Mahjong (this article generally refers to Japanese mahjong, because the Japanese will read mahjong as "sparrow", so mahjong players are also called "sparrows") the first game is called "East Game", after the end of a game, as long as the dealer is under the village, that is, into the "East Second Game", and so on, until the "East Fourth Game", these four games are called "East Field"; After the end of the East Game, the "South Game" will begin, starting from the "South 1st Game" and ending with the "South 4th Game".

The eight games in the southeast field are called "Banzhuang Battle", also known as "Southeast Battle"; The so-called "playing a half village" means playing eight games in the southeast, and it is also a very common way to play.

The point stick, that is, the props used to record the "holding points" in mahjong, can also be regarded as a kind of "chips" unique to mahjong.

The usual practice is: at the beginning of the game, each person is assigned 25,000 points - 1 10,000 points, 1 5,000 points, 9 1,000 points, and 10 points 10 points.

Of course, sometimes there are other divisions depending on the total number of points; For example, in the current game, the rule of 20,000 points is used, so 2 cards for 5,000 points per person, 9 cards for 1,000 points, and 10 cards for 100 points.

According to Sakaki's request, every 1 point of the stick will be converted into 1000RMB, that is to say, at the beginning of this mahjong, the four people have each bet a full 20 million.

Although these four are all well-known professional gamblers, they will more or less have some savings to save their lives, but 20 million ...... It's not like you can take it.

For the average citizen of the Commonwealth, this is enough money to survive his life; Even for gamblers, this is already an amount that can be used as a "pension".

There is no doubt that none of the four people present, including Sakaki Muxian himself, can afford to pay that much.

But that's fine, because they don't have to come out that much.

Before the end of this half-bank, the point bar is just a point stick, and only those who have less than 20,000 points at the time of settlement need to pay the lost difference.

For example, at the end of the fourth game in the south, one person's point bar became 36,000, while the other three were 20,000, 15,000 and 9,000 points respectively, then, the person who held 36,000 points not only did not pay, but also made a net profit of 16 million; Those with 20,000 points do not lose or win; Those with only 15,000 and 9,000 points lost five million and eleven million, respectively.

In this way, even if you can't win, as long as you minimize your losses as much as possible, you won't lose 20 million.

But...... Such an idea is dangerous for gamblers.

In the world of gambling, people who think "I'm going to survive" and people who think "I'm going to win" make different choices.

High stakes are like a mirror, and most people will show their "I want to survive" in front of them; Only real gamblers, scoundrels, scoundrels...... Those who understand the true meaning of gambling can stay calm and hold their inner defenses.

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Banzhuang, worth 20 million, is destined not to be dull.

Because the use of the automatic mahjong table is not used, so shuffling, cutting, code cards are done by people, for the four "experts", in the shuffle stage of the game has begun.

East 1st Bureau, 3rd Round.

Okochi has already been drawn.

"Draw the card" is by no means in vain, only three rounds, his hand is already "three North Wind, 1230,000, 3456777 cakes" card type, that is, "258 or 36 cakes of multi-faceted listening", a very ideal situation.

At this moment, Sakaki casually punched out a two-pie.

Seeing this, Okochi just grinned, ready to call Hu and mock Sakaki twice, but he didn't expect it......

"Hu (for ease of understanding, the following are all 'Hu' instead of 'Tie')." Gao Mu of the upper family preemptively cut off the beard, "Break the nine, a thousand points." ”

When "Cut ......" saw the other party open the cards, Okochi spat unhappily, "It's a small card like Hu......"

"Hee-......hee-hee-hee-hee," Takagi replied disapprerovingly, "Even if it's a small card, it's a million games...... And...... Looking at your multi-faceted posture, I have to prevent you from touching yourself. ”

That's true, but the real point, Takagi didn't say.

Connoisseurs like them are well aware that in gambling, there is such a thing as "fortune...... It's tangible.

Unlike dice, flowers, and pai gow, which are games that instantly divide the winner and lose, mahjong is a protracted battle, and in the process, the "fortune" will be transferred many times; And how to destroy or take away the "fortune" of others is a very important skill.

For ordinary people, it may be difficult to do this, even if they perceive who the "fortune" is in at the moment, there are not too many means to interfere, but for the "expert", there are many ways.

The small card of Gao Muhu in front of him was aimed at destroying the "luck" of Dakochi, and the result was immediate......

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The second round of the east, also in the third round.

The matching card in Takagi's hand is already a three-color order, a single hanging four cakes, and ......

"Riichi." Takagi decisively took out a thousand sticks to listen.

It stands to reason that in a game of this calibre, the odds of hanging alone and counting on your opponent to fire a shot are slim.

And riichi (refers to the "door clear", that is, there is no eating, touching, open kong, all the hands are their own touch in the case of announcing the draw, at this time place a riupright point stick as a declaration card, in the next game, riichi touch what card must be played directly, until someone wins; If in the end it is Riichi who wins the card himself,You can multiply,If it is immediately after Riichi that patrol someone lights a cannon or self-draw,That is, "Riichi one shot",You can double again) The risk is very high,In case someone of the three people here happens to be doing a big card,Riichi is likely to kill himself.。

Correct...... Takagi, I don't care about that.

The man known as the "Ghost of Pai Mountain" has his own stunt that he relies on to survive, that is, - grafting.

The effect of this trick is that when he draws a card, he can swap the card he drew with any of the seventeen cards on the upper deck in front of him.

As for the change, it's simple...... That is, when drawing cards, hold mahjong vertically with four fingers, and at the moment when you take the cards to yourself and pass through the card mountain, let the card you touch keep at a horizontal height that is not worse than one millimeter from the upper layer of the card mountain, and completely coincide with the side of the card you want to change in; Then, quickly and silently use the card you touch to "top" the card in the card mountain, and then use the same gesture to hold the top card vertically, and leave the card you touch on the card mountain, and finally collect the card you swap out as if nothing happened.

In slow motion, this is not a particularly complicated or difficult movement, but it is necessary to practice the speed of this move to the point where "no one can see it even if it is used in full view", and "even if someone sees it, it is too late to catch the current...... That's something that thousands or tens of thousands of times of practice may not be able to do.

In addition, there is a prerequisite for performing "grafting", that is, you must clearly know what the cards in front of you are at the stage of the stack of cards, if you don't even know where the cards you want to change are, just practice the technique is in vain.

There is no doubt that Takagi knows.

Although he can't remember all the 136 cards on the table, he can remember at least ninety percent of the cards on the upper level of the four pai mountain, especially the pai mountain in front of him.

In the imagination of ordinary people, "Qianshu" is a very mysterious and complex thing, but in fact...... In the eyes of real "experts", high-level skills are often "simple and violent" and "blatant".

Ordinary people think that the "miracles" must be achieved by some kind of trickery, but in fact, most of them are the inevitable "results" after hard practice, which is the truth of most thousand arts; The legendary magic duo Payne and Teller once said - "In table magic, the ultimate trick is the magician's dexterous hands", and this sentence is also used for a thousand magicians.

The movements that the magician can perform with the help of props must be completed by the magician with his bare hands, the magician can only do the performance after practicing a thousand times, and the magician can practice at least 10,000 times before he can actually fight...... The difference in cost and risk determines that there is no room for error in the latter.

Takagi can stand out in the world of gambling, and it is impossible to rely on luck alone; "Luck" can only help you win those "gambling in the sun", and if you want to survive in the dark world, you have to rely on "strength".

"Hehe......" This tour has not yet ended, Okochi just played a card, Igarashi let out two chuckles, "What a 'riichi'ah......" He said while stretching out his hands that have grown age spots to the card played by Okochi, "Gong ............" said, he turned over the bar card, and grabbed the Ling Shang card, almost at the same time as turning over the hand to shoot the Ling Shang card, he had already recited, "Blossom on the Ling"

"What......" Takagi's sad smile froze on his face, because at this moment, he seemed to have discovered the truth about Igarashi's "just luck".

"Don't blame me, Takagi-kun, after all, you were upright in a place like this...... It's not good. Igarashi said in a deep voice.

"You ......" A few seconds later, a few wisps of cold sweat flowed down Takagi's pale face.

Although Okochi, Takagi and Igarashi have played many games of mahjong since coming to Ryunosuke, they naturally have reservations as veterans in those "casual play" games; Therefore, they don't know where the upper limit of each other's strength is, and what specific "unique skills" they have.

However, at this moment, Takagi was surprised to find that the old man who was the most inconspicuous on weekdays...... He actually has a technique that can be called unsolvable in the world of sparrows - silent cards.

Strictly speaking, "silent cards" cannot be called "thousand techniques"; Unless you are a first-class "expert", even if someone uses this trick in front of you, even if you use a super-high-speed camera to slow down all his actions hundreds or thousands of times, you will not be able to see the slightest way.

The origins of this technique can be traced back to the Showa period. At that time, mahjong was mostly made of bamboo, and bamboo, the surface of each small piece, had a unique "texture"; So, some of the finches came up with the idea...... Memorize the texture of the bamboo on the back of mahjong to remember the cards.

But...... How easy is that? Don't say that you are in the process of playing cards to remember the 136 cards, that is, take out 10 cards at random and put them in front of you, so that you can remember slowly, to distinguish and remember those that look almost the same, subtle bamboo texture, it is also extremely difficult.

Moreover, it is useless to just remember a deck of cards and change a deck of cards; The real "silent card" must be the skill of "being able to quickly write down a completely unfamiliar mahjong game".

Most people don't practice something that is extremely difficult, hard to learn, and hard to master, and it's rare for those who practice to be able to keep the entire deck down to more than 100 cards in a short period of time.

But...... A very small number of experts who are proficient in this way are all close to invincible existences without exception; These masters can "silently" play the entire mahjong game before the third game of the East, and for these people, the cards seem to be transparent in their eyes. Even if someone makes a thousand changes in front of them, they can immediately know, as long as they ask for inspection at the right time, one by one.

Unfortunately, with the change of the times, bamboo mahjong was gradually replaced by new products made of resin, plastic and other materials, and in the face of those materials with almost no texture, the "silent card" technique became impossible to perform, and eventually gradually disappeared.

However, the legend ...... There are some extremely clever silent card finch, and even the untextured mahjong on the back can also be "silent"; But the mechanics of this technique remain a mystery to this day.

Some people say that they are silent by the fingerprints left on the back of the mahjong when the hand touches the cards; Others say they use props like contact lenses; Some people even say that this rumor itself is false, and it was blown out by Lao Qian in order to cover up other thousand techniques......

In short, the jury is inconclusive.

After all, this kind of legendary "silent card finch" is really rare, and even if this kind of person really exists, it is difficult to be detected.

And today, Takagi had the pleasure of meeting a ......

Igarashi's "silent cards" are fundamentally different from Takagina's way of relying on "short-term memory" and "shuffling code card techniques" to roughly grasp Paishan.

The blossoming of his hand, as well as his prediction of Takagi's next move before the cards were opened, showed that he knew every card in the entire deck of mahjong inside out.

It's not by guessing, it's not by thousands, it's just "seeing through the cards".

Obviously, under the pressure of huge chips, the finches have nothing to reserve...... In this kind of gamble, where you can be saddled with huge debts at any time, there is simply no room for mercy or mercy.

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In this way, the difference in strength is gradually reflected in the difference in the number of points.

By the third game in the south, Igarashi already had 43,000 points; Takagi was around 18,000 points, while Okochi had a "it's over" expression, sweating profusely and struggling to support around 12,000 points.

But to say the worst, it is still Sakaki, his point stick is less than 7,000 left, that is, he has been saddled with a debt of 13 million RMB.

After the fifth round, Igarashi was already holding a three-engraved, two-way draw card in his hand.

He naturally knows that his winning hand will be touched within two rounds, and no one will play a card suitable for "eating" or "touching" to change the order of the draw within two rounds.

Victory...... It's close at hand.

But at this moment......

"Is that all?" Sakaki, suddenly, opened his mouth and asked a question.

Hearing this question, the other three all turned their eyes to Sakaki, and after a short silence, it was Okochi who took the lead in responding: "The guy who is at the end of the line of points is suddenly asking something without a head?" Saying...... Don't you feel ashamed to be the guy who came up with this kind of random bet and ended up losing the worst yourself? ”

In the face of such ridicule, Sakaki didn't care, and continued to speak in a slightly decadent tone: "I'm asking, your 'skills'...... Is that all? ”

"Hmph......" Takagi snorted coldly, not bothering to deal with him.

Igarashi said earnestly, "Sakaki-kun, I understand your feelings, hehe...... But in the gambling table, if you lose, you lose, and provocation will not save any face, it will only make your defeat more difficult......"

Before he could say the last word "look", Sakaki interrupted: "The so-called 'master of drawing cards' turned out to be a second-rate old man who needed a ring to assist in order to use the 'left-hand transfer technique'. He paused for half a second, "The juggling of the 'Pai Mountain Ghost' is also good, not to mention that when you encounter an automatic mahjong machine, it will be immediately abolished ninety-percent, even if you meet a straight old man who can remember cards, it can make you scared and desperately attack Hu Xiaopai......"

In just a few words, he broke all the skills of the three people at the same table and ridiculed them; Between the lines, it is extremely arrogant.

Before the three of them could reply, Sakaki continued: "This is the third game in the south, and you haven't come up with more skills, which means that you really have nothing else to show up...... Then I'm welcome. He said as he rolled up his sleeves, "Since you all like to play this kind of 'smart mahjong', then I'll show you some 'more direct methods'." ”