Chapter 5: The Taste of Gambling
After playing two tables in a row at the Lucky Angel Casino, Wuwei has no intention of leaving. He looked around the tables where blackjack and baccarat were played, and found that there were many customers playing both games. He finally decided to play roulette, because roulette was something he had never gambled on in China, so he was full of novelty about roulette.
In foreign casinos, roulette is the most common type of gambling game, with thirty-eight numbers on the wheel, two of which are zeros, and there are also roulette wheels with one zero. The rest is from one to thirty-six, and if you bet on the right number, you can win thirty-six times, but the odds are slim. Like a table tennis table, there are many small boxes drawn on the table, in which the numbers from one to thirty-six are written, and the customer will exchange the cash for chips for one dollar, and can bet on those numbers, or on the middle line of two numbers, or on the cross line of four numbers, and can also bet on red and black colors, odd and even numbers, and size. Gamblers generally press red and black, odd and even, size, bet on the right to win double the money, turn to zero to count the loss. It is relatively easy to win by pressing red and black, odd and even, and size, almost one-to-one, and of course the casino also has a slight probability of winning.
The starting point of this roulette table is one dollar, and the chips are one dollar, divided into seven different colors, and each customer chooses one color, so as not to mix everyone's chips when placing bets. This is also the lowest starting point of roulette, you can put one chip at a time, but the maximum limit is 1,000 yuan, which is a limit set by the casino to protect its own interests, to prevent gamblers from using the doubling method to gamble without restrictions.
After Wu Wei changed his chips, he took the chips in his hand and thought about it, then picked up five chips and put them into the circle that said "Double". The staff spun the wheel, and the ball spun around in the plate, and after a while it gradually slowed down.
Wu Wei silently said in his heart: "Double, double, double!" His eyes stared at the silver ball. I saw the ball "snap" and fall into twenty-eight squares. Sure enough, it was a double, and he won again, although he only won five yuan, but Wuwei felt very exciting in his heart.
Wu Wei held five more chips in his hand, and without thinking, he "snapped" and bet on "big". After no one placed any more bets, the staff patted it, and the silver ball spun quickly again, and finally landed at thirty-one grids, and Wuwei earned another five yuan.
The mood of Wuwei is high, two have earned ten yuan, and the next one will be ten yuan, many players call this the method of betting, after winning two in a row, the next one will have to be doubled. If you lose, it doesn't matter, it's equivalent to not winning the first two handfuls, and you will re-bet five dollars. If you win again, the next one will improve, if you lose, it is equivalent to the first two did not win, but the money of the first win still belongs to you.
Wuwei's heart has gradually become excited, and he bets ten chips on "small". The ball spun again, and finally landed on the number sixteen. Quietly, he bet all the fifteen chips he had won on the "small" at once.
The staff turned the roulette wheel again, and Wuwei's two eyes were staring at the small ball, and the small ball finally fell into the number thirty-two, which was big, and Wuwei lost all the money he earned.
Wuwei began to bet five chips again, this time he bet on "big", which backfired, and the two consecutive openings were small, and he lost ten yuan in less than a few minutes. Wuwei was annoyed for a while, he picked up ten chips and bet on the "big" at once, he thought to himself that he would not open a small bar three times in a row, and I would use the doubling method to play with you.
The "doubling method" is to double the bet after losing, if you win, you will make up for the loss of the previous hand, and if you lose the next hand, you will double it. In this way, as long as you win once, you will make up for all the previous losses.
This is also a common method used by gamblers to pull the capital, but this method is very dangerous, one is that there must be sufficient funds to ensure the double, and the other is that once the limit of the casino has not been earned, it will lose very badly.
I didn't expect today's roulette to be evil, and it opened a "small" again. Then he bet five "big" in a row, the bet changed from ten to twenty, forty, eighty, until it soared until it was three hundred and twenty, but the roulette wheel turned out five "small" in a row, and two of them fell into the number eighteen, God seemed to be deliberately teasing Wuwei, and in the blink of an eye, he threw in six hundred and forty yuan, and good luck seemed to have left him.
Wu Wei quickly lost half of the money he won when playing Pai Gow, and threw out one hundred dollar bills one after another, and the chips he exchanged for were no longer exclusive one-dollar chips, but black (one hundred), green (twenty-five), and red (five) chips that were common to all casinos. Wuwei lost his mind, just mechanically paid for the code, desperately betting on the "big". When using the doubling method, it is often used to chase and keep an eye on a bet. He slammed the chips up, and then disappeared without a sound.
The doubling method is really a thrilling fight, only five bets have been increased from ten yuan to three hundred and twenty yuan, and the next bet is six hundred and forty yuan, this is the last one he doubled, the money won just now can only be doubled this time, the most important thing is that the red limit of this roulette wheel is 1,000 yuan, and he can't turn it to 1,280 yuan even if he still has money. If you can't win this inaction, all the money will be lost, and the first battle of the casino will end in defeat.
People's greed, gamblers' paranoia are exposed at this moment, gamblers spread a saying, "gambling to lose is not to win", gambling will cause a strange mentality to gamblers, gamblers generally start from small money gambling, after losing money, they will gamble more and more, and the vast majority of them are losing more and more, and there is always the idea of wanting to get it back. But when he wins, he quickly stops, and after winning two in a row, he doesn't gamble.
Wuwei asked the dealer to stop first, he took out the hundred-yuan bills in his pocket and handed them to the service staff next to him, and the staff quickly exchanged them for chips. Wuwei took a deep breath and still pushed all the chips to the "big".
The staff put the chips in order of size and arranged them in the circle, and Wuwei said to himself: "I don't believe in evil, there have been eight 'small' in a row before, can you still open a small one this time?" Wu Wei committed the same psychological barrier as many gamblers, always think that the small ball turned out a few times small must be big, in fact, the small ball each time the number of the transfer has no connection with the last time, even if out of a hundred times small, the next time there are still two possibilities.
The surrounding gamblers all noticed Jiang Wuwei's crazy behavior, and several people gathered around, looking at the Chinese boy's crazy gambling methods, some were sneering, some were shaking their heads, and a blonde beauty looked at this handsome guy with adoring eyes.
At this time, Wu Wei had no time to pay attention to the expressions of the people around him, the small ball in the roulette wheel began to rotate, he grabbed the edge of the table covered with flannel with both hands, the green tendons on his forehead were stretched, and his heart was also tense with the rotation of the silver ball, and his eyes stared at the roulette wheel without blinking, only to see that after the roulette wheel rotated a few times, it gradually slowed down.
Wuwei's face was full of anticipation and nervousness, and finally his expression froze, his mouth was half-open, and he sizzled inhale. Finally, a "pop" was heard, and the ball fell into the number thirty-two. At this moment, the blood that had coagulated in Wuwei's whole body boiled again.
"Okay!" Wu Wei straightened up and roared, slamming his fists on the table, knocking the chips together. The onlookers smiled at him, some gave him a thumbs up, and the Goldilocks, who had been staring at him, couldn't help but applaud his courage.
In just over ten minutes, Wuwei felt and experienced the ups and downs that are not often encountered in life, experienced the feeling of defeat and victory intertwined, only the gambling table can make people feel the change of pain and ecstasy in an instant, taste the cycle of arrogance and frustration, and alternate between pride and regret.
Gambling is so wonderful and so cruel that gambling is essentially a business, an investment, but it is by no means an investment. Any investment has risks, but the risk will not come as quickly as gambling, a real estate project investment cycle may take three years to know the result, but gambling investment may only take three minutes to reveal the mystery, extreme times only a few seconds to make people die, heaven and earth is just an instant.
Wu Wei quickly regained his composure, he touched the jade Guanyin hanging on his chest with his hand, and once again pushed the six hundred and forty yuan chips on the "big". Wuwei told himself that he would leave this casino no matter what the result was this time, he knew that he had to control it, he had already committed the taboo of gambling just now, and if he didn't stop, he would lose the first battle of the casino. He kept saying in his heart: "Control, control ......"
The roulette wheel spun again, and the people around them were staring closely at the small ball inside, and their expressions seemed to be more nervous than Wuwei, as if they were betting on them. These spectators now really admire this handsome Chinese boy, who is not very old and has such a bearing, many people will stop after winning this game, and they can't imagine that he is betting all of them again, this is the real gamble!
Wuwei's heart has become very calm, after experiencing the big ups and downs just now, he takes this one very lightly, whether he wins or loses, he has already achieved tonight's goal, so Wuwei sees the ending of this one very lightly.
The ball was still spinning, Wu Wei suddenly felt very hungry, and he didn't know how long he had been playing in the casino, his eyes glanced around, trying to find a watch to see the time, he forgot that this was in the casino, all casinos have no tables, and the casino is to make people forget the time.
Suddenly, there was an exclamation in Wuwei's ears, and he threw his eyes back on the roulette wheel, and it turned out that the ball had fallen steadily into the thirty-three miles.
The people around him were once again amazed by his luck, and the staff were also busy losing their chips to Wu Wei. Wu Wei picked up a black chip and gently put it in front of the staff. The tip of one hundred yuan overjoyed the staff and happily said to him, "Thank you, sir, and good luck." ”