This time, the technique I used is called "Pile Driving."
For this technique, there is a very, extremely, and absolutely crucial prerequisite: stealing and hiding cards.
Before the winner shuffles the cards, you must steal and hide the cards you want for this round.
As for exactly how to do it, I can only tell you generally that it depends on the situation.
Because card games are constantly changing.
Therefore, before deciding to act, you must understand and thoroughly grasp all the circumstances.
After success, when the cutting phase arrives, then orderly place the cards you hid back into the deck.
Strictly speaking, it should be "inserting" rather than "placing"!
For example, if it's a four-person game and you are at the end, pile driving requires skipping three cards and then inserting one.
If it's a five-person game, then it's one card further back before inserting, and so on.
The so-called pile driving is actually to ensure that the cards you hid are ultimately dealt to yourself.
This can be used in games like "Zha Jin Hua" and "Niu Niu"!
And the most crucial part of pile driving is the insertion! Because it requires both a certain hand speed and your eyesight.
Fast, accurate, and steady – all three are indispensable.
If your card stealing and hiding skills are already very proficient, then practicing pile driving will basically not take too much time.
After all, practice makes perfect.
But if even your card stealing and hiding techniques are half-baked, then give up on it early! Go wherever it's cool!
Don't end up trying to steal a chicken and losing the bait, directly getting three fingers chopped off…
Alright, no more wasted words.
Back to the main topic.
Aside from the perfect shuffling technique, pile driving is probably the second most practiced trick I have.
Because in our Anhai County, "Zha Jin Hua" and "Niu Niu" are the most popular.
Therefore, my skills are very proficient, my mind moves as I wish, my intentions follow my body, and my body moves as I intend.
Almost at the same time as cutting the cards, I had already "inserted" the three cards I had stolen back, silently.
The middle-aged man, who hadn't noticed anything unusual, began dealing again…
In this round, due to my cheating, the middle-aged man not only failed to win cards, but under Shi Jianguo's clumsy acting and forced betting, he ended up returning all the more than 4,000 yuan he had won in the previous round, cleanly and efficiently.
Not only that, but the middle-aged man also paid an additional 250 yuan!
Because he followed me three more times at 50 yuan each, totaling 150, plus the 100 for double opening, exactly 250 yuan!
If I hadn't sensed that the situation had changed and withdrawn in time, I would have lost even more.
Besides the middle-aged man, Shi Jianguo lost the second most.
Shi Jianguo, who originally got a pair of small 4s, theoretically shouldn't have had so much involvement, but after receiving the signal from the middle-aged man, this guy unhesitatingly chose to bet all the way!
And this one bet directly caused him to lose out to the other three, and also dug a deep pit for himself!
Including forced bets, Shi Jianguo lost nearly 2,000 yuan.
As for the other three people, they lost about 1,000 yuan combined.
So, with just this one hand of cards, I directly won nearly 7,000 yuan!
If the rules were more lenient, allowing betting and seeing cards, and if there were no limit to the number of forced bets, allowing unlimited forced betting, then the money won… would have at least doubled!
"Brother, your luck… is really good!"
While lighting a cigarette, the middle-aged man said with a half-smile, and then added, "Next round, let me cut the cards too."
"Heh heh. No problem!"
At this moment, I knew the middle-aged man must have started to suspect and target me.
I didn't care about what the middle-aged man said.
If you can't even see through the perfect shuffling technique I did with ordinary methods, what good will it do for you to cut the cards?
So, after using ordinary methods to bring out the perfect shuffling technique and finish shuffling the cards, I directly handed the cards to the middle-aged man.
Although he nodded slightly to thank me, I could see an extremely gloomy expression filling the middle-aged man's eyes.
When cutting the cards, the middle-aged man's hands moved very quickly, and he no longer used the fake cutting technique, but performed continuous horizontal cuts at least three times!
Each time, he only picked up a small stack of cards to cut, which seemed no different from ordinary card cutting.
But in reality, every time the middle-aged man picked up that small stack of cards, he would quickly shuffle that small stack of cards completely, and then place it into another stack of cards.
Of course, the middle-aged man's technique was very fast, so fast that no one except me could detect his small actions.
Seeing this, a faint smile appeared on my lips.
I knew that the middle-aged man had finally noticed something was wrong with the last hand.
Therefore, he was starting to get serious!
The technique the middle-aged man just used has a nice name in the world of tricks: "Cloud Piercing Flying Flowers."
His main purpose in using the "Cloud Piercing Flying Flowers" technique was to disrupt the cards I had already shuffled.
I think at this moment, in the middle-aged man's perception, I must seem very wicked!
And so wicked that he can't accurately judge whether I am a cheat or not!
But it's no wonder, after all, from the beginning until now, I have only used the perfect shuffling technique three times, all of which were done with ordinary methods.
Even the card cutting has only been done once just now.
And in this only instance of card cutting, I didn't use any special techniques, but purely relied on hand speed and eyesight to perform a pile drive and insert a card.
So, it's normal for him to be confused.
Furthermore, if I hadn't cut the cards just now, perhaps until now, the middle-aged man would have thought I was just a young man with good luck.
However, what the middle-aged man doesn't know is that "Cloud Piercing Flying Flowers" is useless against me.
Because this round, I didn't plan to continue cheating!
I just wanted to play the game of feints and reality, true and false, occasionally pulling off a big one, then cutting the big wins to supplement the small ones, and silently being the one who wins the most.
You must know, this is not a movie, and I am not a gambler with a slicked-back hairstyle, eating chocolate, playing with rings, and winning money so openly and without pressure.
Real cheats are very low-key.
A cheat will definitely not make any unnecessary moves that might arouse suspicion.
Those who dare to do so… there are some, but not many!
They are not called cheats, they are called: "Sticks!"
………………
After cutting the cards, the gloomy look in the middle-aged man's eyes faded considerably.
Then, he stared at me intently, wanting to keep a close eye on my every move.