Chapter 80: Gambling
After winning the Best Newcomer Award, Gu Chen had a premonition in his heart. Sure enough, the next Song of the Year award really didn't have a chance for him, and the winner was Michael Jackson, who was named the 'King of Pop Music in the world'. Although only one of the four nominations was awarded, it was already a very good achievement for him to land at the Grammys for the first time. What's more, the Best Newcomer Award itself is a gold-rich award.
At the banquet after the award ceremony, Gu Chen became one of the focuses of the audience with his oriental face and the results of winning the best newcomer, and he used the social skills he had honed in his previous life and fluent English to chat with these famous singers in Europe and the United States.
Although he thinks this is quite hypocritical and tiring, he knows better that this world is like this, the more upper-class society needs to wear a mask to be a person, if he wants to make his future path go further and further, then there will be more similar occasions in the future.
Early the next morning, Gu Chen wore a peaked cap on his head and toad glasses on his eyes, almost covering his face, and after looking in the mirror, he made sure that people who were not familiar with him should not be able to easily recognize him, so he took a taxi alone and left the hotel. He didn't go far from the hotel, but asked the taxi driver to drop him off at a football betting sales center closest to the hotel.
In just a few minutes, the taxi stopped outside a football betting sales center, which, according to the taxi driver, belongs to one of the largest gaming companies in the United States, headquartered in Las Vegas, USA, and is recognized and protected by the US government. At the same time, its business activities are also subject to the supervision of the U.S. government. As a result, a lot of the big gambling transactions will be carried out with this company.
In fact, without the introduction of the taxi driver, Gu Chen already had some understanding of the largest gaming companies in the United States before coming to the United States, and he was still relatively assured of the reputation of these bookmakers. After getting off the bus, I walked straight into the sales center, because it was the beginning of the Mexican World Cup, there were quite a lot of people in the sales center.
He first stopped in the hall and looked around, then walked towards a corridor that said 'VIP Passage', entered the hallway, and after turning a corner, three windows appeared that were the same as in the hall outside, but the three windows were far apart from each other than the outside.
At this time, two of the three windows were each a man and a woman sitting, both with their heads bowed and holding a pen to write something on a piece of paper, he did not pay much attention to it, went directly to the chair outside the empty window and sat down, took the pen and brush from the desk in front of him and began to write.
What he wrote was very simple and only one sentence: final, Argentina 3-2 West Germany, the amount of 15 million US dollars.
That's right, it's gambling, this is the fastest way to make a lot of money in the near future, this time, that is, the 13th World Football Cup to be held in Mexico on May 31, Argentine star Maradona created his own amazing legend.
In the quarter-finals against England, Maradona's 'Hand of God' and a brilliant goal of running more than 50 meters became an eternal classic of the World Cup. Because of this, this World Cup has become the only one that Gu Chen, a pseudo-fan, remembers more clearly, but he only remembers the scores of the quarterfinals between Argentina and England, and the scores in the finals with Argentina and West Germany.
After comparison, the bookmaker's Argentine team's odds to win the championship are the highest, and the odds formula it gives are much higher than the odds of buying the quarterfinals, as for Gu Chen, who bought both the final team and the score before the group stage began, if the most decided, the odds will reach 105.5 times, as far as the Argentine team's toughness is concerned, although the odds are very high.
However, such a bet is almost impossible to win, after all, bettors have to guess not only Argentina, but also the other finalist team, and thus the best score, which is almost impossible for bettors to guess unless they can predict it. Of course, this impossibility becomes possible when the number of bettors reaches a certain level. Therefore, the general bookmaker will accept any bet within the rules and calculate the odds according to the odds formula.
Gu Chen invested most of the funds in his hand into this gamble, originally he wanted to use even the funds of the Tang Dynasty Film Company, but later thought about it and gave up this idea, mainly because of the worry that the little bit of history in his heart would change due to his rebirth.
did not use the funds of the Tang Dynasty Film Company, if history really changes, the money bet will be lost, and it will not affect the company's operation, although it will be possible to lose the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line.
At the back of the bet slip, Gu Chen wrote the account number of his account opened in the Hong Kong branch of the Swiss bank, and after winning the lottery, the bookmaker will automatically remit the money to his bank account, which is a service opened by the bookmaker for VIP customers, with the aim of providing more convenient and faster services for the rich.
As well as considering the importance that many wealthy people take about their privacy. In order to further avoid the disclosure of his personal information, Gu Chen's Swiss bank account is anonymous. At that time, as long as he transfers the funds in batches several times, I believe that no one will be able to find out about him.
When Gu Chen handed the note to the sales lady in the window, the sales lady was obviously stunned, and then looked up at Gu Chen, but that's all, and then lowered her head and operated the computer to help Gu Chen place a bet. Although Gu Chen's $15 million bet seems to be quite a lot.
But when she enters this VIP area, the bets are at least hundreds of thousands of dollars, and she can occasionally see one or two in the tens of millions of dollars. You must know that the most important thing in the United States is the rich people. She was surprised by the content of Gu Chen's bet - he actually bought the final team to add scores, according to her, this Asian was purely here to send money to the company.
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