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"A Poker Comic with Positive Expected Value." (Hint: **+EV** is the common abbreviation for "positive expected value".) About professional online poker player Corbin, his family, his poker buddies and several prominent poker players.

You can find it on Keenspot here.

## Contains examples of the following tropes

* Anti Poop Socking: Averted (yes), here.
* Beginner's Luck: Seems to be the explanation for the successes of, if not Scarlett, then at least for Harold and Clancy.
* Catch Phrase: Violet's "I think I want a divorce" qualifies to the point she lampshades it when Corbin calls her a "dink" in a text message.
* Cam Whore: OK, so Violet presents her bikini photos in her blog. See here.
* Child Prodigy: Scarlett, who's following in her father's footsteps.
* Dystopian Edict: But why are people punished by hanging just for \*mentioning\* poker??
* Everything's Better with Llamas: here.
* Everything's Better with Princesses: Princess Amazia.
* Cute Kitten: Dolly
* Fan Disservice: here. With Harold, of course.
* Fan Service: Sometimes, here with Violet.
* Fat Idiot: Harold. Oh God, Harold.
* The Fool: Harold and Clancy.
* Funny Foreigner: The Finn-lander Konsta.
* GIRL: Corbin knows this trope. See here.
* The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: How it begins...
* Godwin's Law: Kind of. See here.
* Goofy Print Underwear: here.
* Heroic BSOD: Scarlett declares that poker and Princess Amazia are her two favorite things, and she couldn't do without either. Then Amazia comes out against gambling.
* House Rules: Be careful to play against Konsta with his own deck.
* I'm a Humanitarian: Fortunately, just a dream.
* Jerkass: Corbin, occasionally.
* Katanas Are Just Better: here.
* Kevin Smith: Has a kind of cameo here.
* Konami Code: Referenced here.
* Las Vegas: Of course.
* Mouth Flaps: A peculiar aversion despite this being an animation trope: The characters' mouths are usually closed when they speak in this comic's particular style.
* Mushroom Samba: So, Harold owes the Goombas hundred dimes, and they'll kill him if he can't pay?
	+ "Um, Harold, those are fictional characters in a video game."
* Oktoberfest: here.
* Perpetual Poverty: Harold and Clancy win millions in poker, but shit it all away.
* Pink Girl, Blue Boy/Princesses Prefer Pink: Scarlett's computer.
* Primal Scene: Seems to have happened off-strip, since Scarlett knows about the game that only mommies and daddies can play. See here.
* Professional Gambler: Corbin, and several members of the supporting cast.
* Rickroll: Done in Real Life here. Yes, there is such a thing as a real life rickroll.
* Scary Black Man: Clancy knows about this trope, but doesn't really understand it.
* Shout-Out: To *American Idol* here, *Heroes* here, *A Boy and His Blob* here
* Snap Back: Harold wins a lot of money and loses it again, loses weight and gains it again... and so on.
* Soap Opera: Violet is a fan of *One Life to Live*.
* Speed Sex: Corbin can do it twice in five minutes!
* The Stoner: Harold and Clancy, apparently.
* Stylistic Suck: Corbin's comic.
* Take That: Is Gold Coast really that shitty? No idea.
* Theme Naming: Corbin's wife's name is Violet. Her first daughter is Scarlett, which is a shade of red. And violet is a mixture of red and blue. So it was logical to give their second daughter a name that's a shade of blue, and thus she was named... Ultramarine!
* Third Person Person: Konsta.
* Title Drop: Here.
* Toilet Humor: Especially if Harold is involved. See here.
* Wacky Cravings: here.
* The War on Terror: See how Phil Ivey helps to win it!
* Webcomic within a webcomic: "The Degenerate."
* A Worldwide Punomenon: Many Incredibly Lame Puns, usually poker-related. Big Blind, Pocket Pear...
* Writers Cannot Do Math: Play poker too long, and you'll forget how to count to twenty. Even if you were a mathematician before.