A Card Shark’s World - C28
After this glasses man went on stage, accompanied by this four-fingered Landlord, the other person he brought along basically didn’t dare to play cards at all, basically becoming a fight between the glasses man and the four-fingered man.
The bespectacled man had indeed won a few rounds, which made everyone feel a lot more at ease. Especially since Brother Hu’s expression had eased up a lot, the onlookers’ luck ran out.
Some of them were even trying to guess how much they had lost before they gave up, but looking at the expressions on these four fingers, they seemed to be very confident. At this moment, I saw some clues, and every time these four fingers were playing, they would accidentally touch a pile of low-leveled cards.
But instead I felt as if the four fingers had been purposely revealed to me, because he hadn’t done anything so obvious in front of me. It seemed that he was deliberately sending me a signal, that he might have used this moment to change the cards.
So here comes the question. If this is how he changed cards, then only the next dealer dealt back the cards he changed. What’s the point of that? Moreover, the rules of this Landlord game required two sets of cards to be mixed together. Every time, there would be 30 cards, which meant that there would be more than a dozen cards in each set.
What they played was a thrill. Even if you memorized the order in which the cards were dealt, hid some good cards and entered them, even if the next one was dealt to you, with so many impossible factors, it would still be very difficult for you to win.
Besides, this dealer was extremely serious with every reshuffle. His cards were all messed up, so it was impossible for him to transfer the Pai into your hands. In addition, he was wearing shorts and a singlet. Where did he hide these cards? It can’t be inside the pants, can it?
All these doubts and impossibilities made me unable to figure out how he cheated. It could be said that this person’s skills are much, much better than mine. It seems that this Four Fingers is probably on par with my master.
But how could such a person be commanded by the bespectacled man? I don’t believe that this bespectacled man is so simple. I don’t believe that he is just a hidden light. It seems that it won’t be easy to be in the water on both sides of Brother Hu and Brother Panther.
While I was thinking so much, the bespectacled man was already losing money. Moreover, these four fingers raised the score to 2,000 yuan, giving off the feeling that he wanted to squeeze out Hu-ge’s entire scene.
The surrounding crowd immediately started praising the four fingers’ good luck, but this Brother Hu clearly couldn’t bear it any longer outside the crowd. At this moment, he was already walking towards me.
“Six, right? I didn’t expect you to appear in my casino again today. Didn’t you say that you were going to leave the county? ”
“Brother Hu, it’s you. Isn’t this my bad luck? I was robbed and hunted down.” “Anyways, these past few days have been quite scary. It’s not that no one dares to cause trouble at Brother Hu’s place, but I’m here today.”
“Since you came and saw me, it’s fate for you and my Brother Hu to be together. What do you think? Do you want to consider following me in the future?”
It seems that Hu-ge wanted to find me to deal with that Four Fingers. This wasn’t giving me an olive branch, but I could tell from his gloomy expression that this wasn’t going to be a good thing!
“Brother Hu, this is just a small shrimp, I don’t know many. “Why do you have to make a second-in-command like me follow you? I’m afraid that I won’t be able to do your job well. Aren’t you going to waste your money on me like this?”
“Lil ‘Six, you should have seen that four-fingered person, right? He won half of my profits in this month, and I believe you understand what I’m worried about. You helped me find the traitor last time, and now the person in my hands is useless, so I can’t find any evidence of him cheating.”
“But I am sure that my four fingers must have gone overboard. I just can’t catch him. I don’t know if you have any brilliant ideas or not.” If you can help me, Ah Hu, then follow me to the Tsinghua University casino in the future. You’ll be in charge of the casino and I’ll even pay you 30,000 yuan in gratitude.
While I was talking with Hu-ge, the four-fingered man won another fifty or sixty thousand yuan. The man with the eyes broke out in a cold sweat, while everyone in the casino had an ugly expression on their faces.
It was at this moment that I discovered the trick of these four fingers, or rather, the flaw that he had purposely revealed to me after noticing him. He didn’t change his cards to prepare for the next move, but to hide the cards that the dealer had issued back in place.
Let’s put it this way, these four fingers were very smart. He paid attention to the dealer’s hand because he wanted to know which card was in that position. This was the reason why he always lost the first hand.
He memorized the position of the cards in the dealer’s hand at the start of the second round. Since the dealer had directly accepted the cards below, he then memorized the order of the cards below. He then understood the order in which the cards had just landed in the dealer’s hand, and all he had to do was pay attention to how the dealer had shuffled the cards.
I could see that when the dealer was shuffling the cards, my four fingers were not only staring, but also my ears were moving. He was obviously calculating how many cards the dealer took out from the first reshuffle and inserted them there. The order of the cards in his mind changed along with the dealer’s reshuffle.
These were the hard work of a thousand years, called photographic memory, and the Thousand Li Ear. The main reason is to remember the order of the cards after the reshuffle. This made me admire these four fingers very much. His skill in this area is obviously much deeper than mine, I definitely can’t remember anything about it.
This way, these four fingers would remember his cards, then they would secretly exchange their cards for good cards and play them out, playing in the pile of cards. Of course, these good cards were all from the thirty or so cards that the dealer didn’t hand out, so no one else would be able to see through them.
When there were only a few cards left in his hand, Four Fingers would switch back the cards that the dealer had given him. He would trade back the cards that he had changed from the dealer to the dealer, so there wouldn’t be any problems waiting for the dealer to reshuffle.
With this method, he was able to establish an invincible position with these four fingers. This method was quite brilliant, mainly testing an old man’s memory, eyesight, and hearing. The most important factor was his mentality.
The four-fingered man’s attitude was especially good because he was not the least bit flustered. He was not the least bit flustered when faced with such a high difficulty level. It could be said that he was already a master among masters.
After Four Fingers sold these flaws to me, I quickly thought through these techniques. It seems that it is time to replace the bespectacled man. I looked at Brother Hu who was still waiting at the side for my agreement.
“Brother Hu, I already have a rough idea of how this person did it. Next, I will help you win back the money you lost, because his method of doing it is too brilliant, and if I poke holes in his secrets, these bystanders might not believe it.
“Mhm, Lil ‘Liu, you should go and fight with this guy, but you must help me expose him.” Mhm, Lil’ Liu, you should fight with this guy, but you must help me expose him.
Brother Hu told the glasses man to switch me out. Hearing what he said just now, I knew that the odds are against me. This makes me in a bad mood. This is probably what we call the Jianghu [1].
From this moment onwards, it can be said that my job as a spy is already a foregone conclusion. As long as I take care of this Four Fingers, for the sake of peace in the casino, I will definitely become the hidden lantern here, and today’s game will be a success. However, to be able to exchange blows with an expert like Four Fingers before this makes me very excited.
Sitting opposite of the four fingers, this is the first time I’ve met such an expert since I’ve embarked on the path of cultivation. The real battle between my peers is about to begin, and this gambling match is a necessary condition for me to have a turning point in my life from now on …