Zhou Lin

Not to mention Hopkins, even a layman can tell that Ryunosuke has caught something big.

Therefore, Eric and Hopkins did not need to communicate at all, and they knew that this game would use a "quick attack" tactic.

However, maybe the "luck" has really turned... Eric's starting hand in this round was so bad that it is indescribable. The messy cards, let alone the random cards, were far away from drawing cards.

With this kind of hand, even if Hopkins were to play it, it would take at least six rounds to figure out a turning point; now that Eric is holding it, it is definitely impossible to attack, and he can attack his companions without firing. It would be nice to send Hu as a gift.

On the other hand, Hopkins' own hand is not ideal either; his hand is not bad, but it is very "heavy" and belongs to the type of "if you want to do it, do it in the direction of the big cards", if you want to do it quickly Hu cards are difficult.

It was in such a situation that Ryunosuke used the same bold play style he had at the end of the previous game and struck resolutely.

After just six rounds, it was...

"Self-touch!" This is not the biggest hand Ryuzosuke has ever played, but it is the most exciting one for him. "Mix one color, clear door, self-touch, all with unit, three hidden engraving, middle hair engraving, treasure card one! "

Triple full (the probability of occurrence is only 0.04%, which is lower than full. If the banker wins 36,000 points, the player wins 24,000 points), an incredible reversal.

There is a saying among "experts" - Mahjong is not a game to let yourself fool, but a game to suppress your opponent.

But at this moment, in the third round of the South, Ryunosuke played such a big hand in front of an expert like Hopkins and according to the layman's idea of ​​"wanting to make a fool of himself as quickly as possible".

This is... strong luck.

Apart from cheating, it is the gambler's strongest weapon that is extremely difficult to fight with normal means.

"Hahahaha... It seems that the 'luck' thing is more effective than you think, Mr. Hopkins." When the mahjong table shuffled the cards automatically, Ryunosuke took advantage of the situation and mocked Hopkins. ; He has not forgotten the embarrassment that the gambling king of Xing County brought to him with his ability before. Now that he has seized the opportunity, how can he not vent his anger?

"Heh..." Hopkins just sneered when he heard this and said, "Maybe..."

After all, Ryuunosuke had an identity. Hopkins still didn't dare to make too many mistakes with his words, but towards Sakaki... he wasn't so polite.

"Sakaki-kun, I don't know what tricks you are doing..." Hopkins then said to Sakaki, "But if you think because of this, you can play the same trick twice in front of me." …That would be a big mistake.”

Obviously, Hopkins believed that the result of this game was caused by Sakaki Desen; and his words were tantamount to admitting...that he had not seen through Sakaki's tactics.

Although Hopkins felt a little guilty at the moment, on the surface he still put on the airs of the gambling king of Xingjun, and tried to overwhelm the other party with momentum, so that Sakaki would not dare to do anything again, or would let Qian out of nervousness. The technique showed flaws.

"Oh? Do you think I was the one who played a trick on that game just now?" Sakaki looked at Hopkins with a mocking look on his face, "Oh... So that's it, the so-called 'Star County Gambling King' is a man who even himself has been 'crippled'" A guy who doesn't even know."

"What did you say?" Hopkins asked sharply.

"Don't you understand?" Sakaki replied quickly, smoking a cigarette, "Okay then... I'll just treat it as charity and tell you something."

After saying that, Sakaki raised his head, looked at the black suit beside him and said, "Hey, dealer brother, can you pause the game for a while and give me two dice for mahjong."

A second later, the black suit replied: "As long as the other players at this table have no objections."

So Sakaki quickly asked the other three people, and received affirmative, acquiescent, and indifferent responses respectively.

Upon seeing this, the man in the black suit immediately connected the intercom and asked someone to bring the dice. At the same time, he personally stepped forward and pushed the new tiles that had just been stacked into the mahjong table, closed the table, and paused the card shuffling function. .

Not long after, the dice came.

They were two ordinary white dice, the kind commonly used in non-automatic shuffling mahjong.

After Sakaki took the dice, he immediately threw it on the table, rolled two "1"s, and said to Hopkins: "You should be able to do this, right?"

After saying this, he grabbed the dice again and rolled it down a second later. This time, two "2"s appeared.

"Are you kidding me?" When Hopkins finished the first half of his sentence, Sakaki threw two more "3"s.

"This is a basic skill that everyone who just joined the industry knows, is it possible that I don't know it?" By the time Hopkins finished the second half of the sentence, Sakaki had already thrown a pair of "4"s and a pair of "5s" .

"Heh... that's good." Sakaki said as he placed the dice in front of Hopkins, "If you can help me, please help me roll two '6's."

"What do you want to prove?" Hopkins did not rush to grab the dice, but stared at Sakaki and said, "I don't understand the meaning of this."

"The meaning is... to let you know that your 'luck' has been exhausted." Sakaki replied.

"Ha!" Hopkins laughed and said in English, "Does this have anything to do with luck?" He grabbed the dice and held it in his hand, "If you throw this kind of thing ten thousand times, you can succeed once." What kind of luck is needed for things that happen thousands of times?”

He is right. The technique of "throwing two dice with bare hands and getting the desired number of points" is one of the most basic and simple gambling techniques. As long as you know the hand shape and technique, and after a certain amount of practice, you can Even kids can do it. There are even many gamblers who are not "experts" at all and can learn this trick. There is no one in the expert circle who can't do it.

Asking a gambler of Hopkins' level to roll the dice is like asking a professional basketball point guard to demonstrate the most basic in-situ dribbling movements. Naturally, no matter how many times you do it, you won't make a mistake.

However……

"Well..." When the dice settled, Hopkins looked shocked and let out a muffled groan.

"This..." Eric next to him didn't react as strongly as he did, but he was still quite surprised.

It's this "you can succeed ten thousand times if you throw ten thousand times" thing that is as casual as breathing for a gambler like Hopkins...At this moment, it failed.

The second die rolled an extra half circle when it fell, and finally showed a "6" and a "3".

"How is that possible?" Hopkins' face turned pale, and the anxiety and panic in his heart surged out.

When he pinched the dice just now, he had carefully checked it. He only started to throw it after making sure that Sakaki had not touched it; and there was nothing wrong with the technique he used. He had already made the same gesture. Thousands of times, no matter the strength and angle of throwing the dice, the grip before shooting, and the posture when leaving the hand, everything has been perfect.

However, the result was that it was not successful.

The only reason that can explain this phenomenon is - bad luck.

Perhaps the table on the ship was uneven, perhaps there was static electricity on that part of the table, or perhaps there were undulations on the table that were imperceptible to the naked eye... In short, some situation that was extremely unlikely in terms of probability prevented Hopkins from throwing the ball. desired points.

"Tachikawa has encountered that situation once before." A few seconds later, Sakaki looked at Hopkins again and said, "Just once... made him give up the idea of ​​continuing to gamble." He paused. , "I didn't know at the time that there was a saying among those old men - 'A person's luck... will run out in this life. Most people will almost run out of luck before they die, but professional Gamblers are different, their luck is overdrawn too much...So, when certain signs appear, regardless of whether they have saved enough capital for retirement, they must leave the world of gambling, otherwise...they will die."

When Sakaki said this, he blew out a puff of smoke and said, "Ugh...but using the theory you believe in to explain it, this is just a probability...right?"

"Stop talking nonsense! This proves nothing!" Hopkins' panic quickly turned into anger, "Eric, don't listen to his nonsense, these are all his psychological tactics... He wants to disturb us! "

"Uh...ah." Eric was stunned for a moment and then added, "It's okay, Mr. Hopkins, I don't believe in any nonsense about 'luck'."

"Then let's continue." Sakaki spread his hands and said with a smile, "Let's see who will eventually fall into the abyss called gambling."

…………

At the same time, on the same floor, in a certain cabin.

The "host" was sitting on a chair at the moment, looking nervously at the electronic prompt card in his hand.

After announcing the prize, he returned to the private cabin and never stepped out again, just silently waiting for new "instructions" to arrive.

Click, scold——

Suddenly, the electronic lock of the cabin door opened from the outside, and a figure appeared at the door.

He was a decent man, about thirty years old, of medium build, wearing a decent suit, and his hair was neatly combed.

"Mr. Zhang, I'm sorry that I haven't come to visit you until now." Axiu spoke very politely. As he spoke, he walked into the cabin and closed the door. "It's really because I couldn't open it before." The body was dragged to..."

"You...who are you?" The host, known as Mr. Zhang, looked at the strange man in front of him and interrupted with hesitation on his face.

"Oh, by the way, you don't know me anymore." As Xiu said, he found a place to sit down; he lifted his right leg over his left leg, intertwined his fingers, and said leisurely , "Ha...it doesn't matter, you will remember it soon."