"Hello, I'm the twenty-first host, 'listening' Shao Nancheng."

Opening with such a common sentence, the lights come on, and the game in the video gradually kicks off. In the middle of a room that is not too large is a common casino table, with two people sitting on either side of the table. One of them, the one who just spoke, Liang Jingmo had just met not long ago.

He was dressed in a black suit, his long hair was combed back in a ponytail, and a warm smile appeared on his handsome face with a slight half-race trait. This is the host who met him by chance in the forest path, and then left in a hurry. At this time, he finally reported his name, and Liang Jingmo was able to verify his previous guess.

The twenty-first is considered to be an upper-average ranking in the host, which is also in line with his previous expectations - strong, but there is still a gap between the autumn and summer of the "black cat". However, these things were no longer important at this time, Liang Jingmo's eyes hurriedly swept over the host Shao Nancheng's body, and then fell on another person.

This is also normal. Since one of the people in the video is the host, the remaining person must be the enemy who will fight next, and this video was originally provided to observe him.

This person is about thirty years old, with an angular face and a very flat hair. His figure is quite sturdy, although he is not tall, and his muscles don't look like the type that is so full that he almost bursts through his clothes, but judging from the faint lines, this guy's physical fitness is probably quite good. At this time, although he appeared in the camera, his face was expressionless and he looked featureless. Liang Jingmo could only continue to move his gaze downward, trying to speculate on his character from other details.

In the video, he wears a tight short-sleeved top, navy blue jeans underneath, and a pair of ripped sneakers on his feet. He and the host in black clothes sat across the table, which was also a stark contrast. Liang Jingmo suddenly noticed that not only was he outside the video at this time, but the host Shao Nancheng, who was sitting on the other side of the table at the time, was also silently observing this player, but after a few seconds, this "Di Ting" seemed to shake his head slightly in frustration.

Is this what even he can't see much? Liang Jingmo guessed.

The video presents a high angle of view, which is shot from the opposite corner of the room, that is, the place above the back of the two people, at an angle of about 30 degrees, which is commonly known as the behind-the-shoulder perspective. In the end, it is divided into two parts, the left and right, and the two people on either side of the table are evenly displayed, and from this view, you can see the cards in their hands, as well as the expressions of each other, and most of the movements of the upper body.

It just so happens that in order to understand the game in this video, you really need this amount of information.

Just glanced at the card table and the things placed in front of the two, and then thought about the characteristics displayed by the host, Liang Jingmo locked the content of the game they were playing almost immediately.

Texas Hold'em, which is a player-versus-player community card game. Generally speaking, there will be at least two people on a table, and a maximum of twenty-two, usually six to ten people. Heads-up is one of the ways to play, but it's known to be more challenging and more difficult for both sides than the average hand.

Texas Hold'em uses a traditional set of cards with the two ghost cards removed, with a total of fifty-two cards and no trump cards. At the beginning of the game, each player is given two cards as "hole cards", and five community cards are dealt by the dealer face up one after the other. After all the betting rounds, if the winner is still not decided, the game will enter the "showdown" phase, where the remaining players will show their hole cards to compete and the high hand wins.

Some people may wonder why it is possible to decide the winner before the showdown. This is because Texas Hold'em has a total of five rounds of betting, and its focus is actually on decision-making, that is, "when to concede".

The first stage is Perflop: first place the big and small blinds, that is, the lowest bet on the board and half of it, and then give each player two hole cards, the first player after the big blind chooses to call, raise or fold and give up, in a clockwise direction, the other players in turn, the big blind player last, if the player has a raise, the player who has already called before needs to make a statement again or even several times.

Then there's the Flop: three community cards are dealt at the same time, starting with the player in the small blind – or if the small blind is folded, with the nearest player behind, and so on – in a clockwise order, the player can choose to bet, raise, or fold.

Then there's Turn: the fourth community card is dealt, starting with the small blind and moving in a clockwise direction.

Then there's River: the fifth community card is dealt, again starting with the small blind, clockwise and the player can choose to bet, raise, or fold.

Finally, after the first four rounds of dealing and betting, the remaining players begin to show their cards to compare the size, and finally the player with the highest card wins the pot bottom. The hand competition is similar to many other poker games, with the cards and the number of points. Players combine their two hole cards and five community cards to make the highest made card from them, which is compared to other players. It's important to note that you don't enforce the use of your own hole cards in this process, which means that all five made cards in the end are community cards.

Under such rules, it is not difficult to see that since most of the cards are spread out on the table (at least three of the community cards need to be used), it is not difficult to calculate the corresponding probability of the various card types obtained from the combination, and for the player, the outcome can be roughly foreseen before the cards are opened, so the difference between a rookie and a beginner is that the latter knows when to give up.

But even if they do, they're just beginners. For a higher player, in order to win the game, it is not enough to pay attention to his own situation, he must understand the opponent's hole cards from the situation of the bet, the demeanor during the game, and even some small body movements, and then make the most beneficial decision for himself, and even begin to use these to mislead the opponent and steer the situation in his own more favorable direction.

As for taller people, Liang Jingmo has so many impressions. On the surface, you won't think that they are as powerful as you imagined, not just like others to win and lose, but after half a day, the final statistical results, you will find that such people have won a lot of money quietly, and those guys who also have wins and losses are losing so much that they cry and cry their mothers.

Hidden in the city, this can be regarded as the highest level.

However, the game in front of Liang Jingmo is not like this.

Since it was a heads-up, this time the cards were dealt using an automatic machine, and the player who was about to become Liang Jingmo's opponent calmly checked the machine, then nodded, sat down in his seat, and signaled that he could start.

"Before you start the game, you still have to reconfirm those few things." The host Shao Nancheng spoke, "First of all, this is a 'trial' game, where you voluntarily participate in a duel with the host in order to get a pre-agreed reward. Right? ”

"You agree with my proposal to play heads-up with an unlimited game of Texas Hold'em, and since I, as the host, I have to be one of the players, so the cards are dealt by the machine, but you have to confirm it beforehand, right?"

"The ultimate goal of this game is 'none or all', and there is no upper limit to the amount of time, which means that one of you and me must win all the chips on the other hand to end the game. As the challenged party, I will offer more than 10% more chips than you have to ensure that you can get out of jail after being deducted during the exchange. And as a necessary element of the game's fairness, you'll also get the same amount of chips, which is more than your current sentence...... After negotiation, you will pledge your life to obtain it. Right? ”

As he spoke, the man nodded silently, and the expression on his face did not change. Even in the last sentence, Shao Nancheng deliberately slowed down his speech, adding pauses and accents to try to arouse his emotions. But the man's movements and rhythm when he nodded his head were no different from before, and even the most picky person probably couldn't find anything wrong with it.

On the contrary, Liang Jingmo, who was watching the video, was startled when he heard this. He knows the rules of the prison and the rules of the nine-out and thirteen-return. The lost chips will be increased by 30% and reflected in the sentence, while the winning chips must be deducted by 10% before they can be exchanged for the reduced part, that is, if the 100-year sentence is to be erased, the player must win 111 chips, and the extra 11 chips are the extra chips that the host just said.

And in order to make up for this amount, this person did not hesitate to put his own life on the line. Now it's not a matter of extending the sentence, because the ultimate goal of the game is "none or all", once you lose, it is equivalent to losing your life, and this man actually has no way out.

At the moment of life and death, he was still expressionless, and nodded quietly. This may be the best posture in the face of that Shao Nancheng: the other party is good at observation, so he doesn't reveal any clues at all, so he can't reason. But in an environment like Texas Hold'em, where the game is up and down, who can stay emotional all the time?

The man did.

What could easily have turned into a long-term Texas Hold'em single-sheet challenge ended in just 46 minutes under his hands. All the chips were finally returned to him, and Shao Nancheng, who was "listening" on the other side of the table, had a look of disbelief on his face at this time.

"Impossible, this kind of thing ......" he muttered mechanically, staring blankly at the last few cards scattered on the table. The empty drawer under the countertop announced the end of the game, and this result was unacceptable to him no matter what.

Outside the picture, Liang Jingmo was silent. He replayed the cards he had just witnessed in his mind, and one scene after another flashed like a slide, and his head unconsciously sounded the warning that Shao Nancheng gave him when they met:

"That's not people, it's iron."

- This man named Chi Shangxuan won all the eleven games against the host.

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