My Take on the Poker Scene in Pluribus S01E06 (spoilers for S01E01)

Some slight spoilers for some of the early episodes but they shouldn't be a big deal.

The Hand

It was probably a single-draw variant too. If you want to do a realistic heads up poker hand, the players should have either a Three-of-a-Kind, Straight, or a Flush. If the game's gone on long enough, the hero can get a Full House for the final hand, getting an applause from the crowd on his amazing luck, and then him tipping the dealer a large amount as he leaves the table.

The Chips

It would make sense for a new player to keep his chips in stacks of 10; all you have to do is count the chips and put a 0 at the end to know how much is in each stack. The Hive (that's what they are being called on Reddit) would have all the knowledge in the world about Poker and would have known that most players keep their chips in stacks of 20. Even the racks built into the table in front of the players were large enough to hold stacks of 20.

Don't need to say anything about that string bet....

The biggest issue I have with the poker scene was the dealer and how she was proving chip stacks. Someone clearly taught her how to prove the chips but didn't teach her to splash them out. The proving shows that each stack of chips are the same value while the splashing shows how many there are in a stack. If the cameras can count 5 chips being splashed and 3 stacks being proved, they know there are 15 chips without having to count the security marks. If she had splashed the chips after proving, you wouldn't have to pause in order to see that the yellow chips were valued at 120,000.

The problem with the dealer is that she did it so slowly. This show has kind of been begging the question for the last 5 episodes as to whether there's a difference between a Hive member who's done the job previously versus one who hasn't. In a previous episode, Carol (the main character) insisted a pilot fly the plane rather than a T.G.I. Friday's waitress because she probably had the same question. The dealer in the poker scene clearly didn't have the muscle memory of someone in the poker world (even some players can count out chips quickly).

The yellow chips were also valued at 120,000 but you would have to pause in order to count the chips (wouldn't have to pause if the dealer splashed the chips properly).

This was either a sloppy showing on the actress, an oversight of the director, or an actual plot point. For reference, her name is Max Reeves and she had a nice bathtub scene shortly afterwards.