The remaining two players have no chance of bidding eight cards, since one has nineteen points and the other has twenty points. They are unlikely to bid again, and if they do, they will bust with just one card. In this round, although Zhou Xuan only has sixteen points, he is guaranteed to win against the dealer's fifteen points!
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Volume One: The First Signs of Growth, Chapter Fifteen: The Gamble
As expected, the two players after Zhou Xuan stopped bidding, and the dealer turned over his face-down card, revealing a five of diamonds, for a total of fifteen points.
Given the current situation, the dealer has no choice but to take a gamble. Since not calling means losing, calling means there's still a chance to win. The dealer cuts a card from the glass box, flips it over, and sees it's a seven of hearts.
The bookmaker has blown up.
Wang Jue and the other two players shouted excitedly at the same time. Although Fu Ying didn't shout out loud, she was also thrilled.
No wonder many gamblers lose control of themselves in casinos. How can they possibly control themselves in a scene like this?
Fortunately, Zhou Xuan was the only one who understood. If it weren't for his ice-energy ability, he would never have thought of coming to this casino.
The dealer was a blonde woman in her early twenties. Zhou Xuan's second round immediately caught her attention. She had seen many people bet all their chips in one round. Generally speaking, blackjack math card counting experts don't usually act so ostentatiously. They usually have a small team of three to six people working together, and they are very low-key. Even if they win money, they will win little by little and never place large bets or put all their chips into one game. Their goal is to win money and leave the casino safely.
But Zhou Xuan doesn't seem like a card counting expert at all. Such experts usually have one characteristic: they need several people to cooperate with them. The key is the cards in the glass box. Such a team must have a fixed person who gets the winning cards, and the people who cooperate with him must help him get rid of the unwanted cards or the cards he needs based on the signals he gives. They must get the cards they want at the exact moment they reach his position.
But Zhou Xuan is clearly unlikely to be such a person, because such a person would have to be at the gambling table before the shuffle, as only by seeing the shuffle could he possibly remember the cards.
When Zhou Xuan arrived at the gambling table, half of the eight decks of cards had already been opened. He hadn't seen the cards shuffled at all, so how could he possibly remember them? Moreover, these players were all regulars and couldn't possibly be part of his gang.
Zhou Xuan was another unfamiliar face, the dealer thought to himself, but the next bet still started.
Zhou Xuan didn't think too much about it, because he might never come to this casino again in his lifetime, so there was no need to leave a way out. He put all of his $4,400 chips on the table.
At this point, the other gamblers began to be curious about Zhou Xuan, this strange gambler. In their view, if he won, he would never bet all his money in the next round; if he lost, he would lose all his capital.
The dealer was also slightly sweating. At her ordinary gambling table, no gambler had ever played like Zhou Xuan. No matter how much he won, he would bet it all at once in the next round. Was he a rich man, a fool, or a top expert?
In the next two rounds, Zhou Xuan had accumulated $17,600 in chips in front of him, and as expected, he pushed all of them out at once.
The dealer's fingers were trembling slightly as he wiped the sweat from his nose.
At this point, the other players stopped betting and simply watched Zhou Xuan and the dealer's game from the sidelines.
Fu Ying hadn't expected Zhou Xuan to have such good gambling skills. Judging from his calm expression, he was definitely not a novice who had just entered the casino. At this moment, she became a little curious about how many secrets Zhou Xuan had that she didn't know.
Wang Jue cheered enthusiastically for Zhou Xuan, just like a cheerleader. She attributed Zhou Xuan's winnings to good luck and didn't think of anything else.
At this point, the dealer had basically ruled out the possibility of Zhou Xuan cheating, because he didn't arrive during the shuffling and couldn't remember the cards, and he wasn't cooperating with anyone else and didn't form a team. At this point, only she and Zhou Xuan were left in the game, and she was the one who cut the cards; Zhou Xuan hadn't even touched the cards.
The exposed cards were placed on the table. When Zhou Xuan looked at the hidden card, he didn't even take it in his hand. He simply flipped it over with his hand. With countless eyes watching him all around, there was absolutely no possibility that he had switched cards.
The dealer had lost his usual composure; his hand was trembling as he cut the cards.
With only two players left, Zhou Xuan was extremely calm. There was no need for him to rack his brains to figure out how many unused cards he needed to discard to get the hand he wanted. He was now very clear about whether he could take the remaining cards and whether he needed them. He knew his hand clearly and had a 90% chance of winning. The remaining 10% was luck. However, the dealer's mind was already in disarray, so his luck would naturally be worse.
The dealer dealt Zhou Xuan a ten of spades face up and an ace of spades face down. This was a blackjack hand, blackjack. If the dealer didn't deal her a blackjack hand with two cards, she would lose. If she did, it would be a tie.
In blackjack, if the cards are the same, it's a tie, and there's no winner or loser.
The dealer's trembling hand dealt her a face-up nine of hearts. Zhou Xuan knew immediately that she was going to win. With cards numbered two through nine, she could no longer get two cards for blackjack, because blackjack could only be achieved with face cards and an Ace.
She dealt herself a Queen of Spades as her face-down card. Zhou Xuan smiled slightly, turned to Wang Jue and said, "Miss Wang, why don't you turn over my face-down card? Maybe you'll get lucky and turn over an Ace!"
Wang Jue's face flushed red. Nervously, he touched the face-down card with his fingertips, his fingernails gently probing under the card to lift it up slightly. Then, he bent down and peered inside, and just as Zhou Xuan expected, he shouted, "A...Ace of Spades!"
Wang Jue flipped the card over with his finger, and sure enough, it was the Ace of Spades!
The blonde female dealer, with a bitter face, paid Zhou Xuan $17,600, then looked up, wiped her sweat, and glanced at the counter.
Zhou Xuan felt a tap on his shoulder. When he turned around, he saw Wolf, the Daniel brothers, Elena, and Yuriko Ono on his side, while Li Junjie, Johnny, and Ito were on the other side.
The Wolf brothers walked around the hall a few times, losing about $50,000. Elena also lost $10,000. Li Junjie lost more, about $10,000. His older cousin Johnny neither won nor lost, basically breaking even. Only Ito Kinji won $20,000, and Ono Yuriko won a little over $1,000.
Almost everyone who saw Zhou Xuan standing around the table, surrounded by onlookers, rushed over, only to find that Zhou Xuan was gambling against the dealer.
The Wolf brothers gave Zhou Xuan a thumbs up, said "good" a few times, and then placed the remaining four or five thousand chips in front of Zhou Xuan. They said a few words that Zhou Xuan couldn't understand, but he knew they were telling him to bet them all at once.
Zhou Xuan smiled and didn't refuse, pushing all the chips out.
The dealer's expression changed. Just then, a brown-haired man in a sharp suit walked over to the counter. The gamblers surrounding the area quickly made way for him.
As soon as the man entered, he smiled and gestured to Zhou Xuan, saying a few words. Zhou Xuan couldn't understand, but Fu Ying translated for him, saying softly, "He said he's John, the manager here, and wants to make friends with you. He also invited you to play a game quietly at the table upstairs!"
Fu Ying and Zhou Xuan didn't understand the rules of the casino, but the other gamblers did. Usually, when the casino manager invited you to the second floor, there were only two possible outcomes: either you didn't cheat and lost all your money under the immense pressure on the second floor, or they found out you were cheating and you were carried out with your arms and legs broken and thrown into the alley.
Fu Ying and Zhou Xuan didn't know, but Li Junjie did. He had been standing behind Zhou Xuan watching a few rounds. Although he didn't know how Zhou Xuan had won so steadily, he was certain that Zhou Xuan hadn't cheated. Since he knew Zhou Xuan hadn't cheated, there was no need to worry about giving the casino any leverage. Besides, the amount of money Zhou Xuan had won was negligible.
Li Junjie mumbled a few words to John, who continued to smile and point upstairs.
Zhou Xuan naturally understood that these people couldn't possibly see through his true nature. He glanced at Li Junjie and saw that his expression was calm and composed, so he figured there probably wouldn't be any problems.
Li Junjie said calmly, "Xiao Zhou, alright, let's go up and take a look."
Zhou Xuan smiled and said, "Mr. Li, can I take the money I won?"
Li Junjie smiled faintly, but there was a hint of arrogance on his face. He said, "Since you dare to open a casino, you must have expected to win and lose. In gambling, winning and losing are normal. Didn't I just lose nearly 100,000? As long as you don't cheat, you can take as much money as you win by your own ability. In New York, our Fu family is not a soft persimmon that can be easily bullied."
Zhou Xuan glanced at Fu Ying again. There was no trace of worry on her face. Thinking back to the time when she beat the seven or eight men that Fang Zhicheng had invited to Chongkou, she couldn't help but smile. Could it be that the Fu family was also involved in the underworld?
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