Chapter 11 The Trajectory of the Undercurrent
Not to mention Hopkins, even a layman can tell that Ryunosuke has caught a big card.
Therefore, Eric and Hopkins did not need to communicate at all, and they knew that this game would use a "quick attack" tactic.
However, perhaps it is really the "fortune" that has turned...... Eric's starting hand in this hand is too bad to describe, and the mess of hands, let alone the winning hand, is far from a draw.
This kind of hand, even if Hopkins is allowed to play, it will take at least six rounds or more to figure out the turnaround; Now that Eric is holding it, the attack is definitely impossible, and it would be good to be able to send Hu to his companion without firing a cannon.
On the other hand, Hopkins himself did not have a good hand; His hand is not bad, but it is very "heavy", and it belongs to the type of "if you want to do it, you will do it in the direction of the big hand", and it is difficult to win quickly.
It was in such a situation that Ryunosuke used the same bold style of play at the end of the previous game to shoot vigorously.
After just six rounds, it's ......
"Self-drawing!" This is not the biggest hand of Ryunosuke Hu Guo, but it is the most exciting hand for him, "Mix one color, the door is clear and self-drawn, all with one, three dark carvings, medium hair carving, treasure card one!" ”
Triple full (the probability of occurrence is only 0.04%, which is lower than the full service, if it is a banker Hu, it will win 36,000 points, and the player Hu will win 24,000 points), an incredible reversal.
There is a saying among the "connoisseurs" that mahjong is not a game in which you can win, but a game in which you can suppress your opponents.
But at this moment, in the third game of the south, Ryunosuke is in front of an expert like Hopkins, according to the layman's idea of "I want to let myself win as soon as possible".
That's what it is...... Strong luck.
In addition to the thousands, it is extremely difficult to fight with normal means, and the strongest weapon of gamblers.
"Hahahaha...... Looks like the 'fortune' thing works a little bit better than you think, Mr. Hopkins. When the mahjong table was automatically shuffling, Ryunosuke took the opportunity to mock Hopkins; He hadn't forgotten the embarrassment that this Xingjun gambling king had brought to him with his ability before, and now that he had seized the opportunity, how could he not vent his evil anger.
"Heh......" Hopkins just sneered when he heard this, and replied, "Maybe......"
After all, Ryunosuke has an identity there, and Hopkins still doesn't dare to be too pretentious in words, but he ...... He wasn't so polite.
"Sakaki-kun, I don't know what kind of reputation you've made...... Hopkins said to Sakaki right after, "but if you think 'you can play the same trick twice in front of me' because of that...... That would be a big mistake. ”
Clearly, Hopkins believed that the outcome of the game was due to Sakaki Dechi; And his words are tantamount to admitting ...... I didn't see through Sakaki's technique.
Although Hopkins's heart was already a little weak at this moment, on the surface, he still put on the frame of the gambling king of Xingjun, and tried to overwhelm the other party from the momentum, so that Sakaki did not dare to make another thousand, or let Qianjutsu show flaws because of nervousness.
"Oh? Do you think I was playing a ghost in that game? Sakaki looked at Hopkins with a sneering expression, "Huh...... I see, the so-called 'Xingjun Gambling King' is a guy who doesn't even know that he has been 'abolished'. ”
"What did you say?" Hopkins asked sharply.
"Don't you understand?" Sakaki smoked a cigarette and quickly replied, "Okay then...... I'll just think I'm doing charity and tell you something. ”
As he spoke, Sakaki raised his head, looked at the black suit on the side and said, "Hey, big dealer, can you pause the game a little, and give me two mahjong dice by the way." ”
After a second, the black suit replied, "As long as the other players at this table are okay." ”
So, Sakaki quickly asked the other three, and received affirmative, tacit, and indifferent answers, respectively.
Seeing this, the black suit immediately turned on the walkie-talkie and asked someone to send the dice over; At the same time, he also stepped forward in person, pushed a new game of cards that had just been stacked back into the mahjong table, and closed the table, suspending the shuffling function.
After a while, the dice came.
Those were two ordinary white dice, the kind commonly used in mahjong that did not shuffle tiles.
After taking the dice, Sakaki immediately threw them on the table, threw two "1s", and said to Hopkins, "You should know this, right?" ”
After saying this, he grabbed the dice again, and threw them a second later, this time with two "2s".
"Are you kidding?" When Hopkins finished the first half of his sentence, Sakaki threw two more "3s".
"This kind of basic skills that guys who have just entered the industry, is it possible that I can't?" By the time Hopkins finished the second half of his sentence, Sakaki had already rolled a pair of "4s" and a pair of "5s".
"Huh...... That's good. Sakaki said as he put the dice in front of Hopkins, "You can roll two 'sixes' for me." ”
"What do you want to prove?" Hopkins didn't rush to catch the dice, but glared at Sakakimichi, "I don't understand what the point of this is." ”
"Meaning is ...... Let you know you're running out of 'luck'. Sakaki replied.
"Hah!" Hopkins laughed and said in English, "This has something to do with luck?" He grabbed the dice and squeezed them in his hand, "What kind of luck does it take to make 10,000 throws and succeed 10,000 times?" ”
He's right, the skill of "throwing two dice with your bare hands and getting the number you want" is one of the most basic and simple gambling techniques; As long as you know the hand shape and technique, and after a certain amount of practice, even children can do it. There are even many gamblers who are not "experts" at all who can learn this trick, and there is no one in the expert circle who can't.
Having a gambler of Hopkins' caliber roll this kind of dice is like having a professional basketball point guard demonstrate the most basic dribbling on the spot, and it will naturally be impossible to make a mistake no matter how many times you do.
However......
"Hmm......" When the dice settled, Hopkins looked shocked and let out a muffled grunt.
"This ......" Eric beside him didn't react as strongly as he did, but he was also quite surprised.
It's the kind of "10,000 bets that you can succeed 10,000 times", which is as casual as breathing for a gambler like Hopkins...... At this moment, it failed.
The second die rolled an extra half a turn as it landed, resulting in a "6" and a "3".
"How is that possible?" Hopkins' face turned white, and the uneasiness and panic in his heart poured out in a blowout.
He had already carefully checked the dice when he pinched them just now, and he only began to roll them after making sure that Sakaki had not moved his hands or feet on them; And there is no problem with the technique he uses, he has done the same gesture thousands of times, whether it is the strength of the dice, the angle, the grip before the shot, and the posture when leaving the hand, it has been seamless.
However, it didn't work out.
The only reason that can explain this phenomenon is bad luck.
Maybe it's because the table on the ship is uneven, maybe the part of the table top happens to have static electricity, or maybe the table top has undulations that are not noticeable to the naked eye...... In short, there was a probability-negligible situation that prevented Hopkins from throwing the number he wanted.
"Tachikawa has been in that situation once." After a few seconds, Sakaki looked at Hopkins again and said, "Just once...... It made him give up the idea of continuing to gamble. He paused, "I didn't know at the time, but there was a saying among those old men that 'the luck of a person's life...... It runs out, and most people run out of luck before they die, but professional gamblers are overdrawn by too much luck...... Therefore, when certain signs appear, whether or not they have enough capital to retire, they must leave the world of gambling, otherwise they will ...... will die'. ”
Sakaki said this, and spat out a cigarette: "Uh...... However, to explain it with the theory you believe in, this is only probability...... Right? ”
"Less nonsense! Nothing proves it! Hopkins' panic quickly turned into anger, "Eric, don't listen to his nonsense, it's all his psychological tactics...... He wants to disturb us! ”
"Uh...... Yes. Eric was stunned for a moment, and then continued, "It's okay, Mr. Hopkins, I don't believe in any 'fortune' crookedness." ”
"Then go ahead." Sakaki spread out his hands and said with a smile, "Look who will end up in the abyss called gambling." ”
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At the same time, on the same floor, in a certain cabin.
The "host" gentleman was sitting in a chair at the moment, looking nervously at the electronic teleprompter card in his hand.
After announcing the prize, he returned to this private cabin and did not step out again, just silently waiting for the new "instructions" to arrive.
Click, click-
Suddenly, the electronic lock of the hatch opened from the outside, and a figure appeared in the doorway.
It was a decent man, in his mid-thirties, of medium build, dressed in a modest suit, and his hair was neatly combed.
"Mr. Zhang, I'm sorry to have come to visit you now." Ah Xiu's conversation was very polite, he said as he walked into the cabin and closed the door casually, "It's really because I couldn't pull away before, so I dragged it to ......"
"You...... Who are you? The host, known as Mr. Zhang, looked at the strange man in front of him and interrupted with a hesitant face.
"Oh, by the way, you don't know me anymore." Ah Xiu said, and found a place to sit down; I saw him lift his right leg to his left leg, interlaced his fingers, and said leisurely, "Heh...... It doesn't matter, you'll remember it soon. ”