Chapter 232: Decisive Battle of MGM (1)
Winning $750,000 in an hour is enough to be ecstatic, but it is still far from Shi Xiaofeng's goal, and at this pace, I am afraid it will be difficult to take away $10 million tomorrow. Moreover, according to Nevada law, foreigners who win more than $1,200 at any DU in Las Vegas must pay up to 30% "on-site tax" when they leave the DU to exchange for cash. Therefore, Shi Xiaofeng's target tasks have increased again.
In fact, before Diana met him, he had been fighting at MGM for hours, and he started playing slots. He is not very good, he has neither the interest nor the time to learn the many rules, and slot machines are undoubtedly the easiest to learn.
There is no need for the staff to introduce, he also knows that if three identical patterns jump out of the small horizontal row of small windows in the middle of the three reels on the machine, the machine will spit out money, and he is too lazy to study the different odds of different pattern combinations.
He exchanged all the only 100 dollar bills for game tokens, threw a few into a slot machine at random, pulled the handle, and the dazzling number 7 and fruit patterns such as oranges and cherries on the wheel immediately rotated at high speed, pressed the stop button, and the combination of three patterns that popped up in the middle of the small horizontal window decided to win or lose.
The patterns move so fast that it's too difficult to find the winning combinations with the naked eye. Experienced players will usually spend a long time on a machine, constantly throwing coins, pulling down the handle, and keeping detailed notes of what suit combinations will appear, as well as writing out the order in which the suits appear on the three reels. After the same machine has been pulled hundreds of times, the probability of the suit appearing in each reel can be found.
Shi Xiaofeng didn't need to work so hard, the Heavenly Bead Divine Water had comprehensively improved his physiological functions, and the high-speed rotating pattern was many times slower in his eyes, and he didn't have much effort to grasp the chance of a tenth of a second, or even a hundredth of a second.
After trying it out a few times, he was soon able to get the small window to pop up three identical patterns each time. With the melodious "ding-dong" sound of a large number of game coins falling down, it didn't take long for a hundred dollars to become more than five thousand dollars.
But he decided to play differently. On the one hand, he felt that the slot machine was too slow to win, and on the other hand, his machine had attracted a lot of customers, and even a staff member suspected that he had done something in the machine, so he stopped throwing coins and opened the machine to check it carefully.
Unable to find anything abnormal, the staff apologized to Shi Xiaofeng. He shrugged his shoulders and said he didn't mind, and asked for something else to play. The staff introduced the most popular game rules in detail, and volunteered to exchange all the more than 5,000 yuan of tokens for him. Shi Xiaofeng took out chips worth two hundred yuan to reward him, and this guy was so happy that he kept thanking him.
Shi Xiaofeng no longer entangled with him too much, and switched to the du table that opened roulette du and Baij music, and the chips in his hand increased six or seven times after an hour.
According to his plan, he had won at least a million dollars in the past hour and a half, but now he only had more than $30,000 in chips. He had to find a way to play where the player had the most to win.
After a brief analysis, he chose to play 21. He saw it very accurately, and it is said that someone has found that the winning rate of the dealer in blackjack is 52%, and the winning rate of the player is 48%, which is indeed the closest to fair betting game.
Blackjack, also known as "Black Jack", originated in France and has spread all over the world and is one of the most popular ways to play in the DU. The game is simple, played by two to six people, using 52 cards in addition to the big and small kings, and the player's goal is to make the sum of the cards in the hand not exceed 21 points and be as large as possible. The advantage of playing this game is that the dealer has an infinite bankroll, and the player has the advantage of being in and out at any time and being flexible.
Shi Xiaofeng chose a 21 o'clock du table, the dealer was a fat man with a huge rosacea nose, Shi Xiaofeng saw his fat cuteness, and sat down in front of him.
It is a semi-circular du table with 4 players sitting opposite the dealer, and a man and a woman have already been seated. After Shi Xiaofeng sat down, the dealer began to deal each player two "open cards" face up, and dealt two cards to himself, one face up called "face up" and one face down called "face up".
Shi Xiaofeng already knew that the rules for calculating points were that K, Queen, J and 10 cards all counted as 10 points, Ace cards counted as either 1 point or 11 points, and the remaining 2 to 9 cards were calculated at their original face value. The dealer he had rewarded also introduced the changes of "buying insurance" and "splitting", Shi Xiaofeng was too lazy to listen, he only remembered to try to make the sum of the cards close to 21 points and exceed the dealer.
In the first game, Shi Xiaofeng's two cards were a Q and an 8, which added up to 18 points, which was not small. The dealer's face card is a 9, and Shi Xiaofeng did not use his perspective ability to look at his hidden cards, and casually bet on a thousand dollars in chips, indicating that he would no longer ask for cards. He wanted to try two first, familiarize himself with the rules.
The other two players were a husband and wife, and they only bet $25 each in this game, and they couldn't help but be shocked when they saw Shi Xiaofeng's Du bet. Their total points were 15 and 16 respectively, and the two discussed a few words before continuing to deal. The third card the man gets is a 7, which adds up to 22 points and "blows". The woman gets a 3, adding up to 19 points, and hesitates for a while not to ask for a card.
The dealer smiled slyly and opened the face card, which was a face card King, and the sum of the points was 19 points. He stretched out his big fleshy hand and grabbed Shi Xiaofeng and the man's chips, laughing non-stop, and his nose was even more red and shiny.
The woman made a tie and easily withdrew her chips. The man was a little frustrated, but when he saw that Shi Xiaofeng had lost a thousand dollars and still didn't change his face, he was secretly ashamed and decided to get it back in the next game.
In the second game, the dealer's card was an ace, and the advantage was obvious, and the couple whispered for a while and decided to buy $15 "insurance" - this game the man bet $30, and the woman waited. Shi Xiaofeng's two cards add up to 17 points, which is not as good as the previous game, but he doubled the DU bet and bet 2,000 dollars without care. The dealer cocked a fleshy thumbs up and praised it.
Then Shi Xiaofeng and the man continued to ask for cards, and the man exploded again, staring at the dealer's hidden cards in disappointment, praying that he would get "Blackjack" (Blackjack) so that he could win back the "insurance money".
Shi Xiaofeng's sum of the three cards reached 21 points, and if the dealer was not "Blackjack", he could win 2,000 US dollars - this would make the man's psychology extremely unbalanced, and he hoped that the dealer would win both "public" and "private".
The dealer smiled even brighter, and opened the face card, which was a 10-point card, so that the sum of the two cards reached 21 points, and sure enough, it was "Black Jack".
The man breathed a sigh of relief, he won back $30 in "insurance", which means that this game is not in or out. Seeing that Shi Xiaofeng lost two thousand dollars, he turned to sympathy.
No matter how his psychology changed, Shi Xiaofeng was not affected in the slightest, and after the start of the new game, he directly bet on $4,000 without waiting for the cards to be issued - the DU bet doubled again!
At this time, not only the eyes of the husband and wife widened, but even the dealer was surprised, he thought to himself that this Chinese was either too rich or his head was in water!
Shi Xiaofeng laughed secretly in his heart, in fact, he was neither a master nor a psychological warfare, let alone a red eye, but just borrowed Zhuge Liang's method of "retreating from the army and adding to the stove" on a whim. He still hasn't used his clairway to cheat because he thinks it's fun, so he can enjoy it first, and then cheat when he loses.
The man next to him seemed to replenish his courage and bet on a hundred dollars, and his wife exclaimed in a low voice, "Are you crazy?" and quickly retrieved the $50 chips.
The dealer dealt the cards, Shi Xiaofeng's first two cards got 16 points, and made a gesture to indicate that he did not want to play cards. The man's two cards are only 12 points, and if he continues to ask for cards, he will be dealt down with 4 points. His wife secretly pulled the corners of his clothes, signaling that people don't want cards at 16 points, and you don't want it.
The man hesitated for a while, but still asked for another one - 7 o'clock, and it exploded. The man beat his head in frustration, and the wife was even more angry.
Then the dealer opens the face card, the sum of the points is 15 points, according to the regulations the dealer must continue to hit cards below 16 points. Take another card is 9 points, the dealer blows up, and Shi Xiaofeng wins 4,000 dollars. The man next to him was going crazy, and he couldn't imagine that even if he didn't want a single card, he could win money with 12 points!
He slammed his fist on the platform, and his wife said, "What are you angry with the table?" I can't listen to the persuasion of others because of my poor skills, so I am not allowed to do it anymore, and I will go home immediately!" The man seemed to be a little afraid of guilt, and he didn't dare to disobey, but he was unwilling to leave, so he stood aside and watched Shi Xiaofeng continue to play.