After a quick glance at the point value of the first card, I began to examine the second card.
While examining the card, my middle and ring fingers on my left hand subtly curled inward, preparing to cheat and switch cards.
With a slight flick and a snap of my two fingers…
It was still the card-switching technique: Shifting Forms, Changing Shadows.
The second card was already stealthily swapped during the process of examining the cards.
The reason I dared to openly cheat in the casino, besides having Qin Lei to back me up and "hide the evidence," was the abundance of cards in Baccarat.
Under normal circumstances, unless a signal from a hidden observer was received or other external forces intervened, the dealer would not suddenly check or verify cards during a normal game.
Those who have played Baccarat should know that nine points is the highest, and zero points is the lowest.
Therefore, to ensure a win, after seeing the first card was a five, I decisively switched it for a four.
Nine points, my thirteen thousand instantly became twenty-six thousand.
After winning the chips, I feigned excitement and said, "Damn it! I should have gone to the restroom earlier to change my luck!"
"It wasn't easy! I finally bet on the Player correctly!"
Except for Kang Zhiwei, everyone else at the gambling table cast envious glances at me.
Only this fool showed me a hateful expression, gritting his teeth.
In the last hand, Kang Zhiwei had bet against me as usual, and had placed a heavy bet of ten thousand on that hand!
Although I wasn't sure about Kang Zhiwei's wins and losses during my time in the restroom, judging by that last hand, this guy had almost given back half of the money he had won by betting against me!
From now on, if Kang Zhiwei continues to go against me, I can guarantee… he will lose miserably!
Although setting up a scheme to cheat people in the casino is very dangerous and difficult, as the saying goes?
The most dangerous places are often the safest places!
And behind high risk, there are often hidden extremely high returns!
Besides the most direct cash profits, I basically don't have to worry about being retaliated against by Kang Zhiwei.
The reason many people like to gamble in casinos is that they naively believe that casinos are places for fair competition.
With the presence of visible and hidden observers, as well as those fierce-looking security personnel, they are given enough confidence and a sense of security.
In fact, this idea is completely wrong!
Setting aside other things, basically five or six out of ten casinos secretly keep a large group of cheaters.
Furthermore, casinos will periodically send these cheaters to tables with high turnover, letting them pose as gamblers to bet money.
In the end, many people think they lost due to bad luck, but in reality, they lost to the nine out of ten scams!
The cheaters supported by casinos are specifically used to deal with gamblers and addicts who are not easily swayed by beauty.
The premise is that these gamblers and addicts must have a certain economic strength.
We don't fear you winning money, we fear you not coming!
This is the casino's trick!
As long as you enter the casino, the casino has plenty of ways to trick all the money out of your pockets!
These little-known inside stories were all told to me by Uncle Tuo.
Of course, not all casinos have the ability to support a large group of cheaters.
Although gambling culture is quite popular in Anhai County, because the economic development of the entire county is relatively backward, and the competition among private casinos is fierce, and there are too few cheaters with real skills, they can basically only hire two or three cheaters to maintain order.
In normal times, they generally do not act easily, unless there is a game with particularly large turnover.
As for catching people cheating, it depends on the spotter or high-definition cameras.
The so-called spotter is what I mentioned earlier, the visible and hidden observers.
Visible observers are easy to identify.
Don't pay attention to their attire, just keep an eye on those people who are walking around the casino with chips but not sitting at the table to bet.
Especially those with injuries on their hands, feet, or body… If nothing unexpected happens, they are most likely visible observers!
Of course, this is not entirely absolute. It depends on how the casino arranges the visible observers.
In all major casinos, visible observers are cheater experts hired at great expense by the casino, and they possess genuine skills!
However, in a small county like Anhai that cannot attract talent, the so-called visible observers are actually just a group of security guards.
They are usually tall, burly, and fierce-looking, wearing uniforms, and constantly moving around and patrolling the casino.
The role of these visible observers is not to catch people cheating, but to deter all guests!
The ones you really need to be careful of are the hidden observers.
For a cheater like me, the most dangerous are the hidden observers roaming the casino.
The reason they are dangerous is that these hidden observers are like venomous snakes hidden in the darkness, coldly staring at your every move from any corner you cannot see.
Once you reveal a flaw, the hidden observer will bare their fangs, coated with venom, and deliver the most fatal blow!
Fortunately, Tianyuan Casino is very small, so small that its internal space is very limited.
And the few hidden observers are constantly staring at those high-turnover gambling tables, so my cheating just now was completely undetectable…
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After recouping the thirteen thousand bet, I did not blindly continue to press my advantage under Kang Zhiwei's provocative and oppressive gaze.
In the meantime, after figuring out the dealer's card dealing patterns, I continued to bet on several pairs and ties, losing about twenty thousand yuan back to the casino.
Each time, I would heavily bet on the Banker and Player bets that Kang Zhiwei was making in defiance of me, and with a bet of one to two thousand more than him, I would gain the right to see the cards.
By winning big once and losing small three times in this intermittent winning pattern, I was quietly winning his chips.
As for the bulk of it, it was still with the dealer.
Since both Banker and Player have a payout of one to one, as long as I don't bet on the Banker, I don't have to pay a commission when I win.
From another perspective, the money I win is basically contributed by Kang Zhiwei alone.
If you ask me why I always win when I bet heavily on Player, then you must not have played Baccarat!
In Baccarat, the probability of winning by betting on Banker is 45.86%, which is more than one percentage point higher than the 44.62% for betting on Player!
Don't underestimate this 1% probability, because the house relies on it to cleverly "balance" the Banker and Player, causing most gamblers to fall for it.
Therefore, remember not to blindly chase Banker or Player, nor to look at any damn card path charts.
All the card paths and mottos in Baccarat are complete bullshit!
Just like the trend charts for Super Lotto and Double Color Ball, they are completely made to fool people.
How many lottery winners have you seen who carry notebooks to study trend charts?
Whether Baccarat opens Banker or Player is purely decided by the dealer based on the chips on the table.
As for the trick, it's all in the shoe with a hidden compartment next to the dealer's hand.