Chapter 9: The Wise Man Will Win (1)
It has been three days since he came to Las Vegas, after two days of small fights, Wuwei has more than 5,000 dollars in his pocket, and as the money in his pocket increases, Wuwei can't hold back his inner desire, he is ready to enter the big casino of the casino and start the real struggle.
He is exceptionally shrewd when it comes to winning. Wuwei believes in his own abilities and ingenuity, and he rarely misses, because he can see through the loopholes of those tricks at a glance. But after coming to Las Vegas, Wuwei is very cautious, although he is familiar with all kinds of gambling games, he is still cautious to deal with every bet, he knows that the slightest mistake will be wiped out.
In the past few days after coming to the casino, Wuwei is like a clockwork that has been wound up, except for sleeping, he is almost non-stop gambling, and after a short rest, he is about to start a fierce battle again.
The casino Wu Wei chose this time was the famous Venice Hotel in Las Vegas, and when he was in China, he was very yearning for this world-famous casino, and he always wanted to experience what it was like to gamble under an artificial sky.
The Venice Hotel is a miniature Italian miniature of Las Vegas, the world's largest single-roof building with a hotel and convention center. The river meanders through the hotel, and if you're happy, you can take a boat ride down the Grand Canal and enjoy the hotel's scenery, or indulge in the luxurious mineral baths of more than 6,000 square meters. But now Wu Wei is not interested in any of this, what he needs most at the moment is to win, win, and win. Money reigns supreme in Las Vegas, and it's heaven to have money.
The artificial sky of the Venice Hotel & Casino is a big view of the casino, walking into the casino hall, under the blue sky and white clouds, countless gambling tables and endless crowds suddenly arouse the gambling nature of inaction, as if all this is set up for him, in his heart surging a kind of kingly spirit, the bigger the scene, the more it can stimulate his fighting spirit.
Wu Wei walked around the casino hall and watched, he was not in a hurry, he knew that the casino should not be impatient, adapt to the environment and atmosphere of the casino, and then choose the right table.
Wu Wei had already thought about it before he came, and today he was going to play blackjack. Blackjack is the only game in which players can play against the casino through their wits. Wuwei spent a lot of effort to study the card counting technique of blackjack two years ago, and because there has been no actual combat opportunity in school in China, it is difficult to verify whether his theory is correct. He only tried his skills in the Internet, but playing cards in the Internet is a duel with software, which is very far from reality, and it is difficult to test the real level. Wu Wei wanted to choose a low starting table to practice first, but he walked around the casino for a long time and didn't find a suitable one.
In fact, the big casinos in Las Vegas also have a table with a minimum bet of five dollars and two tables with ten dollars. This is the usual trick of all casinos, the minimum bet declared to the outside is five yuan, the purpose is to attract more gamblers, but when the gamblers rush into the casino to see, five dollars only one table, not only has it already been full, and the people waiting for the table around are still three layers inside and three layers outside, and can only obediently go to play fifteen yuan a table. With such a high stake, Wuwei can't afford to play for the time being, and the money in his hand will be thrown into it unconsciously.
Wuwei had no choice but to use the "king-style table jumping method" invented by Stanford Wang, standing outside the table to "count cards in the back row", and wait until the points were in his favor before joining in. This is equivalent to playing only with a negative win rate in the casino and betting at the right time.
Wu Wei first walked around the periphery of the blackjack gambling area, and when he saw which table had just started to deal cards, he went over to stand behind the players and count the cards.
There are many unwritten rules in casinos, such as that when playing blackjack, only the person who bets can sit at the table, and the spectator must stand. If you want to pass through the blackjack, roulette and craps tables, you must not pass through the middle of the two columns, but through the outside of the table.
The outcome of blackjack depends largely on the player's choice. In games like roulette and baccarat, after the player bets money, he has to pray to God and hope for good luck. Unlike games such as blackjack and pai gow, players have a certain degree of control over their final outcome after the cards are dealt, so if they deal it properly, they can minimize their losses, which is the basic strategy. The establishment of each gambling game in the casino is carefully planned and calculated, and the banker win rate of various gambling items in the casino is either fixed or varied, roughly ranging from 1% to 25%.
The slot dealer has a max win rate of 17%. There are two types of roulette, one with only one zero and the banker's win rate is 2.7%, while the banker's win rate is 5.27% for the two-zero wheel. The banker win rate for baccarat is 2.25%. Casinos around the world make hundreds of billions of dollars in profits every year, in fact, from these negligible winning rates, and this is the real secret of casino winnings.
Blackjack is different from other gambling games, and the size of the banker's winning rate depends entirely on the gambler's gambling skills, including correct card counting, card analysis and reasonable betting. Good players can force the dealer's win rate to turn positive into negative, making themselves winners, and winning rates can be up to around 3%. In other words, only blackjack is the best and easiest way to win.
Usually professional players only bet on blackjack and never play other gambling games, because other gambling games have no possibility of winning as long as they are played for a long time, which is determined by the win rate, which is rigorous science and can not be changed by anyone.
The most important thing in blackjack card counting is the card method and the ability to quickly remember cards, Wu Wei spent a month in the sophomore winter vacation, specially spent a month training himself to quickly remember the card. Although it is not overwhelmed, it is more than enough to cope with the general situation. Since then, Wu Wei has practiced this method many times in the network, but unfortunately there is no casino to play blackjack in China, otherwise Wu Wei's card counting skills must have been superb.
In blackjack, the edge between the dealer and the gambler is shifted as it goes, and is theoretically determined by the amount of high and small cards held by both sides. This requires a detailed count of cards and cards to judge, otherwise it is a blind bet, completely relying on luck to bet. The average gambler only knows some ways to play cards, but this does not pose a threat to the casino, and the casino welcomes this ignorant gambling blindness, these people are the real gods of the casino.
Although Wu Wei is not very old, he is a veteran player and knows what kind of table is suitable for him. After more than ten minutes in the blackjack area of the casino, he chose a few tables with a minimum bet of 15 yuan, and then stood from a distance to watch, waiting for the gamblers to finish playing the shoe. Because the cards must be remembered from the time the cards are dealt for each shoe.
Wu Wei stared intently at the several tables around him, trying not to attract attention, especially from the casino manager.
The first time he counted cards in a casino, Wu Wei felt that he was acting a bit like a thief, and he had heard that casinos hated these card-counting gamblers very much, because they not only won money themselves, but sometimes also brought other gamblers to win big casinos together. Wu Wei wanted to wait for himself to have enough funds before he fought with the casino, he felt like a man and a general.
At this moment, Wu Wei saw that a new card had just been opened at a table, and he gently moved to the table.
There were five people at the table, three men and two women. Wu Wei stood silently behind them, and several gamblers were talking in English from time to time. Wuwei judged by the accent that one of the women seemed to be Chinese, and this young woman occupied the last card of the table. In general, the last card is very crucial and determines the win or loss of other gamblers. Wuwei stood behind her without hesitation.
The woman in front of her was petite, her long black and shiny hair was draped all the way to her waist, she was dressed fashionably, her manners were elegant, and a unique fragrance of women came to her nose, because she stood behind her and couldn't see her face, so she guessed that this woman must be a beautiful embryo.
Seeing that the dealer began to deal cards to the players, Wu Wei did not care about his thoughts and began to concentrate on staring at each card dealt by the dealer.
According to the rules, only one of the dealer's two cards is face up and the other is turned up, while both cards of the player are face up. Each shoe has a total of six decks of cards, excluding the big and small kings in each deck, the total number of poker cards on the table is 312 cards, and Wu Wei starts with the first card.
He uses the most basic method of professional gamblers, which is the "one-point method". 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 are counted as +1, 10, J, Q and K are counted as -1, and 7, 8, 9 and Ace are counted as 0 points. When the dealer in the process of dealing cards the total point of the positive points more than zero points, or the score is getting bigger and bigger, indicating that the card is beneficial to the player, which means that the big cards in the card box, such as 10, J, Q, K such cards are more, the player tries not to cards, so that the probability of the dealer is violent, only then the player has an advantage.