Who would win in a game of no limit Texas Hold'em?
Merovingian
Architect
Oracle
Smith
Morpheus
Calvin
Arminius
Roger Wilco
G-man
Texas Hold'em is a variant of seven card stud wherein each player is dealt 2 cards, and then 5 community cards are dealt out (player cards are dealt, round of betting, 3 community cards, round of betting, one community card, round of betting, last community card, last round of betting) and you have to make the best hand you can using one or both of your cards and the cards on the table. Its advantage over other, traditional forms of poker is that you can tell from the community cards what hands your opponents might have, and therefore it becomes all about reading each other, rather than reading your cards.
First 5 characters being from Matrix Reloaded; since several of them change by the end of the Matrix series, assume them to be from half way through Reloaded (Morpheus is dead sure in his prophesies, Smith hasn't taken everything over yet, Merovingian is in control of his little kingdom, etc.).
For those not entirely familiar with all the players:
The Merovingian is a crazy French guy who rules the underground and is very fixated on cause and effect. "Choice is an illusion created between those with power and those without."
The Oracle is a kindly old lady who knows everything but doesn't really use that knowledge, and believes in both choice and destiny. "You've already made the choice. Now you must understand it."
The Architect is a cynical genius of a middle-aged man who talks very precisely and is essentially in charge of everything. "Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously your greatest strength and your greatest weakness."
Smith is an insidious program which used to be an agent of the system but is now trying to take it over, and who considers himself a god. His whole thing is purpose: "There is no escaping reason, there is no denying logic."
Morpheus is a strong, charismatic figure who believes solidly in both destiny and providence. "Tonight is not an accident. There are no accidents. We did not come here by chance, I do not believe in chance. ... I do not see coincidence, I see providence."
The G-Man is the guy who controls Gordon Freeman in the Half-Life games, and has a habit of presenting Gordon with apparent choices which ultimately have no meaning. "I'm not going to give you the illusion of free will..."
John Calvin and Arminius are two of the most important Christian philosophers of the reformation; Calvin believed in predestination (the elect go to heaven, the reprobate do not. Your status as elect or reprodate is determined prior to your birth), Arminius very strongly did not.
Roger Wilco, ace janitor, second class, is the hero of the Space Quest games. He is a bumbling fool who is likely incapable of a poker face, but has unbelievable dumb luck, offset by his consistent clumsiness and his habit of dying in many, many ways throughout the games in which he stars.
So... how do you think the game would go? Who would be first out? Who would be the last two, and who would ultimately win?
deifeln March 22 2005 10:55 PM EST
Smith is the first out...he goes all in on a statistically strong Full House (Aces over Kings in this case where he has pocket aces)... Roger Wilco happens to have pocket kings to match those in the community cards for four of a kind. Morpheus (who disarms the Architect's and Smith's games by asking them riddles along the lines of "what is the sound of one hand clapping") and The Oracle are the last two standing. The Oracle easily beats him in head to head play.
