Planetary Poker

Planetary Poker was a card game that smugglers were known to play on long space voyages. The game consisted of a deck of cards, a hand for each player, and gold chips to keep track of variables in the game. At least two people could play the game.

Sometime after the Battle of Yavin, the astromech droid R2-D2 and Chewbacca, the co-pilot of the light freighter Millennium Falcon, played Planetary Poker aboard the ship during a voyage to the planet Tatooine with supplies for their friend Luke Skywalker's super-vaporator project. During the game, R2-D2's computer monitor became inoperational, forcing him to cease playing. Chewbacca became upset, as he was winning at the time, but the vessel's captain, Han Solo, told him to forget the "silly" game and to oil R2-D2 to restore his ability to function.

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