This is a fun asset to analyze. I think of all of the Boundary Beyond 'boost 2 assets' this one ties with Well Prepared for second place behind Cornered for general strength.

What's neat about this card is that if you succeed you lose nothing and can take another test with the same boost, but failing heavily penalizes you. This means 3r initially spent buys you not only the initial +2, but another +2 if you succeed that first test, another +2 if you succeed the third etc. This means we can easily analyze how much the 3r cost gains you through application of the Geometric Series! so a single commit of 3r will give us 2* (1-r^n)/1-r value, where r = our chances of success (assuming all tests are the same chance of success, a big assumption but it only gives us a general guideline)

If you take lets say 8 tests at 0.5 chances of success you're getting roughly +4 boost out of it. That is nearly streetwise levels of efficiency, but without the intellect or agility test restriction! not bad, but then again not great.

if we increase to r = 0.75 however (which is a roughly good approximation for what most investigators want to test at) you're getting +7.2 value spread out / 3r which is more value than Higher Education.

Now there are nuances involved. Not the least of which is that if you're running a 'succeed by two' deck this is a massive enabler, turning your would-be successes into success by 2s. Additionally this card has significant swing, even if you have a good chance of passing losing 3r if you only have 5 can be brutally punishing. Fortunately Rogue's are masters of hoarding up big piles of cash very quickly.

I think the biggest downside though is that this card is very very poor at getting you back from behind. It needs to sit atop a powerful engine of cards already getting you to the 0.5-0.75 success range before it can start to contribute real value. Again though, using the first half of a scenario to set up and the second half to sprint full-speed through the scenario is a valid Rogue archetype so purchase this accordingly.

True. It's a risky asset to use, but High Roller is very good on standard and not too bad on hard.

The cash juggling is' nt even always a downside, every now and then you stand to double your bet via Double or Nothing.

The problem with this card is that you really want to keep overcommitting, you can't really risk using this just to net a +2 over the difficulty, you need to go higher if only to ensure you get the investment back, which is perfect when you run a gun like .41 Derringer or Switchblade or want to draw with Lucky Cigarette Case. In these cases youre already overcommitting anyway!

The synergy here with Stylish Coat is great. Both it and High Roller are already good candidates for decks with high resource gain + overkill on skill tests, and the two combined can be impressive. I'm running a Leo deck with Underworld Support in a 4 player game on standard and I regularly proc high roller multiple times a scenario - throw Stylish Coat into the mix and High Roller is fantastic.

This card is almost OP on standard difficulty, if you are playing an investigator that can gather resources quickly and have some static +1 skill boosting cards (like the new Lola) Santiago ).

I tried it in my Solo-Jenny Barnes deck on the Carcosa campaign, wich focuses on resource gathering, converting those resources into skill boosts through talents and having a decent amount of static +1 skill boosting allies (like Lola) Santiago and Dr.) Milan ) and amulets (like St.) Hubert's Key ) in play. The set up is a little slow depending on what you draw but once you have it rolling you can hit anytime with relative low resource commitment 8 or 9 in any skill that you are testing, meaning you will only fail to the auto-fail tentacle chaos token. Under this conditions you are normally able to activate this at least 3 times/turns before it fails and you loose your 3 resources, wich for a Rouge is very efficient. I think this will still be good on hard, but I haven't tested it yet. In Summery, if you have the cards to back High Roller up, you will dominate the scenario and steamroll your way to victory (at least on standard :P).