The crew will start up in two days, indicating that the preliminary preparations have basically been made. The rental and decoration of the filming venue, the materials such as the costumes, and the schedules of the actors and crew have all been decided and negotiated. Even if Xiao Yao is the largest producer and producer of this TV series project, he can't make an arbitrary decision to delay the start time of the crew at this time.

Therefore, even if he wanted to go to the casinos in the United States with Yan Ke and them, Xiao Yao could only helplessly say to the video: "Yan Ke, I can't come to the United States recently." I have to join the group to film in two days, and I will have time to come to the United States after filming, and it is estimated that it will take at least two or three months!"

"Two or three months?" Yan Ke said with a smile, "Big stars are really busy!"

"There's no way, it's something that has been decided a long time ago, and it can't be changed!" Xiao Yao said, "But it's okay, you guys go play first! After I finish filming this drama, I'll go to the United States to participate in the training and exam of your card counting group." Then you can take me there!"

Although Xiao Yao felt a little unhappy that he couldn't leave for the United States to play card counting right away, considering their mentality, Xiao Yao didn't mention that they would wait for two or three months before going. In Xiao Yao's memory, Jeff Ma and his companions in his previous life were in and out of the casino many times, which lasted for a long time. Xiao Yao didn't think that they would be disinterested in this matter after a few months and a few plays.

"Okay," Yan Ke nodded, and continued, "But there's something I want to warn you of!"

"What?" Xiao Yao asked curiously.

"In fact, there are people who have been doing this kind of thing twenty or thirty years ago. Yan Ke said, "Over the years, many casinos have found that gamblers win money in casinos by counting cards, and some casinos have already taken countermeasures. Nowadays there is a special card dealing machine that takes all the cards used up in each hand back into the card dealer and shuffles the cards. This means that the number of cards in the machine is the same every time the cards are dealt, and the position changes again, so there is no way to calculate the degree of benefit of the remaining cards to yourself, and you can't count the cards. ”

"And this kind of thing?" Xiao Yao said in surprise.

Card counting is actually a problem of probability in mathematics, and its essence is to calculate the degree of benefit of the remaining cards to oneself, so as to make a judgment. It doesn't guarantee winning every game, it only improves the odds of winning a little bit overall. But even a few percentage points of chance increase is enough to make a big difference.

Since card counting is to calculate the remaining cards in one's favor, this method can only be used in the gambling method of 21 points. Because every time a hand passes with 21 points, the used cards will be discarded, so that there will be remaining cards that can be calculated. If the number of cards in each hand is the same, then there is no way to count at all.

In fact, the machine Yan Ke said was similar in his previous life, called the snail shuffle machine, which was used by casinos to deal with professional gamblers who counted cards. After each round, the dealer puts the cards that have been dealt into the machine through a hole set up in the machine, which appears to be recycling the waste cards, but in fact the waste cards are inserted back into the shoe, and they are randomly inserted back into different positions on the pile. In this way, the card counter will not be able to count at all.

There are also card counting people in this world, and it was in the nineties of the last century that someone specialized in card counting. Although there is no Jeff Horse in this world, no Autobiography of Jeff Ma or other card counters, no movie, and card counting is not as widely known as in previous lives, but after so many years, the casino will also come up with a countermeasure.

However, Xiao Yao had only watched that movie in his previous life, and he had never entered a real casino in either his previous life or his current life, so he didn't know much about this situation.

"That's not right," Xiao Yao thought for a while, and then said, "Didn't you just say that you went to the casino during spring break to test your card counting method and won money? Since the casino uses that kind of machine, how do you win money? Not to mention relying on luck, if it is luck, how can you prove that your card counting method is feasible?"

"There are a lot of casinos in Las Vegas," Yan Ke laughed, "and we just need to find casinos or tables that don't use that kind of machine." ”

"A casino that doesn't use that kind of machine?" Xiao Yao said strangely, "You can't be going to some underground black casino, have you?"

"Of course not!" Yan Ke said with a smile, "We are researchers, we may be regarded as professional gamblers, but we are by no means professional gamblers, how can we go to those underground black casinos in vain for our personal safety? ”

"Why?" Xiao Yao wondered, "Since that kind of machine can deal with card counting, those underground black casinos are fine, why don't those regular casinos use them?"

"Because that special card machine is very expensive," Yan Ke said, "there are so many casinos in Las Vegas, and there are not many card counting people on the street, so some casinos are not equipped with that kind of card machine, and some casinos are only partially equipped." ”

"Also," Yu Gang took over and said, "This kind of thing of card counting takes a long time and plays many games to have an effect." In a short period of time, you won't win much money by counting cards, or you won't win at all. Casinos have a blacklist system, and once they find out that you count cards, they can immediately blacklist you. Casinos can afford to lose this amount in a short period of time, so they don't have that kind of expensive card dealing machine. ”

"Blacklist?" Xiao Yao said.

"Yes!" Yan Ke said, "The casino has a blacklist. Some people are caught cheating in the casino, and they will be blacklisted by the casino. Of course, legally, card counting doesn't count thousands of cheats, but once the casino finds out that you count cards, they will also blacklist you. They can't call the police to arrest you, but they can refuse to serve you and politely ask you out!"

"Then you haven't been found out this time, haven't you been blacklisted?" Xiao Yao asked.

"Not yet," Yan Ke said, "but we didn't stay long this time, and we didn't win much, so I guess this situation is only temporary!"

"Do you want to check the ID when you enter the casino and exchange chips?" Xiao Yao asked tentatively, "It shouldn't matter if you are blacklisted, right?"

"We were supposed to wear makeup, but it didn't work very well. Yan Ke said, "Now the monitoring equipment of the casino is very complete, some big casinos are also equipped with high-tech face recognition technology, and we have even heard that some casinos use skull comparison software." No matter how much you put on makeup, you can't change the shape of the skull, right? Also, the blacklist of many casinos is shared, and changing casinos is not very useful. ”

"Damn!" Xiao Yao burst into a foul mouth, "Isn't that a lack of fun?"

"There's still something to play!" Yan Ke said with a smile, "We're telling you this, just to remind you in advance, when you go to the casino to play 21 points with card counting, you can choose a limited number of tables, and you can play for a limited time." It is unlikely that you will win big money with this method. But if you just want to test the effect of our card counting and experience the feeling of winning casino money with card counting, you can still do it!"

"You're a big star, and you're not short of money at all," Chen Jiwei interjected and laughed, "I don't think you plan to make a fortune by playing 21 gambling in the casino, right?"

"I really don't plan to make a fortune by playing 21 o'clock in the casino," Xiao Yao smiled bitterly, "It's just that there is a plan that seems to be canceled." ”

"Plan, do you still have a plan?" Yan Ke asked curiously, "What plan?"

"Forget it, anyway, I'm not interested in it now, I guess it's mostly going to be canceled, there's nothing to say. Xiao Yao said, "If I really want to carry out that plan, I'll tell you again!"

When he first participated in the Olympiad training, he asked the three of them to study how to count cards and play 21 points, Xiao Yao was indeed on a whim, but Xiao Yao was concerned about going to the casino to count cards and play 21 points after hearing that the three of them went to MIT.

His original plan was to go to the casino with the three of them first, and when the impact was formed, he would find someone to write an autobiographical book for a few people, and then make it into a movie. If possible, it would be better if the money for the filming came all from the money they won at the casino. However, after listening to the introduction of Yan Ke and others, Xiao Yao found that he could never become the Jeff horse of his previous life, and his autobiography and movies were naturally unnecessary.

The development of the two worlds is similar, although there was no Jeff Ma in this world before, but now, let alone Xiao Yao and them, even if they are other card counters, there is almost no possibility of becoming Jeff Ma.

In his previous life, someone wrote an autobiography of Jeff Ma, and then his story was adapted into a movie by Hollywood and put on the big screen, all because he won tens of millions of dollars from the casino, which can be called legendary, and it feels very shocking.

However, that was in the nineties of the last century. There is a big difference between the tens of millions of dollars at that time and the tens of millions of dollars at this time.

Even if someone can win tens of millions of dollars from the casino like Jeff Ma now, although it can become hot news, its legend, or shocking degree, cannot be compared with Jeff Ma at that time. Not to mention that in today's situation, it is almost impossible for anyone to win tens of millions of dollars from a casino in a country by counting cards.

The tens of millions of dollars that Jeff Ma won from the casino were not won in one day or one gamble, but the accumulation of countless card counts in the casino over the years. It should also be noted that the time of Jeff Horse's rampant casino was in the nineties of the previous century.

In the past, the technology of the twentieth century and the nineties was not developed enough, and the face recognition technology was not so perfect, not to mention the kind of civilian skull recognition technology that could be used in casinos, and at that time there was no special card issuing machine, so Jeff Ma was able to continue to enter and exit many different casinos for several years to win money by counting cards.

Nowadays, the technology and equipment of casinos are more developed, and the number, number and time of tables available to card counters are greatly reduced compared with the nineties of the last century. As it stands, it's almost impossible for any card counter to win that much money from a casino. I went a few times, and I was caught by the casino and blacklisted. If you really want to win tens of millions from the casino, those in the casino technical department can not live.

The proportion of professional players who play blackjack by counting cards is certainly very, very low among gamblers, but in absolute terms alone, it seems that it is not very small.

Without a legend like Jeff Ma in his previous life, most of the autobiographical books are gone, and even if someone else has an autobiography, the likelihood of becoming a bestseller is much lower. As for the movie, it's not that it can't be made, but most of it will not be a biographical film, but a new type of gambling film that exposes a certain type of person in a certain industry. In terms of interest and topicality, such a movie will feel much weaker, and Xiao Yao's willingness to make it has decreased a lot.

Xiao Yao proposed to these three to go to the casino to play 21 o'clock by counting cards, but Xiao Yao was thinking about making a movie in his heart and never revealed it to these three people. Now Xiao Yao's interest in his heart has greatly decreased, and of course he will not tell them, lest the three of them listen to it, and they are always worried in their hearts.

"Okay, since it's a plan to be canceled, then we won't ask any more. Yan Ke and the others nodded.

Although the three of them don't have much contact with Xiao Yao, they also know some of Xiao Yao's temperament, and what Xiao Yao doesn't want to tell them is difficult to pry out of his mouth. In addition, they also believed that Xiao Yao would come to them when he said that he wanted to implement the plan, so they were not in a hurry at this time.

"Then we're decided?" Xiao Yao said into the phone screen, "You guys go play first, and when the filming of this drama on my side is finished, I will contact you and fly to the United States to find you!"

Even if he can't become the Jeff horse of this world, Xiao Yao still plans to experience this kind of thing of winning money in the casino by counting cards.

"Okay, no problem!" Yan Ke said with a smile.

"Nothing else, so that's it?" Yan Ke asked again.

"Okay, bye-bye!I'll see you in the United States later!" Xiao Yao waved his hand at the phone screen.

After hanging up the video call, Xiao Yao fell on the sofa holding his phone.

Although the fact that he can't become the Jeff horse of this world still makes Xiao Yao a little unhappy, but the mathematical model of card counting has been made, and after a while, he can go to an American casino to experience the feeling of card counting, and Xiao Yao's mood is not bad to the extreme.

Besides, even if you can't win tens of millions in the casino like Jeff Ma, causing the world to marvel, but you are a star, even if you quietly win hundreds of thousands of dollars in casinos in the United States through card counting, after this matter is exposed, the influence may not be small, and you may be able to shock a jaw when the time comes, which should also be a very fun thing.

Besides, how much you can win in gambling is also related to the amount of money you bet. In his previous life, Jeff Ma was not a rich man when he went to the casino, and the gambling money was not estimated, but he is now a rich man, and it is legal to go to a casino in the United States to gamble, and if he places a larger bet, he can win more. Card counting is not a Hong Kong-style gambling movie, and when people talk about how much you have won, most of them will not specifically mention how much gambling money you have brought.

"That's right!" Thinking of this, Xiao Yao suddenly bounced up from the sofa, then picked up his mobile phone and started calling.