You don’t count cards in poker. That’s blackjack
With his hands and then every card revealed he can in fact count the cards and calculate the probability. As well as profile every players past games and day to day life.
It doesn’t require counting cards, as he there isn’t any long term play (blackjack uses the same initial decks for multiple rounds).
But you’re right that he could calculate probabilities of each person having other hands. However, the thing with poker is that it’s about bluffing and choosing when/when not to take risks. He could build profiles for each person, but that assumes a consistent plan/strategy.
Keeping track of the odds with a single deck doesn’t take a positronic brain. Anyone could do it with some practice.
You can’t count cards when there is a shuffle after every hand. He could theoretically track the shuffle, but that’s an entirely different thing.
But he could analyze the shuffle in real time and know the order of the cards.
imperfect shuffling
The best player unless Crusher is at the table.
I hear he also makes a mean omelet.
A chef is only as good as his ingredients!
deleted by creator
The man takes risks on the reg, just to feel something.
Every fucking time he ends up as (temp) captain it’s some huge gamble
When he ends up commanding the ENT-D he always ends up losing control of the ship
No one loses control of the D like Riker.
Riker: My D… It’s out of control!
Are you implying that they are letting him win?!
He’s the boss. Of course they let him win.
Wesley was right?
You shut your mouth.
Is Data playing, though, or just dealing?
data is usually also playing, theres a whole episode where he finds out what bluffing is
Is he dealing or is he just coping?
Is he coping or just surviving?
Is he just surviving or eye-of-the-tigering?
Is he eye of the tigering or subconsciously stacking the deck to pass a message to himself in future iterations of a temporal causality loop?
