Texas Hold'em
No-limit ring games at every stake and the $100,000 buy-in Million Dollar Tournament. The poker room is where a lot of the case file gets built.
The rules Lucky's uses
Standard no-limit Texas hold'em. Two hole cards per player, five community cards dealt in three streets (flop, turn, river), betting after each street. Best five-card poker hand wins. Split pots on ties. Blinds rotate clockwise each hand.
Hand rankings, high to low
- Straight flush (royal flush is the ace-high version)
- Four of a kind
- Full house
- Flush
- Straight
- Three of a kind
- Two pair
- One pair
- High card
Cash games
Every table has a listed min/max buy-in. Bots at the table have capped bankrolls ($50k per NPC) so you can't pull unlimited money out of a single seat — when the table busts, it re-seats new players. This keeps the poker room from being a bankroll printer while still rewarding good play.
The Million Dollar Tournament
Buy-in is $100,000. Freezeout format — one bullet, no re-entries. First place pays a million. The game double-checks the buy-in before it locks you in because $100k is a real chunk of a starting bankroll. Winning the tournament is one of the fastest routes to the ten-million target, but it burns real in-game time and Suspicion spikes when you final-table.
Strategy notes
- Position matters. Play tight from early position, wider on the button.
- Don't limp. Raise or fold.
- Continuation-bet the flop when you were the pre-flop raiser and the board doesn't hit obvious opponent ranges.
- Fold when the story doesn't add up. If a passive player suddenly bets big on the river, they hit.
- NPCs have tells. A companion with high Nerve or Logic will call them out.
Case-file angle
Several patrons only sit in the poker room. If you never buy in you will never talk to them — and you will miss at least one CLUE quest chain. Even a small-stakes seat is worth it for the intel.