After listening to the words of the gambling shopkeeper, Shao Xi reacted that at this time he was already in the distant Loulan Kingdom in the Western Regions, and the silver ticket of the Taihe Commercial Bank was indeed unusable, and he had forgotten about it.

But fortunately, when he tossed the treasure out of Niujiao Valley, Wu Qiuer moved two more boxes of gold out, and the extra gold was not handed over to Fu Biao and Sun Lichang, but carried with him.

Since the other party does not recognize the silver ticket of the Central Plains, it can only be bet in the form of gold, and the three thousand eight hundred taels of gold are also several hundred catties according to the existing measurement standards.

Shao Xi turned around and arranged for Lao Wu and Wu Qiu'er to return to the inn and bring over a box of gold in the box in the guest room.

When Lao Wu heard that he was going to move a whole box of gold, he pulled Shao Xi aside.

He said worriedly, "Is this something reliable?" It's easy to bring this big box of gold to him, and if he really wins this bet in the future, will this guy pay the bill? Let's not make a mess of chickens and eggs. ”

A sinister smile appeared on Shao Xi's face.

"Unless he doesn't want to mix in this Loulan country anymore, he will have to pay us even if he is bankrupt, if he really dares to repay the debt, don't blame me for being unkind when the time comes.

"This Loulan country has the strength to set the rules, and I just want to take this opportunity to give the Loulan people a dismount like Guan Yucheng's predecessors."

Lao Wu still has no bottom in his heart, because Shao Xi's bet always feels that there seems to be a loophole.

At that time, when Shao Xi signed the paperwork with the shopkeeper of the gambling house, he was wondering what made him feel wrong, and he also reacted at this time.

Then he opened his mouth and asked Shao Xi: "I have always felt strange why you bet like this?" You can bet on winning or losing each game, and you can bet six times on each of the three games.

"I thought about it carefully, there are eight combinations of winning and losing in consecutive games, which are all losses and all wins, or they can be win or lose, win or lose, win or lose, and the total win and loss also includes loss and win.

"Why do you only bet on three single games, one on a streak and one on the total outcome? If we bet on six of the three single wins and losses and all the eight bets and the two bets of the total win, no matter what the final result is, we will definitely win.

"And that bet is a sure profit, according to each bet on a gold bet, a single game of six notes plus a row of eight bets, plus a total of two bets, a total of 16 gold.

"And in the end, the total payout is one hundred to one hundred, that is, one hundred times the sixteen gold, that is, 1,600 gold, isn't this one hundred to one hundred in the gambling house obviously losing money?

"Why did they come up with this 100-100 total payout? Why don't you bet like that? I think other gamblers should have noticed, why didn't you think of it? ”

After listening to Lao Wu's words, Shao Xi patted him on the shoulder, raised his hand and pointed to the sign about horse racing odds erected in the center of the gambling house.

"Guess what you can think of, would the casino have thought of it earlier? This kind of gambling and payout multiplier are how many years they have been engaged in, how could they not think of this?

"You only noticed the gambling method and payout multiple written on the sign, but you didn't pay attention to the line under the sign, you can take a good look at it yourself."

After Shao Xi's reminder, Lao Wu only noticed that there was a line of small words written at the bottom of the sign - a single bet can only be one of the two wins and losers, even the game can only choose to bet on a winning and losing order, the total winner can only choose one of the two winners, bettors need to sign on the ticket, if you find that you violate this rule or ask others to bet on your behalf, the gambling house will not recognize the betting results, and the bet will not be refunded.

The reason why Shao Xi and Lao Wu can understand it is because the shopkeeper of this gambling house has intimately explained it in Western Regions and Central Plains characters at the same time.

After reading this explanation, Lao Wu couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "You're right, it seems that the people I can think of have already thought of it, blocking this road to death."

"Not only can you not bet on all the wins and losses, but also get out of the gambling ticket and sign the bet, and you can't find someone to bet on your behalf, so the gambling house can be said to be a sure profit."

Shao Xi smiled and said sarcastically to Lao Wu: "You were also a person who often mixed in the gambling house back then, you should know what is going on in the gambling house, and people are not stupid, how can you leave such a big hole for you to drill." ”

In fact, Lao Wu's idea was not wrong before, if it wasn't for the special instructions made on the brand, if he really bet on the whole way like Lao Wu, but any gambler can win a lot of money from the hands of the gambling house.

Shao Xi had actually thought of all this a long time ago, so he always paid attention to every word on the brand, and he believed that there would definitely be a special explanation to limit the bets of gamblers.

The account that Lao Wu just calculated, Shao Xi had already made the abacus "crackle" in his heart, but it was a pity that the gambling house had already thought of the things they thought of, so there was this betting rule.

The existence of this rule guarantees the interests of the gambling house.

Three single games, each single game bet on winning can no longer bet on losing at the same time, even the eight combinations of the game can only choose one of them to bet, or even choose two, the total winner is also bet on winning can not lose again, bet on losing can no longer bet on winning.

Although this rule will make the bet less bet, it does not affect the amount of bet the gambler makes.

Because after this rule, if the gambler wants to win more, he can only increase the amount of bets when betting.

The gambling house reduces the probability of the gambler winning through this rule, and can reap a fortune from it.

The person who makes the rules will definitely consider that the rule must be beneficial to themselves in the first place, and if you want to play under other people's rules, you must abide by other people's rules.

Gamblers have fewer choices, so they can only win or lose by luck by investing a lot of money, so it is not as easy as they think to win the total payout.

There are very few people who can really bet on everything, and even if one or two people occasionally win all of them, the gambling house has already made enough money from others.

Playing around, in fact, the money lost by the gambling house is not their own, but the money lost by other gamblers, so the rest is the gambling house.

The reason why the shopkeeper dares to bet with Shao Xi like this is precisely because of the existence of this rule, just like Shao Xi said, people are not stupid, how can they give you a chance to win?

It is precisely because Shao Xi's probability of winning is very low that the gambler dares to risk a huge amount of compensation to make this bet with Shao Xi.

It's just that he never dreamed that Shao Xi's idea was not his gambling house, nor the rules he formulated, but the idea was directly hit on the horse race itself.

If you can control the probability of winning or losing, then I will directly control the outcome of this horse race.

Speaking of which, Shao Xi was bold enough, and when he was not sure whether he could enter the palace to meet King Loulan, he dared to bet like this.

However, Lao Wu believed that since he dared to do this, he must have already thought about how to enter the palace to meet the king of Loulan, and how to persuade the king of Loulan to let him arrange the horse race.

Since Shao Xi himself behaved so easily, Lao Wu felt that there was no need to worry about it anymore.

He, the young master, is like a monkey, and he will never do anything that suffers, it seems that all this has been arranged in his heart, so what he lets himself do, he just does it himself.

It is estimated that if you ask him at this time, he will also pretend to be mysterious and not say anything, too lazy to waste saliva with him here, and waste his efforts in vain.

Lao Wu took Wu Qiu'er back to the inn to get the gold, and the reason why Shao Xi arranged for the two of them to go back together was because the box of gold was too heavy, and Lao Wu couldn't move it at all.

But Lao Wu is more shrewd, how to not show flaws in front of the inn store, and quietly move out such a large box of gold, Lao Wu is much more reliable than Wu Qiu'er.

If Wu Qiu'er went back alone, people would have said a few words to him and they would know that they had two large boxes of gold in the guest room.

As the saying goes, when you go out, your wealth is not exposed.

It's important to avoid some unnecessary risks.

Shao Xi stayed alone in the gambling hall and sat with the shopkeeper to drink tea together, watching these gamblers in the gambling house stand in front of the sign one by one as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, talking and talking.

The main content is still to discuss how to bet, and the focus of the topic is on the selection of consecutive games.

After all, there are only two options for a single game and a total win, and many people can choose to bet based on their feelings, and this streak is inevitably related to the single game and the total win.

That is to say, in order to get the total payout of one hundred to one, the vast majority of people will choose a consistent result between a single game, a consecutive game and a total win.

For example, if you choose to win or lose in a match, it will directly affect the bet on winning in the first game, losing in the second game, and winning in the third game when betting on a single game, so as to correspond to the choice of consecutive games.

Then there are two wins and one loss in the game, and in the selection of the total winner and loser, the bet will generally be chosen to win, so that all the wins and losses will become consistent.

Once you win all your bets, you will get that share of the total payout of 100 to 100.

But if you make a different choice, it is equivalent to completely giving up the one hundred to one, so this group of gamblers are there to struggle with how to choose.

In fact, when the gambling house designed this betting rule, it seemed that it gave gamblers a lot of choices, but in fact, on the whole, it still only gave gamblers two choices.

Therefore, the choices of gamblers have not increased, and the probability of winning has decreased because of the appearance of consecutive games.

This is where the shrewdness of the casino comes in, creating the illusion of multiple options, and then diluting the probability of a gambler's win through the unpredictable factor of consecutive games.

For example, if a gambler thinks that the king of Loulan will win in Marseille, then he only needs to choose to bet on winning or losing in total.

But how will the king of Loulan win? Will it be a win of all three or a win over the first two? Or win the last two? Or win the first and third games?

As a result, there is only a 50% probability that is divided by 4 again, and the probability of winning is only 12.5%.

Many people may think that the probability of 12.5 percent is already very high, but don't forget that there will be more people who will step on the other 87.5 percent.

This is without counting the 50% probability of each of the three races, and the probability of each of the three races is only 50%.

As long as there is a wrong bet, then the subsequent streak and the total win and defeat will not be established.

If this kind of horse racing is played every day, I believe that there will always be someone who can win some money from it.

Unfortunately, this kind of bet is only once a year, which means that if you win this year, you will win, and if you don't, you will have to wait until next year.

In this only horse racing game of the year, there are very few people who can actually bet on it, and it is precisely because there is only one time a year that gamblers choose to bet wildly, looking forward to being able to get rich overnight through this bet.

But in reality, the only winner of each year is the casino, and through this Marseille the casino was able to collect a considerable sum of money from the gamblers at once.

Many gamblers also went bankrupt overnight because of this annual horse race, and became nothing, everyone wants to fight big with a small one, and in the end they are just leeks in the eyes of the gambling house.

Even if someone wins a bet this year and wins a large sum of money, the gambling house is not worried, because sooner or later, these gamblers in front of them will lose the money they have won again to the gambling house on the gambling table in the gambling house.

It is precisely because of such confidence that the gambling house dares to open such a big gambling game every year to make gamblers carnival.

Speaking of which, this is a bit like people buying lottery tickets today, except that the lottery is designed with more complex rules to make the probability of winning infinitely low.

That's why it's sold in large quantities every day, and it's very cheap.

It is precisely because you can win by quantity, although each bet is a few yuan, dozens of yuan, and many hundreds or thousands of yuan, but the accumulation of small amounts.

No matter how much the winner takes in the end, the prize money he receives will never be comparable to the revenue from running the lottery.

And many people also hold the idea of being small and broad, going farther and farther on this road, and finally falling into it and unable to extricate themselves.

At this time, Shao Xi looked at those crazy gamblers, just like looking at the crazy gamblers around him, everyone had a dream of making a fortune, and it could even be said to be a fantasy.

put the small amount of money in his hand, and in the end, all he got back was a wail and a piece of chicken feathers.

Shao Xi never bought lottery tickets, on the one hand, because he had no spare money to do such things, and on the other hand, he didn't believe that such luck would fall on his head.

But now I am different, not that my luck has become, but that I have more cognitive advantages and information reserves in this world than others.

He knows how to put aside his luck and rules and become the mastermind behind the game.

Despite this, Shao Xi still firmly believes in that sentence - cherish life and stay away from gambling.