Seed Poker is played among 7 remaining players. The game is played with 15 numbered cards.
One card is turned over and is placed as "seed". Then each player receives a card from the set and decides whether to get a new card (previous card is turned over and is put in "Trash" area) or keep it and then a new seed card is added (if there are more than 3 seed card the one with the smallest number is discarded).
After everyone gets their card and seed is finalized, players can either bet or fold (they can't raise). Player with smallest number on their card gets the biggest card in the seed, player with 2nd smallest number takes 2nd biggest seed card and the 3rd smallest number gets the remaining card. Player with the biggest of sum of both cards wins the round.
Because there are just 15 cards, and a number of them are revealed as seeds and discarded cards one can make guesses as to what other's cards are. Results of the game hugely depends on who folds and bets and it's very easy to get in a way of others simply by betting at the wrong time. Game requires cooperation from at least one partner — ideally a whole team colluding with each other.
People draw lots to determine order of sitting at the table and it pretty much defines everyone's standings:
Jungmoon — Junseok — Dongmin — Kyunghoon — Hyunmin — Kyungran — Jinho
Jinho who sees this game as a chance to get out of Dongmin's shadow, recruits Kyungran as his partner and refuses to join Dongmin's usual big team.
Dongmin who sits by Junseok and Jungmoon promises to help them and give them information about others players in exchange for cooperation. Kyunghoon who sits by his other side becomes his messenger to communicate with Jinho-Kyungran's side.
Kyungran shows her card only to Jinho and he works with her. With his help she wins first two rounds. Jinho wins third round so now he's safe from last place while Kyungran is primed for the win. People on the Dongmin's side are getting antsy and he asks Jinho to concede some rounds. They do that and everyone folds, giving a win to Dongmin. Hyunmin takes the next in similar manner.
Jungmoon tries to be a spy (again) and she tells Kyungran that Dongmin was going to leak their information. When Kyungran confronts him about it he says he was just telling that to win a round. Jungmoon attempt at spying wasn't successful and only made her look bad for both sides.
Junseok, Kyunghoon and Jungmoon are the only ones without a win and there are only 2 rounds left. Because of Jungmoon's betrayal everyone are planning to leave her without a win.
Jinho feels bad for Jungmoon so he reveals that everyone are against her and recruits her to his side. He messes up Dongmin team's plan in penultimate round by betting when he wasn't supposed to. Neither Junseok nor Kyunghoon can win in this situation. Dongmin is angry and declares a war against Jinho and Kyungran. To prevent Jinho from taking that round he is forced to win it himself.
On the final round Jinho engineers a position for Jungmoon to win a round so she can prevent Dongmin from winning. However just one victory doesn't make her first and grant her immunity so she passes. Because of this Dongmin takes the final round as well, winning the game and denying Jinho and Kyungran of immunity. Dongmin gives immunity to Hyunmin.
Kyunghoon agreed to be a fall guy and Dongmin tells him to lose and pick either Jinho or Kyungran who having failed to win the game are eligible for Deathmatch. Jinho comes to Kyunghoon and pleads that this was not a betrayal because they did their part of the bargain with Dongmin, but Jungmoon was the one who betrayed Dongmin and then Jinho at the end when she didn't take win opportunity and was the reason Kyungran didn't win.
This sways Kyunghoon and he picks Jungmoon. They are playing Same Picture Hunt.
Both have perfect memories, neither of them does any memorization mistakes but Kyunghoon gets lucky and he manages to see all of his tiles before they even got to open the entire board. He pushes his chip to the end of conveyor belt and wins the Deathmatch, eliminating Jungmoon.
Tropes:
- Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Jungmoon's streak of clumsy spying finally catches on her.
- Sleepyhead: Kyunghoon manages to doze off in the middle of the main match.
- This Means War!: Dongmin declares war on Jinho and Kyungran when they splinter off and refuse to cooperate fully.
