Let alone on a construction site, even on the street, in places where there are plenty of beautiful women, it's rare to see such a stunning beauty!
Zhou Xuan picked up the plastic bag containing the money and put it on the table, then poured all the money onto the table at once—ten bundles in total, with the bank's paper seals still unopened. This made the eyes of the people around the table light up!
With money, things were easy. Wang Liang told Wu Yong to quickly find a stool. Zhou Xuan and Li Wei were the two who went up. After sitting down, Zhou Xuan wanted to give Li Wei half of the money, but Li Wei pulled out a large wad of cash, which looked to be several thousand.
Zhou Xuan smiled and asked, "Since we're here to have fun, let's follow the host's lead. Boss Wang, let's talk about the rules first. There's no order without rules!"
Wang Liang glanced at the pile of money in front of him and chuckled, "Alright, I'll just give you a brief explanation. You're all veteran players, so you definitely know the basic rules. The values are the same, so I'll just talk about some boundaries. The highest hand is the leading three, like three of a kind, straight flush, straight flush, flush, pair, and any other suit. Understand?"
Zhou Xuan nodded. The rules of playing Golden Flower are similar in different places, with only slight differences in the rules. These are determined on a case-by-case basis. Generally speaking, three of a kind is the highest hand, reaching the top. However, Golden Flower is like playing rock-paper-scissors, where each hand is mutually reinforcing and restraining. But if you get three of a kind, it is basically the highest hand.
Simultaneously drawing three of a kind and then getting different suits of cards is incredibly difficult, almost like winning the lottery. Even if it happens, there are other players involved, and if the game continues, the player with the "Flying 5" hand has to hold on until the very end, when only the player with three of a kind remains, to win. Because the stakes are high, some players who can't keep up will pay to see other players' hole cards.
At this point, if someone sees the injured player's bottom card, then that player is doomed, because a strong hand of a different suit can only be played with three of a kind. Apart from three of a kind, his hand is the lowest of all hands, and he is bound to lose. So even if he has three of a kind and a strong hand of a different suit at the same time, it is very difficult to hold on to the end.
Seeing that Zhou Xuan agreed to the rules, Wang Liang immediately added, "Looks like you guys want to go big, so let's raise the base price to ten yuan. Too little is no fun. You can set the maximum price!"
Volume 1, Chapter 215: Crazy Golden Flower (Part 2)
"The pot bottom mentioned in the preface refers to the pot bottom that each player puts down in the game of Golden Flower. The pot bottom is not refunded and all of it belongs to the last player in that round."
Ten dollars is a lot for the average player, because the number of games in Texas Hold'em is very fast. Usually, there are thousands of games a day. If you don't get good cards or can't win many rounds, you can calculate that if the pot is ten dollars, ten times is one hundred dollars, a hundred times is one thousand dollars, and a thousand times is ten thousand dollars. That means you can lose ten thousand dollars just by betting on the pot.
Then Wang Liang explained a few more rules, such as the minimum blind bet being the pot's base amount. That is to say, after the cards are dealt, if a player bets ten yuan without looking at their cards, then if the next player looks at their cards and wants to follow, they must double that amount, spending twenty yuan to follow. If the previous blind bet was one hundred yuan, then the player who looks at their cards and wants to follow must spend two hundred yuan to follow.
In the middle of each round, if two players have passed each other and one player can't continue, they can either choose to fold or bet money to see another player's hole cards. If that player bets 100 dollars blindly, then the call bet is 200 dollars. To see their hole cards, the bet must be doubled again, so it would be 400 dollars to see their hole cards.
After seeing the hole cards, if the other player's hole cards beat yours, then that player is eliminated, meaning they are outmatched. You can continue, either by calling or by seeing other players' hole cards. Of course, seeing another player's hole cards requires taking turns, and you also have to double your bet. So playing poker is exciting, requires courage, and is also a great test of intelligence.
However, Zhou Xuan believed that Wang Liang and his group would not have won money simply by luck; they must have cheated. As long as he could prevent them from cheating, he would not be afraid, because his ice energy could detect their trump cards. In any case, victory was in his grasp.
Wang Liang and Zhu Yonghong exchanged a glance, a fleeting expression that Zhou Xuan keenly caught.
Wang Liang first said to Wu Yong, "Wu Yong, go and bring me all 90,000 yuan in cash."
With Wang Liang having 20,000 yuan on the table and Zhu Yonghong having over 40,000 yuan, Wu Yong brought the money over 150,000 yuan in total.
The bundles of money on the table made everyone else envious, and the atmosphere was already heated even before the gambling started!
Wang Liang chuckled and laid out the money in front of him, saying, "Little Zhou, your surname is Zhou, right? Hehe, since you brought money, we should also put it out here. Everyone can see the money, and the wins and losses will be more straightforward, right? Even if you lose, you'll feel good. But if a loser wins all the money, that would be really unpleasant!"
Zhu Yonghong smiled and said, "Then let's begin, put it in the bottom of the pot!"
As the wheels came over, Zhu Yonghong, Wang Damao, Wu Yong, Wang Liang, two workers, then Zhou Xuan and Li Wei, each threw down a ten-yuan coin from the bottom of the pot.
Seeing Zhang Sinian staring at him with longing and envy, Zhou Xuan threw him 10,000 yuan and said, "Zhang Sinian, I told you before, you brought us here to play, so I'll give you 10,000 yuan. I'm giving you the money. Whether you gamble or take it back and save it is your own business. But I still hope you don't gamble. I don't mind saying that if you continue to gamble, you'll lose all your money."
Zhang Sinian took the money, his face beaming with joy. He couldn't hear Zhou Xuan's words anymore and hurriedly put a bill on the table, saying, "One for me, one for me!"
Zhou Xuan shook his head, thinking to himself that Zhang Sinian was beyond saving!
Fu Ying stood behind Zhou Xuan, while Zheng Bing and Jiang Jin stood beside Zhou Xuan and Li Wei, respectively.
Zhu Yonghong began shuffling the cards, and Zhou Xuan smiled and said, "Brother Zhu, wait a minute, let me see!"
He picked up the cards he was shuffling, looked at them, then glanced at the back, and said casually, "I think Brother Zhu should get a different deck."
Zhu Yonghong, Wang Liang, and the other three were all taken aback, their eyes narrowing. This deck of cards was a fishing deck, with markings on the back that allowed them to identify the cards. This deck had been used for a long time, and no one had ever suspected or recognized it, but Zhou Xuan casually brought it up in his first sentence.
The four were secretly alarmed. It seemed that Zhou Xuan was not someone who could be easily fooled. However, Zhou Xuan also gave them face and did not reveal the details of the marked playing cards.
Zhu Yonghong immediately smiled and said, "Yes, yes, we've been playing this deck of cards for an hour or two. New game, new cards, Wu Yong, bring a few more decks."
Wu Yong responded and ran out to the construction site store to buy ten new decks of playing cards. These cards were not fake; Zhou Xuan could tell as soon as he opened them.
Zhu Yonghong took out the two jokers from a deck and threw them away. Then he shuffled the deck several times. Zhang Sinian, who was in front of him, cut the deck, and Zhang Sinian revealed about ten cards.
There were nine people in total, and each person received three cards. Zhu Yonghong was quite skilled at dealing the cards to everyone, and then put the remaining cards in the middle of the table, mixing them with the bottom of the pot.
There were 90 yuan in the pot. After the cards were dealt, the first player was Zhu Yonghong's next player, Wang Damao, who threw in 50 yuan without even looking.
He was betting blindly, a blind bet of fifty yuan. If the next player looked at their cards and then called, the bet would double to one hundred yuan. The second player was Wu Yong, who picked up his cards, looked at them, and then threw them away.
The third person was Wang Liang. He also looked at the cards and then asked Xuan, "Boss Zhou, I forgot to ask you, it seems you haven't decided on the cap yet?"
Zhou Xuan thought for a moment and said, "Let's cap it at two thousand. Four thousand is just for playing cards, not risking our lives. Let's play casually and keep it low!"
Listening to Zhou Xuan speak so casually, Wang Liang narrowed his eyes, unable to tell whether Zhou Xuan was genuinely rich or just putting on an act, but the 100,000 yuan in front of him was definitely real.
After thinking for a moment, Wang Liang calmly tossed in two hundred yuan, essentially calling the bet. Next were two workers. The first folded immediately after looking at his cards, lamenting his bad luck. The second also folded after looking at his cards. In their view, at such a high stake, they wouldn't dare call without a strong hand; otherwise, a simple call would require hundreds or even thousands of yuan. With so many people behind them, if anyone called, they'd have to consider spending even more money to compete, which meant they needed a very good hand to dare call.
Next up was Zhou Xuan. Zhou Xuan had already released his ice energy to probe the situation. In this first round, he still didn't use any tricks. Wang Damao, who placed a blind bet, had a pair of sixes and a card. For a blind bet, having a pair was quite good.
The second Wu Yong simply looked at his cards and threw them away, while Wang Liang, who followed suit, had a terrible hand of four and five. This was a loose hand, which was the highest possible hand. If he had any other cards, as long as he had another card that was higher than six, he would win. Of course, it goes without saying that he could win if he had a pair, a straight, or a flush.
This explains why Wang Liang is a fraudster.
Zhou Xuan's hand was a four-five flush, a very weak hand. He didn't even look at his cards, and threw in two hundred dollars. A blind bet of two hundred dollars was already quite large.
Zhou Xuan was followed by Li Wei, who had a hand of twos and threes, also a bad hand of different suits. After looking at his cards, he also put down two hundred yuan. Wang Liang immediately said, "Look at your cards and call. You have to double down, you have to bet four hundred yuan."
Li Wei added another two hundred yuan. Four hundred yuan was nothing to him, doubling it was no big deal. Next up was Zhang Sinian. The previous bets had been so high, he certainly didn't dare to go in blindly anymore. He took the cards and looked at them. They were a pair of sevens and a five. This hand was a pair, and he hesitated.
To be honest, at this point he was looking at his cards, they were face up, and calling again would have meant four hundred yuan. Leaving aside Wang Damao and Zhou Xuan, who were betting blindly, as they hadn't looked at their cards, we can disregard them. But Wang Liang and Li Wei did look at their cards before betting, so they must have at least some money in their hands.
After hesitating for a moment, Zhu Yonghong urged, "Are you going to bet or not? If you are, put in the money; if you're not, just throw it away. Don't act like a woman!"
Zhang Sinian sighed, regretfully threw away his cards, and said, "I have a pair of sevens, too small, I won't call."