Survival Skills [Wednesday, Period Four]

[doubleohblonde]

The Danger Shop was set up like classy, high-stakes casino, with Bond sitting in the dealer's position at a large poker table, idly shuffling a deck of cards.

"Today we'll be looking at gambling," he began, once the class was seated. "The kind you play against an opponent, rather than relying on luck, or the skills of people or animals other than yourself, simply because they rely on on the kind of skill sets that it would be frowned upon for me to teach you." As opposed to teaching them to play cards, yes.

"However," he continued. "The game is not stud, nor baccarat, nor Texas Hold'em. Instead you will be merely cutting the cards, since today, I'm going to be teaching you about bluffing, which is one of the most important skills a gambler, or anyone else for that matter can possess."

Bond then went on to explain bluffing as it applied to poker, and some of the ways you could pick up on if your opponent was bluffing or not, displaying a remarkable poker face the entire time. "Now, I want you all to pair off, and each of you will pick a card from the deck, I then want you to bluff your opponent as to the value of your card, betting on who has the higher value. You can play multiple games against multiple opponents if you wish, or watch a particularly interesting match so long as you don't overly interfere."

[ooc: wait for ocd up.]

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Pair Up and Bluff! - SurSki [Week 6]

[doubleohblonde]

Time for some bluffing, baby!

[Okay, get your cards from here, in cases of cards having the same face value, red beats black, hearts beat diamonds, clubs beat spades.]

Re: Pair Up and Bluff! - SurSki [Week 6]

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

Gavin picked a card and then waited for a partner.

Re: Pair Up and Bluff! - SurSki [Week 6]

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

Hurley picked up a card and made a face.

Yeah, nice bluffing, Hurley.

"Hey," he said to Gavin. "You wanna, like, pair up?"

Re: Pair Up and Bluff! - SurSki [Week 6]

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

"All right," Gavin said, peering at his card again. "I'm not much of a card player."

Re: Pair Up and Bluff! - SurSki [Week 6]

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Me either," Hurley said. "I'm more of a ping-pong guy."

Re: Pair Up and Bluff! - SurSki [Week 6]

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

"I'm more of a take a nap guy," he said. "But, I've got a pretty high card right now."

Re: Pair Up and Bluff! - SurSki [Week 6]

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

Hurley chuckled. "Naps are cool," he said.

"Yeah, me too," he failed at bluffing. "My card is really, like, high and stuff."

Re: Pair Up and Bluff! - SurSki [Week 6]

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

"So is mine," he said and added in an eyebrow raise to make it look even better. "It's the highest. I bet...a dime on it."

He was high stakes.

Re: Pair Up and Bluff! - SurSki [Week 6]

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

Hurley tried to play smooth. "Oh yeah, well... I'll raise you to a quarter." He smiled, trying to make it seem like he was confident in his card.

Re: Pair Up and Bluff! - SurSki [Week 6]

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

Gavin had to think a minute on if he even had a quarter. "Quarter, huh?" He peeked at his card again. "You're gonna lose that quarter if we keep betting."

Re: Pair Up and Bluff! - SurSki [Week 6]

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Yeah... well," Hurley said, out of witty banter. "My card is... good."

Re: Pair Up and Bluff! - SurSki [Week 6]

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

"So's mine," Gavin said and forced a smile. "This is hard, isn't it?"

Re: Pair Up and Bluff! - SurSki [Week 6]

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

"Okaaaaay," Triela muttered to herself doubtfully as she looked around. She didn't think this was likely to come up for her back home.

Re: Pair Up and Bluff! - SurSki [Week 6]

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

Liir wandered over, not having talked to her previously but--

"Care to team up?"

Re: Pair Up and Bluff! - SurSki [Week 6]

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

"Sure!" Triela shot him a huge grin. "I'm Triela."

Re: Pair Up and Bluff! - SurSki [Week 6]

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"Liir," he said with a quick bow of his head in greeting.

"How do we want to get started?"

Re: Pair Up and Bluff! - SurSki [Week 6]

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

"I guess we each get a card?" she suggested a bit doubtfully. She wasn't sure how this was supposed to be useful.

Re: Pair Up and Bluff! - SurSki [Week 6]

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"I'd think we'd need a hand," he said as he looked at the cards before scratching at his ear.

"But we could do it with one. Care to start?"

He pushed the deck toward her.

Re: Pair Up and Bluff! - SurSki [Week 6]

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

"Sure," Triela drawled as she reached out and drew a card.

"Huh," she said mildly as she took a look at it.

Re: Pair Up and Bluff! - SurSki [Week 6]

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

Liir took his own card and looked at it before schooling himself to blankness. Instead, he looked over at Triela thoughtfully.

Re: Pair Up and Bluff! - SurSki [Week 6]

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

"Mine's higher," Triela smirked.

Re: Pair Up and Bluff! - SurSki [Week 6]

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

He just tilted his head and smiled.

She couldn't know that. She didn't know what he had.

Re: Pair Up and Bluff! - SurSki [Week 6]

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

"You keep thinking that," the smirk grew.

Of course she didn't know, but she was pretty good at head games.

Re: Pair Up and Bluff! - SurSki [Week 6]

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle whose mun will be woefully afk until evening glanced around, ready to find someone to work with.

Re: Pair Up and Bluff! - SurSki [Week 6]

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

Helen looked around for a partner.