Chapter 3 1. Entering the game for the first time

Let's start from the beginning. I grew up in a small fishing village where gambling is very popular, and I have been fascinated by it. I gambled with the children in the same village during festivals. From a very early age, I already knew some simple and common gambling methods. After graduating from high school, I didn’t get into university and I only wanted to work in political and legal agencies. Unfortunately, I didn’t have any connections, and I couldn’t find other more stable jobs. I hung around all day. Make a small bet, too. It seems that there is such a rule that people who just started to learn to gamble will basically win money, and I am no exception.At the beginning, there were only a few hundred yuan of gambling capital, and gradually he won almost 10,000 yuan.You can make so much money without working!I seemed to see a broad avenue to get rich, so I plunged into it. From then on, I didn't think about anything all day long.It just so happened that the first thing I played was stare.

The game of staring is very simple: a deck of poker, each person is dealt two playing cards to compare the size, once the poker is turned over, it is clear at a glance who is bigger and who is smaller.The loser stares and watches the winner take the money away. The name is really vivid. At the beginning, I only played small rounds of 30 yuan and 50 yuan. When I had money in hand, my ambition became bigger and bigger, and I always wanted to play something big.Introduced by someone, I finally found the star-studded big game. The game was set in an unassuming small hotel, with a minimum bet of 500 and a cap of 2,000.But since then the luck has left me and I have been losing money.

At first, I thought it was my bad luck.Later, after being instructed by someone, I realized that someone had tampered with it.At that time, I was new to the casino, and I didn't know the tricks of cheaters. I couldn't see what those people did at that time.At that time, I was very stupid. I knew in my heart that someone was playing tricks, but I was still like a moth to a flame. I was obsessed with borrowing money every day to chase the game, and I lost more and more in the end. At that time, my family had already moved to the town. In order to raise money, I would also go to small fishing villages to borrow money. Without exception, the money was transferred to other people's pockets after not staying with me for long.Later, no one dared to lend me money anymore. After careful calculation, I borrowed more than 20,000 yuan from relatives and friends.Without the gambling capital, I still go to gamble every day, and when I go, I just stand by and watch other people gamble. Occasionally, I meet a familiar banker who wins money and can get some red (throwing red is a jargon, which means that the person who wins money gives money to the surrounding people) A little tip from your acquaintances, also called Shuixi, Paixi).

There, I met Bao Lin, an old acquaintance from the same village. Obviously he is a veteran here, and occasionally sits at the dealer (since it is not a "regular" casino, anyone with money can sit at the dealer, and the dealer is responsible for shuffling, distributing cards, and All Sanjia bets), I saw with my own eyes that he won more than 50,000 in one day, not to mention how envious he was. That night, Baolin was dragged by my life to live in my house. Since we were acquaintances, my parents didn't pay much attention.Talking about the process of my losing money during this period of time at night, he kept saying: "You are so stupid, you are so stupid." After speaking, he picked up the cards and showed them to me; Kung fu, but at that time, it could be regarded as my first close contact with thousand arts.

Baolin's method is very simple. Every time when the cards are collected, he puts a few other cards among the cards he wants, and the dealer deals the cards. No matter how the cards are dealt, those cards can be dealt out.There is a key point here, and it is necessary to cooperate with Sanjia outside when cutting cards.After the dealer took back the cards, he began to shuffle the cards, and the top seven or eight cards were basically not shuffled; after the shuffling, he poured the cards in his hand a few times. The above card is deliberately warped, and you can't find the trick if you don't look carefully, but if you use the belly of your thumb to cut the card, it is easy to separate them.At this time, the dealer needs one of his own people to cut the cards.

In Baolin's game, the banker needs to learn how to shuffle cards, and the San players who cooperate with him need to learn how to cut cards.At that time, I was immersed in the excitement of learning thousands of skills. I never thought that in a casino, if one person cuts the cards and the dealer repeatedly kills them, other players would not agree and would ask for another person to cut the cards.There is an unwritten rule in the field that the person who bets the most money has the right to decide who will cut the cards, or he will cut the cards himself.Because of this oversight, I stumbled.

That night, I studied with Baolin until midnight. At the end, Baolin saw that I was full of energy, thought for a while, and said: "Little San (I am the third eldest, and everyone in the world calls me the third brother), you can invest in shares, and we will share the winnings equally. "I was embarrassed and told him I had no money. Baolin looked like a general, smiled and said: "Who doesn't know that your father is one of the richest households in our village, and you still can't get this little money?" Baolin's words moved me, and I did what I said, and I stole the 50,000 yuan passbook from my family in one go (I learned later that it was all the savings in the family).Baolin paid 100,000 yuan to be the banker, his partner Jiadong gave 50,000 yuan to be a dealer, and I also gave 50,000 yuan to be a dealer. We were responsible for cutting cards and cooperating with the dealer.I will always remember that it was the fall of 1993.

At that time, I naively thought that I would be lucky. I learned how to cut cards, learned the secret of the staring dealer to win money, and had a reliable companion. In the future, I will only win but not lose.I seem to see a lot of banknotes waving to me, I seem to see myself and the downcast fools in the casino. It turned out afterwards that the man I thought I met was actually King Yama who ruined my entire family!