Chapter 8 7. Take office

At the beginning, there was only one table of Pai Gow at the Jian Ge Hotel, but gradually there were more people, and staring and betting were added.In this game, hard Pai Gow is played, not Poker Pai Gow.At the beginning, there were not many people, and there were only seven or eight people at the most.Xiaoai and his staff are in charge of entertaining the gamblers, and I am in charge of watching the game. On the first day of work, I was very motivated and took it seriously. I kept looking around at everyone's desk, for fear that I would miss someone who was worth a thousand dollars. Now that I think about it, I was really stupid.After a long time, I became tired and didn't bother to stand by and read. I slept when I wanted to sleep, and read martial arts books if I wanted to read martial arts books.

In the first few days, I opened my eyes wide at the beginning of the game, waiting to catch cheats, and it turned out that everything was calm and no one was playing tricks.Everyone is a little embarrassed to see that I always watch the excitement and don't end up playing.There were also Enthusiastic People who mobilized me to come up to play. I smiled and said, "I don't have money, so I just watch the fun."I always stand and watch at other people's tables. After a long time, people look down on me. Some gamblers even thought I was in the way, so I just stood far away and watched the fun.

In the beginning, the people who came to play were basically brought by Xiao Ai and his gangster friends. thousand.Anyone who plays Pai Gow wants to count the cards, and it's the same for everyone.People in the game feel that there is a problem, and they can also flip the cards.Besides, the order of drawing cards in Pai Gow is determined by playing dice. When the cards are played, it is decided which door to start drawing cards from.So even if someone stakes a big card, they may not be able to catch it. At most, they will know whose house that card has gone to, and whether they can find it.Therefore, when shuffling the big cards such as heaven and earth in a fixed position, as long as the dice are not controlled or there are other problems, I will turn a blind eye.If all these have to be taken care of, then this Pai Gow game should be disbanded directly.

Two weeks later, the number of gamblers gradually increased, and they were all acquaintances pulling acquaintances, a bit like pyramid schemes.A certain gambler was introduced to play, and after playing a few times, the gambler thought it was not bad, so he introduced his friends to play.There are more and more people, fish and dragons are mixed together, the gambling game is getting more and more popular, and all kinds of strange things can be encountered. The first decent cheat I caught after I took office was also brought in by someone else.This person has been playing here for several days, and has been a casual player.After playing a game for a few days, you will soon become familiar with other players.Playing hard square Pai Gow pays attention to the cooperation of scattered players. Sometimes everyone is optimistic about which one, and they collectively bet on one to pay the banker's bottom money.Of course, others thought that I was just watching the excitement, and no one paid attention to me.It wasn't until I caught a poker trickster in the staring game, and everyone knew what I was doing, that no one paid attention to me, and even wooed and corrupted me. cheating.This is something.

Closer to home, let's talk about the trick I caught for the first time.That afternoon, the kid finally got the Zhuang seat.I was bored at the time, eating melon seeds by myself, and there were melon seed skins all over the tea table.From a distance, I saw that they had changed their seats, so I stood up and went over to have a look. The kid sat on the sofa against the wall as soon as he entered the door, facing the window.There were quite a few people around the table, so I could only stand behind the gate of heaven, with my back to the window.After watching for a while, I was sure this kid was out of luck.It was not obvious at the beginning, the dealer and the Sanjia were in a stalemate, the dealer didn't win much money, and I started from a bad position, which was not conducive to observing his specific process of making a thousand.And at the beginning, he was just paving the way, laying the foundation for winning money later.

After playing for a while, the groundwork was almost done, and the kid started to win money.Every time he matches the cards, he is very slow, and he can't beat it. Every time he can match the two cards in his hand, he just kills the San players outside. Generally, he only knows what time the San players outside are. That's why it matches. Change cards?No, if it was a card change, I would have discovered it long ago.He didn't change the cards, he didn't make a fuss about the dice, he basically threw them around.The shuffling and numbering of the cards is random shuffling and random codes. There is no attention to the rules at all, and other people move them casually.But he is like a clairvoyant, as if he can see through other people's cards.

There is one card that I remember particularly deeply.For that hand, all the scattered players outside gathered at Tianmen and called him for the deposit.After he dealt out the cards, he didn't move his own cards, and stared at the Tianmen outside to match the cards.After Tianmen finished matching the cards and pulled out the head and tail and put them away, he picked up the four cards in front of his door and studied them for a long time, changing them back and forth several times. He tilted his head and stared at the bettors on Tianmen, and moved his body to his left involuntarily, as if tilting his head to study their expressions.I stood behind the Tianmen and watched the excitement, and I could see his expression clearly.I found that he didn't just look at the face of the matchmaker of Tianmen, he tilted his head to look at the Pai Gow prepared by Tianmen!It's just that he concealed it very well, and kept focusing on the face of the dealer. When he looked back, he quickly scanned the cards placed on the table by Tianmen, and everything behaved naturally.Natural to natural, I think it is unnatural, because I am a careful observer.

After reading the cards of Tianmen, he slowly matched the cards, pulled them back and forth on the table, and then reached out to open the two stacks of cards of Tianmen, 57 warriors, 5 heads and 7 tails, black 10 with length 5, 3 with Red 4 geese.After watching the cards, he drew all Tianmen's money to his door, indicating that Tianmen's call was unsuccessful and he lost.Finally, he revealed his own card, which is also a 57 warrior. The difference is that he has 5 heads with red 8 and black 7, and 7 tails with 2 and 5.For the top card, the banker will kill the long card, and the tail will kill the goose. Both the head and the tail are bigger than the Tianmen.

There are generally three matching methods for such cards, 57 matching, or 2 Kong (5+7 heads, 8+2 tails) matching, or 39 (8+5 heads, 2+7 tails) matching.Veteran players like to be dubbed as 57 fighters, there is nothing wrong with it.However, think about it from another angle: If I have such a hand match, I will definitely save my breakeven with 2 bars and 39.But if you know the Tianmen tile, you don’t have to make the tail so big. If you have a Tianmen tile with a 7 tail, whether the Tianmen head is 6 or 7, the dealer will keep your capital.He should know how many Tianmen matches, how did he know?Pai Gow was bought by me, there's no way it's see through, what the hell.

Could it be that he marked it?I played back in my mind the process of him turning his head sideways to look at the Pai Gow, and I followed suit at the time, but I didn’t see anything special.I'm not blind, so I should be able to see what mark he wants to draw on it.But I looked, and there was nothing there.Someone walked into the water and told him the point of Tianmen?Impossible, that kid at Tianmen is very smart, he is holding on to the Pai Gow tightly, and put it there after it was prepared, without even showing it to his accomplices who bid for the bottom money at Tianmen.He walked a little by himself, and the other people who called the bottom together were all Kaizi?I don't think so, because the guy from Tianmen takes all his money and calls it the banker's bottom. If there is not enough money, everyone pays for it. If he loses, he has to give Tianmen to others.I have observed him, and judging from his regretful expression after losing money, it is definitely not a fake, it is the most typical expression of a gambler who has lost everything: desolation, panic, unwillingness, helplessness, disappointment, bewilderment... I've seen these expressions a lot, and it's not something I can pretend.It seems that the problem still lies with the kid who sits in the manor.

After simply watching his hand movements for matching cards twice and the way he changed his posture, I was basically sure how he made a thousand moves.Every time he finishes dealing the cards, it is up to everyone to match the cards.When everyone finished matching and divided the heads and tails, he picked up his own cards with his right hand to match.After picking up the cards with his right hand, he uses the index and middle fingers of his left hand to turn over and draw cards, and the thumb of his left hand does not touch the Pai Gow. His left thumb seems to be idle all the time, but it's not.When he gets the Pai Gow, sometimes he touches it intentionally or unintentionally with the thumb of his left hand. The movements are very inconspicuous and seem casual.What did he touch?Make nicks?No, if there are, I should be able to see them. These actions are all done after he finished matching the cards.After matching the cards, he pulled his head and tail open on the table.During the process of matching cards, he always looked at the Pai Gow of the San players outside. At that time, the San players had finished matching the cards and placed them on the table head to tail.His body is always moving left or right. On the surface he looks at people's faces, but in fact he looks at the long side of people's Pai Gow.what is he looking atI leaned over and looked, but saw nothing.Did he smear the invisibility potion on the thumb of his left hand and make a mark on the side of the Pai Gow?But in my impression, the potion mark can't be done like this. Later, I deliberately paid attention to his left thumb, observed all the movements of his left thumb, and finally saw clearly what he was doing with his hands. After he finished matching the cards, he put his right hand on the table and his left hand on his clothes.I noticed in particular that every time he finished playing cards, he rubbed his thumbs on his clothes a few times, as if he wanted to erase something, and then used his left hand to turn over Sanjia's cards.When he turned over other people's cards, he used his left index finger to press the back of the Pai Gow, stretched his fingers to the bottom (narrow side) of the Pai Gow (long strip) and turned the Pai Gow over. In other words, his fingers never touched the Pai Gow. two long sides.It seems that he made a fuss about the two sides of Pai Gow. I watched it again.This time I started watching from his shuffle.Shuffle: random shuffling, he presses the back of the Pai Gow with his palm to shuffle, so that the shuffled cards will not touch the long side of the Pai Gow.Stakes: He is holding the pads with both hands at the same time, holding the narrow sides of the Pai Gow to avoid touching the long sides of the Pai Gow.Playing dice: Throwing around, no problem.After playing the dice, he sorted the cards according to the points of the dice. He stacked four cards and pushed them out vertically without touching the long side of the Pai Gow. After the cards were dealt, he straightened up to watch everyone match the cards, and touched his nose with the thumb of his left hand, as if this was his habitual action.Yes, this is the action!When he habitually touched his nose again, the process and method of his cheating became clear in my mind.