Chapter 003: Try your hand at it
After dropping off his luggage at the hotel, he exchanged some Hong Kong money and took the ferry to leave Hong Kong that night. Discuss the tricks of playing ** with a group of locals on the boat who plan to go to Macau. Shi Hu has lived in the south for a period of time, and he often runs between two places, and he can speak fluent Cantonese.
Small talk made time go very fast, and I arrived in Australia an hour later. He has been to Macau many times, but he was in a hurry, because of official business, such as working with casinos to launder illegal funds raised by the company and transfer them to foreign accounts...... There are very few opportunities to concentrate on playing in a casino.
He has no intention of gambling tonight, so he will investigate first if he is prepared.
Macau is not a big place, and you can find a casino just by walking around. Usually the place where the neon signs are brightest and the crowds and vehicles are most crowded at night is often the casino. He preferred the largest Lisboa casino in the area, dusted off the dust that wasn't there on his suit, and strode into the casino.
The casino is very large, the hall spreads along both sides, there are slot machines everywhere, only to see the signal lights flashing, the roulette wheel is flying, dazzling, and on the other side is a long slip table, with the Oriental favorite baccarat as the most, a small number of roulette, 21 o'clock and other special tables.
Breathing in the smoky air, Shi Hu calmed down and walked in one direction.
He ignored the other lively tables and the lively baccarat, and only played 21 points. Because it is the only game in the gambling game that can use skill to win money for a long time. That is, the cards it deals now will affect the probability of the future.
For example, in a six-deck deck, if a deck has 4 kings, six decks have 24 kings, and if 4 kings have been dealt in the front, it proves that there are 20 kings left in the box. That is, if the remaining high value is higher, it is not good for the dealer - the dealer forces to hit when he is less than 17 points.
Card counting is to take advantage of this "progressive chance". When there are more big cards left in the shoe, the more beneficial it is for the player; When there are fewer cards in the shoe, it is good for the dealer. The card counter needs to quickly remember the cards that have been dealt, guess the remaining cards in the shoe, and seize favorable opportunities.
Shi Hu made his way through the crowd and found a table that had not been around for a long time.
He habitually glanced at the card box, not an automatic shuffling machine...... Very good. Since the automatic card shuffling machine came out, the possibility of card counting has basically been extinguished, and he doesn't want to throw money into the water in vain. Now it's a manual shuffle, which means the dealer won't shuffle the cards frequently.
Shi Hu changed the 50,000 chips and tested the small bets first.
He disguised himself like a novice, watching and learning, feeling like he had won, but not quite sure. In fact, his brain had already built a model and started to count the card values quickly.
Unlike the last small casino fight, the regular casino is rigorous and shuffles frequently, and Shi Hu has to use a more comprehensive card counting method: ustonapc. Namely:
Brand: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (JQK)
Values: 1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 1, -1, -3
A is generally considered as 0. The result of adding up the values is called the "rollover count", which is divided by half of the remaining cards in the shoe, resulting in a "truecount", and when it is greater than 2.5, a double bet begins. The count is low at the beginning, with 50/50 wins and losses.
The game is always boring in front of it, winning or losing depends on luck - that's why it's important to make sure you have enough money, if you only have a few thousand dollars, and the odds haven't fluctuated, you've already lost your pants, what's the point of card counting? At least tens of thousands of dollars must be used as a base.
The player's money decreases over time, but with a 50/50 probability of winning or losing, he will not be emptied. The remaining cards in the box reached a certain level, and the opportunity officially came, and Shi Hu calculated that the value had exceeded 2.5, which meant that there were a lot of big cards left.
Under his deliberate operation, the amount of ordinary bets had exceeded two hundred, but he seemed to be in a hurry to lose, so he impatiently pushed six or seven hundred chips into the betting area, panting, and staring at the table excitedly. His hand is 20 points in this hand, and the dealer asks for another card and then blows, and he wins.
In the next game, he won the dealer by 18 points with 19 points, and in the next game, he blackjacked (in the case of a combination of Blackjack, Ace and a 10), and beat the dealer in seconds, doubling the stake. And then continue, the dealer has to hit the big hand...... Explode again...... The win rate of the entire game against players has exceeded 60%.
He re-bet one after another, and his good fortune continued, and even attracted onlookers.
Shi Hu pretended to be a novice, ignorant to ask for cards and arithmetic, 10 plus K is twenty points...... People are lamenting the shit luck of this novice, but they didn't expect that behind his disguise, there is a high-speed machine, when to stop, when to recharge, it is clear to heart.
Shi Hu's gaze swept over the dealer's face, and he could feel his tiredness, perhaps it was time for a shift change...... Behind him again, there stood a yellow man in a suit with a blank face. He remembered one word: table head. He is in charge of several dealers around him.
There is no expression on the poker face at the head of the table, but Shi Hu has a lot of legends in his heart, so that gamblers who win unusually well at the blackjack table are often observed to determine whether they are cheating.
Card counting is not cheating, it is not illegal, but the casino can blacklist card counters and do not welcome them to spend.
Have you attracted attention?
It was impossible to judge the expression from the face of the head of the table, but Shi Hu could vaguely feel his heart. It's amazing, and it's hard to describe in words, it's like the other person's brain waves send out what they think and are read by themselves. At that moment, he seemed to read the other party's thinking.
It's incredible! What Shi Hu felt just now was that the head of the table decided to look at it for another minute and then went to inspect other tables. Shi Hu counted silently in his heart, and the action of playing cards did not stop, and when the count reached 55, the head of the gambling table really turned around and left, to inspect the situation of other gambling tables.
Shi Hu breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, looked at the chips in front of him, there were about forty or fifty thousand, and suddenly felt ridiculous for his vigilance, it was only such a small amount of money, is it necessary for the casino to monitor himself? Maybe some people can win 100,000 yuan with a single card.
is completely scared of himself, his inner thoughts are complicated, but his expression is always confused, he feels that he can act in a movie and win an actor...... At the same time, he was recalling the wonder just now, he was able to read the heart of the head of the table, and knew that he would leave in a minute?
There are many sayings about mind reading or a sixth sense, and ordinary people may have encountered it, such as when you recall a familiar melody in your head, and it happens that your companion is humming at this time. Could this be explained by the fact that your companion happened to "read" the melody in your head?
Shi Hu bet carelessly, the cards in the box are decreasing, and his win rate is also improving, almost out of ten cards, he can win seven hands. The dealer's mental state was very average, and after yawning a few times, Shi Hu concentrated on him and grasped the feeling of "mind reading".
The dealer is praying that the game will end soon, so that he can go back to rest after a shift change; He wanted to show mercy from above and arrange for a successor to take his place. This guy is really lucky to win so much today...... Shi Hu was taken aback, does he really have this ability?
"Do you still want cards?" The dealer asked.
Shi Hu came back to his senses, he was fifteen o'clock, he shook his head: "Don't." ”
The dealer looked at his cards, asked for the cards according to the rules, and then was blown by the big cards and lost his chips.
A few minutes later, a successor came, and the tired dealer withdrew, and the new one continued to be dealt. After ten more minutes of play, seeing that there were not many cards left in the box, the dealer decided to shuffle the cards. As a result, the winning rate that had been hard earned was restored to a 50/50 level.
Shi Hu yawned and played a few handfuls, the cards were very cold, and he was annoyed to see that he kept losing, so he changed the chips to large denominations, quit the game, and then went elsewhere to take a look, and mixed with small chips. However, his mind was not on card counting, and he walked around and observed the layout of the casino.
The results are very optimistic, the blackjack table here, rarely popular automatic shuffling machines, cutting cards are also very deep, which undoubtedly creates a great opportunity for card counting; But Oriental people like **, there are not many people who play blackjack, which makes the number of gambling tables smaller, and if you win frequently, it is inevitable to be suspicious.
After the Lisboa, exchange the chips for cash and leave.
Counting the results, he took 50,000 Hong Kong dollars to play, and now he takes away 80,000 and earns 30,000. What if he bets with 5 million? The future is bright! But at the moment, he is mainly testing the waters, he will not win too much, and he will not be able to win too much - he has to play all his strength at the table in the VIP room.
There are limits on bets in the lobby, and at the tables in the VIP hall, it is not a problem to win hundreds of thousands of cards with one hand. There's no need to overdraft your future at a small table. If you want to make a lot of money in Macau, you must develop a strategy, he is not a small player with tens of thousands of yuan, and he has a huge sum of five million in his account.
It turns out that he can win in the big casinos as well. After he walked out of the casino, where was the tiredness on Fang Cai's face? Greet a roadside taxi in good spirits and head to the next casino. Tonight is still a long time, and the main purpose of his coming out is not to gamble, but to investigate first and find out the environment.