Marvel characters and poker

[lilboo]

who would be the top 7 characters that we be good at poker in descending order?

 

[Harlekin]

Cannonball is top dog, as proven before.

 

[Union Jack]

gotta be charles xavier...he'll know to stick or not

 

[bryanss3]

you should see Chuck play chess. Batman helps him

 

[Mr. Green]

The Thing is the man. I forget who beat him in that last issue of Slott's Thing series but he has to be pretty good.

EDIT: Holy crap, I almost forgot Gambit! He has to be up there. Nobody ****s around with cards more than he does.

 

[Duker Jay]

Flatman.

 

[Max J Power]

All the ones that are telepathic would pretty much be in a tie for the best.

 

[The Apocalypse]

All the ones that are telepathic would pretty much be in a tie for the best.

This pretty much sums it up. Perhaps though a game of strip poker with the ladies...

 

[Franklin Richards]

 

[Manic]

Vision.

Inexpressive face, ability to count cards, and immunity from telepaths.

 

[Franklin Richards]

No telepathy. No magic. No counting cards. No powers.


This is a gentlemen's game. Cheaters will be clobbered.


Hmmph.

 

[Manic]

Counting card isn't cheating. Some people can't help it if they're good at math and can guess how the cards are being dealt.

 

[Franklin Richards]

Counting card isn't cheating. Some people can't help it if they're good at math and can guess how the cards are being dealt.

Go to Vegas and tell them that.



AI must have the ability to turn it off. Data plays cards all the time.

 

[Ahura Mazda]

Counting cards in texas hold'em is absolutely not cheating and is allowed overtly. All the top pros do it. That is what calculating your pot odds means. However, it is noticably different from black jack in so far that the deck gets shuffled each hand.

Franklin, what you are thinking about ios Blackjack in which it has been deemed illegal even though in reality it is not but as it does hit the Casino's bottom line it is not allowed.

 

[taskmaster]

Taskmaster would rock anyone in poker.

 

[Harlekin]

Actually, I imagine poker is one of the few skills that Taskmaster would be unable to pick up. There is too much chance involved.

 

[The Question]

Go to Vegas and tell them that.

The Casinos don't consider counting cards to be cheating. They simply reserve the right to refuse service to anyone and boot anyone out of their establishment for any reason, so if someone is winning a lot because they're counting cards, the casino has legal right to kick them out. Now, card counting teams, like those kids from MIT, that's cheating because you have people signaling each other from across the room and aiding each other in the card counting.

 

[CBG]

Thing lost in a poker match with Human Torch, Kingpin, and Spider-Man in an issue of Spectacular Spider-Man. #21, if I'm not mistaken.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I look at that picture and all I can think of is a God-like narrator saying, "Losing the night's poker game, it turned out, would soon be the least of Bill Foster's problems..."

 

[Mr. Green]

Hahahahaha!

 

[CBG]

 

[Mutagen]

Wolverine, with his sense if smell and hearing, would come in pretty handy if powers were included.

 

[Spider-Jay420]

He could smell and hear the good cards??

 

[Dread]

What I love about Joe Q's editorial tenure is the mixed messages. It is perfectly alright to show superheroes killing, condoning other heroes who kill, drink alcohol, and even GAMBLE with each other.

(It is worth nothing that gamblers have been trending younger and younger for years now, thanks to poker becoming a nationally televised "sport". For every winner, there are thousands of losers, who drop countless amounts of money and ruin their own lives.)

But heaven forbid anyone smoke.

In the commentary for HULK VS., Craig Kyle noted that he got few restrictions from Marvel about the gore in HULK VS. WOLVERINE, which includes severed limbs, the slashing of flesh and some stabbings now and then. They could include words like "hell", "damn" and "ass", and even one crude insult towards a woman about her body. But he couldn't have Logan smoke a cigar. That was ixnay for a PG-13 audience.

I'm hardly a smoker, but the personal vendetta always seems hypocritical.

 

[Mr. Green]

Yeah, that's ******ed.