"I don't know what the rules of other games here are." Fang Ze looked at Abel and said, "But blackjack is international, let's play this."
"Okay." Abel readily agreed to Fang Ze's proposal.
For Abel, if nothing happens, he will never be able to get back the money he lent to the gambling addict. After all, he is a single man now. So he really didn't feel bad at all for using the money to gamble with Fang Ze.
On the contrary, although Fang Ze only had a few thousand dollars in cash with him, he had the captain's guarantee that if he lost too much money, he could just ask his family to transfer the money without fear of running out of money.
"We also need a card dealer." Abel said to Fang Ze, "In order to avoid you suspecting that I am colluding, there are so many people here, you can just appoint one."
"He's fine." Fang Ze heard Abel's words and pointed his finger at the Indian boy Gawala who was watching the excitement.
"Okay, that's this kid." After hearing Fang Ze's decision, Abel beckoned Gavara to run over and said to him, "Kid, come and deal the cards to us. When we finish gambling, we will Here’s a tip for you.”
"Okay." When Gavara heard that there was money available, he immediately agreed excitedly.
"Bring the deck of cards." Abel then asked a boy next to him.
After hearing what Abel said, the boy walked towards a cabinet in the cabin and wanted to get a new deck of cards, but Abel immediately stopped him.
"Aren't there cards on the table over there, idiot, where are you going?"
When the younger brother heard Abel's words, his mind turned and he immediately understood what Abel meant. He quickly stopped heading towards the cabinet, turned around, packed up the old cards on the table, and took them over.
When Fang Ze saw this scene, his eyelids twitched and he glanced at Abel who was watching him, but he never spoke and allowed Abel's younger brother to bring over an old deck of cards.
"You guys are a little bit like this." The old man from the Gambling Bar saw Brother Abel bringing over a deck of old cards, and he knew that this Abel was also dishonest. Serious casinos usually replace a deck of playing cards immediately after using them a few times. This is because each playing card is not exactly the same on the back, and there will always be some small differences.
Therefore, once a deck of playing cards is used too many times, those with superior memory can easily remember the differences in each deck of playing cards, thereby achieving a clairvoyant effect.
The meaning of Abel asking his little brother to get an old deck of cards is very obvious. Maybe his memory is not that outstanding, but when faced with a playing card that he has touched countless times, Abel can still do it. Remember a few cards.
And if you can determine the faces of some cards, it will play a very important role in games like blackjack.
Stop gambling. I was about to stand up and expose Abel’s cheating behavior, but when he finished speaking, he raised his head and saw opposite him, a younger brother of Abel lifted up his clothes, revealing a very beautiful Walnut knife handle.
Stop gambling. Brother immediately shut up.
"If there is no problem, can we start?" Abel saw that the already used and very familiar playing cards were in Gavara's hands, and immediately urged Fang Ze to start the gambling.
He was now certain that the young man in front of him who stood up for his compatriots was actually a rookie with no social experience.
If you can't even see this cheating method, I'm afraid you'll lose everything today.
The crew members present were all veterans. Everyone, including Gavara, knew that Abel's use of old playing cards was an act of cheating, but no one reminded Fang Ze.
They thought that Fang Ze didn't know about it, so they didn't tell him. But Fang Ze actually knew about it, and they also knew that this group of people thought that they didn't know and didn't tell Fang Ze.
So the current situation is that everyone present except Fang Ze not only thinks that Fang Ze does not know about Abel’s cheating, but also thinks that Fang Ze does not know that they know that Abel cheated but did not tell him. But in fact, Fang Ze not only knows that Abel cheated, Regarding Buhl's cheating, he also knew that everyone knew that Abuhl cheated but thought that Fang Ze didn't know that Abuhl cheated and didn't tell him.
It can be said to be a long sentence that is very difficult to pronounce.
But the logic of things is so wonderful. The reason why Fang Ze saw through it without revealing it was actually very simple. For Fang Ze, when Athena's Vision is turned on, old cards are better remembered and recognized than new cards.
Moreover, gambling is not actually about luck, but about psychology.
By always judging the opponent's mental state and then making the next move, we can truly improve our chances of winning. Once Fang Ze has memorized all the cards in his hand, Abel's mental state and the cards in his hand will disappear. Everything is controlled by Fang Ze.
Fang Ze didn't believe that he couldn't win against Abel.
"Deal the cards." Fang Ze raised his head and said confidently to Gavara.
"What an arrogant young man." Abel glanced at the confident Fang Ze and firmly believed that Fang Ze was a fledgling rookie.
Of course, the next few rounds of cards were exactly what Abel thought. Fang Ze only won one hand and lost all the others!
Abel originally wanted to deliberately lose a few games, and then wait until Fang Ze swelled up, and then win many games in a row, making Fang Ze completely trapped.
But when it came time to actually do it, Abel thought about it and gave it up. As a veteran who has worked on the ship for many years, Abel knows that the boss of the ship is Dreyer after all, and he must have a certain degree of control in everything he does.
It would be good to be able to get the 60,000 US dollars owed by the gambling addict through Fang Ze. If he were greedy for more, it might make Captain Dreher look bad.
So it's better to win as much as you can and let this kid quit as soon as possible.
"Hey, brother, brother." After Fang Ze lost a few more games, the old man from the Gambling Club on the side finally felt itchy and uncomfortable. He hurriedly came to Fang Ze's side and said, "Brother, you can't win if you keep doing this. Ah, come and let me play a few games and see how I can win for you."
"I can't win, how can you win?" Fang Ze said while gesturing to Gavara to continue dealing cards, "If you play better than me, how can you borrow tens of thousands of dollars and still lose?"
"Well, it's not like I had bad luck these past few days." The old man smiled sarcastically and continued to say shamelessly, "I think I've been lucky these past few days. Why don't you let me try? I'll lose anyway. What’s the difference between you losing and me losing?”
"The difference is that I can still win after losing." After Fang Ze finished speaking, he nodded to Gavara and said, "Continue to ask for cards."
Gavara dealt a card with a name on it in his hand to Fang Ze's hand, and Fang Ze turned the card over.
It was a ten, and Fang Ze's existing three cards were six, seven, and three, so he succeeded and Abel, who was sitting opposite, won another round.
Fang Ze had lost all his cash at this time. He threw all the money to Abel, then took out his credit card from his wallet and said, "Let's move on."
"You can continue, but it will be time to wash the deck soon." Abel said to Fang Ze, "So can we speed it up a little, for example, three thousand dollars a piece?"
"No, please don't." Before Fang Ze could say anything, quit gambling. He immediately jumped up and said to Fang Ze in Mandarin, "Brother, stop now. If you lose again, you won't be able to stop. You But don’t imitate me.”
Brother, quit gambling. He said this in Mandarin, so he was not afraid that others could understand it. At this moment, he suddenly remembered that he could inform Fang Ze in Mandarin.
So he was about to talk about Abel's cheating with old playing cards, when he heard Fang Ze say to Abel, "Three thousand US dollars is a bit small, how about a handful of ten thousand US dollars."
Ten thousand dollars apiece.
Abel hesitated a little when he heard Fang Ze's words.
Although sailors, especially those in this kind of transoceanic trade, are generally very well paid, ten thousand dollars is still a lot of money for Abel.
And with a handful of US$10,000, it is very likely that you will accidentally lose your pants.
"What, don't you dare?" Fang Ze saw that Abel was no longer as decisive as before, and simply used the provocation method.
"Why don't you dare?" Abel finally made up his mind. Anyway, from just now until now, he has only used the money owed to him by the gambling addict, so he has not actually paid anything. Naturally, he is not afraid of playing such a big gamble with Fang Ze.
The $10,000 bet was the biggest the ship had made since it first set sail.
The excitement brought by the huge amount made the surrounding crew members excited together. They formed a circle and watched Fang Ze and Abel sitting on both sides.
Gavara dealt the cards once, but this time was different from the previous times. Fang Ze had used Athena to only record the characteristics of the backs of most of the playing cards, so he didn't even look at the cards Gavara dealt him. , he all knows how big this card is.
At the same time, he also used Athena's Vision to determine the face of Abel's playing cards and the face of the playing cards in the next chapter. Although Abel could remember the other sides of a few cards, the gap between the two sides was not of the same magnitude.
It's a bit like a situation where a fully developed late-game hero single-handedly brushed Roshan, got the Immortal Shield, and pushed five people on the opposite side.
Sure enough, after both parties asked for two cards each, Fang Ze accurately guessed that the next card was a nine. This was a card that would swell to death whether it was Fang Ze or Abel, so Fang Ze gave up decisively, but Abel did not recognize the value of this card.
He calculated that if he didn't continue to add, he might be a few points lower than Fang Ze, so he decisively took the card.
(End of chapter)