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There are many comic book characters that exhibit traits (heightened senses, telepathy, reading body language, deductive reasoning, mental manipulation, precognition, and strategizing) that would be very useful in a poker game. With that in mind the following characters have been invited to a multiversal poker tournament.

Wolverine
Emperor Palpatine
Sabertooth
Daredevil
Batman
Professor X
Yoda
Jean Grey
Daken
Spiderman
Manchester Black
Thanos
Martian Manhunter
X-23
Emma Frost
Dr. Doom
Cable
Gambit
Darkseid

Tournament Rules are posted at each table to prevent telepaths from having an unfair advantage.
Telepathy can only be used defensively to keep others from reading your mind, probing the minds of others is prohibited.

Which heroes and or villains make it to the final five?
Who wins the tournament?

Prof X wins ever time.

I would put DS and Emp P in the 5 as well.Maybe Gambit and Batman too.

Originally posted by Stoic
Prof X wins ever time. But who does he beat in the final five?

Batman would have the best poker face.

Originally posted by Brockalizer
There are many comic book characters that exhibit traits (heightened senses, telepathy, reading body language, deductive reasoning, mental manipulation, precognition, and strategizing) that would be very useful in a poker game. With that in mind the following characters have been invited to a multiversal poker tournament.

Wolverine
Emperor Palpatine
Sabertooth
Daredevil
Batman
Professor X
Yoda
Jean Grey
Daken
Spiderman
Manchester Black
Thanos
Martian Manhunter
X-23
Emma Frost
Dr. Doom
Cable
Gambit
Darkseid

Tournament Rules are posted at each table to prevent telepaths from having an unfair advantage.
Telepathy can only be used defensively to keep others from reading your mind, probing the minds of others is prohibited.

Which heroes and or villains make it to the final five?
Who wins the tournament?
Here are my final five: Manchester Black, Palpatine, Thanos, Emma, and I'm torn between Doom and Darkseid for the final slot.

Thanos wins.

Originally posted by Don Corleone
Batman would have the best poker face. Batman's would be good, but I think Doom's would be better. It's hard to read a man with a metal mask.

John Constantine wins

Silver surfer converts the deck so that any cards dealt to him results in a royal flush.

Constantine has been banned from casinos for winning at gambling too much, and he once went into a casino while broke, and won enough money to buy the whole franchise in an hour

Batman, no contest.

Constantine isn't in the List but he would be a challange.

Originally posted by Stoic
Prof X wins ever time.

Is not the most powerful telepath here, if that's why you think he wins.

Originally posted by Endless Mike
John Constantine wins



He enters the tournament uninvited, and then stomps.

poker is a game of lie an deceit, lol, constantine out duel the devil in some kind of game lol...then again, Thanos is not to be fck with either. thanos and john in a head up with Thanos bluffing john out with a king high...weakening john's stack tremendously. realizing he has about 1/5 of thanos chip count....john pulls an all in with Ace high....Thanos.....then.....

oh shoot...constantine isn't even in the list lol! my bad...

ok, final five -

thanos
doom
darkseid
palpatine
an probably Professor X. he'd be eliminated though lol.

Thanos, hands down.

Constantine, even if he isn't in the list.

Originally posted by dynamix
oh shoot...constantine isn't even in the list lol! my bad...

I've never read Constantine, just seen the movie. If I had known about his skill set I probably would have added him. My bad.
Originally posted by dynamix
ok, final five -

thanos
doom
darkseid
palpatine
an probably Professor X. he'd be eliminated though lol.
The only reason I went with Emma over Prof. X or Manhunter was because of her moral flexibility. I see it basically coming down to who's the smartest cheater among the bad guys.

Batman.

I see it basically coming down to who's the smartest cheater among the bad guys.

lol...agreed!

Doom.