Chapter 280: Nine Lives (F)
Ma Wu said this, and was in a hurry to go to the toilet, and then I noticed that it was completely dark. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 I got up and turned on the courtyard light under the eaves of the main house, casting a faint halo on the small courtyard, but I stood in the courtyard in a daze and didn't move. I don't feel good about the appearance of Wu San. But he is right in saying that Lao Zhang is impeccable in terms of technology and ability, but his understanding of human nature and the casino itself is a huge shortcoming. A person who has outstanding strengths and fatal shortcomings, uses his ability in the right place, is a genius, and if he uses it wrong, he will never recover.
I don't believe that the casino owner has any love for talent, for him, with Lao Zhang's talent, coupled with his connections and experience, it can be regarded as a strong alliance, but I didn't expect that this kind of cooperation may also be a weak alliance, and the shortcomings of the two people are completely amplified.
I was fooling around by myself, Ma Wu came out of the toilet, saw me standing in the courtyard, and noticed that it was completely dark, patted his head, and said apologetically: "Chang, I'm sorry, it's a little bit of a chat, it affects your rest, why don't we change the day?"
I glared at him and scolded: "Ma Wu, you kid has also learned to slip his head now, you have been pestering me for an afternoon, and you will slip away in the middle of the story, and you plan to make me unable to sleep all night? ”
Ma Wu smiled at me, but there was a lot of helplessness in his eyes, "Well, listen to you, but I said ugly things ahead, I guess you finished listening to this story, and you still can't sleep at night, you don't want me." I called my daughter-in-law and asked her to bring two bowls of noodles over, and they were all over. ”
I took advantage of Ma Wu's phone call to go to the house to make a pot of tea, the more weird the story, the more strong tea is needed, sometimes there is no need for wild conjectures, what is lacking is simple logic.
The story of Ma Wu begins again. After a long silence, Lao Zhang chose to agree, and he took the paper bag. Lao Zhang's reason for agreeing is like a mathematical paradox, because he can't find a reason to refuse, just as he can't find a reason to agree.
Ma Wu patted Lao Zhang on the shoulder and led him to the private room next door.
For a pedantic person like Lao Zhang and sitting at the same table with them to gamble cards, several well-dressed gamblers at the same table obviously showed displeasure on their faces, but because of Boss Wu next to them, several people were not easy to attack.
But Lao Zhang and Ben didn't care about the reaction of a few people at the same table, because when they arrived at the VIP room, Lao Zhang found a serious problem, that is, because the stakes are relatively large, in order to prevent someone from cheating out thousands, the playing cards here are changed one by one, and at the end of a game, the playing cards are thrown into the trash, and a new deck of cards is reopened in the next game.
The rules of this casino made Lao Zhang a little confused, he could not reduce the variable of calculating the probability by memorizing the position of the face card back to the bottom card before, without these variables, just relying on a few face cards on the table to guess the cards in the opponent's hand, which is tantamount to fantasy.
Lao Zhang hasn't figured out how to deal with it, and in an instant, he has lost a few games in a row, and thousands of yuan have fallen into other people's pockets. Lao Zhang got up from the table and said to a few gamblers, "If you're thirsty, get some drink, you can play first, sorry." He went straight to the bar next door.
Lao Zhang came back with a glass of Coke, and did not immediately return to the gaming table, but sat down on the side and observed carefully.
Boss Wu came over, sat down next to Lao Zhang, handed a cigarette to Lao Zhang, and asked, "What's the matter, the wind is not going well today?"
Lao Zhang didn't raise his head, and replied casually: "I never rely on luck to play cards, but rely on observation, memory and calculation." ”
Boss Wu obviously didn't expect Lao Zhang to have no precautions against him, and handed over his bottom in a word, but think about it, this is also normal, for ordinary people, it is useless to understand Lao Zhang's method of counting cards, and he can't remember it, not to mention that there is a complicated calculation process behind. But Lao Zhang's honesty still surprised Boss Wu.
Boss Wu is a veteran of the card field, Lao Zhang's words have made him realize Lao Zhang's possible card counting method, and now a game of a change of cards, should be the reason why Lao Zhang hesitated.
Boss Wu smiled at Lao Zhang, handed him a glass of whiskey, and said, "Teacher Zhang, have a glass of foreign bar, this thing tastes average, but it can stimulate the brain and make people excited." I don't think you can count the cards in your hand with the cards you face-up, but each new deck is in the same order before it is shuffled. After Boss Wu finished speaking, he patted Lao Zhang's shoulder, turned around and walked away.
Boss Wu's words made Lao Zhang Mao stop, VIP table each table casino is equipped with a dealer, the hole cards are not in each player's hand, the possibility of players out of thousands to the minimum. And it is this dealer who shuffles the new cards. The dealer in front of him, no more than twenty years old, wore a crumpled suit and a slightly crooked bow tie, and it seemed that the dress was either borrowed or rented. But from the point of view of his method of dealing cards, it should have been done for a while, he first took the cards out of the plastic card box, held down the first card with one finger, skillfully swiped it, and opened the card in a fan-like shape, indicating that the bottom surface of each card is the same, no mark.
After that, he picks up the first card, picks it under the last card, holds the first card on the left with his left hand, and the card on his right hand stands up, and walks to the left, and the whole deck of cards is neatly stacked into the left hand. Shuffle a few more times, pull a few times, and finally put the cards into the dealing area.
People have their own behavioral habits, the dealer is no exception, although everyone shuffles the way the cards are very different, but when it comes to a person, he holds the hand shape, strength, angle, are relatively fixed, just a few shuffles, the up and down positions of the cards are slightly different each time.
But Lao Zhang observed, because the dealer may have to wash hundreds of thousands of times a day, in fact, the job itself is very boring, the more back, the more a simple muscle reflex, the number of washes are about the same, if you can remember the position of each card insertion, it should be able to restore the approximate order of a deck of cards. Even if it is not so accurate, the first few cards are on the table, he can still use this as a basis, make some corrections, at least the variables of his next operation can be reduced a lot, and there will be a relatively accurate judgment on the form of the opponent's cards under the open cards.
Lao Zhang was pleasantly surprised for a while, found a breakthrough, and the rest of the matter was simple. For three days, Lao Zhang has been observing the action rules of the dealers at that table, and he does not gamble at the table, just watching. This made the little gangsters watching the scene very dissatisfied, how could they not end up here, and just about to go up and scold a few words, they were glared back by Boss Wu.
Lao Zhang at home carefully thought about it for two days, now he basically the dealer of the action habits fully mastered, he took a deck of cards, according to the dealer's way of shuffling, and then restore back, and with his probability calculation, did a simulation, and strive to in the shortest possible time, calculate the possible card situation. After being confident, Lao Zhang went to the casino again on the third day.
On the night of this day, Lao Zhang killed all sides, and in a few hours, he let several gamblers empty their pockets, and had to find Boss Wu to borrow a loan shark with a daily interest rate of three cents. Boss Wu saw that Lao Zhang was looking for a dealer platform, the dealer rested, he also rested, the dealer went down, he also got off, he already understood Lao Zhang's road in his heart, but he still sighed at this person's extraordinary talent.
For three days in a row, Lao Zhang silently swept away 1670,000 yuan from the casino, but when he left every day, he returned Wu San's share in a brown paper bag to him. When he entered the casino door again on the fourth day, he was invited into a small room in the innermost part of the casino by the thugs.
The hut was full of cardboard boxes filled with drinks, and there were many tables, chairs, and sofas that were not used, which should have been the storeroom of the casino. But Boss Wu sat at a small table inside, with two glasses of whiskey on the table and a chair in front of the table.
Boss Wu asked Lao Zhang to sit down, and said to Lao Zhang expressionlessly: "Mr. Zhang, I have been open for almost ten years in this casino, and I have seen all kinds of gamblers, thousands of them, those who use force, those who use drugs, those who are cursed, and there are no gamblers who dare not think or do it, but I have never seen your craft." In the past few days, you have given me a lot of money, and I can trust you as a friend, and I want to say a few heart-wrenching words to you. ”
Lao Zhang nodded, picked up the wine glass and touched it with Wu San, waiting for his next step. These days, he has grown to like the strong and astringent whisky, its amber translucency, and the subtle oak aroma that burns his throat.
"Teacher Zhang, you have helped me earn more than 100,000 yuan in the past two days, and it is said that I should thank you, but to be honest, I am very conflicted. You may think that I do this kind of shady thing, relying on relationships and forces to support me behind the back, I don't deny this, but I also have my principles, people don't stick to it if they don't have principles, and their careers are just a one-shot deal, isn't it?" Wu San's tone was a little low, and his voice was not loud, which was very different from the usual self-confidence and city-like appearance.
"My rule is that you are not allowed to sell thousands in this casino. If there are thousands of people in the field, there will be fewer and fewer real gamblers, and the field will not receive a commission, and sooner or later it will be discredited and closed. I also believe that no matter how advanced a thousand is, there will be times when they will be recognized. You rely on technique and play from memory, which I personally think is a very advanced way to play, but I can't say for sure that this method is not worth a thousand, but I am sure that none of your casinos will be able to catch you with this method. But the problem is, maybe both of us think it's technology, not a thousand, but I don't think gamblers see it that way. ”
"To be honest, the little money you won a few days ago is nothing, it's a piece ......of cake for them, but if you go to the field again today, they will definitely avoid you, and the gamblers who have repeatedly lost and fought are a minority, who will not get along with the money?
Lao Zhang already understood what Wu San meant, indeed, even if he was wealthy, those people would not be willing to lose tens of thousands of dollars to him every day, especially these so-called successful people, the psychological blow is more unacceptable than the loss of money. He helped Wu San win that little money, which was really a drop in the bucket compared to the daily pumping of the casino, but because of this little money, losing the old money owner in the casino was indeed a loss-making business. Come to think of it, this is Wu San's euphemistic eviction order.
(There is no going, there is no going, there is no going, there is no going, there is no going, there is no going.) There is a place to move, and there is a time to go, not to have gone, but to go when it has gone. --"The Theory of the Middle" breaks the second product)