Chapter 90: Tournament Gambling
Bai Chenxuan suddenly said loudly: "What did you just say?"
Qian Buhao replied sadly again, "I said that if my father came back from Dongjiang Mansion, he would know that I would definitely discount my legs if I went up the mountain to learn martial arts." ”
Bai Chenxuan waved his hand and said, "Further along, what did you say?"
Qian Buhao thought for a while and said, "Discount my leg?"
Bai Chenxuan said: "No, go further!"
Cui Xi interjected: "He said that if he can open a handicap and bet on this competition, it will be much more interesting than cheering dryly!"
"That's right!" Bai Chenxuan waved his fist excitedly and slammed it on Qian Buhao's back, "Qian Laosan, you are a fucking genius! No wonder your family is developed, just like you, if you don't get rich, who will get rich!"
Qian Buhao wanted to rub his back innocently, but found that he couldn't reach it. He said stupidly, "Why did you get rich?"
Cui Xi already understood, he replied: "You mean gambling competition, we sit in the bank?"
Bai Chenxuan looked like he had met a confidant, and said with a golden light in his eyes: "Exactly!"
Qian Buhao frowned, and Xiaopang's face was full of worry, "I'm afraid the head doesn't like this, right?"
Bai Chenxuan replied: "Well, I can go directly to ask the master!"
Cui Xi clapped his hands and said, "Second Brother Bai is worthy of being the head of the family, you dare to ask about this kind of thing!"
Bai Chenxuan disagreed, "The head master said that the revitalization of the Invincible Sect depends on the punches and kicks of the senior brothers, but it also depends on people like us to earn it bit by bit!"
With that, he ran out of the dormitory and went straight to the master's house.
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Early in the morning, the disciples of the Invincible Sect got up, washed, and took on tasks as usual.
But this morning's day duty, there was an extra table next to it, and there were a few books and countless number plates on the table. Sitting behind the table were today's acting deacon Xu Xuesong and Bai Chenxuan with an excited face.
Bai Chenxuan put forward his ideas with the master in charge yesterday, and the master really did not object, and even encouraged himself.
The master also used the martial arts competition as an example to give himself a half-night class, and deeply analyzed the unknown secrets behind gambling!
Bai Chenxuan originally thought that the master would reveal the thousands of techniques on the gambling table to him, but he didn't expect that the head didn't care about those thousands of techniques at all, and just listed some data to eat gamblers to death!
Bai Chenxuan didn't know much about the strange words Guan Chang said, such as probability, expectation, weight, gambler's psychology, and Murphy's Law, but this did not delay his admiration for Guan Chang.
In the end, he and Guan Chang developed the "First Invincible Sect Martial Arts Betting"!
Everyone is quite curious about this "gambling", just because there is a banner hanging on the lintel of the door during the day, which reads: Anyone who participates in gambling will have a chance. A cadre of disciples waited for Bai Chenxuan to introduce gambling while picking up tasks.
"Hey, what is this bet, a new kind of mission?" Some of the disciples were already immune to the endless quests.
"Doesn't this betting have anything to do with the tournament that will start this afternoon?"
"Why doesn't Senior Brother Bai open his mouth, this gambling sounds very interesting. ”
Bai Chenxuan saw that the people were almost gathered, so he cleared his throat and said loudly: "Senior brothers, pay attention, come and come, come here." ”
"Today is a big day for my Invincible Sect to compete and select inner disciples, but only two inner disciples are recruited, and there are only sixteen people participating in the competition. The rest of us don't seem to be able to do much but shout and cheer. Master knows that everyone wants to participate, so I have set up the Invincible Sect Martial Arts Gambling here, so that everyone can enjoy the excitement of competing on stage while paying attention to the competition!
This rule is also very simple, in fact, it is the result of the bet.
The sixteen people who competed were arranged as No. 1 to No. 16. Punters need to guess the quarterfinals or quarterfinals, and the closer the outcome, the more profitable they will be after the draw.
Unlike traditional bets on winning or losing, there are no odds in this type of betting, but rather the concept of a prize pool.
And the very simple sixteen-player knockout tournament has also derived a variety of betting gameplay.
The first way to play is called "Eight Immortals Across the Sea". Each bet contains 8 numbers, which are for punters to guess which disciples will make it to the quarterfinals. Those who can guess eight, seven, or six are considered as the first, second, and third prizes of the game.
The second way to play is called "Four Heavenly Kings". Each bet contains 4 numbers, which are for punters to guess which disciples will make it to the top four and which of them will win the championship. The first prize is awarded to the top four and all the places are correct, the second prize is awarded to the top four but the order is wrong, and the third prize is awarded to the top three but not the fourth prize.
The disciples of the Invincible Sect are all young, it is the age of pursuing excitement, and once this infinitely close to gambling game appears, its impact is no less than that of the plague.
Before Bai Chenxuan finished speaking, a few disciples couldn't help but start muttering that a certain senior brother and a certain junior brother will enter the top four, and I want to buy them to win!
Bai Chenxuan had no choice but to organize everyone to line up while continuing to talk about some rules in the back.
This gambling is not mandatory for everyone, and the master has set a limit on the amount of bets that can be placed in order to prevent everyone from breeding gambling vices.
There are two ways to play, and you can buy up to 10 bets each, and each bet is 20 cents. These 10 bets can be bought in the same combination or in different combinations.
In order to cheer up the whole Invincible Sect, betting will continue until the start of the first match. At that time, everyone up and down the Silver Ridge can come to place bets!
As a result, it was not only the outer disciples of the Invincible Sect who were eager to try. The entire Invincible Sect and even Yinling are going to jump with chickens and dogs. There are also a lot of guys in the various halls of the Invincible Sect, there are also villagers working in the Invincible Sect in Majia Village, workers and disciples who are under construction in the Splendid Gate, and even the disciples of the Pingshui Sect who have just moved to the Invincible Sect have joined the betting team!
For a while, the invincible sect chickens and dogs jumped, and Bai Chenxuan had to find a few helpers to maintain order and count gambling bets.
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The disciples and men of the Invincible Sect are well paid, and they usually eat and drink in the sect, so they have a lot of savings. Moreover, they are quite familiar with these sixteen senior brothers, and everyone happens to have a top eight or even top four ranking in their hearts, so almost every disciple of the Invincible Sect has bought the upper limit, even if it is not to win money, it is good to cheer for the senior brothers!
Although most of the disciples of the Jinxiumen and Pingshui factions have no savings, there are many of them who are rich and capricious, and there are also senior sisters like Yin Xiaoqing, who are not too big to watch the excitement, to join in the fun.
Gambling regulations limit each person to buy 20 bets, but there is no rule on whether you can buy on your behalf. There are always some people who don't want to play lucky, so their places are used to buy by those who like to gamble.
On average, almost everyone bought 20 bets!
By the end of the afternoon competition, a total of 230 people had placed bets, and the amount of bets reached 57 taels of silver.
Guan Chang was embarrassed, and even if more than 200 people placed bets on the limit, they would still invest a total of 70,000 yuan! He didn't dare to think that once this gambling was put in Tan County, how many people would have to go bankrupt.
The people of this era are still too upright! It seems that the rules of the Invincible Sect need to be added a few more!