Poker Game

The Poker Game is an area found in Dungeon of Weirdos. To get to the Poker Game, you must first enter a Shop and buy everything the Shopkeeper offers you, including the bonus item he gives away after you bought the first three. Exit the Shop, then reenter it. You will notice the Shopkeeper is gone. After a moment, a hidden gate will open up at the top of the room. Cross that gate, and you'll find the Shopkeeper sitting at a table, ready to play Poker.

There is a square on the ground at the nearest side of the table, where you must stand in to start the game. Four buttons will show up, the second saying "Begin" and the fourth saying "Leave". You can press "Begin" to draw a card. There are two separate turns:

* Your turn: The first button says "+5", the second says "Fold", the third is blank and the fourth says "Leave". Depending on your card, a certain one of these actions might be ideal: if you get a low-value card, you can press "Fold" and give the Shopkeeper the amount of Diamonds you were betting (a minimum of five), to avoid the Shopkeeper getting a better card, betting higher and then you losing more money. If you get a high-value card, you can press "+5". This adds five Diamonds to your current bet and opens up the "In" option. Pressing "In" means that, unless the Shopkeeper decides to Fold, both players' card will be compared. If you have a better card than the Shopkeeper, you will get the amount of Diamonds you bet from him, and the opposite happens if the Shopkeeper has a better card. "Leave" works as you'd expect. The Shopkeeper can Fold and Open but cannot raise his bet during this turn.
* The Shopkeeper's turn: The "+5" button never appears, the "Fold" button stays where it usually is and so does "Leave". In the third slot you'll find an "Open" button. Pressing "Open" allows you to compare cards with the Shopkeeper like you would after pressing "In". However, you cannot raise your bet. In this turn, the Shopkeeper can Fold and also raise his bet, although he only ever raises it to ten Diamonds.

This game can be an effective money making scheme, because the Shopkeeper always possesses the exact number of Diamonds you spent in his Shop during that entire run. If you beat him by getting your hands on all his Diamonds, you just got all your money back, and you can keep the items you got. On the other hand, if you lose, you can lose a lot of money yourself. It is recommended to only bet a high amount of Diamonds if you get a very high card (J, Q or K), as, otherwise, the Shopkeeper can beat you and you'll lose all those hard-earned Diamonds. If you get a K, always go all in, as you cannot lose as there is no higher-value card than K, and it is impossible for both the player and Shopkeeper to draw the same card.

Note that entering the Poker Game itself already requires buying the Shop out, meaning you'll likely be running low on Diamonds by the time you get to the table. The more Diamonds you have when you enter, the better, as you'll have more room to Fold a couple of times thanks to bad RNG.

You must play this game and beat the Shopkeeper to access the Shopkeeper (true form) boss.

## Trivia

* If you get the Black Card, you can bet 999 Diamonds on any card during your turn and then fold. The Shopkeeper, unlike the player, does not have a limit to how many Diamonds he can hold, so if you repeat this process multiple times, you can make him extremely rich, so much so that the number has to spit into two rows!