Overview:

- Estimated Trophy Difficulty: Trophy Difficulty Rating - PlaystationTrophies.org (1/10 personal estimate)
- Offline: 13 (10, 2, 1)
- Online: 0
- Approximate amount of time to 100%: 10-20 hours
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: Minimum of 16 tournaments
- Missable trophies: none
- Glitched trophies: none
- Does difficulty affect trophies?: N/A
- Do cheat codes disable trophies?: N/A


Introduction

Telltale Games' Poker Night at the Inventory 2 is a single player poker game pitting the player against popular characters from video games, movies, and TV. You will be trading chips with Borderlands' Claptrap, Max of Sam & Max fame, Ash Williams from Evil Dead and Army of Darkness, and Brock Sampson from the Venture Brothers, with Portal's GLaDOS serving as the dealer.

All trophies for this game are essentially tied to collectibles unlocked by completing challenges and earning money and tokens. Keep winning tournaments and enjoying the witty banter and eventually all of the loot and trophies will be yours.


Walkthrough

Step 1: First Tournament
The game will begin by throwing you into your first tournament and introducing you to the basics of Texas Hold 'Em. Win this tournament to unlock I Tournament to Do That.

Step 2: Bounties
After your first tournament is completed, the game will introduce the bounty system. Complete your three challenges and win the following tournament to collect a bounty. Continue repeating this process until you have completed Orb 'n' Legends, Trophy Wife, Book 'Em, Banjo Hero, and Personality Goes a Long Way.

Step 3: Clean Up
At this point you should have accumulated a good amount of tokens and, hopefully, money as well. Continue winning tournaments in order to achieve a high enough lifetime balance for We Are the 1% and to gather enough tokens to unlock Unlock all the Things.


General Tips

  • XMB Exit
    • Poker Night 2 autosaves your tournament progress after every hand. This means that if a hand does not go in your favor, you could pause the game, exit to the XMB, and rejoin the tournament at the end of the previous hand. If you wanted to complete this game as fast as possible, you could go all in every hand and use this system to ensure you never lose. One caveat to this system is that you must wait until the second hand of a tournament. If you exit and try and rejoin during the first hand, the computer will register this as you "re-entering" the tournament and deduct another $20,000 entrance fee from your lifetime balance.
      This technique could also be used in your favor if you receive a set of bounty challenges you feel are too difficult. When the challenges are randomly selected at the beginning of the tournament you can exit out and return to receive new ones, but since this is the first hand of a tournament it will cost you $20,000 to do so.
  • Lagging/Freezing Issues
    • Frequent lagging and freezing issues plague this game as a result of its frequent autosaving. The best advice is to remain patient when you see the Saving message pop up in the bottom righthand corner of the screen and to wait for it to finish before proceeding. This won't eliminate all issues but it should help to reduce them.
  • Buying Drinks
    • As players drink their "tells" become more pronounced. They might make more bad decisions (not easy to notice). Buying drinks should make it easier to win, but you are spending tokens.

      As RedKing points out, drinks make it more obvious to spot when the computer opponents are bluffing. Drinks cost 5 tokens each but can be useful in helping you win tournaments. To purchase drinks, select while at the poker table and choose a player to buy for.
      The folks over at the Inventory Wikia have put together a pretty comprehensive list of the various character tells and you can find their list here:
      Poker Night 2 Character Tells

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Poker Night 2 Trophy Guide

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13 trophies ( 10  )

  • Win a tournament.

    Self explanitory. The game will start out by entering you into your first tournament. Simply eliminate the four computer opponents to claim first place. If you are having trouble winning against the AI, feel free to exploit the XMB exiting trick detailed in the Road Map.

  • Activate the Venture Brothers deck, felt, and chips simultaneously.

    New deck, chip, and felt styles can be purchased through the Start Menu using tokens earned during tournaments. The number of tokens earned in each tournament is determined by where you place, with 1st place earning 100 tokens, 2nd 50 tokens, 3rd 20 tokens, and 4th 10 tokens.

    The prices for the Venture Brothers items are:
    Chips - 35 tokens
    Deck - 70 tokens
    Felt - 105 tokens
    Total - 210 tokens

    Purchasing all three items will require placing in a minimum of 3 tournaments. Once they have been purchased in the Start Menu, you can select and activate each item by navigating to its image.

    When all three items are activated together in a tournament, they give the Inventory a Venture Brothers theme and unlock some unique dialogue and cutscenes.

  • Activate the Borderlands deck, felt, and chips simultaneously.

    New deck, chip, and felt styles can be purchased through the Start Menu using tokens earned during tournaments. The number of tokens earned in each tournament is determined by where you place, with 1st place earning 100 tokens, 2nd 50 tokens, 3rd 20 tokens, and 4th 10 tokens.

    The prices for the Borderlands items are:
    Chips - 20 tokens
    Deck - 40 tokens
    Felt - 60 tokens
    Total - 120 tokens

    Purchasing all three items will require placing in a minimum of 2 tournaments. Once they have been purchased in the Start Menu, you can select and activate each item by navigating to its image.

    When all three items are activated together in a tournament, they give the Inventory a Borderlands theme and unlock some unique dialogue and cutscenes.

  • Activate the Army of Darkness deck, felt, and chips simultaneously.

    New deck, chip, and felt styles can be purchased through the Start Menu using tokens earned during tournaments. The number of tokens earned in each tournament is determined by where you place, with 1st place earning 100 tokens, 2nd 50 tokens, 3rd 20 tokens, and 4th 10 tokens.

    The prices for the Army of Darkness items are:
    Chips - 60 tokens
    Deck - 120 tokens
    Felt - 180 tokens
    Total - 360 tokens

    Purchasing all three items will require placing in a minimum of 4 tournaments. Once they have been purchased in the Start Menu, you can select and activate each item by navigating to its image.

    When all three items are activated together in a tournament, they give the Inventory an Army of Darkness theme and unlock some unique dialogue and cutscenes.

  • Activate the Sam & Max deck, felt, and chips simultaneously.

    New deck, chip, and felt styles can be purchased through the Start Menu using tokens earned during tournaments. The number of tokens earned in each tournament is determined by where you place, with 1st place earning 100 tokens, 2nd 50 tokens, 3rd 20 tokens, and 4th 10 tokens.

    The prices for the Sam & Max items are:
    Chips - 25 tokens
    Deck - 50 tokens
    Felt - 75 tokens
    Total - 150 tokens

    Purchasing all three items will require placing in a minimum of 2 tournaments. Once they have been purchased in the Start Menu, you can select and activate each item by navigating to its image.

    When all three items are activated together in a tournament, they give the Inventory a Sam & Max theme and unlock some unique dialogue and cutscenes.

  • Activate the Portal deck, felt, and chips simultaneously.

    New deck, chip, and felt styles can be purchased through the Start Menu using tokens earned during tournaments. The number of tokens earned in each tournament is determined by where you place, with 1st place earning 100 tokens, 2nd 50 tokens, 3rd 20 tokens, and 4th 10 tokens.

    The prices for the Portal items are:
    Chips - 120 tokens
    Deck - 240 tokens
    Felt - 360 tokens
    Total - 720 tokens

    Purchasing all three items will require placing in a minimum of 8 tournaments. Once they have been purchased in the Start Menu, you can select and activate each item by navigating to its image.

    When all three items are activated together in a tournament, they give the Inventory a Portal theme and unlock some unique dialogue and cutscenes.

  • Win Brock's bounty item.

    See Personality Goes a Long Way for all bounty information.

    Unlocking this trophy also earns you the Nothing Ventured Borderlands 2 skin for the Gunzerker and the Army of Brockness premium theme for your PS3.

  • Win Claptrap's bounty item.

    See Personality Goes a Long Way for all bounty information.

    Unlocking this trophy also earns you the Bluffer's Bane Borderlands 2 skin for the Siren and the You Crack Me Up, Little Robot premium theme for your PS3.

  • Win Ash's bounty item.

    See Personality Goes a Long Way for all bounty information.

    Unlocking this trophy also earns you the Guy with the Gun Borderlands 2 skin for the Commando and the I'm the One with the Guns premium theme for your PS3.

  • Win Sam's bounty item.

    See Personality Goes a Long Way for all bounty information.

    Unlocking this trophy also earns you the Hippity Hoppity Borderlands 2 skin for the Mechromancer and the Freelance Patrol premium theme for your PS3.

  • Win GLaDOS's bounty item.

    After you've completed your first tournament, the game will introduce you to the bounty challenge system at the start of the next tournament you play. You will be assigned three random challenges to complete while you participate in tournaments which can be viewed in the Start Menu or by pressing while at the poker table. These challenges can be obtained during one or across many tournaments.

    Once all three challenges have been completed, your next tournament will begin with one of your competitors placing a unique bounty item up as a wager. Win the tournament to receive the item. After you've won the bounty item, you will be assigned three new challenges at the beginning of the next tournament you begin.

    Continue completing challenges and you will eventually accumulate all 5 bounty items. The order the bounty items are offered seems to be random, with the exception that GLaDOS's bounty will always be last.

    If you are assigned bounty challenges and deem them too difficult, you can immediately use the XMB exit trick to leave and re-enter the tournament, receiving three new challenges. However, because this must be done on the first hand of the tournament, you will lose $20,000 from your balance each time you do this.

    I've listed some examples of bounty challenges below as well as some helpful tips:

    • Finish in X place or higher in a tournament
      • Self explanitory. You can utilize the XMB quit trick to ensure you win the tournament.
    • Come in X or better place in consecutive tournaments
      • Same as above but do it twice in a row. Again, you can utilize the XMB exit technique to ensure you reach the necessary place in each tournament.
    • Win X pots in a row
      • Self explanitory. You can try getting this simply by bluffing and betting big from the start after you've already won one hand.
    • Deploy a table unlockable from the X set
      • Enter the Start Menu, navigate to Unlockables, and purchase and activate an item from the appropriate themed group. Chips are the cheapest item from each set.
    • Win a Showdown with X hand or better
      • Wait until you've acquired the type of hand you're looking for (straight, flush, 3 of a kind, etc.) and then either try going all in yourself and hoping a contestant calls, or try and force another player to go all in and call him.
    • Go into a Showdown with X hand or better
      • Same as above but easier, you don't have to win the hand.
    • Go all in and win
      • Self explanitory. You can utilize the XMB exit strategy to ensure you don't lose a hand.
    • Double/Triple/etc. Up
      • This challenge is actually easier the fewer chips you have, and can be impossible if you have too many chips (over $50,000 for double, over $33,333 for triple, etc). If you have a good hand and not many chips, try going all in or just try and keep as many opponents in the hand as possible with smaller bets.
    • Knock out an opponent
      • Self explanitory. Win a hand where an opponent is all in.
    • Come in X or better place in consecutive tournaments
    • Steal a hand at the river
      • For this challenge, you must win the hand after the "river" or final card has been dealt by making all of your opponents fold. The best way to accomplish this is to check or make low bets leading up to the river, and then make a large bet or even go all in. This method is a bit risky, as your opponents will occasionally have a good enough hand to call your bet, but if not they will choose to fold and you will win the hand.
    • Win a showdown with only a high card
      • You have to win a showdown with only a high card, meaning no pairs or any other hand combinations. The best strategy is to wait for a hand where it doesn't appear your opponents have anything (if they are checking, not betting) and there are no pairs already on the table and you have a face card, preferably an ace. Try and force an opponent into a showdown and simply hope you win. Like the above challenge, this just may take time.
    • Win a tournament with a hand win percentage over X%
      • Every time the blinds are raised, GLaDOS will show you your tournament stats, which includes hands won/hands played. Win a tournament with this ratio at a high enough percentage. The XMB exit method can be very effective here because when you leave and return to the game, it only counts the hands since you've returned in your current tournament stats, meaning if you make it to the final two, exit out, and return and win the next hand, you will have a hand win percentage of 100%.
    • Win a tournament without going below $X chips
      • Simply play the tournament as normal and exit out with the XMB exploit if a hand is going to force you below your chip threshold.
    • Buy drinks for X players in the same tournament
      • You purchase drinks by pressing and selecting the player you would like to buy for. Drinks cost 5 tokens each so it's best to hold on to 20 tokens in case you need to buy drinks for all 4 of the other players. Also, complete this challenge as early in the tournament as possible so that you don't miss any characters who get eliminated.

    Unlocking this trophy also earns you the Are Y0u Still There Borderlands 2 skin for the Assassin and the First Date premium theme for your PS3.

  • Achieve a lifetime balance of one million dollars.

    Money is earned by coming in first place in tournaments. Every tournament you enter will deduct $20,000 from your lifetime balance and $100,000 will be added to your balance when you win, meaning you will net $80,000 for every tournament you win. If you are having trouble winning tournaments or just want to finish this trophy as quickly as possible, you can exploit the XMB exiting trick described in the Road Map, but be careful not to do this during the first hand of a tournament, as the game will deduct another $20,000 when you return and "re-enter" the tournament.

    Your lifetime balance can be tracked by examining the Stats page of the Start Menu. Assuming you win every tournament, reaching $1,000,000 will require 13 tournaments.

  • Unlock all decks, felts, and chips.

    New deck, chip, and felt styles can be purchased through the Start Menu using tokens earned during tournaments. The number of tokens earned in each tournament is determined by where you place, with 1st place earning 100 tokens, 2nd 50 tokens, 3rd 20 tokens, and 4th 10 tokens.

    Purchasing every unlockable will cost you a total of 1560 tokens which will require a minimum of 16 tournaments.

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