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I came in here to make the same point, though I too was pondering the karma hit. Have an upvote.

To drag another tangential fantasy/sci-fi reference into the discussion, in an episode of Blake's 7 Avon and Vila smuggled their supercomputer Orac into a space casino so Vila could play against The Klute, a wizened Davros-like house chess genius with a terrifying laugh. The prize for winning or drawing was 10 million space credits, lose and The Klute could choose your destruction.

Sayonara karma.

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Didn't that episode end ironically, with the Federation taking over the planet and rendering the currency they'd just won worthless?