Another three-day break, and the day came November 15th, when the Bobcats traveled to Phoenix City, and the fat man ushered in his comeback.

On the plane, the return of the fat man added a lot of life to the whole team. The fat man and Howard were in the front seats of the plane with headphones and singing rap, and Wade blended in. Slowly brought in Josh and Ariza, Tony Allen and other players.

Hu Qingniu didn't understand this kind of black culture, he only felt that O'Neill was worthy of being a brother of Harpy, and he could be welcomed everywhere.

In the evening, the Bobcats checked into the Melson Hotel in Phoenix City. At this time, Hu Qingniu has not yet announced tomorrow's starting list, and O'Neill is a little reluctant, and he pesters Hu Qingniu to show his healthy body.

"Coach, I'm really fine, look at my biceps."

O'Neill is playing tricks again, but the scars on his arms are indeed falling off, and although the location of the injuries can still be clearly seen, it must be fine.

But Hu Qingniu didn't give him a chance and looked very impatient.

"Okay, Shaq, I'm going to close the door, you just need to go back and get some good sleep, I'll discuss this with the assistant coaches, maybe you will be a starter when you wake up tomorrow morning."

O'Neill certainly wasn't as easy to deceive as a three-year-old, but he left with a sense of humor. But before the trick was over, O'Neill thought of other ways. The Bobcats came and went, and there were only four centers who could start. Dazhi also has to be counted, maybe the coach wants to play a small lineup and let Dazhi be pushed to the No. 5 position.

O'Neal returned to his room, they were a large suite, originally a room for two players according to the regulations, but this time there was a large suite in the room, which was a four-person room, so O'Neal and Sabonis, as well as Dazhi and Howard lived together.

The lights in the corridor were a little dim, and O'Neill was planning his little ninety-nine in his heart.

As soon as he pushed the door open, O'Neill screamed.

“surprise！”

Dazhi and Sabonis both leaned back on the couch and looked at him in dismay, and Howard cowered and poked his head out of the bathroom.

O'Neill found himself feeling a little embarrassed and self-assured.

"How beautiful this night is, do you want a little surprise?"

Howard nodded subconsciously, but from his point of view, he could see that Dazhi and Lao Sa both shook their heads. Who knows what O'Neill, this out-of-tune guy is up to.

O'Neill didn't care at all, and took out an item on his own.

"Let's play this tonight......" A big hand shook out, and a deck of playing cards shook out, "Texas Hold'em!" ”

For Dazhi, Texas Hold'em has only been seen in Hong Kong movies, so he subconsciously wanted to refuse, but he didn't expect Lao Sa, who has always been silent, to answer.

"Good! Dazhi, let's go together. ”

It turned out that Lao Sa usually had nothing to do, and he played occasionally, which aroused his two European habits, drinking and gambling. Texas Hold'em is also Lao Sa's favorite.

Although Dazhi was reluctant, he never knew how to refuse others, so he joined.

Seeing that everyone was sitting at the table, O'Neill laid out his plan at this time.

"Well, we can't gamble money when we play Texas Hold'em, we'll be reprimanded by the coach. Let's bet on something else, Howard, you say. ”

O'Neill didn't ask anyone else, just stared at Howard. Howard, apparently unaware of anything, replied without doubting it.

"I'm the Atlanta gambling king," Howard said confidently, but when he noticed that everyone was staring at him, he immediately said, "But this kind of thing, the bosses just decide, I have no opinion." ”

For the other three, O'Neal is his boss, Sabonis is his defensive teacher, and Dazhi is his inside foot teacher, so he is the youngest, and it would be good to listen to any opinions.

After answering, Howard rubbed his hands and went to pour everyone a glass of juice. The rest of the team is easy to say, they are all young players, including Wade, who is only in his second year, but the center is different, including Dazhi, who has played for many years, Sabonis and O'Neal needless to say.

O'Neill said again.

"We decide the winner, the bet is tomorrow's starting center position, whoever loses will tell the coach that he has a stomachache and is not in good shape, so let the winner start, how about it."

Dazhi heard it, there was no pressure, anyway, he could still start in the big forward position, and Lao Sa was even more so, so it was basically impossible for him to start.

The only Howard, he has a bitter face, isn't he the starting center now? If Howard doesn't understand what this game means, he doesn't have to mess it up.

The three bigwigs all looked at him, and Howard felt the pressure double.

"Alas, this, this ......"

Babbling, Howard couldn't say a word.

O'Neill was impatient and patted the table.

"What, don't you want to come!"

Howard had to answer bitterly with two words.

"Okay......"

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O'Neill put away his clothes with a fierce look, laughed, and handed out the cards himself. Look at this technique, quite skillful, while saying.

"This event can be done more in the future, today we will make it simpler, five cards per person, and a handful will determine the winner."

Only Howard gave a perfunctory "oh" that if O'Neal returned to the starting lineup, the devil knows if he would play another game like this.

Howard shuddered a little and picked up his hand, the ace of clubs, the ace of hearts, the ace of spades, which ......

Howard's eyes lit up, it seemed to be very big, and then he carefully opened a card, and the result was very disappointed, it was a king of spades.

At this time, Dazhi has already shown its cards, a pair of 10, a pair of 3, in Texas Hold'em this is called two pairs, only larger than a pair and no special card type.

Dazhi laughed at himself: "I'm probably the youngest. ”

Sure enough, Lao Sa said, "I'm okay." ”

Immediately the cards were also revealed, three nines, a pair of sixes, which is a card bigger than a straight, called a full house, only four bombs and a straight flush are bigger than this.

Howard's palms were sweating, and looking at the last hole card on the table, he already had three aces, and another one was four bombs, and basically no one could be bigger than that.

ace, ace, he meditated in his heart and flipped it hard......

Block A!!

"Wow!"

Howard was pleasantly surprised.

"I'm four aces!! Bomb!! ”

An excited Howard writhed a hip-hop dance in the room.

"Hah

Just as Howard opened his mouth wide and laughed, O'Neill rubbed his eyes and spoke.

"Hey, come and see, I'm a little dazzled, what's the biggest Texas Hold'em?"

Howard trotted over quickly, he didn't believe he could be bigger than him, four aces, bigger than four kings, bigger than straights.

But when Howard actually saw O'Neal's five cards, he was dumbfounded.

9 of hearts, 10 of hearts, J of hearts, Q of hearts......

The last one is...... King of hearts !!

This is?!!

Straight Flush!! The legendary card bigger than four bombs, Howard sat on the ground with his ass, and it was over, and the starting center position was gone. Howard's mind was ringing.

O'Neill said casually, we can hold more events in the future, I think it's very interesting.

Still coming?! Howard's eyes went dark and he lay on the ground and pretended to be dead.