Chapter 8: Know Yourself and Know Your Enemy
The car turned around and drove into a farm near the reservoir.
As soon as I got out of the car, I heard a commotion inside. I entered the arena with the group.
This is an old Beijing courtyard house, a square building, with the first ten rooms. The casino is located in the largest room on the right, which looks like a living room.
There are a lot of people, estimated to be hundreds. The inner three floors and the outer three floors stand on long benches. We simply can't get in.
I stood on the periphery and watched these people in the field. There are everyone, but there are still a lot of young people. In particular, the young women dressed up one by one and wore heavy makeup.
The gold earrings were thrown straight over the ears, the gold necklace around the neck was as thick as the chopsticks for eating, and there was a gold bracelet on the wrist.
The dress of these women is almost always a virtue. Some of them are painted with delicate makeup, dressed fashionably, and have an elegant and refined temperament, which looks very eye-catching.
I said in my heart, no wonder my dad is spending his heart outside, this red flag is simply too dazzling.
How many men have been squatting among the flowers for a long time and can hold on to their arms? How could such a good girl run to such an occasion.
I feel sorry for them in my heart.
But as soon as I heard them speak, I instantly wanted to faint. When they open their mouths, they burst into foul mouths, and they dare to say any kind of ugly words.
Mom, these words have no place in front of them. What else is there to talk about elegance? Am I using the wrong words? Or do they simply not deserve it?
For a moment, I suddenly felt like I was going to throw up.
This scene is too chaotic, and it is very different from the scenes in those gambling gods and gambling saints movies in Hong Kong. Where can it be compared?
I'm wondering what kind of women are these? Xiao Huang and the thin man walked up to me.
I said find a seat first, observe for a while, and don't rush to start. The thin man asked me if I knew the two-eight bars?
I said I understood when I was three years old, and you don't look at whose son I am?
My grandfather used to play games with me when I was three years old using pai gow and two-eight bars. When I was four or five years old, I already knew everything about the three or two pai gow, heaven, earth, people, geese, constant, history, and miscellaneous.
In fact, the 28 bars were originally derived from the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, and were derived from pai gow and mahjong. It was later transmitted to Anhui.
Everything is the same, and the same as Pai Gow is to compare whose card points are greater, whose card can overwhelm whom.
I remember my dad asking my grandfather why he was teaching children this.
Grandpa said that let him know about it since he was a child, and he won't be curious about it when he grows up.
Many of the traps fall into because of curiosity. It is lighter to know than not to plant.
The two-eight bar is the same as the mahjong tube, and it is all the tube without strips and 10,000 characters. Our local language here is called fruit.
From one tube to nine tubes, each type is four, a total of thirty. In addition, there are four whites or fortune cards for a total of forty cards. The second cylinder with eight cylinders is the largest and is called the two eight bars.
Then the pair, the white skin or the second fortune, then the nine cylinders, the eight cylinders, and so on until the pair of the first tube.
Here are the points, from half past nine to the bottom. Half past nine is nine cylinders with white skin or fortune.
Then at nine o'clock, and then down again. The smallest is the turtle ten, which adds up to exactly ten points, but it is equal to nothing.
There is also a rule here, in the same case, that is, the dealer and you draw the same card, and the dealer wins.
For example, if you catch a turtle ten, the dealer also catches a turtle ten. Then the dealer can eat your money.
Others are similar to Pai Gow, except that the pair has an obvious ratio, that is, the same number of points can be compared to who can hit whom.
Take a little bit, nine cylinders with two cylinders is called 291, and it can play 381 with three cylinders with eight cylinders. Three-eighty-one can hit seven-four-one, that is, seven cylinders with four cylinders.
Then 741 can hit 651 again, that is, six cylinders with five cylinders. Sixty-five is the smallest in the number of points, and can only hit the turtle ten.
And then there is one and a half o'clock, which is a tube with white skin or fortune. One more word eats all the bits.
Among the two points, nine cylinders with three cylinders are called nine thirty-two. You can hit the eight-four-two with four cylinders.
Eighty-four-two can hit seven-five-two with five cylinders.
Then there is half past two, which is also two cylinders with white skin or fortune.
Among the three points, nine cylinders with four cylinders are called nine four three. You can hit eight cylinders with five cylinders of eight five three.
Eighty-five-three can hit seven-six-three with six cylinders. Seven-six-three can hit one-two-three with one tube and two tubes.
It was half past three in the back. It is three cylinders with white skin or fortune.
Among the four o'clock, nine cylinders with five cylinders are called nine five-four. You can hit the eight-six-four with eight cylinders and six cylinders.
Eighty-six-four can hit one-three-four with three tubes. It was half past four in the back. It is four cylinders with white skin or fortune.
Among the five o'clock, nine cylinders with six cylinders are called nine sixty-five. You can hit the seven-eight-five with the eight-cylinder and the seven-cylinder.
Seven, eight, five, and one with four tubes can be played to one, four, five. It was half past five. It is five cylinders with white skin or fortune.
Among the six o'clock, nine cylinders with seven cylinders are called seven hundred and ninety-six. You can hit one tube with five tubes of one, five or six.
One-five-six can hit five-cylinder with four-cylinder two-four-six. The back is half past six, which is six cylinders with white skin or fortune.
Among the seven o'clock, nine cylinders with eight cylinders are called eight nine seven. You can hit one tube with six tubes of one, six or seven.
167 can hit 257 with two cylinders and five cylinders.
Two-five-seven can hit three-four-seven with three cylinders and four cylinders. The back is half past seven, which is seven cylinders with white skin or fortune.
In the middle of eight o'clock, one tube with seven cylinders is called one hundred and seventy-eight. You can hit three cylinders with three cylinders of three-five eight.
Behind it is eight and a half with white skin or fortune.
In the nine o'clock, one tube with eight cylinders is called oolong nine. You can hit the three-six-nine with six cylinders and three cylinders.
Three-six-nine can hit five-cylinder with four-cylinder four-five-nine.
There is also a nine-cylinder with white skin or a fortune at half past nine.
Of all the cards, only the two-eight-bar with the eight-cylinder is the highest.
My grandfather taught me this game when I was three years old. At first, I always lost, but then I won, and Grandpa Duo always lost. Because he is old, he doesn't have a good memory as me, and he can't remember the cards.
Twenty-eight bars are not cheating, as long as you remember the cards that the dealer has pushed out, what cards are left?
What number does a normal two dice appear after they are thrown out? Which side has a higher chance of winning? If you do the math, you basically don't have much to lose.
I stood in front of the bench and tried to find a gap to see what was going on. Just as a woman came down from the bench, I stood up.
Wow, the countertop is so heavy.
This table is heavy that the casino bets more than the big bets, and there are tens of thousands of bets.
In the middle of the room was a large eight-sided table, on which was placed a rectangular wooden board two meters long and one meter two and three wide.
The side against the wall is the banker. It was a middle-aged man who sat in the bank. The dealer's right-hand side called the door, and a young man sat and drew cards. Opposite the dealer is called Tianmen, and there is a young woman with exquisite makeup, who specializes in code cards.
When the cards are reshuffled after pushing, they can only sit in the gate of heaven and the dealer two people code cards.
The woman has a thin cigarette in her mouth. The long pointed fingernails are also set with fake diamonds. It looks like a bewitching mess.
The left hand side of the dealer called down the door, and a middle-aged man sat and drew cards.
There is a young man standing on the left and right sides of the dealer, which is also called the corner of the pile. It is to help the dealer lose money and eat money plus cards.
The substitute card is that the people of the upper and lower doors and the heavenly gate can't reach the cards, and the people who stand in the corner will help them get it.
These two people and the people of Tianmen code cards have to pay the code card fee and the corner fee when the dealer picks up the money (that is, wins the money).
These three people normally have an unusual relationship with the boss or dealer who set up the betting, so they can do this cheap thing. At the end of the day, the code cards can be mixed with thousands of pieces, and the corners can be made thousands.
In fact, the biggest task of the two people standing in the corner is that if the dealer wins, when he eats the money, these two people will grab all the money on the table on the left and right. And then how much is counting? Then at a rate of 5 or 10 percent, the boss will take out the money from it.
There was also a woman sitting next to the woman with the Tianmen code card, who was looking at the water tank. The water tank is specially used to put the water money drawn from the dealer.
If the dealer loses, the two people in the corner help the dealer lose money to the next house.
Except for the dealer behind no one to bet, the rest of the three parties were crowded. It's like a myriad of beasts biting at a prey.
These people want to win the money of the man who stands in the bank, and in this case, if the dealer can pick up the pile (that is, win the money, the local language is called the pile of pickpockets), it can only rely on cheating.
Whoever can have such good luck will eat money every handful.
If three out of five lose money, they will lose badly. First of all, the number of times will lose, followed by the banker, if it is a quick (good luck) many people just wait and see will not bet, if it is a plague (luck back) everyone will bet on a hand.
How much money do so many people have to lose, and it's no wonder that they don't lose more money if they don't lose money.