Chapter 44 43. Dull brand · cigarette case · mark

In the game of gambling, not only punks will betray their brothers and friends, those who are highly educated, well-dressed, and have a certain status will do anything in order to win money, just like the song sings: put morality on both sides, profit The word is placed in the middle.I was invited to catch a scammer in a small situation. It was a scammer who cheated an old classmate of money. sad. I forgot what year it was, but my friend came to me and asked me to help his friend Manager Liu to watch the cockfight.At the beginning, they were a few good classmates and friends playing together to pass the time. At the beginning, they started with a base money of 10 yuan, rose to 20 yuan, and then rose to 50 yuan. It was a few people who were eager to make money and wanted to get it back, so they raised it to 100 for a one-time deposit.After reaching 100, it's not just these few who participated in the gambling. Gradually, some people also participated in various channels.Manager Liu did the math, he has lost a lot recently.He himself is more or less familiar with some shuffling techniques, editing techniques and some card collection techniques, and he is considered an old player.However, he seldom participates in those professional gambling games. He just plays with a few good friends after work as entertainment.One is that he is a little busy at work, and the other is that he knows that gambling can be cheated, so he can control himself well.According to our jargon: he is a man who is a little more open.He felt that some of the people who participated later might have cheated, but he didn't know exactly how they got cheated, and he had no clue, so he could only choose not to play, and just watched from the sidelines, and he couldn't see it for several days. something is wrong.Later, I met me at a dinner party, and his friend asked me to check it out. It seems that he is also the kind of person who wants to know why he died.When I got to the game, I realized that this was not the case at all.In fact, that cheater is Manager Liu's best friend!But the man kept it from him.His tricks are a bit special, so of course Manager Liu can't see anything.The reason why his friend didn't tell him was simple: he was afraid that one more person would share.In addition, it seems that he doesn't mind killing him a few times.But Manager Liu is very shrewd and has a little awareness, but he can't be sure.

After getting to know him briefly, we got to know each other well, and he took me to the place where they played.That day, after we had dinner, Manager Liu took me to a university. There were many small stalls on the side of the road, and the business was booming.We crossed a side road and came to a very inconspicuous residential area.After parking the car, he took me into a house.This is a two-bedroom house, each room has a mahjong table.According to Manager Liu, this is a place where a group of their friends set up, and they usually invite friends to play when they are free, and they can organize four tables of mahjong.But then I looked, it seems that everyone who comes to play charges a table fee.It seems that this is also a mahjong parlor in disguise. It is set up in a residential building, and there is no need to apply for a business license, no tax, and no need to worry about being caught if you play big.They are all playing cash, and they are determined not to let in if they are not brought by acquaintances.The mahjong is bigger than that in the chess and card room outside, and they often come to play red five and cockfighting.There are also people who serve tea and water here. Compared with the chess and card room outside, this place is very quiet.When we arrived, there were already a group of people playing red five inside. I can’t remember whether it was 10 yuan or 20 yuan.There was also a group of people playing mahjong in another room. It seemed that the two groups were not very familiar with each other.The middle-aged man who opened the door for us very vigilantly at the beginning knew Manager Liu, and he led us into a sunny room with a mahjong table inside.The middle-aged man seemed to be the owner of the house, serving tea and water in each room back and forth.

There were already several people in the room, and the people who arrived first saw Manager Liu coming and greeted him.They were not in a hurry to get started at all, they just drank tea, smoked, chatted, and talked about some news, international and domestic, and they might talk about each of them, and they talked about the hype.I listened to the conversation between them. These people seem to be doing well, and they all have a little title. It's either the manager or the section chief.After listening to them and chatting for a while, I realized that most of them are old classmates who are distributed in various industries.I have achieved a little success in my career, so I gather here to play when I have nothing to do.Later, a few more came, and they were all classmates, or friends from a unit brought by classmates.As for me, Manager Liu introduced that he was a good buddy, and I happened to go out for dinner with him. After dinner, I had nothing to do, so he took me here to see the western scenery.In his introduction, I was a good man who never gambled or had any exposure to gambling, so Manager Liu specially brought me here to see him.Of course, we discussed these things in advance. Manager Liu’s friends came over to shake my hand after hearing this. It seems that Manager Liu is very popular.

After chatting for about half an hour, seeing that people came one after another, they started playing.A total of 7 people played, and I sat and watched the excitement.Like me, there was also a woman who was brought by one of them. When she was introduced, she also said that she was here to watch the Western View for gambling.It's just that she seems to be curious about everything and asks about everything.I also had to pretend a few times, pretending that I didn't understand who they were older and who was younger, and acted like I didn't understand anything.I don't want others to be wary of me. Only when others are not wary can I have a good look at what's going on in this game.

Before I came here, I asked Manager Liu who was most suspected in the situation, but he couldn't say anything.Cockfighting is something that cannot be simply determined by who wins the money, so I can only watch it one by one. The poker was provided by the homeowner. Everyone disassembled it at will, and it was the most popular ordinary poker on the market.They took out the big and small kings, shuffled the cards, and moved the cards one by one to see who had the highest points. The first time the player with the highest points was the first banker, and then they fought in full swing.I sat there watching like an idiot.I carefully observed everyone's actions of shuffling, cutting and dealing cards when sitting on the dealership, as well as the whole process of everyone's reading cards, hoping to see some clues from them.But after watching it for a long time, I didn't see anything. It was basically a group of stupid people playing, and they played very casually.If someone among them deliberately shuffled some big cards, edited the order of the cards, dealt more cards, etc., I could see it right away.But no, the cards couldn't be shuffled smoothly, and the fingers seemed to be inseparable.After watching a few laps, I basically ruled out that someone is playing with literary affairs.The so-called Wenshi is a name for making money purely through technical means. This way of making money is difficult to catch, and there is no stolen goods.Those who have stolen goods are called martial arts, such as stealing cards, hiding cards, using props to exchange cards, and so on.Literary affairs are purely hand-crafted and cannot be grasped, so they generally do not commit crimes.When encountering an old man who plays literary affairs, he can only choose not to play, or wake him up and let him restrain himself.A lot of shrewd cheaters are woken up by other players, and they usually look for opportunities to compensate the players who woke him up, so that they can continue to make trouble at the gaming table.Hiding cards, stealing cards, etc. are easy to be caught by people's necks, but according to my observation, no one has stolen or hidden cards on it.

Maybe it’s the relationship between classmates and friends. They play very politely, even if they have big cards, they can’t fight each other. Even if Leopard (three cards of the same value) meets Tielong (shunzi), it’s just a few hands. Look at the cards humbly.Is this also called gambling?But they do play like this. Even so, the deposit is not a lot. If one person bets a deposit of 100 yuan, that is 700. A little bit of one or two, and a few times, it will be more than a thousand at a time.Although there are big cards that can't be fought, several of them like to block cards (that is, bet directly without looking at the cards).In the case of blocked cards, other players who check the cards must also double-call, and they must bet four times to open the cards.When meeting each other, everyone thinks the cards are good. If you block the cards, I will also block the cards, and there may be a third person who will continue to call.Within two laps, someone picked it up to look at it, and then persuaded everyone to compare it with each other.If no one goes to see it, usually three or four families are bored together and don't look at each other.At this time, someone else suggested that everyone throw 500 or 1,000 yuan each, and directly compare the size with each other, and whoever is bigger will take it.This kind of gambling is indeed very civilized. You must know that according to the deposit of 100, in other rounds, the Iron Dragon meets the Leopard can basically bet tens of thousands of deposits.But here it is only a few thousand, which is bigger than the face of the card, and there is no need to spend money to buy the bottom.Several players block their cards at the same time, and the deposit can reach the maximum amount on the table, which is about 5,000.Seeing how successful each of them is in their careers, it seems that they don't care about this little money.Looking at it this way, this game is really like some old classmates who have been friends for many years just playing around to pass the time.

While watching, a person caught my attention.In the process of their blocking, I found that one of the points was particularly strong.Stuffed cards pay attention to not looking at the cards. Cheaters usually mark the back of the poker in advance or use potion poker to identify the cards. Is this poker potion poker?Marker poker?neither.Because when they were playing, I held the big and small kings they took out in my hand. It seemed to be playing casually, but in fact it was to check whether the poker was a marked poker.There are two types of mark poker: artificially processed; specially made by the factory.Regardless of the kind of mark, it is usually to apply a potion on the poker or make some inconspicuous marks on the back of the poker.The potion poker made directly in the factory in the early stage is easy to distinguish. The back of such poker is many times smoother than that of commonly used poker.Some people make some inconspicuous marks on the back of the poker, and I can't hide it from my eyes, because Dunhuang poker is popular in my city, and I am familiar with all the ways of marking the back of Dunhuang poker.The two mentioned above are basically ruled out by me, because it is played at night and the fluorescent lamp is lit.I also paid attention to everyone's eyes. I can tell if anyone is wearing contact lenses. During the game, I offered cigarettes to everyone playing on the table and helped them light them.Taking the opportunity to see if they had contact lenses in their eyes, no one wore them.

Since these are none of these, if this kid cheats, he can only do it while beating.Doing while typing is also a kind of marking, and there are many types. As I wrote in my first book, I did it in Macau casinos.And I'm also proficient at all playing-by-playing, if someone is doing it under my nose, I will notice.This kid did it very covertly, I didn't pay attention at first, but later, his seemingly random movement made me suspect him. I found that every time the dealer gave him cards, he kept the cards in his hand after reading the cards. When he was considering whether to follow or not to follow the cards, he acted like he was thinking, his hands were not idle, and he was holding a cigarette case on the table. what's on it.Sometimes the cigarette case stopped on the back of the poker, and his cigarette case moved irregularly, as if it was a personal fault, as normal as someone fiddled with a lighter in his hand.But when the second card was distributed, the card was dealt to his door, and he seemed to be afraid that others would see it, so he immediately covered it with a cigarette case.Such scenes are very common in cockfights, and it should not have attracted my attention.But one detail made me suspicious.When it comes to cockfighting, when the croupier deals the cards to them, it is perfectly normal for them to want to block the cards and cover them with their own cigarette case.But most people get stuffy when they cover it up, but this is not the case for him. Sometimes he gets stuffy after covering it up, and sometimes he doesn't get stuffy.When he is not bored, he first looks at the cards, and then puts them on the table, considering whether to follow or not. He keeps fiddling with the cigarette case in his hand, and the result of his consideration is often to throw away and not to follow.This process was very exhausting, and the people at the same table called him to death.

So I paid special attention to him, anyway, I was sitting there bored, who is not watching?After many comparisons and observations, I found a pattern.The dealer dealt him the first card, and he immediately covered it with a cigarette case. There was nothing wrong with this action. Many people did this, and there was nothing suspicious about it.The problem is that when the dealer gives him the second card, he must stand up the cigarette case, quickly scan the cross-section of the cigarette case facing himself, and then cover the second card. Similarly, when the third card is dealt, Also set up the cigarette case.When I used to play cockfights, I also liked to cover poker with cigarette cases. Many people have this habit, but why does he stand up every time to take a look?what is he looking at

There is one more detail about his cigarette case.I found that he used a fixed side every time he folded the poker, unlike other people who picked it up and folded it.And when he finished reading the cards, he would use a fixed corner of the cigarette case to draw something back and forth on the table. When he walked to the back of the poker, his strokes were basically numbers.Because it is impossible for me to open their poker in front of others, and I can't take a look at it when they finish gambling. After all, I am just a spectator. If I play together, I can find an excuse to open it. .Call Manager Liu to see it?There are so many people, I can't go into details for a while, so what if I just open it and read it?But at least I found something small, didn't I?I think I've found a way.

Later, when things became clear, I found out that he was just scribbling on the table to cover up his writing numbers on the back of the poker, and every time he looked at the cigarette case after covering the cards, he would do two things: one was to pick up the poker and look at it. After reading it, when considering whether to follow the cards or not to follow the cards, he will use the corner of the cigarette box to draw. At this time, he basically chooses to give up and not to follow the cards.The second situation is that after using the cigarette case to cover it, after looking at the side of the cigarette case, you choose to block the cards directly, and the cards in the end are basically big cards. I speculated like this at the time: he made a mark on the back of the poker (it was done when the fixed corner of the cigarette case seemed to be a scribble), and then used some functions on the side of the cigarette case to see the marks he had made before. If it was a low card, he picked it up and looked at it, and then chose not to follow.When encountering a card that he didn't take care of, if he is not sure, he will first check what it is, and then mark the card.Based on his actions, I think this assumption holds true.If this assumption is true, what principle did he use to make the mark without being discovered by others?And by what principle do you see these marks? Assuming that he is making marks, it is not the conventional marking methods such as scratches, pinches, and corners that have been mentioned before. Conventional marks can be easily found on the back of the poker. I have looked at the backs of all pokers and there is no difference. .I also tried to use the light of the fluorescent lamp to look at it from various angles, and found nothing unusual.He applied the potion?That's not right, I brought a lens that shows the potion before I came here, just to check whether someone marked it with the potion.Just in the middle of the game, someone went to the bathroom, everyone stopped temporarily, and everyone at the table stood up and walked around.I took the opportunity to use the lens in my hand to look at a few pictures, but I didn't see any special display.It seems that he used a trick tool that I haven't seen before, so I couldn't figure it out for a while.