The Walking Dead: Gambler’s Edition – Carol

Probably the person who has changed the most throughout the series, Carol has us constantly gaping with surprise. She would be great at poker.

Spoiler Alert!
Carol Peletier is the one of the most astonishing characters in this show, because she is constantly in transformation. She started off as the abused wife of a scumbag, taking beatings and “staying in the kitchen,” where her husband believed she belonged, not saying a word. She was afraid to make him angry and did everything to please him. Carol used to be a weak woman enduring anything. Everyone thought she would be among the first ones to die, but she is still going strong.

• Adapts fast
• Can be unemotional
• Practical and tough

From the moment she joins Rick’s group, we can see changes in her attitude and behavior. After her husband dies, she realizes that Sophia needs to lean on her for support and Carol starts “manning up” to the task. When she loses Sophia, I half-expected her to commit suicide, but she soldiers on and on. She picks up new traits from nearly everyone in the group and forms a tight bond with Daryl. As time progresses, the submissive woman we once knew disappears right in front of our eyes and a toughened Carol takes her place. Because of this ability to march on and adapt, she would be wonderful at playing poker on mobile betting sites.

Carol has many sides and utilizes each of them to survive

When the realization dawns upon her that her daughter, Sophia, is gone for good, she doesn’t wallow in self-pity: she stands up and does what needs to be done in order to stay alive. She learns some medical tricks from Hershel and improves her arms skills and survival tactics. She becomes the exact opposite of her past self: she can perfectly sustain herself in post-apocalyptic conditions. We can also notice that she has become somewhat cold-hearted and calculating. Her stance is constantly shifting; she wants everyone in the group to be able to survive, but she copes well on her own, too. She would definitely be a poker winner, for she is practical and increasingly unemotional.

She refuses to let anyone else too close; they will die anyway, so what’s the point? She tries to close herself off to any other source of pain, but fails when she gets to know Lizzie and Mika Samuels. Bottom line, she adopts them when their father dies. The problem, however, is that Lizzie is a psychopath and she kills her sister, Mika. We can see Carol’s fight with her feelings: she knows the safe thing would be to kill Lizzie, but at first she’s reluctant. Then, she goes through with it; anything to survive and protect the other two (Tyreese and Judith) in her group. Carol would love to play in a US poker room, but she would win only if the players are complete strangers.

Sacrificing others and her own soul to save the group

Carol is the one who is not afraid to do anything that needs to be done in order to keep the majority safe. She kind of sacrifices her own soul for the others to be able to survive. For instance, when there was a flu outbreak at the prison. With no medication, it spread and became more aggressive, people in the prison started dying. When the illness wasn’t as spread and only two people had it, Carol murdered them to try and contain the sickness. She failed, the illness spread, and for a long period of time, she had to live with her horrible secret, which kept eating away at her. Eventually, she confesses to Rick.

As we expected from Rick, his next action was to exile Carol and from then on (until they meet again at Terminus,) she is left to survive on her own. Which, by the way, she does perfectly. The old Carol wouldn’t have lived through the night. New Carol, on the other hand, made the most of a bad situation. Only to get back again to where she belongs: the group. Carol’s vast set of skills would also make her great at other card games on mobile casinos, too. She’d easily get a grip on the new rules of each game and be a pro once she has experience in it. Her ability to pick up on things fast is one of her best traits when it comes to gambling.