I must draw my sword immediately!

Chapter 104 I Want to Bet Faster

The Winchester Casino has four floors.

It features soaring spires, colorful stained-glass murals, and a series of grand archways cascading down the walls, each adorned with intricate reliefs that spark the imagination. The walls of the corridors are hung with a variety of masterpieces.
Compared to a casino, it's more like a cathedral, a city hall, or a theater displaying countless works of art.

And at this moment,
Following the beautiful young lady in the red dress inside, as the casino doors slowly opened in front of them...
What appeared inside was not rows of seats and a tall, sacred statue at the far end of the hall.

There are no believers who pray, nor are there priests who have compassion and mercy.

The first thing that catches the eye is the variety of vibrant colors: wine-red marble floors, black and gold-trimmed ceilings and wallpaper resembling a starry sky, and countless warm white spotlights embedded in the ceiling or niches hanging from the exceptionally spacious and high-ceilinged hall.

Underfoot is a thick, sound-absorbing, top-quality custom carpet with intricate patterns of sapphire blue, dark green, and gold.

And after that,
It consisted of one hundred luxurious gambling tables, each gleaming in red, white, and blue, scattered throughout the hall, surrounded by elegantly dressed upper-class individuals.

Slow, soft music, the clinking of chips against the table, the bartender shaking ice at the counter, and the tapping of high heels all blend together—the wonderful evening is just beginning.

"Welcome to the Winchester Casino!"

Gerry Freyt stopped, turned around, and gave a mischievous smile. Despite her young age and similar appearance to Suya, she acted like a seasoned gambler, introducing Suya and the other two:

"Here you can find all of Britain's gambling games: Blackjack, Roulette, Texas Hold'em, Sic Bo, and Baccarat."

"So, where would you like to start?"

At this moment, Mary, who had already learned a painful lesson here, put on a stern face and looked at Suya, saying:

"The casino has four floors. Even I only managed to gamble up to the third floor last time. Gerry Freyt should be on the fourth floor, and it's said that her gambling skills are even better than those of Princess Morgan le Fay."

"The only way to meet him is to break the record set by Morgan LeFee, but that's practically impossible."

She glanced at Suya, hesitated for a moment, then leaned closer and whispered, "I have 2600 gold pounds here, which, together with the 2000 gold pounds you have, makes a total of 4600 gold pounds. According to the kingdom's laws, there is a limit to the amount that can be wagered at a single gambling table, which is 1000 gold pounds."

"If we can win 30 times in a row on the first floor, I can get back all the costumes I bet on here."

"Let's play it safe and play blackjack. As long as you can remember six decks of cards, we should be able to beat everyone on the first floor, barring any unforeseen circumstances."

Blackjack is a poker game where four to eight decks of cards are shuffled together before being dealt. The rules are to see who has the highest total points. The reason for shuffling and dealing is to prevent gamblers with exceptionally good memories from remembering the cards.

If you can remember all the cards that have been played, and supplement them with the formulas left by predecessors, you can greatly increase your chances of winning. This is also recorded in "Winning at Blackjack".

Generally speaking, an average person can remember at most two decks of cards, a super gambler can remember four decks, some exceptionally gifted mathematicians can remember six decks, and Meryl thinks that with Sua's brilliant mind, she can remember at least eight decks.

Suya nodded, then confessed:

"I can not remember."

"Then I'll go exchange my chips... Wait, what did you say?!"

Meili stared blankly at Suya, thinking to herself, "This isn't right. You beast, you can clearly remember the entire route of the Macedonian scouts, but now you can't even remember 6 decks of cards, a total of 324 cards?"

Suya, on the other hand, knew his own situation best. He didn't have a super brain that could instantly memorize everything and never forget anything. Rather than recording, it was more like imitation.

To put it more bluntly, his brain is actually the same as that of an ordinary person, it is single-threaded. The difference is that he can rely on his huge accumulation of experience to put himself in the opponent's perspective and predict the opponent's moves by imitating the opponent's behavior.

Furthermore, based on considerable experience in imitation, this process will proceed very quickly—so quickly that hundreds of repetitions can be accumulated in an instant.

However, if you let Suya play blackjack and use the formulas designed by those math geniuses at MIT to count the cards.

That won't do.
After all, people can do anything when they're pushed to the limit, except for math problems, which you just can't solve if you don't know how.

At this time,

Responding to the shocked expression on Meryl's face,

Suya suddenly pulled a booklet titled "Common Gambling Rules" from his underpants pocket and started flipping through it.
After a short while, he suddenly nodded thoughtfully, looked at Gerry Freyt, and smiled:
"Let's play roulette then."

Gerry Freyt was slightly taken aback.
Roulette.

A common gambling game in casinos. It involves using a roulette wheel with 37 numbers from 0 to 36. The dealer spins the wheel and hits a ball; the number the ball lands on is the winning number.

According to the rules of Britain at that time, there were seven betting options: color, size, 1 square, 2 squares, 4 squares, 8 squares, and 12 squares. Each betting option had different odds.

But if you can bet on the number square where the bead finally lands, you can win up to 35 times the chips!

Unlike poker, where you can count cards, rely on experience, and exert psychological pressure on your opponents to force them to fold,

This is almost entirely a form of gambling based on luck.

Moreover, in smaller casinos, the final landing point of the roulette wheel can even be manipulated by the house.

Despite the Winchester casino's status, it would be disdainful to use such methods.
But that means,

This will become a complete game of luck!
Thinking of the boastful words the blond boy had just uttered, and considering the method he had chosen, Gerry Freyt couldn't help but laugh.

"Are you sure you want to play this game, which is purely based on luck, to win the entire casino?"

Suya nodded solemnly and said earnestly:

“I came here to gain Gerry Freyt’s loyalty, so there’s no need for me to bully those casual travelers.”

"If you're going to gamble, then of course you should gamble against the casino, which is the bookmaker."

Gerry Freyt blinked her beautiful eyes and asked again, "But there are many games where the casino is the banker, such as dice. Why did you choose this one?"

Suya raised his head and looked at the hundred gambling tables in the hall in front of him, a hearty smile appearing on his face.

It is said that after studying roulette, Einstein said something like this:

There's only one way to win money on roulette: rob.

Suya came here today to rob money!

then,

With his 2000-pound purse tucked in his pocket, and dragging along Mary, who was clutching the purse tightly in terror, he walked without looking back toward the counter to exchange chips, leaving only a curt remark to Gerry Freyt:
"I want to gamble quickly."

(End of this chapter)