Chapter 27 25. Learn "craft" from Brother Zhao

I met Brother Zhao again because I caused trouble and took refuge with him. Although it was only a short ten days, I learned the real skills. We have to start from the beginning.After Brother Zhao and the others left, we returned to the old days, catching Kaizi when there was a game, dating Xiaojie when there was no game, and living life neither salty nor dull. When catching kaizi once, there was a kaizi who lost every day (we were also a bit ruthless), a little impatient, and suspected that we played a trick (we used to play a trick to win him money), because of a quarrel with a card, we were beaten by Sanyuan miserable.That Kaizi said to call the police, we were so frightened that we ran for our lives and didn't dare to show our faces for a long time.

I talked with Dabin on the phone and learned that Dabin and Dajun were doing some small business in Tianjin. I was about to flee for my life. I hadn’t been to Tianjin yet, so I happened to go to their place to hide from the limelight. When I arrived in Tianjin, I found out that Dabin and Dajun had set up a small company together. They were very happy to see me and took me to visit all the places in Tianjin.A month later, I called Sanyuan, but I couldn’t find him. Later, through Sanyuan’s friends, I learned that Sanyuan was detained. The fight seemed to be a gambling scam. The police said they needed to know the situation, and they were all over the world Find me.When I heard this, how dare I go back.

It's not a big deal to play the autumn wind here every day at Dabin, they are busy with business, and I am the only idler.After staying for a while, I was really bored, so I tried to contact Brother Zhao.I hung up the phone and said casually on the phone: "I'll go to Tangshan to visit you." He was also a cheerful person, and said: "Okay, come here." I immediately packed my things and went to Tangshan to find Brother Zhao.Brother Zhao arranged a place for me to live. I learned Tangshan dialect when I had nothing to do, went fishing with him, and lived a happy life.

Brother Zhao has something to do, he is the real master, I really want to learn from him, but every time I mentioned this point, he would either divert the conversation, or keep silent, pretending not to hear.I follow him every day, like a follower, and occasionally run errands for him or something.Brother Zhao has his own circle of friends, they are not fishing every day, or drinking tea and chatting in teahouses.Wherever Brother Zhao goes, I will follow.He didn't greet me, and he didn't push me away. After a long time, Brother Zhao's friends have gradually become familiar with me, knowing that I want to learn art, what Brother Zhao didn't agree to, and occasionally joked about it.Brother Zhao was very happy when he heard it, and he didn't say anything, and he didn't show his tone at all. I also asked him how to do it before he was willing to teach me, but he didn't say anything.That day I followed him to the teahouse, and met his old buddies again, said hello, and they started chatting all over again.I occasionally interjected a word, I do not know how to say about me, an older old man said to me: "You boy, you are so ignorant, you have to have the etiquette of apprenticeship, you have to kowtow to apprentice, Lao Zhao can teach you crafts , This food is not so easy to learn." The other old men followed suit, and said that if I sincerely apprenticed to the teacher, I would kneel down and kowtow three times to Brother Zhao on the spot, and he promised to accept me. Promise, if I don't kneel, I'm not sincere.

Apart from us, there were quite a lot of guests in the teahouse. I was educated since I was a child that men have gold under their knees, and I felt that it was shameful to kneel down.But when it came to this point, I wanted to go all out, so I knelt in front of Brother Zhao and kowtowed three times, everyone said: "Well, this kid seems to really want to learn." Brother Zhao pulled me Get up and say: "You boy, I know you have a lot of heart when I look at you." Everyone booed again, saying that the apprenticeship is not enough to kowtow, and they have to toast and light cigarettes.There was no alcohol in the teahouse, so I ran to the Tobacco Hotel without much money in my pocket, bought a bottle of mid-to-high-grade wine and ran back to the teahouse.I knelt down and offered three glasses of wine to brother Zhao, and drank three more glasses myself.The toasting ceremony was finished, and then he took out a cigarette and lit it for him respectfully, finally completing the apprenticeship ceremony.

When Brother Zhao agreed to teach me, let alone my joy.That night, we sat together, and he asked me to show him what I knew first. With all my strength, I performed the shuffling, dealing, cutting, editing, and changing of the cards that I had learned from Dabin. After reading it, he shook his head and said: "You have practiced wrongly. First of all, you have to correct the hand shape of your cards. If you encounter a slight problem, you can see at a glance that you may be out of the thousand. Secondly, you have to remember that you have stolen goods." Throw away all the things that you have, such as stealing cards and changing cards, etc. If you have stolen cards, it will be easy for people to catch you and serve as evidence of your cheating. And when you take cards, there will be a lot of noise at every turn (I didn’t know that at the time All the cards played in a serious place have a sound, that is, the moment the poker is played, you can hear a snap), this is not right, there must be no sound, if there is a sound, people will be suspicious. Although people may not Catch you (the moment is very fast, generally you can't catch it), but once people become suspicious, they won't play with you and keep a distance from you, no matter how skillful you are."

He completely corrected many of my bad habits and asked me to start from scratch.Once a certain behavior has become a habit, it is very difficult to start practicing again. He taught me for 10 days in total.Just in these 10 days, he showed me everything he knew.There are thousands of skills that can be mastered, as long as you know the tricks, the rest is up to you to practice.He taught a variety of things, such as poker, dice, high technology, etc., and more importantly, he gave me some great advice. Brother Zhao told me: Magic is heaven, and thousands of arts are hell.You can learn some things from magic, but you must not bring magic things to the game, that is equivalent to giving your life to others.A high-ranking cheater should not use props under any circumstances. Using props is to give others a handle, which means you are joking with your own life.Not using the stolen things does not mean not learning, as a scammer, you have to learn. Only by knowing the tricks in it can you ensure that you will not be deceived by such means.So he asked me to throw away all the things like stealing cards, changing cards, and hiding cards, and they must not be used in gambling.Although the purpose of winning money can be achieved by using these, it is easy to be caught. In fact, I have suffered a lot.

The fake shuffling I learned from Dabin before was completely rejected by Brother Zhao, and he taught me another fake shuffling method.Normal shuffle, two stacks of cards are inserted together, the trick is to keep a small distance between the front and back, so that when you shuffle the second hand, you can use this small distance to completely separate them. It can be restored. He asked me to ditch all the old shuffling and cutting tricks.He has seen me shuffling the cards, but he didn't pay attention to these details when he first learned with Dabin. He always unconsciously practiced how to shuffle to look good during practice.Brother Zhao warned me: "Remember, you are here to gamble, not to perform. When people see you playing poker so well, they will pay attention to you, or they will think you are a veteran and are unwilling to play with you. In the casino, you must learn how to play poker. Look clumsy, so that others will not be on guard against you." In our words, it is to pretend to be brave, to pretend to be clumsy, to be regarded as a winner, and sometimes it is easier to succeed.I think it's funny how some junior cheaters play with me as if I'm a total dick.

Another principle he told me is: Don’t make frequent purchases in big venues, the key is just one time, don’t be greedy for too much, just accept when you see a deal.Many scammers were caught because greed controlled their will, and some ended badly.His words also had a great impact on me. Brother Zhao said: "There will always be someone who is taller than you, so you must be cautious." I always remember this sentence, and I have always used it as my motto, so I am safe and sound now.It is true that there are thousands of people in this thing. Cats have cats and dogs have dogs. At the end of the game, you are always learning and updating some things you don’t know.

Brother Zhao is also very particular about the on-the-spot reaction of the old man on the court. He also taught me how to read other people's body language and learn how to play the body language well, because the body language mainly conveys information to the peers on the court. passwords, many scammers rely on this password to transfer information to each other.The secret signals I encountered while playing bets in Harbin should belong to the category of body language. How to use daily action habits to convey specific information to your companions depends on mutual agreement and requires good observation skills.Brother Zhao means learning this is not for application, but for prevention.Familiarity with this cheating method can prevent you from being disadvantaged in this area in the future, because scammers often cheat in groups, and often use various body language to convey information to their peers.For example, personal expressions, seemingly random actions, word codes, etc., it is necessary to find out the codes behind these seemingly random and random according to the situation on the court.

Brother Zhao also taught me how to observe words and expressions.A cheater must learn to observe people and figure out the psychology of the other party.The gambling table is also very simple. It doesn’t matter what occupation or background the opponent has. Sitting on the gambling table, he is a slave to money. All gamblers have the same mentality: they are happy when they get a big card, but depressed when they get a small one.How to see their emotions, there is a very simple way, directly observe the opponent's eyes, no matter how well the opponent conceals, no matter how high the psychological quality is, the eyes will not lie.When you look at the eyes, you look at the pupils. If you take a big card, the pupils will shrink, and on the contrary, they will enlarge.But in actual operation, it is a bit difficult to look directly at other people's eyes.Some people don't look at you at all, you can't just stare at them face to face.Some people will see you as a provocation in the game of gambling, which can easily irritate others. Brother Zhao said, it depends on the specific occasion and how flexible you are.In a game that requires a battle of wits, it will definitely help you to please and show weakness to the other party first: we are here for money, and if you show weakness, he may not care about you. You can also pretend to be sincere to communicate with him, Make it clear that you are showing respect for the other person, so you look into his eyes and speak.This is easier to be accepted by the other party.He can despise you as much as he wants, it doesn't matter.Winning him is the goal.Of course, this also requires a lot of practice, and it is difficult to distinguish the changes in the opponent's pupils at the beginning.