After I threw another 150,000 chips into the pot, Xue Chuang began dealing.
After the fifth hole card was dealt, the face-up cards of the four of us became clear and distinct.
First, the busty foreign woman, with a face-up of JJ8, managed to get a meaningless 5.
Her hand was ultimately fixed at three Jacks, nothing to fear.
However, the man with glasses was very lucky. His flush of spades with a 5, 7, J, managed to get a King of Spades, forming a complete flush.
If neither I nor the bearded man could successfully get the crucial straight flush hand… then the man who ate three players would very likely be the man with glasses.
Thinking of this, I subconsciously glanced towards the bearded man.
It turned dark!
The bearded man's last card turned dark, a 10 of Clubs, but he could still form a straight with cards on both ends.
When it came to me, there were no surprises. Like the bearded man, I didn't get the crucial diamond card, and my hand also turned dark.
What's more, my hand was even worse than the bearded man's, a 2 of Spades, only forming a pair of 2s with a 2, 3, 4.
In an instant, my hand went from a top-tier flush to a mere three of a kind.
Heh heh~ This round… is interesting!
Three of a kind, flush, mixed straight, three of a kind.
The man with glasses, who had the flush, was the first to bet.
He picked up five chips worth 100,000 each and threw them out very decisively.
Seeing the man with glasses' move, I immediately frowned and started to brainstorm.
This round, he had the best hand, yet he didn't go all-in. Instead, he made a high bet. Was he bluffing due to lack of confidence, or was he playing a calculated game with full confidence?
I had to figure this out clearly, because I didn't want to be taken down by someone who wasn't my target!
After the man with glasses bet, the bearded man didn't say a word. He flipped over his hole card and looked at it again.
After looking, the bearded man gently tapped the table with his right hand, his brow furrowed, and his eyes filled with sharp and complex calculations.
After a while, the bearded man finally decided to call.
After the bearded man called, it was my turn.
Logically speaking, the best hand I could form with my face-up and hole cards was the weakest among the four players.
Calling 500,000 to the final showdown was like giving away my chips, but…
In less than half an hour of play, I had secretly observed Xue Chuang's techniques, from breaking new cards to shuffling and cutting.
How the four-suit dragon was broken and shuffled, and the direction of the cards after shuffling, I couldn't say it was foolproof, but at least I had a rough idea. With more than a fifty percent chance, I could gamble on it.
For a cheat, this fifty percent chance is more than enough!
Uncle Tuo had told me that the biggest taboo for a cheat was to be hesitant and afraid to gamble.
Once constrained by the pressure of the moment, they would become timid and indecisive.
At that point, no matter how skilled your cheating was, you were prone to making mistakes.
Because being timid is a sign of fear of losing, and the more you fear losing… the more likely you are to lose!
Besides myself, I could guess what half of the hole cards of the other three people on the table were.
So, I chose to gamble and call.
After I called, it was the busty foreign woman's turn.
Unexpectedly, she pushed all her chips forward and went all-in!
This scene immediately made the man with glasses tense up, and he began to observe the three of us with a frown.
Originally, I didn't consider the man with glasses as a hypothetical enemy, because his presence had always been very low.
But as he started to size us up, I saw his eyes go straight to our hands.
Clearly, this person had a problem!
If nothing unexpected happened, he was most likely a cheat.
Everyone, please remember, when a cheat shows this kind of look at the table, they are likely preparing to cheat.
This is when they repeatedly observe their opponents before deciding to cheat, to confirm if there are any other cheaters present.
After staring at my hands and fingers for a good four or five seconds, after much deliberation, the man with glasses finally shook his head and folded his cards.
Clearly, his hole card was not a spade that would form a flush with his face-up card. That 500,000 bet was a bluff.
Without knowing my true hand, he didn't rashly decide to rely on cheating to get the winning spade flush hole card.
Because he knew very well that the consequences of being caught cheating were far more severe than losing 500,000 chips.
When it came to the bearded man, without the slightest hesitation or pause, he decisively chose to fold.
Seeing that the man with glasses and the bearded man, whose hands were better than his, had both folded, the busty foreign woman, unable to contain her joy, immediately urged me to hurry.
Looking at her, she seemed eager to collect the 500,000 chips that each of us had put on the table in the previous round.
Unfortunately, I pushed all my chips forward without saying a word.
Seeing this, the busty foreign woman was first stunned for a moment, then immediately flipped over her hole card.
A 5, which paired with the last 5, along with the initial pair of Jacks, gave her two pairs.
No wonder she didn't call 500,000 but went all-in directly. With a two-pair hand, if she called to the end and someone had a better hand, she would be pure loss.
It was better to bet all-in boldly and carefully after calculating the probability of others getting crucial cards.
If she encountered a low-probability event, she would decisively admit defeat.
If she didn't encounter it and scared away cards of the same type as hers, she would make a huge profit.
Unfortunately, there was no such thing as probability for a cheat.
With a feint, using the trick of changing cards while pretending to smoke, and replacing the hole card with a 2 of Spades at the moment of the reveal…
When she opened her hole card, revealing a bare two, the busty foreign woman was instantly dumbfounded.
After coming to her senses, she angrily slammed her fist on the gambling table and cursed with a profanity starting with 'f'.
Undoubtedly, with three 2s, I won the round.
As for the busty foreign woman, who had tried to pull off a steal, she lost all her chips and was immediately out.
After the busty foreign woman was eliminated and left the table, the man with glasses suddenly looked at me and said sarcastically, "Brother, your real hole card… isn't it this 2 of Spades?"
Hearing this, I immediately retorted with a cold face, "If it's not the 2 of Spades, what else could it be?"
"Heh heh~ Nothing!"
After being retorted by me, the man with glasses' face immediately turned red, and he smiled through clenched teeth.
Seeing this, I immediately made up my mind: I must eliminate this sleazy man with glasses!
When cheats compete at the same table, it's all about skill and courage.
If you have the ability but lack the courage to perform openly, and then after seeing a peer win, you use despicable and low-level words to reveal half the truth and hide the other half, that's truly bad character…