"I won!", a man in a white shirt with his sleeves rolled up put all the cards in his hand on the table, then smiled and took all the chips on the table into his arms, he won one hundred and fifty-five in the game he had just played.

After several discussions in the process of borrowing from the theocracy, the empire finally left a clause prohibiting gambling. But in fact, what this clause really restricts is the kind of open gambling, and it doesn't matter much if a few people find a hidden private place to play poker, and there is a little bit of money to win or lose. No one takes the initiative to report themselves, or report someone involved in a gambling game.

A little-known sociologist believes that "hatred sprouts in jealousy", and that in the absence of jealousy, no one will meddle in reporting their neighbors unless you let his interests be harmed.

Walter frowned and slammed the cards in his hand on the table, everyone had long been accustomed to this kind of gambling behavior. His sleeves were rolled up, and he took a glass with ice cubes and poured less than two ounces of wine into his mouth in one gulp, tilting his head to light a cigarette.

He had already lost all afternoon, and as a qualified gambler, he felt that he would be able to win back all his previous losses in the next hand, so he still sat at the edge of the table.

The gentleman sitting across from him glanced at the chip box in front of Walt, and looked back at the young man sitting on a sofa looking at the tape, and the young man immediately stood up and walked over to the box where the chips were placed, took out two hundred chips of various denominations, and sent them to Walt's side, "The third box, sir." ”

Walter took the chips from the young man's hand with some irritation, took out the chips in the small remaining chip box in front of him, and replaced them.

The ante bet in the game is two dollars, although there is a maximum of 50 yuan per game, but sometimes a little more people will not say anything, especially a "friend" like Walter who has lost a lot of money, always have to give him a chance to take revenge. He took a few puffs of cigarette and looked at the shuffle on the left, he stood up, said "I'll wash my face", and took the leather belt into the bathroom.

In the afternoon, he lost not to mention the 500 yuan he brought, but also owed 600 yuan, and the huge loss made him a little uncomfortable, and his heart was blocked. Ever since he had rolled up two thousand dollars at one point, his luck seemed to run out all at once. In the past six months, he has won less and lost more intermittently, and he rarely asks the person who organized the gambling how much he owes, and he is a little afraid that it will be a huge amount. But I have to say that his friend is good, not only did he organize such a gambling game for free, but the money he owed has not urged him to repay the debt, but as long as he needs it, the other party will lend him money.

Now in this impetuous philistine society, there are not many such good people.

Patting his cheeks wet with cold water, looking at himself in the mirror with sunken eye sockets, he smiled self-deprecatingly, and then waved his fist to cheer himself up, today is already going to win!

When he returned to the table, the cards had been shuffled, and his next family, a gentleman in his thirties, asked him to check the cards, he smiled and shook his head, "We are all friends, there is no need." ”

Although he said so, the gentleman of his house still shuffled the cards in front of him, and everyone at the table was smoking, which made the place feel a little smoky. His eyes were fixed on the flipped poker until it was completely washed.

Some people play cards more elegantly, to calculate the score, add a way to relax, most of the time they play more skillful, more calculative and psychological. But there is also a kind of game, just like Mr. Walter's participation in the game, the way to play is relatively simple, using everyone's hand to match the community cards on the table to compare the size, simple and easy to understand, even if you don't know how to learn in a very short time.

There are multiple stages in the game, which is also the stage where everyone bets or chooses to give up, and there are only two ante bets, but many times when it comes to deciding whether to win or lose, there are often dozens or hundreds of dollars on the table.

Mr. Walter tossed the minimum chips onto the table as an ante, and then the winner of the previous round began to "labor", distributing the cards to the hands of the participants, and Walter looked at the hands of his hand and breathed a little faster.

This is a good hand, if he is almost the biggest in terms of the hand alone, and when he sees the community card again, he feels that he has won the game! The probability of such a big hand appearing is very small, sometimes a game may only appear two or three times in seven or eight hours.

He tensed his face to make it look like he had a bad hand, and even frowned. It was the gentleman sitting across from him with a smile on his face.

"Wow oh, nice sorting, I'm pretty lucky. He didn't seem to care at all that he had revealed the size of his cards, and Mr. Walter glanced up at him and squeezed out a smile.

He laughed and said, "Then we can completely lose the card, because you have won." ”

The person on the other side seemed to really think so, and he nodded very much and said, "Maybe this is the best choice." ”

Walter quietly threw a five-dollar chip on the table, and when he first came into contact with such a game, he really believed it, but several times he found that the other person actually didn't have any good cards at all, and was completely cheating him, so he stupidly stuffed the biggest card in the game into the pile. Since then, he has come to understand that sometimes the decisive hand is not on the table.

Have you ever heard something like that?

That's right, the decisive victory is outside the courtroom, which illustrates the same truth, indirectly reflecting the essence of society in fact, and telling the truth of the world in a joke.

"It seems that Mr. Walter doesn't believe ......", the person who won just now shook his head, and he also threw a chip up, "I don't believe it either, I don't believe it either, I have a good hand, maybe I'm bigger!"

The player across from him laughed again, and he grabbed a ten-dollar chip and threw it on the table, "We all think our hands are better, why don't we have a little more fun?"

In the course of the next stand-and-go betting, each player put eighty chips on the table, and everyone seemed to feel like they had the biggest hand. When the last community card was dropped, Mr. Walter breathed a sigh of relief. He had a very big hand, and if nothing else, he should have won the hand. As a winner, in addition to his money, there are two hundred and forty yuan on the table, not to mention winning back what he lost just now, there are more. This makes him very happy, and winning money always seems to be a happy thing.

The expression of the player sitting across from him became grim, he sighed, put down the cards in his hand, it was indeed a good hand, he would have won at other times, but not this time! The last hand that had won him also put down his cards, which were bigger than the cards in Mr. Walter's hand opposite him, and when he opened his arms and was about to take the chips back, Mr. Walter put his cards on the table.

He took a cigarette in his mouth and lit it on fire, and said with a smile, "Thanks to your help, I can't always be fast enough to sort out my chips." As he reached for the chips, his previous player, who had not said a word this round, put down his cards, and Mr. Walter glanced at it, and the hand that went to get the chips froze in the air.

He lost!

......

It is normal to win and lose in gambling, Mr. Walter has long known this, but today he lost again, and the principal of five hundred yuan plus the chips he took five times this time is a thousand yuan.

Fifteen hundred yuan was lost, and while sitting in the car, he slammed the steering wheel hard, and the car also made a piercing whistle.

Standing on the balcony and watching Mr. Walt drive away, after the three of them sat down, one of the gentlemen, who organized the gamble, took out four hundred dollars from his pocket and gave them to the other two players, "You deserve it, you can't do anything wrong, don't forget to come on time on Wednesday." The two nodded and took the money in their hands and left, and the gentleman who organized the card game glanced at the clock and ordered: "Call our friend, and the next game will start in fifteen minutes!"

Mr. Walter, who was driving back home, sighed as he parked himself in the garage, and after dressing himself and smiling and looking less preoccupied, he took the keys and opened the door.

"Walt?", as soon as he entered the door, he heard his wife's gentle voice from the living room, which made him feel a sense of guilt, and inexplicably his heart became more irritable, not only because of the loss of money.

He took off his shoes, answered, changed his shoes and walked into the living room, stunned to see his wife with her back to him and packing up some knick-knacks, such as framed photos and souvenirs that others have given or bought for himself over the years. The last time this happened was when they moved here, are they moving again?

He walked up behind his wife and watched her fiddle with these things, and couldn't help but ask, "What's the matter? Don't you like them?"

Her wife didn't look back, she was still packing up her things carefully, and replied with a slight smile, "I've got a new job, I'm leaving Steley, and we may have to go north or west to live." ”

"Why?", Walter suddenly couldn't accept the news, "Is it bad here? Or do they want to send you away?"

"What about the house here? And our daughter, what about her studies? I don't think she will be able to adapt to the environment and school over there very quickly, can we not go ?!!?"