[1-1-0] A Gambler vs THE Genius, Billionaire, Playboy and Philantropist - Kaiji Itou vs Iron man

[noninho]

Spoiler: Sorta Complex Lore

After the events in the Espoir, Kaiji is still in debt and got visited by the same guy in the BMW who called him for the boat, inviting him for another "huge opportunity". After Kaiji finally agreeing to show up to the determinated place, he was instructed to enter a room, which has been filled up with a strange gas and Kaiji got locked up, making it impossible to escape...
Kaiji woke up in a chair by the side of a guy, clearly not japanese... matter of fact, nothing in this place looks like the hotel he's been before...where is he?

Tony was absolutely fine, he only took a few drinks and decided to play a little Blackjack before getting drunk in another corporative event he's very happy he doesn't need to put any effort into since he hired people to do so. He sat on a table of the game and a guy with the most triangular chin ever whose jacket he actually liked a bit was placed, asleep, by the security guys in the table, while the dealer was taking a little to show up. Those guys said he was the greatest gambler in the hotel, brought for him, so Tony decided to wait a bit more for the dealer. When the dealer showed up, it only took a few for the guy to wake up, very confused

-Hey, nosey. You good?
-Huh? "Nosey" is your a--
-Oh, perfect! Now the true game may begin!
-True game?- said them both almost at the same time
-Well, yes. It's not all day that we can put a condition so fun to our guest and to our broke-ass-fella! See, Kaiji, our CEO liked how you play our game and decided to put you to get your debt paid, but against the most unexpected of guests: Mr. Tony Stark!
-Me?- said Tony -Well, for the record, I feel kinda played and would like another drink.
-Well, may we begin here?

Kaiji realized that he's dealing with a company many times more f***** up than he thought he was in debt with...and that he's gotta win a game he played only a few times in his life against the ACTUAL smartest person in the entire planet Earth. What will end up happening to him?
Meanwhile, Tony was actually wanting to see what happens here before calling an armor to help saving this guy from yet another evil corporation, after all, he was promised to be a great gambler and he wants to play a fun game, get drunk and...oh yeah, save the day too.

Kaiji and Tony will play a game of Blackjack, who wins 3 rounds first or loses all the chips, wins the game. Tony's starts in base.
The first round starts with both receiving two fives, Kaiji gets one of spades(♤) with one of diamonds(◇) and Tony one of hearts(♡) and one of clubs(♧) (if they try counting the cards, this'll get them the same chances of getting to the result)
Both have ¥10.000.000,00 in chips.

"NOT EVEN DEATH CAN CURE ME!"-noninho

"And I... am Iron Man..."-MrKerf

 

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Imma argue towards Kaiji later, hope I'm not alone in yet another thread lol

 

[noninho]

I believe this match is fair since despite not being as versed in betting games as Kaiji is, Tony can outperformance some computers and outsmarted noone other than Mr. Fantastic, so I believe he can count the possibilities in a ok rate
But I believe Kaiji takes this with his social Influencing (maybe) and with how much he's absolutely focused in this. In a scenario where he's not able to be cheated, just at max fooled and has no reason to believe Tony like he believed people in the timez he got completely screwed by doing that, his intelligence and charisma for betting can truly blossom

 

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Imma bump until at least someone else comes here, even if it's very lame to be talking alone lol

 

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[MrKerf]

First of all, I love such lore battles. No one dies and win or lose, Tony will save Kaiji from the org.

That being said, I see no conceivable way for Kaiji to win. The gap in intelligence is just too big. Social Influence might help a bit, but Tony will eventually see through him. Additionally, Kaiji’s weakness mention he needs to be in a dire enough situation to pull his crazy feats. Sure, the entire scenario might be considered as such, but I’d argue it would apply more towards the second half of the game, when he will be loosing, by which point it’ll be too late.

I vote for Tony Stark.

 

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I’d argue it would apply more towards the second half of the game, when he will be loosing, by which point it’ll be too late.

not necessarily. as Kaiji is not the most confident of people, when he starts losing his money the pressure on himself will start too (also, usually playing for this company and losing has some heavy consequences, like owing money 'till you die or literally being killed, Kaiji would be very fearful of losing).
when he gets to see the Dealer shuffling two decks (right on the start), he's already starting to count, while Stark would play for fun and maybe count the cards at a later point (since it's not something usual for people to play for fun)

Social Influence might help a bit, but Tony will eventually see through him.

if he falls to Kaiji's talk, Kaiji will be getting a nice advantage, even if it's for a while

I love such lore battles. No one dies and win or lose, Tony will save Kaiji from the org.

me too, was very happy to notice this is feasible

will be counting your vote

 

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