Chapter 11: They Are Afraid
After arranging everything, Link went straight to the casino's VIP room. He didn't ask the manager to arrange a private gamble as he used to, but just sat down on a big wheel of fortune and played.
And, he's playing bigger than ever. In the VIP Wheel of Fortune, the minimum bet is 5,000. And he only pressed one number at a time. Each bet is fifty thousand.
Probabilities are just probabilities. If there are no external factors, this probability will always be the advantage of the casino. But Link's luck has exceeded thirty thousand. No matter how small the probability is, it will be tilted in his favor.
He couldn't hit nine out of ten bets, but at least six times as well. He won more, and of course the other gamblers knew what to do. They followed suit.
This kind of situation of following the trend to win money is what casinos fear the most. In just a few rounds, that big wheel has already lost tens of millions, which of course attracts the attention of the casino. If it were an ordinary person, the casino would definitely fork people out directly. However, Link has two bodyguards by his side, and the police at the casino will not explicitly intervene until they find evidence of cheating.
Their manager comes out and asks Link to join the game. Link didn't even ask what the gamble was, and said, "I want to play here today." As he spoke, he won another game and won nearly 1.5 million. The casino lost four or five million in this game.
The casino manager's head began to sweat when he saw this. If this continues, no matter how much money they have, they won't be able to lose money.
He said nice things for a while, but Link ignored him.
The casino manager couldn't help but have a threatening tone in his words: "Mr. Hans, although the atmosphere in the gambling hall is lively, it is not quiet. I think you'd prefer a quieter atmosphere. It's like our lives. ”
Link said with a smirk, "Yes, I like to live quietly, but today I received bullets and threatening letters. So, I'm angry right now. If I don't vent it, I'm worried that my personality will be distorted. I think you can understand how I feel. ”
Link was uncooperative, annoying the casino manager but unable to do anything about it.
And in the control room of the casino, there are also people who are annoyed by it. Anderson Adelson is Sheldon's nephew, but that's not a reason for him to become general manager at The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, where Sands is headquartered. Rather, it is because he himself is indeed capable.
This time, though, he found himself in a position where he couldn't do anything about Link. Or rather, when Link entered the casino, he lost the initiative — he couldn't chase away a customer with more than a billion dollars as he did with ordinary gamblers.
And Link came to the Venetian ahead of schedule, and uncharacteristically made high bets in the big gambling hall, so that he probably knew that what he was doing had been discovered by the other party.
There was nothing wrong with Warren's testimony. The threatening letter sent to Link's room at the MGM Hotel was indeed sent by him. And it was his own private action, and he would be thanked by the casinos in Las Vegas for his success - probably except for the flamingos.
In his opinion, Link was still a young man, and he should be an impulsive person. And he investigated Link, and knew that he was a soft and not hard, and felt that the biggest possibility was that he would fight back after being intimidated. As long as Link doesn't know who sent the threatening letter, then Flamingo Casino will have to withstand Link's counterattack. Regardless of how Link is in the Flamingos, whether he wins or loses, it doesn't make any difference to him.
And based on Link's previous performance, the probability of winning is a bit greater. As long as Link has anger in his heart, the flamingo will definitely lose a lot. The flamingos will certainly retaliate against Link as well. Regardless of the outcome between the two sides, the Venetian will be a potential beneficiary.
Link is killed, and the flamingo can't get the money back for his losses. Link has lost all his money, and the Venetians, who will not be able to take their turn in two days, will not lose any more because of Link's gambling money.
Of course, what he wants most is for the two sides to remain entangled. If he could, he would even be willing to give Link some help so that he could be entangled with the flamingo for a long time. With his ability to win, the longer he gets entangled with the flamingo, the more the flamingo loses.
It's just that he definitely didn't expect Link to go straight here past the Flamingo and another casino that should be ahead of the Venetians.
In less than half an hour, Link has already caused the Venetian casino to lose tens of millions, if he is allowed to gamble in the VIP room for one night, won't the casino lose more than ten or two billion?
But now, he can only hold back the fire in his heart for the time being, he doesn't want to come forward. Only let the manager negotiate with Link that as long as Link is not gambling in the gambling hall, those gamblers will not follow him to win. And he thinks that Link has played Texas Hold'em poker before, and maybe he is not familiar with other games, such as blackjack or stud, and can use that game to make him lose money.
But Link ignored the casino manager he had sent.
And he took the casino's advisor to see the surveillance after Link came in and started gambling, frame by frame.
There are thousands of surveillance cameras in those big casinos, and almost 360 degrees can be monitored in any corner. Of course, the casino claims to be monitoring the work of its own employees, not its guests.
But whoever believes that word has atrophied brains.
The casino's advisor watched Link's every move from several angles, and finally shook his head at Anderson and said, "There is nothing abnormal." ”
Cheating in a casino is not as magical as the gambling films made in Hong Kong. The ability to listen to the dice is indeed something that someone has, but at most the intelligence listens to one of them, but from the shuffle to hear the distribution of the cards, that is a wild talk. Nowadays, casinos use card shuffling machines, and no matter how good your hearing is, you can't tell where the cards are. What they can do is use probability to analyze the probability of what card will be played next.
In fact, even if those thousand hands are counted, they need the cooperation of many people. Because the dealers shuffle the cards, even if you do the cards, you rarely get the cards you want. It would take a few people to take the cards you don't want away so that you get the cards you want.
As long as there is a need for cooperation, there will be a certain amount of joint action, and even some high technology will be used.
For example, blackjack, sometimes several decks of cards are used, mental arithmetic is very difficult, so the card counting team will use some electronic equipment to send how many cards are dealt, what cards are dealt back to the computer outside the casino, the computer will be the next card what cards, how many chances to calculate, and then feedback to the accomplices in the casino.
To do those, there is always some hidden contact action. Link, on the other hand, has nothing, and he only squeezes one bet on the Wheel of Fortune, but the odds of winning are as high as 70% to 90%. Even cheating can't do that.
And there is no possibility of money laundering for Link, and his current money is won from the casino.
Neither a thousand, nor a suspicion of money laundering, the casino had no way to bring in a casino police officer who was almost in line with them to deal with Link.
Anderson saw that Link had won two more games, and the dealer had lost a lot of chips and went out, and he said coldly, "Let someone take him to the private room." ”
The advisor understood what he meant. The Lucky Wheel also has a private room, and there is a big wheel that has been manipulated there. As long as you understand people, you will leave with interest when you hear that you are going to invite yourself to a private room. Because if you don't go in, you may encounter bullets when you win money and go out. If you go in, you may lose all your money.
He called a man and told him to inform the casino lobby manager.
The Link casino manager invited him to the VIP room, nodded and said, "Wait until the results of this round are out." He pressed ten 50,000 chips to the thirty-sixth square.
The casino manager's heart shrank, if Link also hit this time, the casino would pay more than 10 million. What's even worse is that there are more than 20 gamblers around, who are also betting on the 36th. The other compartments were empty.
The dealer took a white towel to wipe the cold sweat on his head, and only when he saw the manager nodding with a gloomy face did he pop the ball.
The ball rotates at high speed against the inner wall of the big turntable, and when the speed becomes slower and slower, and finally falls into the No. 36 grid, the dealer's face turns white. The casino manager's face was even more gloomy, dripping water.
The dealer looked at the casino manager. Link listened to the other gamblers cheering, a sneer on the corner of his mouth.
Other gamblers watched the dealer only look at the casino manager but did not pay the chips, and asked for a quick payout.
Only a middle-aged white man with wrinkled cheeks held out his hand to Link and said, "Mr. Hans, I'm Flon Pitt." Nice to meet you!"
"Hello, Mr. Pete!" Link didn't know why he suddenly accosted him, but he responded anyway.
Flen Pitt took out a business card: "This is my business card, I hope we can have a chance to work together." ”
Link took a look. Chairman of Stoll Financial Investment Consulting?
The so-called financial company is actually an institution that invests in the stock market. Wealthy people are usually invited as partners, but the partners do not participate in the operation and only receive their own part of the income.
Seeing Link's eyes, Flen Pitt said with a smile, his voice was a little hoarse, but if it was a woman, it would feel very sexy: "We are partners of Stoll Financial Investment Consulting, with an average annual rate of return of 43%. ”
Link doesn't know if this yield is high or low, but if he can invest with a certain stable income, he can still consider it.
He put his business card away and said, "Maybe we can talk about it when we have time." But now it's obviously not. ”
Flen Pitt glanced at the casino manager and saw that his winning chips had been paid out. He knew that some trouble awaited Link. But he is still waiting: "Whether you cooperate or not, I have to thank you." You made me win more than two million tonight. ”
Link also saw that Flon Pitt's bets were not very large, and he only followed him to place a thousand every time, which was very different from other gamblers who bet with him getting bigger and bigger. From this, it can be seen that Flen Pitt is a very self-made person, if not occasionally coming to the casino.
He told Warren to put away all the chips on the table, and then he shook hands with Flen Pitt and said, "Nice to meet you, Mr. Pitt." Now I have to get out of the way for a while. ”
Link followed the casino manager to a dimly lit private room. There is a large turntable in this private room, and there is also a middle-aged dealer.
Link was not polite after entering, and sat directly next to the turntable and asked, "How do you gamble here?"
"Mr. Hans, the minimum bet in the VIP room is one hundred thousand, there is no upper limit. ”
He was going to turn his face with the Venetian, and he didn't even intend to give a little politeness on his face, and he didn't ask the dealer's name, but just said, "Then let's start." ”