Chapter 206: Despair Casino (3)
Once Yan Qiao arrived, he took a seat right at the gambling table, opened his case, and pulled out a pile of chips.
Ji Ning saw that the case was full of orange and yellow chips, far more than what she had. It really looked like he had about a million on him.
Since he had clearly been looking at her when he spoke a moment ago, Ji Ning still replied, "Forget it. I don't have that kind of luck."
Song Weiyang focused intently on Yan Qiao, on guard against him saying anything unpleasant that might provoke Ji Ning.
But this time, Yan Qiao stayed silent. Without a word, he started betting on Triple as if he were just tossing chips for fun.
Yan Qiao's presence, combined with this behavior, quickly drew a crowd. More and more people gathered around the gambling table.
Ji Ning and Song Weiyang were squeezed to stand right beside Yan Qiao. Song Weiyang planted himself between them as if Yan Qiao were something barbed and poisonous, resolutely preventing Ji Ning from touching him.
Ji Ning hadn't thought much of it at first, but seeing this food-guarding-like behavior stirred a rebellious impulse, and she grew a little curious about Yan Qiao instead.
She focused intently on Yan Qiao's actions, both to learn and to investigate, trying to discern the reason why Yan Qiao could rank so high on the leaderboard.
Yan Qiao said he was going to bet on Triple, and sure enough, his hand movements were reduced to just one action: constantly placing chips on the Triple zone.
The first time was only a single black chip, but with every subsequent bet, he would add one more.
As he bet again and again, Yan Qiao placed more and more chips. When counting became troublesome, he switched colors. But with each failure, all these chips were ruthlessly collected by the dealer.
However, as the rounds mounted, everyone noticed his chip count had a cap. Starting from the twenty-first bet, Yan Qiao's wager reverted to a single black chip.
In this cycling manner, Ji Ning counted that he bet a total of sixty times, hitting Triple on the seventeenth try in the first cycle and the second try in the third cycle.
The payout for Triple was twenty-four to one. That meant these two hits brought Yan Qiao back chips worth 40,800 yuan and 4,800 yuan respectively.
Yet he had wagered a total of 63,000 yuan in chips. After subtracting the winnings from the two hits, he ended up with a net loss of 17,400 yuan in chips.
Judging from Yan Qiao's casual movements and perpetually calm expression, one could tell he was just testing the waters.
Perhaps testing whether the house at this table was cheating, or perhaps testing the feel and probability.
In any case, these bet amounts were just small-time tinkering to him.
Afterwards, Yan Qiao scooped the assorted chips on the table back into his case, then took out most of the purple and yellow chips.
One purple chip was worth 500 yuan, and one yellow chip was worth 1,000 yuan. Bringing these out to gamble, while nowhere near the stakes of the VIP clients upstairs, already made him one of the bigger high rollers among the ordinary guests in the main hall.
The surrounding onlookers buzzed with excitement. The expressions of watching a spectacle gradually took on the madness of gamblers.
Ji Ning felt a bit tense too.
She exchanged a glance with Song Weiyang. Even though she wasn't the one gambling, an unsettling sense of panic about the unknown rose within her.
This method of gambling had probability, but probability alone wasn't enough.
For example, the probability of a Triple appearing was one in thirty-six, but that didn't mean it would appear once every thirty-some attempts.
Only with a sufficiently large number of trials, say betting ten thousand times, would the probability tend towards one in thirty-six.
She even felt that Yan Qiao's luck in hitting twice out of sixty tries earlier was already very good.
The onlookers all assumed Yan Qiao would place a few more cycles in the same pattern as his first round.
But this time, no matter how many bets he placed, he only wagered one purple chip each time. He kept this up for another sixty bets.
In this round, not a single one hit out of the sixty.
Yan Qiao lost a clean 30,000 yuan in chips.
Yet his face didn't darken, nor did his hands tremble. He kept placing purple chips. And next, the number of chips he placed started to lose any pattern.
Not only did the purple chips increase, but sometimes he would also casually grab a handful of yellow chips and toss them in.
What was he doing? Ji Ning couldn't help wanting to ask.
As if sensing her question, a faint explanation came from beside her.
"He's teasing the dealer." Song Weiyang's lips barely moved, speaking at a volume meant only for the two of them.
Others might not know, but Song Weiyang was quite clear.
He had never relaxed his observation of Yan Qiao and noticed that while Yan Qiao seemed to be placing flashy bets, he was actually constantly watching the dice changes and the dealer's technique.
His first round was testing whether Triples existed. The second round wasn't about making money, but merely using the relatively high-value purple chips to drain the dealer's mental and physical stamina. And this current third round was about breaking the dealer's composure.
Now, over twenty bets into the third round, Yan Qiao was placing chips with both hands, alternating between purple and yellow chips.
Song Weiyang saw Yan Qiao lightly withdraw his observing gaze from the dealer and push out five stacks of yellow chips, fifty chips in total. That was a bet of 50,000 yuan.
The buzzing discussions around them silently ceased with this action. Everyone held their breath, waiting for the dealer to reveal the dice cup's result.
The young male dealer's forehead was already drenched, and now beads of sweat as large as beans bubbled up. His hand gripping the dice cup trembled slightly.
Before this, nearly a hundred consecutive bets had passed without a Triple. If this one wasn't it either, not only would Yan Qiao's fifty-thousand be gone, but the earlier eighty-thousand-plus would also be down the drain.
Under the expectant gaze of the crowd, the dice cup lifted in what seemed like slow motion…
A two, two twos… three twos!
Except for Yan Qiao and Song Weiyang, the crowd erupted in fierce cheers.
The pale-faced dealer's hands trembled. After freezing for a long moment, he used a machine to count out 240 orange chips (I miscounted earlier; the female lead needs to raise 2,000 orange chips, not 200) and nervously pushed them in front of Yan Qiao.
One orange chip was worth 5,000 yuan. Two hundred and forty chips meant one million two hundred thousand!
Yan Qiao gave a sharp whistle and swept this pile of chips into his case in one motion, treating them as casually as a pile of rocks.
Livestream comments:
"So damn cool!"
"Exhibit A for why King Yama Qiao drives people crazy."
"Little Brother is so bad, big sister loves it."
After this incident, the pitiful young male dealer was replaced.
The new dealer didn't swap out the dice cup or dice, but used a cloth from his pocket to wipe clean the sweat residue from the equipment.
The dealer was replaced. There was no need to keep wasting time here. Yan Qiao stood up, faced Ji Ning and Song Weiyang directly, and raised an eyebrow. "You two, know how to play Blackjack?"
Ji Ning shook her head. She had only heard the name, not knowing what the rules or gameplay were.
"It's pretty simple." Yan Qiao smiled, his gaze shifting to Song Weiyang's face, then back to Ji Ning. He said sweetly, "I'll teach you, beautiful big sister."
Song Weiyang said coldly, "No need for you to teach."
The two were at loggerheads, but Yan Qiao's gaze remained fixed on Ji Ning, as if he wouldn't give up until he got an answer.
Ji Ning had been shaken by his performance just now. Her admiration for the strong stirring within her, she wanted to learn a few things from him.
So she looped her arm through Song Weiyang's and shook it gently. "Let's do it together?"
With her acting coquettish, Song Weiyang was helpless. Besides, Blackjack wasn't fun with just two people. He had no choice but to agree, for Ji Ning's sake.
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