Chapter 2 The Second Hand
The second hand, I still chose not to cheat, but to hide my strength and bide my time.
This hand, the winner turned out to be Wang Yu.
Although it was only the first two hands, I had already analyzed and judged Wang Yu's performance at the card table.
Wang Yu played very cautiously, and after a few rounds of blind bets, he would definitely choose to look at his cards.
I didn't know if this playing style was a pretense, or if he had truly changed his temperament and learned to endure without revealing his hand.
After playing a few more hands and thoroughly understanding Wang Yu's playing style, I decided to make my move.
"Lure the enemy into a trap!"
Without the ability to touch the cards, the only way to successfully cheat was through cutting the deck.
My first move was the "Falling Leaves, Flying Flowers" cheating technique.
The so-called Falling Leaves, Flying Flowers was actually the moment when, while cutting the deck, you would seize the instant the cards fell and overlapped to complete the action of flicking and hiding cards.
However, this move was not suitable for beginners entering the world of cheating.
The "Falling Leaves, Flying Flowers" technique, besides being very difficult in itself, required precisely remembering the position of each card before cutting the deck and identifying the desired cards.
Therefore, if you don't have a solid foundation in techniques, never try it lightly.
Because flicking and hiding cards is the easiest way to get caught and exposed on the spot in cheating.
Especially when there are other cheaters in the game, if your skills are not up to par, the opponent can catch you red-handed.
If you find someone around you using this method to cheat, you can try to see if your hands are faster than theirs!
Of course, if you choose to practice it yourself, it's harmless.
And once mastered, it's very cool and impressive.
Just like in the movies, when cheaters flick cards, they always flick them outwards, isn't that cool and dazzling visual effect of the cards spinning?
But in reality, it's useless!
In real life, especially during a card game, a cheater wouldn't be foolish enough to flick cards outwards.
They would, at the moment of cutting the deck, with one hand almost completely covering a portion of the cards, suddenly use a finger to exert force, and in a flash, flick the cards into their sleeves.
That's what Falling Leaves, Flying Flowers means.
And you can hide at most five cards at a time.
If you hide more, you're not doing Falling Leaves, Flying Flowers, you're doing Falling Leaves "Flying Hands"!
The key to Falling Leaves, Flying Flowers is speed. Flicking fast, hiding fast!
However, I used the Falling Leaves, Flying Flowers technique not to win myself, but to let Wang Yu win.
"To make him perish, one must first make him swell!"
Cheating Wang Yu is completely different from cheating ordinary gamblers.
If you were to cheat ordinary gamblers without any background, you just need to keep winning their money. Win as much as you can!
But this trick wouldn't work on Wang Yu. After all, his background was right there.
If I went all out from the start, Wang Yu might get carried away throughout the entire game and lose so much that he falls into a deep pit.
But afterward, as long as he realized something was wrong, he might get spooked, and then there would be no sequel.
In that case, all the groundwork and efforts made by Yu Shuang and the others would turn to dust.
Therefore, to cheat Wang Yu, you must completely trap his person here.
And the most important way to trap him is to let him taste some sweetness first, to make him addicted.
You know, the feeling of dominating the gambling table and winning money... it's incomparable to any other pleasure!
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As the winner of the previous hand was slowly dealing and shuffling the cards, I had memorized the order of all the cards.
Apart from flicking and hiding cards with the Falling Leaves, Flying Flowers technique, I cut the deck using a normal method.
The moment the cards were cut, I knew exactly whether everyone's cards were big or small!
Wang Yu's hand was the biggest in the room, an Ace-high flush.
According to the original flow of the cards, if I hadn't cheated, he would have only been able to bottom-deal this hand.
But now, the situation was different.
Besides the three cards on the table, I had also hidden three cards myself.
With six cards, I had enough to reorder and combine them into a new hand to go head-to-head with Wang Yu.
I not only wanted him to win, but I wanted him to win spectacularly! To get high!
Using the three hidden cards in my sleeve, when it was time to look at the cards in the third round of blinds, I secretly replaced the mixed cards starting with a King with an Ace-high flush.
In this single hand alone, from the blinds to the final reveal, I lost nearly two thousand yuan to Wang Yu.
"Well cut, Xiangzi! Oh no! I should call you Da Jianming now! Hahaha~"
This was what Wang Yu said to me immediately after beating my King-high flush with his Ace-high flush.
Wang Yu's demeanor seemed to tell me that it was my destiny to be inferior to him, only to be ruthlessly trampled underfoot by him in the end!
Next, Wang Yu, as the winner, after shuffling the cards, almost provocatively handed the deck to me, signaling me to cut the cards.
Arrogant and presumptuous, unrestrained and smug.
In order to play the part fully, I only responded to Wang Yu's gesture with a seemingly indifferent cold smile.
Since you sincerely want me to cut the cards, I will send you straight to heaven, and then drag you back down to hell!
I again used the Falling Leaves, Flying Flowers technique to cut the deck.
However, before cutting the deck, I first performed a "return card" maneuver.
Return card: After a cheater has used techniques to swap cards, there will inevitably be a few unwanted cards left.
These cards cannot be kept on one's person indefinitely; they must be returned to the deck.
And it must be done as quickly as possible.
If you only focus on hiding cards and forget to return them, the deck will gradually become smaller.
Naturally, the cards in your sleeves will become more and more numerous!
Assuming you hide three cards using the flicking technique in a game, by the third or fourth round, it's highly likely that the game will become unplayable.
Therefore, once you've hidden cards with Falling Leaves, Flying Flowers, whether you win or lose afterward, you must remember to return the cards immediately!
There are many methods for returning cards, including flicking return, shuffling return, edge flip return, and cutting return.
What I used was naturally the cutting return method.
Before continuing to use the Falling Leaves, Flying Flowers technique, I used my extreme speed to return the three cards I had just hidden back into the deck, without anyone noticing.
Then, the actions of cutting, flicking, and hiding were completed in one go!
The result, as expected, was obvious.
This hand, Wang Yu won another round.
Originally, when Wang Yu saw that I seemed to be doing alright, he felt quite uneasy, and his playing style in the earlier hands was very cautious.
But with consecutive victories, Wang Yu quickly relaxed, and his face would occasionally reveal an uncontrollable expression of excitement.