Chapter 63: Master of Mental Arithmetic
Looking around the table, in addition to the dealer who dealt the cards, there were five other gamblers.
These people are of different ages and sizes, but their focused expressions are the same, each staring at the cards in their hands, silently calculating whether to continue bidding.
This is a classic card game in which all gamblers bet against the dealer, dealing two cards first, one open and one for dark, then betting and bidding in turn, and finally counting the sum of the value of the cards, and the player who does not exceed and closest to 21 points wins.
When Ma Fei sat down, the previous round had just ended.
The dealer scored a staggering 20 points, beating out four gamblers in the room, and only one lucky gambler with 21 points was able to protect himself.
Seeing that the chips in front of the gamblers were taken away, and then the dealer gave the winning gamblers the chips. This in and out, the dealer can still win thousands of dollars!
Ma Fei couldn't help but sigh secretly: No wonder someone took a risk to open a casino, this huge profit is too scary!
These gamblers are also really interesting, knowing that the final big winner must be the banker, but they are still happy to gamble here, and they feel that they will be another lucky person besides the banker?
When he was sighing, the dealer had shuffled the cards, and asked Ma Fei with a smile: "This gentleman is new to the game, welcome to bet." The minimum bet at this table is 1,000 yuan, buy more and get more, buy and leave ......"
Ma Fei tried his best to pretend to be an old gambler, grabbed a few chips and put them in front of him: "Let's get a thousand first, try your luck!"
A good bet is placed, and the dealer begins to deal the cards.
Ma Fei's open card is a 5, and the hidden card is a 2, which is a relatively safe point.
Looking at the dealer again, the face card is a 10. After sweeping the cards of the rest of the players, Ma Fei had no idea, only felt that his points were too small and had to bid again.
A round of bidding, he got an 8 again, at this time the total number of points has reached 15, and then bid, once you get more than 6, you will burst, directly lose the thousand, but if you don't bid it, 15 points are afraid that you can't compare with the dealer......
Grandma's, this game seems simple, but it's really grinding to play!
Ma Fei sighed secretly, and thought to the lamp god for help: "Old guy, can you probe your heart again, help me look at the dealer's hole cards?"
Unexpectedly, the lamp god rejected him: "No! The old man has a bottom line, you want to use me to help you gamble, but there is no door!"
Ma Fei begged several times, but the lamp god was always indifferent.
At this time, the dealer began to urge, and he chose to continue to play cards under the entanglement.
The cards were flipped over, and he was dealt with a jack!
Flipping over the cards with a look of chagrin, he pouted and shook his head: "It's exploded!"
The surrounding gamblers expressed regret, and the dealer took away his chips with a blank face.
In just a few minutes, a thousand dollars went down the drain. It is not difficult for Ma Fei to imagine how Gan Mingde sat here and lost the 50,000 yuan......
This hand continued, and Ma Fei learned from the pain, knowing that this was not a long-term solution. There is still a lot of content that has not been collected at the moment, if you lose all the money so quickly, you will inevitably be kicked out of the casino, and when the time comes, not only will the interview be bad, but you will also be asked by Chai Peng about the loss of money when you go back, which is definitely a loss to your wife and a soldier.
So what else can be done?
He pondered to himself, and suddenly remembered the classic gambling movies he had watched before.
In the movie, the dashing gambling gods talk and laugh freely, using all kinds of magical tricks to kill all directions. Well...... I happen to have 500 wishing stars, and if I can make a wish in exchange for a thousand skills like I learned Jeet Kune Do, wouldn't it be easy to solve the problem?
As soon as this idea came out, the lamp god came out to protest again: "Don't even think about it! Don't say that Lao Tzu doesn't provide this kind of indiscriminate thing like Qianshu, take 10,000 steps back and say, even if it's really given to you now, you kid hasn't even prepared props, I think you want to give a thousand!"
This stopped Ma Fei.
The gambling gods in the movie are amazing, but they never introduce how they prepare.
It can't really be like magic, you can change it by rubbing the cards, right?
Since this road is not working, then find another way. Ma Fei had a lively mind and soon had a new countermeasure.
After all, isn't all card games a mathematical probability problem, and if I learn advanced mental arithmetic skills, the odds of winning are always much better, right?
Having made up his mind, he began to make a wish to the lamp god: "Old fellow, quick, I want to make a wish in exchange for mental arithmetic ability!"
The lamp god acted according to his words: "Okay, deduct 500 stars from you, and this will give you advanced mental arithmetic." ”
said and didn't forget to complain: "You humans are so cunning, you can also exploit this kind of loophole, and in the end, you still use good craftsmanship for gambling......"
"You know I'm here for an interview!" Ma Fei felt wronged.
The lamp god sneered: "I'm afraid that after your kid finished the interview, he will become addicted to gambling!"
Ma Fei laughed at this. At this time, the lamp god seemed to have fulfilled his wish, he only felt a series of numbers flashing in front of him, and strange mathematical formulas poured into his mind from all directions, engraved into his memory......
When the dealer started a new round of dealing, the world in front of Ma Fei's eyes also quietly changed.
This time he still bet 1,000 yuan, and got a 9 face up and a 5 face down. Look at the dealer, the face card is a 4, and the rest of the cards are not the same.
"Do you need to bid?"
The dealer asked, and the gamblers began to respond in turn, some chose to bid, and some chose to give up. When it was Ma Fei's turn, he was not as confused as before.
In his mind, he had quickly called a bunch of probability formulas, combined with the existing information, and deduced the probability of various possibilities for him to continue bidding.
At 14 points, the cards above 7 will be blown up, and the whole deck of playing cards, there are 24 cards higher than 7, in addition to the 3 cards on the players' cards, there are 21 cards!
In the case that there are only more than 30 cards left in a deck, the possibility of Ma Fei's re-bidding is extremely high.
"Bidding!" But after some careful mental arithmetic, he still chose to bid, the dealer dealt the cards, and he was lucky to get a 4!
18 points is already very high! Generally speaking, a gambler with such a number of points will never risk bidding again.
However, Ma Fei witnessed the dealer bidding for the second time, and took a total of 4 cards into his hand!
The 4 cards have not exploded, which proves that the dealer has at least two or three small points...... Such an idea naturally popped up in Ma Fei's mind, and combined with the behavior of other gamblers who either broke the point, or gave up, or continued to bid, he recalculated and finally made a bold decision.
"I'll order another one too!"
There are fewer and fewer cards in the dealer's hand, and when it comes to Ma Fei's hand, it is a 3!
In this way, he was lucky enough to get together 21 points. As long as the dealer does not get the same number of points, he wins twice the bet.
The pressure came to the dealer's side, and he thought about it and chose to open. The cards slowly turned over, as Ma Fei expected, the dealer had a small number of points in his hand, and the four cards made up a total of 19 points!
That is, if he didn't risk another bid just now, he would lose to the dealer by one point.
All the gamblers' cards were revealed, but Ma Fei was the only one who won.
Everyone exclaimed: "It's 18 o'clock and you dare to bid again, the young man is really guts!"
"Hehe, in fact, this is a question of probability......" Ma Fei smiled casually and modestly.
In this way, Ma Fei began to chat freely with the gamblers, playing cards while chatting to obtain information. With the help of mental arithmetic, he found that the game became more comfortable and it became easier to calculate his or the dealer's points.
Before he knew it, he had won five or six in a row, and the chips in front of him were getting more and more, which also made the dealer's face more and more embarrassed.
"This friend, your luck is too good, isn't it? I've been paying attention to you for a long time, and several games are all risking death to bid cards, but in the end you can go ashore safely, you say this is a matter of probability? Hehe, I don't think it's that simple!"