"I won!" A man in a white shirt with rolled up sleeves put all the cards in his hand on the table, then smiled and took all the chips on the table into his arms. He was in the card game just now. Win one hundred and fifty five dollars.
The empire went through several discussions in the process of borrowing from theocratic law, and finally left a clause prohibiting gambling. But in fact, what this clause really restricts is the kind of public gambling. For a few people to find a secluded private place to play cards in private, it doesn't matter much whether they have a small jackpot or a small win or loss. No one will take the initiative to report themselves or anyone who participated in a gambling game.
A less famous sociologist believes that "hatred sprouts from jealousy." Without jealousy, no one will meddle in reporting on his neighbor unless his interests are harmed.
Walter frowned and slammed the cards in his hand on the table. Everyone had long been accustomed to this kind of angry behavior. His sleeves had also been rolled up, and he drank less than two ounces of wine from a glass with ice cubes in one gulp, then tilted his head and lit a cigarette.
He had been losing all afternoon. As a qualified gambler, he felt that he would be able to win back all his previous losses next time, so he still sat at the gambling table.
The gentleman sitting opposite him glanced at the box of chips in front of Walter, and then glanced back at the young man sitting on a sofa looking at tape. The young man immediately stood up and walked to the box where the chips were placed and took out two hundred yuan. Chips of different denominations were delivered to Walter, "The third box, sir."
Walter took the chips from the young man's hand with some irritation, took out the few remaining chips in the chip box in front of him, and then replaced them.
The minimum bet in a gambling game is two yuan. Although there is a maximum limit of fifty yuan per game, sometimes no one will say anything if you bet a little more, especially a "friend" like Walter who has lost a lot of money. Give him a chance for revenge. He took a few puffs of cigarette and looked at the person on the left who was shuffling cards. He stood up, said "I'm going to wash my face", picked up his belt and walked into the bathroom.
One afternoon, he lost the 500 yuan he brought and still owed 600 yuan. The huge loss made him feel a little uncomfortable and felt blocked. Ever since he rolled out two thousand yuan at a time, his luck seemed to have suddenly run out. In the past six months, he had won less and lost more intermittently. He rarely asked the person who organized the gambling how much money he owed. He was a little afraid that it would be a huge amount. But I have to say that his friend is a good one. Not only did he organize such a gambling game for free, but the money he owes has not been pressed on him to repay the debt. Instead, the other party will lend him money as long as he needs it.
In today's impetuous and philistine society, there are not many such good people anymore.
He patted his cheeks that were wet with cold water, looked at himself in the mirror with his sunken eye sockets, smiled to himself, and then waved his fist to cheer himself up, he was going to win today!
When he returned to the table, the cards had been shuffled. His next customer, a gentleman in his thirties, asked him to check the cards. He smiled and shook his head, "We are all friends, there is no need."
Although he said this, the gentleman at his next house shuffled the cards again in front of him. Everyone around the gambling table was smoking, which made the place feel a bit smoky. His eyes were fixed on the flipped and crossed poker cards until they were thoroughly washed.
Some people play cards more elegantly and relax by calculating scores and adding an extra point. Most of their playing is more technical and requires better calculations and psychology. But there is also a kind of card game, just like the card game Mr. Walter participated in. The method of playing is relatively simple. Use the cards in each person's hands to compare the sizes with the public cards on the table. It is simple and easy to understand. Even people who don't know how to play can play it. Learned in no time.
The game has multiple stages, and this is also the stage where everyone places a bet or chooses to give up. The base bet is only two yuan, but many times when it comes time to decide the winner or lose, there are often dozens or hundreds of yuan on the table.
Mr. Walter threw the minimum amount of chips on the table as the base bet, and then the winner of the previous round began to "work". The cards were distributed one by one to the hands of each participant. Walter looked at the cards in his hand and breathed. A little more urgent.
This was a good hand. From the point of view of the hand, he was almost the best. When he saw the community card again, he felt that he was sure to win this round! The chance of such a big name appearing is very rare. Sometimes a gambling game may only appear two or three times within seven or eight hours.
He tightened his face to make it look like he had been dealt a bad hand, and even frowned. The gentleman sitting opposite him, on the other hand, had a smile on his face.
"Wow, nice sorting, I'm pretty lucky." He didn't seem to care at all that he had exposed the size of his cards. Mr. Walter glanced up at him and forced a smile.
He smiled and said, "Then we can throw away the cards, because you will definitely win."
The person opposite seemed to really think so. He nodded in agreement and said, "Maybe this is the best choice."
Walter calmly threw a five-dollar chip on the table. When he first came into contact with this kind of game, he really believed it, but several times he found that others actually didn't have any good cards at all and were completely swindling him. , he stupidly stuffed the biggest card in the game into the pile. Since then, he has come to understand that sometimes the outcome of a poker game is not on the table.
Have you ever heard something similar
Yes, the decisive victory is outside the court. This illustrates the same truth and indirectly reflects the fact that this is the nature of society. The truth of the world is revealed in a joke.
"It seems that Mr. Walter doesn't believe it..." The man who won just now shook his head, and he also threw a chip in. "I don't believe it either. The cards in my hand are also good. Maybe I am better!"
The poker player opposite laughed again. He directly picked up a ten-dollar chip and threw it on the table. "We all think our cards are better, why don't we have more fun?"
In the subsequent suspension betting process, each player invested 80 yuan in chips on the gambling table. It seemed that everyone felt that they had the biggest card. When the last public card was played, Mr. Walter breathed a sigh of relief. The cards in his hand are very big. If nothing else happens, he should win this round. As a winner, in addition to his money, there is still two hundred and forty yuan on the table. Not only can he win back what he lost just now, but there is still more. This made him very happy. Winning money always seems to be a happy thing.
The expression of the poker player sitting opposite him became serious. He sighed and put down the cards in his hand. It was indeed a good hand. He would definitely win other times, but not this time! The person who won his money in the last round also put down his cards, which were bigger than the cards in the hand of the gentleman opposite Mr. Walter. When he opened his arms cheerfully and prepared to take back the chips, Mr. Walter put his The cards were placed on the table.
His biggest, he took a cigarette and lit it, and said with a smile, "Thank you for your help, I can't organize the chips fast enough." When he said that he reached out to grab the chips, he went to the house. The card player, the guy who didn't say a word this round, put down his cards. Mr. Walter glanced at it, and the hand that went to pick up the chips froze in the air.
He lost!
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It is normal to lose and win in gambling. Mr. Walter has known this for a long time, but today he lost again. The principal of 500 yuan plus the five chips he took this time is 1,000 yuan.
One thousand five hundred yuan was completely lost. Sitting in the car, he slammed the steering wheel hard, and the car also made a piercing whistle.
Standing on the balcony and watching Mr. Walter drive away, after the three of them sat down, the man who organized the gambling took out four hundred yuan from his pocket and gave it to the other two players respectively, "This is You deserve it, and you can’t do anything wrong. Don’t forget to come on time on Wednesday.” The two nodded happily and took the money in their hands and left. The gentleman who organized the card game glanced at the clock and ordered: “Play. Call our friends, the next card game will start in fifteen minutes!”
Mr. Walter sighed when he drove home and parked in the garage. He put on his clothes and made himself smile. He didn't seem to be so worried before he took the key and opened the door.
"Walt?" As soon as he entered the door, he heard his wife's gentle voice coming from the living room. This voice made him feel guilty, and he felt inexplicably more irritable, not just because he lost money.
He took off his shoes, responded, changed his shoes and walked into the living room. He looked at his wife with her back to him in amazement as she was packing up some small furnishings, such as framed photos and souvenirs given by others or bought by herself over the years. some type of. The last time this happened was when they moved here. Are they moving again
He walked behind his wife and watched her playing with these things, and couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong? Don't you like them?"
Her wife did not look back, she was still packing these things seriously, and replied with a smile, "I have a new job, and I am leaving Staley. We may go to live in the north or west."
"Why?" Walter suddenly couldn't accept the news, "Is it bad here? Or do they want to send you away?"
"What about the house here? And our daughter, what about her studies? I don't think she can adapt to the environment and school there quickly. Can we not go?!!"
(End of chapter)