Chapter 009: Invincible (Part II)
300,000 is the limit, he wanted to be lower, but luck couldn't stop it, and he won a lot in the end by deliberately losing. The casino manager looked at the monitoring several times, and referring to the characteristics of the previous card counters, Shi Hu did not have it - he had no team, he was bold enough to open more, and the bets were random.
Is he counting cards or not? The manager couldn't make up his mind.
The manager can't see it, but the casino will hire some professionals to deal with thousands and fraudsters, and there is also a set in card counting. The technical consultant invited by the casino took a closer look at it several times and gave a reservation: "Regardless of whether the cards are hot or cold, he has not changed places." ”
The manager asked, "Isn't it card counting?" ”
The consultant used to be a card counter, he frowned: "When I counted cards, it was all teamwork, the cards were hot, and the cards were cold, but he didn't move all night, not like card counting." But the timing of his heavy bet was very appropriate. My advice is to observe. ”
Finally, the floor manager gave him a coupon to stay in the hotel suite, and he was welcome to continue playing. It makes sense for the casino to do this, if it is not card counting, the more times the gambler plays, the sooner or later it will be returned under the law that the casino win rate is greater than 50%.
Shi Hu did not refuse their VIP service, and he read that the manager was still not suspicious.
That was enough, and the next day he would dispel them from thinking - because there were poker tables in the VIP area, he stopped playing blackjack and went to play poker. There are a lot of people playing on weekends, and it's a VIP table, and there are millions of chips alone. Shi Hu was salivating over this piece of fat.
Texas Hold'em is similar to Stud, but there are differences, Stud is where the player keeps one hole card and reveals four cards face up, while Texas is where the player has two hole cards and everyone shares five community cards. Texas guessing hole cards is very difficult and more skillful. The World Series of Poker is all about playing Texas.
But if you can read the hole cards, the rookie will also become a master.
When Shi Hu came to the card room, there were already players lined up. He joins an empty spot and brings in $300,000 in chips, and if you want to win big, you have to give up your capital. The stakes here are not small, $2000/$4000 blinds, no-limit Texas, and currently four players.
Before the start, he observes his opponents.
Texas Hold'em is a typical man-to-man confrontation, the master can reverse the effect of luck, which is why the top master is difficult to beat, poker skills, has been able to overpower luck - but there is no absolute, the top master, there is also a small probability of defeating the moment.
Just like the last time in Macau, Shi Hu, who had a 97% win rate, was still beaten by luck.
Shi Hu looked around, the players' funds were relatively average, about 300,000, plus his total number of 1.5 million, it seemed that everyone had a tacit understanding. It's just that there's no expression on their faces – they're all professionally trained poker faces.
"They're all masters." Shi Hu thought to himself.
In fact, those who dare to pay $300,000 to play poker will definitely not be rookies.
Once the dealer is in place, he goes clockwise, with the first being the small blind and the second being the big blind, both blinds are mandatory, so beware that everyone folds and waits for a good hand. The blinds are also not fixed and rotate clockwise. The two blinds tossed two thousand and four thousand chips, respectively.
The dealer then deals the cards, and each player has two hole cards.
When everyone looks down at the hole cards, Shi Hu will come to the spirit, usually at the moment when they see the hole cards, the accuracy rate of reading cards is as high as 95%, which can be understood as what they see, what they want to be read by Shi Hu immediately. If they don't look at the cards, Shi Hu naturally can't do anything.
After the big blind, one player called, and the next one also called, and when it was Shi Hu's turn, he also called.
The dealer knocks on the table, discards a card, and deals three community cards: J, 9, 8.
Someone folds, and the next one folds...... Then the third raised to 30,000 and the fourth called.
Shi Hu threw the cards to the dealer and folded. He has small cards in his hand: 5 and 3, no need to follow.
In fact, unlike what you watch on TV, poker games are often tedious and repetitive, with constant folding, folding, and folding. Those wonderful confrontations were all edited from more than ten hours to give the audience a feast for their eyes. Most of the time, it's a monotonous temptation.
After half an hour of card play, everyone's chips have not changed much, and Shi Hu is also constantly reading cards and minds. Everyone is testing each other at the moment to see which one is a shark and which one is a small fish...... Then they all tacitly thought that Shi Hu was a delicious little fish.
Shi Hu read it out.
Although it was despised by everyone, it was so. He has also played Texas Hold'em for a while, but compared to the guys in the casino, he is indeed a rookie, and he is ready to feed the little fish of the sharks. If it weren't for his ability to read minds, he would never dare to sit at this table.
Since they consider themselves small fish...... And he put it down.
After the temptation is over, the confrontation really begins.
Shi Hu was the first time he had met a poker master at the table, and during the break, he heard from others that two of them had participated in the WSOP (World Series of Poker), the top 100, and their skills were very good. Shi Hu also admitted that he lost a few times because they guessed their hole cards correctly......
After repeating itself, good fortune befell him.
His hole card was a pair of aces, and after the turn (the fourth community card) was dealt, he raised to 100,000 – a far cry from his style for a few hours, cautious, careful, and only when stealing chickens was scary. This impression has penetrated deep into the hearts of opponents.
So after he raised, the next house raised decisively.
The corners of Shi Hu's mouth twitched, and the changes in the details that this kind of rookie would only be exposed to were seen by everyone, which further confirmed that he was just scary.
The best way to deal with intimidating players is to force your opponent to give up with heavy bets.
So get down and roll out all the chips: "I'm all down." ”
Shi Hu glanced at the turn, it was an ace. The highest call opponent is a three-kind jack, the second highest is a pair of kings, and he is the highest AAA of the three-of-a-kind...... Shi Hu, who was in the eyes of others, was unexpectedly not deterred by Quanxia, and also pushed out all the 200,000 chips in front of him.
"All-in." His pronunciation became crisp and decisive.
The previously called immediately folded and was fooled.
The dealer dismisses a card, deals the river (the fifth card), and the 9 puts an end to all possibility.
At the moment when the river card was issued, Shi Hu was worried about what had happened before, in case it was a J, he had a super high winning rate, and he would be defeated by luck again...... Until the card is dealt. After all, luck is very rare, follow the probability, and he will win.
He won with a big ace of three and no suspense.
He successfully deceived the veteran and made him throw in all the 300,000 chips, and then was swallowed by Shi Hu, and at the same time bit another player, 100,000 is not a small amount! With the addition of the blinds and calls in front of him, he emptied an opponent and raised $400,000.
The chips in front of him were piled up in a pile, and there were as many as $700,000.
What about the masters? In the face of mind reading, it is useless.
Then Shi Hu changed his style of play, he kept placing heavy bets, each of which was unbearable for the opponent - this was the advantage of a large number of chip players, forcing the opponent not to try easily, and then with the cooperation of card reading, this move was played by Shi Hu to the fullest, and it was simply invincible.
Fighting from Saturday night to Sunday morning, he swept $1.2 million off the table. The magical play of defeating two masters and seeing through everything was also an eye-opener for the audience, and even the floor manager couldn't help but take a few more glances and discuss the poker battle that just happened with his colleagues.
Especially Shi Hu's trick to hide from the sky and the sea, winning 400,000, which makes people talk about it.
Shi Hu filled a handbag with cash, carried it back to his room, and collapsed on the bed laughing. Las Vegas deserves to be a gambling city, a gathering place for gamblers from all over the world. He loves poker, he loves Las Vegas, and he loves the masters who think they can strangle his "little fish"!
He grabbed stacks of bills, unpacked them and threw them into the air, flying in colorful bills.
1.2 million US dollars, nearly 10 million yuan. He remembered that two weeks ago, he was forced to leave his hometown and abscond overseas because of 5 million. Now in just one night, it is easy to earn its multiples of wealth. Although I knew that I would have good luck, this luck came too quickly.