Big Deal Game (Indian Hold'em)
, Indian Hold'em — Blind man's bluff
Game itself is a series of calls for tenders. Player controlling tender is given a list of colours that he needs to buy on a designated budget. Budget is calculated with this formula: base value * number of colours in tender. "Base value" is 5 points for first 2 rounds and 10 points in the last, 3rd round. After all players got to direct tender, next round starts.
If player has one of the colours participating in the tender, he has vested interest and collects bids from providers of other colours to get them for as cheap as he can so that he can appoint himself as seller of last colour and grant himself rest of the money. If director doesn't like how negotiations go (sellers ask a price too steep) or he himself doesn't have any of the colours in the tender he can cancel it and take consolatory base value points for himself.
To add another layer to the game, 4 remaining players are joined by 4 members of Super Junior. Each player is privately told that he partnered up with one of the guests. Each player's and their partner's points are summed and this total determines their placings.
Guests are not told the identity of their partners. Thus, players can deceive Super Junior members by convincing that they're their partners and influence them to grant points to the wrong people in tenders.
Main match starts. Yohwan and Junghyun are the only ones to draw blue. They team up and start to extort other players because they have no choice but to buy blue cubes from their duopoly cartel for their inflated prices. They also agree to grant their respective SJ partners points to confuse others, so that Junghyun gives points to Yohwan's partner and vice versa.
After one round of blue alliance domination, Junghyun and his team partner become #1. Yohwan and his partner are however #3 after Sangmin's team. Yohwan decides to ditch blue alliance and starts to sabotage his own play in order to make Sangmin #1 and deny Junghyun of the win. He destroys blue monopoly by offering all blues for just 1 point and keeps giving Sangmin and his partner points on his tenders. It's not just petty vindictiveness — Yohwan is hoping that Sangmin will be thankful and when Yohwan goes to Deathmatch Sagnmin will save him with token of immortality.
On the Super Junior side, Yohwan's partner Shindong sees Yohwan's implosion and that that their win is now impossible. He separately talks with Junghyun's and Sangmin's partners promising them help in exchange for 1 mil. ₩ if they win (guests obviously have no use for garnets should they win, so they get 5 million Korean Wons as monetary prize for #1 spot). Because his win is now out of the question, he even goes as far as not even competing in his own tenders and just gives out points to other players.
After 3 rounds, Sangmin and his partner win. Yohwan and Shindong are dead last. Yohwan is supposed to go to the Deathmatch, but his plan works and Sangmin does give him token of immortality. That only leaves Junghyun and Jiwon to fight in the elimination game.
Deathmatch is Indian Hold'em. Jiwon has already won this game before against Jinho, but now his opponent Junghyun has significant advantage in garnets giving him more starting chips in the game: 41 vs Jiwon's 15. Now Jiwon can't just All-in and leave the outcome of the game to luck because he has less chips. Junghyun is also calm and collected player who is hard to read. Jiwon loses and Junghyun takes his third consecutive (!) Deathmatch win.
Tropes:
- With Friends Like These...: Yohwan and Junghyun are the only sellers of blue cubes. They are natural alliance based on blue monopoly. However, they keep undercutting each other until both of them cross each other and Yohwan devalues blue cubes by constantly selling them for just 1 point.
- Death Seeker: once again, Yohwan is actively sabotaging his play to lose on purpose. But this time he is doing this for the exact inverse reason: he is propping up Sangmin and his Super Junior partner during his tenders making them #1 in hopes that Sangmin will give him Token of Immortality in exchange.
