During the period of Jiang He's chosen silence, relying on luck, I managed to get a hand of 9 points and secured victory.
According to the rules of San Gong, getting 9 points allows one to request to be the dealer.
Thus, I unhesitatingly chose to be the dealer.
You want to cast a long line to catch a big fish, but I will deliberately thwart your plans!
If you don't cheat, I'll force you to cheat!
After taking the cards, without any delay or hesitation, I immediately applied the perfect shuffling technique that I had developed through ordinary shuffling methods.
Based on my analysis and judgment of Jiang He, his cheating skills wouldn't be too high, otherwise, he wouldn't need to operate in a small card room to make money.
Moreover, earlier, he had secretly observed and scrutinized everyone participating in the game, and had already ruled out suspicions against them.
Therefore, at this moment, he was in a relatively relaxed state, both physiologically and psychologically.
As expected!
As I shuffled the cards, Jiang He's face showed no sign of abnormality.
After shuffling, I signaled everyone that they could place their bets.
Jiang He, without any suspicion, still placed his 100 yuan on the table in a calm manner.
I handed the deck to the center, and after someone cut the cards, I began dealing them one by one.
While using the perfect shuffling technique, I had already pre-determined the hand I wanted in my mind.
I would deal small hands to others, a big hand to Jiang He, and a hand that could beat him to myself.
In a San Gong game with a top bet of 200 yuan, it's somewhat unrealistic to get someone to lose their temper with just one hand.
Therefore, the best approach is to suppress first and then elevate, deliberately creating opportunities for people to win, and then crushing them back.
If it doesn't work once, do it twice; if it doesn't work twice, do it thrice; if it doesn't work thrice, keep increasing the stakes!
After all, a cheat is still human, just someone who understands patience and self-control better than ordinary people.
But these factors are not reasons to stand by and watch others defecate and urinate on your head!
I am very certain that as long as Jiang He takes the bait and falls into the trap, regardless of whether my identity is exposed, he will ultimately abandon his plan of casting a long line to catch a big fish.
As soon as he starts to act freely, I can openly make my move and catch the cheat…
…
In the first round of dealing after I became the dealer.
The first few people, led by Su Jianwei, when they finished their hands and revealed their cards, were mostly unable to refrain from complaining that the person who sat below me earlier had bad luck, cutting a deck that was all low cards of 2 and 3 points.
Little did they know that under the great perfect shuffling technique, I could deal them any hand I wanted, any points I desired!
Seeing that everyone else had small point values, Jiang He, whose emotions were clearly displayed on his face, immediately burst into laughter.
"Good cut, brother! This hand, I'm going to take three threes to crush the dealer!"
Human nature is selfish, especially at the card table.
Fearing that others might get good hands while they don't, this is the common psychological flaw of most gamblers.
To put it bluntly, they can't stand to see others do well!
While calling you brother and friend, when they see you holding good cards and winning money, they wish they had lost money themselves!
Speaking his true thoughts in a joking manner, Jiang He maintained a confident smile on his face.
He believed that he would be the one laughing at the end of this hand.
Even when revealing his cards later, his smile was still brilliant.
Because I dealt him a hand that was worth four times the bet.
However, Jiang He soon couldn't laugh anymore.
Especially when he saw the three cards in front of me, which turned out to be all Kings…
The guy was completely stunned, staring blankly at the cards in silence.
As for the reactions of others, they were much more intense than Jiang He's.
"Holy shit! K-high triplets!"
"Fuck!!! I bet two hundred and should be paid one thousand eight hundred!"
"Damn! Who the hell cut the cards just now!?"
As others exclaimed, Jiang He also came back to his senses at the right moment and cursed angrily, "What the hell, you big Sprite!"
"After finally getting a hand that could pay four times, it gets beaten by three Kings, this is truly like seeing a ghost!"
After cursing, Jiang He stared at me unhappily, his eyes full of suspicion.
Being someone who understood the game, Jiang He didn't attribute the reason for losing money to the cut, unlike others.
He suspected me, suspected that I was up to something!
Although I saw all of this, I didn't show it at all, instead pretending to be oblivious and continuing to shuffle the cards.
The seed of suspicion had been sown, and as long as this momentum continued, regardless of whether Jiang He had evidence or not, I was certain of one thing.
That is: he would definitely no longer patiently try to cast a long line to catch a big fish, but would change his approach and start aggressively pursuing, trying to make as much money as possible…
After shuffling the cards, as I reached out to hand the deck to the center, I suddenly heard Jiang He say in an unfriendly tone, "Let me cut the cards this hand!"
The moment I heard this, a surge of fire erupted in my heart and burned fiercely.
If I still held a trace of guilt and apology in my heart for framing Jiang He…
Then, after Jiang He uttered that curse, I no longer had any burden in my heart.
Uncle Tuo once said something: in a gambling game, if you encounter a selfish individual, don't hesitate, and don't care about their identity, just hit them hard!
If you don't suppress such people in advance, they will definitely try to kill you first if they get a chance to breathe!
Clearly, Jiang He was such an extremely selfish individual!
As long as he lost money, he would even take over the cutting of cards himself.
There's nothing to say to such a fool who is so obviously emotional, only accepts winning and not losing, and throws tantrums and curses when he loses money!
We are all adults, and I want him to pay a profound and painful price for the "old man" he called himself just now!!!
As I was handing the deck to Jiang He, Zhang Chengxiang beside me suddenly reached out and stopped my action.
Seeing this, Jiang He immediately frowned and asked, "What's wrong, Brother Xiang?"
"Nothing much." After exhaling a large puff of smoke, Zhang Chengxiang said in a deep voice, "You know the rules of Yongli."
"After the winner finishes shuffling, anyone who wants to cut the cards can do so freely, but you absolutely cannot force others to cut them for you like you just did!"
"Before you said that, any of the five of us besides the dealer could have cut the cards, but now…"
"You definitely cannot cut!"
"Why? Didn't I just speak a bit rudely?" Jiang He retorted dismissively.
"Because: card manners are a reflection of character!"