Dice Poker

## Game

### Players

Shougou Soga, Mamoru Kuonji , Ren Kochi, Mary Saotome, Kanade Musubi, Haruto Kibashira, Nobuya Sera, Kurumi Kurume, Tsuzura Hanatemari, Yukimi Togakushi

**Dice Poker** (ダイスポーカー) is a game played in Kakegurui Twin.

## Story

Mary and her friends lost the Literary Club to Yua, Shougou, and Mikoto after a game of Blackjack. The former Literary Club members discuss Shougou and Mikoto’s rise in popularity for exposing cheaters. Mary makes a strategy to get back the room and joins forces with Kanade. While Nobuya plays Dice Poker, Shougou and Mikoto walk in. He contacts Mary, and the two middle schoolers accept to have a rematch with her.

## Rules

    As its name implies, it’s poker with dice. The strongest hand is Five Dice, and the weakest hand is a One Pair. First, all participants pay one token as the ante. Each action is performed clockwise. Players have two things to do: roll their dice, and bet. To roll their dice, players put them in a cup and shake it. Then, any number of dice are put aside. They keep the remaining dice in the cup, and shake them again. When everyone finishes, the game goes just like in regular Poker with bets, calls, raises, folds, showdowns, etc.

## Game

The game of Dice Poker begins with Kanade and his friends, along with Shougou. The team of five is surprised that Shougou is winning against all of them, even though they are following Mary's strategy of using their numerical advantage. Nobuya had informed Shougou of their plan. Ren has a strong hand, a Full House, and raises the bet to ten chips, but Shougou calmly raises it to 200 chips. Not willing to take such a big risk, Ren folds. Ren pretends his hand wasn't strong. He wants to let someone else handle the risk.

Shougou figured out that a group of people teaming up on him could be a good strategy, but none of the people was willing to take risks, so they wouldn't earn profit. Mary joins the game, revealing that the plan's failure was expected. Shougou asks Mikoto to watch out for whoever might cheat. He suspects that Mary already knows the game of Dice Poker. Shougou and Mikoto understand she has a strategy. In one round, Shougou makes a high bet and wins with a weak hand, because the others fell for his bluff and folded. Later, Shougou beats Mary in a 300,00 yen bet.

Shougou attributes his victory to luck. In the next round, Ren thinks he has a good hand and bets 100,000. Mary raises to 200,000. Haruto calls it. Shougou shocks the table by raising to 1,000,000. Ren and Haruto fold. Mary calls, as expected by Shougou. He wins the showdown. Shougou comes to the conclusion that he’s tied with Mary, but thanks to Kanade and his friends playing too, he’s bound to benefit more from every win because of the folding, which gives him the edge. Mary tells Shougou that he’s good, but still in middle school. She declares that she’ll teach him a gambling lesson.

In the next round, Mary goes all in. Because of his weak hand, Shougou is about to fold. Mikoto interrupts him to accuse Mary of cheating. She claims that Mary swapped dice while no one was looking. Mary proposes a bet: if she was cheating, she'll pay Mikoto 10 million yen, but if not, Mikoto has to pay her the same amount. Mikoto is about to accept the bet, but Shougou tells her he doesn’t think Mary cheated. He continues the game by calling Mary’s all-in bet.

During the showdown, Mary reveals four dice instead of three, one of which was a blank one. She had pretended to cheat to trick the middle schoolers. The dealer doesn’t consider this as cheating as the die is clearly a fake one. Mary won the hand. Shougou accepts it and advises Mikoto to focus on Mary. Mary says that the real lesson now begins. Then, Kurumi, Tsuzura, and Yukimi, join the game, making Shougou uneasy. In the middle of the game, Kurumi touches her cup. Mikoto calls her out for it because Kurumi had already finished her roll. Kurumi asks Mikoto if she’s accusing her of cheating and suggests they bet on it. Mikoto refuses.

When the betting phase starts, Shougou asks Mikoto if she was watching Mary and if she performed any cheat. Mikoto is 100% certain that Mary didn’t cheat. Shougou is worried because he thought Kurumi touching her cup was to distract Mikoto from looking at Mary. Shougou has a three-of-a-kind of 5’s. He raises to 500,000. Tsuzura instantaneously goes all in. Shougou and Mikoto are terrified. Shougou understands his and Mikoto’s blunder. They focused on Mary when, in reality, all of the high schoolers were trying to cheat.

While Shougou thinks she has a strong hand, Mikoto judges that it’s a bluff. She demands that Shougou calls. Shougou folds. He explains that if the high schoolers were cheating, they’d lose for sure. He also doubts that Mikoto was certain that there was no cheating.

Shougou receives a straight. Yukimi raises to 1,000,000. Shougou calls. Yukimi has two sixes as open dice. Shougou knows that she’d realistically need a full house to beat his straight. Kurumi raises to ten million, stunning Shougou. Shougou understands that losing that much money would mean him losing the entire game. He begins losing his cool. Mikoto doesn’t detect any cheating, but is anxious because all players touched their cups. Four more players call: Yukimi, Kanade, Mary, and Tsuzura. If one of them cheated and Shougou didn’t notice, he’d lose. He realizes that there is a chance his Straight isn’t enough to win and also a chance Mikoto missed seeing cheating.

Shougou folds again. Mikoto assures that there is no cheating. Shougou explains that betting 10 million yen is too risky and Mikoto might’ve missed signs. He asserts that folding is the right answer. Mary speaks as if the game is already over. Shougou responds that it isn’t. He thinks he can win if the players keep betting 10 million. Shougou rolls a full house and thinks of a hole in Mary’s strategy. Only two hands or a better full house can beat a full house. Shougou plans on winning 50 million in the next round. Mikoto says that Mary put a die in her cup again, but is certain it’s a blank one. She adds that no other player tried anything.
Shougou goes all in from the start. The showdown begins, and Shougou reveals his full house in the showdown. Mary appears shocked. Kurumi and Tsuzura lose. Shougou is worried about whether Mary cheated or not. She shows her one pair. Mikoto is happy and thinks they’ve won. Mary then admits that she was bait. She says that Yukimi is the actual cheater and winner.

Yukimi has a five-of-a-kind of fives. She thus wins the hand and Shougou loses all his chips. Kurumi compliments Yukimi’s cheating. Mikoto cries and apologizes for not being able to see Yukimi cheating. Shougou denies that it’s her fault and sobs. Mary tells them that she wants to ask something.