Ivan? Sergeyevich is bigger than Anthony. Hopkins was shorter, but stronger, his face and body full of angular, from brow bones to jaws, shoulders to hip bones, fingers to toes, and his black satin-trimmed tuxedo looked like it was wrapped around a giant steel ingot rather than a human body.

He reached out to Dr. Hopkins, the back of his hand shaggy and covered with yellowish hair, and his nails were trimmed so deep that they were almost embedded in the flesh. Hopkins took his hand, Ivan's hand was surprisingly hot but not sweaty, and Hopkins' hand was cold as if it had just been taken out of ice water.

Baccarat's tables are far from other gambling stalls, and in addition to chips, you can also use cash, so it can be said to be the most exciting and direct feeling in the whole casino, although everyone knows that chips are money, but a stack of small plastic discs and charming banknotes that smell of ink and crackle give a completely different look and feel, especially when some daring VIPs are desperate to gamble - they are just as bright as that. Like cheap napkins at a supermarket sale, packs are brought to the table, and in just a few minutes, shuffle, cut, deal, ask or don't want to shuffle, cut, deal, ask or not, and in just a few rounds, your personal assets can easily be doubled – or you may have to watch them being embraced.

Even those who can enter the "Heavenly Sphere" rarely gamble on this table, and the minimum bet at this table is determined to be 100,000 yuan, and the upper amount is not limited.

The manager of the table took the blood-red velvet-wrapped chain for Ivan and Hopkins and let them into the entrance, where a polished copper railing was erected around the table, which was at least three or four feet away from the table. They may not seem solid, but if an overly obsessive or fanatical bystander wants to go any further, the guards guarding it will immediately appear at his or her side, usually wearing black vests. The white shirts, the good faces, the tall figures, and the strength are unusual, but in general, they only make a gentle reminder that this is the "celestial sphere" where VIPs gather, not the "heavenly palace" where fish and dragons are mixed.

They sat in the third and fourth positions, and they didn't use cash, they used chips. The casino clerk, who acts as the "bookkeeper", shuffles the cards (six decks in total) and then asks a sideman (the gambler) to cut the cards and place them in the black tulipwood dealerbox.

After the opening. The gambler who acted as the bookmaker announced that the bet amount was $100,000, and the young man in seat number one said "all", which means that he was willing to bet, and then the old man in seat two, and seats three and four were Ivan and Hopkins. The remaining seats were occupied by a few men and women who had more or less skipped their faces on television and in newspapers and magazines, and Beelzebub recognized one of them as the son of a certain fleet owner, his father and "Don" Cheghall. Bisandi has a good relationship, and he has gained a lot of benefits from it, he is a smart man, and after tasting the sweetness, he has not forgotten the hand stretched out by the mob leader of Poseidon Island. It was a versatile hand that could help you or destroy you - the fleet owner joined Chegalle's "shipping system". He knows a lot about how to transport smuggled trucks that have been cut into pieces for scrap export.

Everyone said "all," and it was not time to back down, when Hopkins took the opportunity to get a drink and looked at the woman sitting in seat five, who was a real star. The remuneration for each movie is more than 10 million, and the maximum is 60 million. Hopkins estimated that she had been gambling for a while, and the makeup on her face was already a little blurry, especially the lipstick on her mouth, but she didn't seem to notice it at all, and the chips in front of her looked quite impressive at a glance, but there was not a single speck of gold in them.

The gamblers in seats 6 and 7 may be friends or at least partners, they exchange glances with each other, and perhaps when one cannot play against the dealer, they join forces – which is allowed on Baccarat.

Hopkins leaned forward and sniffed the air.

The dealer begins to deal the cards.

Hopkins pressed his fingernails against the two cards dealt to him, his eyes drooping, and he could see the slight gap between his eyelashes, and he asked for an out, the opposite of the card previously dealt, which was a four.

The dealer calmly turned over his cards, a queen, an eight of spades, according to the rules of Baccarat, the queen and other flower cards and ten cards can only be counted as zero, the dealer got zero points, Hopkins turned over his cards, a two, a three, a four, exactly nine, although not a "natural big card" (nine without the need to draw cards), but also has won the dealer.

Ten glittering chips were pushed over, and Ivan's eyes followed like their shadows: "Your luck is beyond imagination. He said, "Five o'clock is the most troublesome." "If you don't hit a card, it's too small, and if you hit a card, it's easy to exceed nine points.

Ivan also seemed to want the good fortune of Hopkins, but it backfired, and he lost to the bookmaker.

This time the bet was 200,000, and when the chips were ripped away, Ivan's face turned bad - fortunately, he won immediately, because this bet was 500,000, except for the part he lost last time, he won 300,000 yuan, Ivan's face improved a little, but after the bookkeeper reached over the pole and pulled out some of the small chips as a commission for the casino, Hopkins found that Ivan's eyes were on the chips as he had been last time, until they slid in front of the bookkeeper, His eyes are full of a father who watches his own flesh and blood taken away.

Ivan won two more more times, and the chips had accumulated to a million, and the female star in seat five was already empty, and she staggered to her feet, giving up her position. Ivan grabbed her as she passed, whispered a sloppy remark, and shoved a golden chip into her hand.

She twisted and escaped from between his arms, but didn't return her chips.

Hopkins looked at him, he grinned, shrugged his shoulders indifferently, "I've seen her in a movie, it's very good." He scraped the surface of the chips with the nail of his thumb: "Do you think I should go and invite her to my villa for a drink of waterga?" Poor little ewe, she lost nearly 10 million today, but she was really unlucky. ”

When the stakes reached a million, only Ivan and Hopkins dared to say "all", and this time they both lost, and Ivan stood up angrily and frustrated, and spat on the table.

"We all do it back home," he explains, in all seriousness: "Today we are all haunted by the devil, and it seems that we have to wait for tomorrow – tomorrow is a new day." ”

He turned to Hopkins: "What do you think?" ”

(To be continued)

Sorry, it's a little less, overtime...... It's late when I get home, and I'm a little dizzy, and I don't know what I'm writing anymore......