even need to cheat so ostensibly. After all, it can also manipulate the cards a player gets (even if by only materialising the markings on them when the player chooses them at the last second).

 

[Mojochi]

You can play poker on the holodeck with your own real deck. It doesn't have to be a holo... deck

 

[JesterFace]

You can play poker on the holodeck with your own real deck. It doesn't have to be a holo... deck

 

[WarpTenLizard]

Guinan...? ...duh?

 

[Frindis]

Worf, because nobody would dare to call his cheat while he is showing his war face.