God's imitator

Chapter 22 The Depth of the Pool
Seeing that Sister Liu had gone all in, Lin Sizhi and Qin Yao had no reason to raise the bet any further and each chose to call and reveal their cards.

Sister Liu is a nobody from K University.

Qin Yao is a pair of Qs.

Lin Sizhi is a mediocre student at J University.

[Player has run out of chips, please leave the game.]

As the robotic arm slid all the chips on the table to Qin Yao, Sister Liu left the gambling table somewhat dejectedly.

But she didn't complain.

Looking at the chips in front of her, Qin Yao couldn't help but cheer up: "Great! We finally won a round!"

In this game, she earned 19000 points, which is an incredible number.

However, when Qin Yao looked at Lu Xinyi, her heart skipped a beat.

Because Lu Xinyi's lips were slightly upturned, she didn't seem to care much.

Lin Sizhi looked at her: "It's two against three now, can you still laugh?"

Lu Xinyi shook her head slightly: "You should worry about yourself. Is bluffing the only trick you know how to play?"

"Count your chips and see how many more rounds you can play."

Clearly, Lu Xinyi's confidence stems from the depth of her chip pool.

She and Lü Mingxuan still have plenty of chips to play, enough to handle the rest of the game with ease.

On the other hand, Lin Sizhi lost a total of 13000 chips after losing two rounds.

Even if he sells his blood, Lin Sizhi can only get 40,000 to 50,000 chips at most. At this rate, how many rounds can he last?

……

"Tick."

"Tick."

The countdown on the big screen was still ticking, with 21 minutes remaining.

The game has now reached its seventh round.

The guy to Qin Yao's right ran out of chips in the previous round and was forced to leave the game, while the remaining four players each had their own wins and losses.

This was an inevitable outcome, because he had the fewest chips.

With Lin Sizhi constantly and recklessly raising the stakes, he either didn't follow and lost his ante, or he followed and got ripped off by Lu Xinyi or Lü Mingxuan. After trying to hold on for a few rounds, he still had no choice but to leave the gambling table.

But clearly, the one who lost the most was not him, but Lin Sizhi.

Because Lin Sizhi continued his previous playing style, after looking at his cards, he would always bet at least 4000 points without thinking, and then he would call the bet recklessly.

However, the time spent thinking after looking at the cards is getting longer and longer, and the willingness to raise the bet is gradually decreasing.

So far, he has lost nearly 40,000 chips.

Qin Yao won over 10,000 of them, while the rest were divided between Lu Xinyi and Lü Mingxuan.

Looking at the ever-growing pile of chips in front of her, Lu Xinyi finally felt relieved.

As the amount of chips fluctuates, Lin Sizhi's chances of turning the tables are rapidly decreasing.

Once Lin Sizhi's chips are exhausted, then in the next three rounds, she and Lü Mingxuan will be two against one.

They will then have an absolute advantage and will be able to make Qin Yao return all her winnings, including interest.

At that point, Qin Yao's only option will be to give up and lose the three rounds of ante.

In this round, Lü Mingxuan was the dealer. After looking at his hand, he chose to raise the bet.

It was Lin Sizhi's turn.

"I've had six unlucky innings already, shouldn't I finally have a stroke of luck this time?"

He sighed silently, listlessly picked up the cards on the table, and glanced at them.

Then, his eyes instantly brightened.

But soon, Lin Sizhi's expression returned to calm, even tinged with worry.

After hesitating for a full minute, just as the countdown was about to end, he finally took his right hand out of his pocket and slammed six 2000-point chips onto the table.

"Raise the bet!!"

Qin Yao glanced at him, and after considering it for a while, she carefully selected from the chips she had won and placed 13000 chips.

"I'll raise too."

Lu Mingxuan's brow twitched, somewhat shocked.

The sheer number of chips this time really startled him.

More importantly, Lin Sizhi was estimated to have a maximum of 40,000 chips, but now she has put up a total of over 50,000 chips.

This completely exceeded his and Lu Xinyi's initial expectations and disrupted their judgment.

The countdown timer on the desktop was still ticking away, and it was difficult to make a quick decision in just one minute.

Fortunately, he is not the one who needs to make a decision now.

Lu Mingxuan looked at Lu Xinyi and found that the corners of Lu Xinyi's mouth were uncontrollably turned up.

He couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Your acting at this crucial moment was terrible. Were you just putting on an act for me?" Lu Xinyi quickly counted out 13000 points from the chips on the table and placed her bet.

I bet you're bluffing.

"Besides, your pockets should be empty; you have no chips left."

Lu Xinyi stared intently into Lin Sizhi's eyes.

Lin Sizhi didn't meet her gaze, but instead looked at the countdown on the table: "Why do you think I'm bluffing?"

Lu Xinyi smiled and said, "Because people have path dependence."

"In the most tense and critical moments, people tend to choose the way they are best at and most instinctively play."

"Clearly, you're a player who likes to bluff and is quite stubborn."

"After your first bluff fails, you will immediately use the 'blind spot' approach to continue bluffing a second and a third time."

"Most players can be really intimidated by you, especially since you can throw out a lot of chips without batting an eye and break through their psychological defenses. This is indeed a very excellent gambler quality."

"If you scare me in this round, I will be at a mental disadvantage in every round that follows."

"But unfortunately, you overlooked a crucial factor: the depth of the chip pool."

"You try hard to create the illusion that your chip pool is infinitely deep, that you can easily pull out tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of chips from your pocket, so that your opponents have the illusion that 'our chip pools are not on the same level,' thereby constantly accumulating fear."

"When you suddenly and unexpectedly throw out a large number of chips, most people will feel that they have made a misjudgment. Within a minute, it is difficult to make a quick decision to call."

"Not only that, you also put on a show while looking at the cards, displaying a 'self-contradictory' attitude."

"This will exacerbate the opponent's suspicions, and whether they guess your hand is strong or weak, it will only make their thinking more confused."

"But unfortunately, I won't consider those issues."

"Because in this game, there is a limit to how much blood can be drawn, and there is also a limit to how much can be exchanged for chips."

"400ml of blood is the safe limit, 600ml is the limit, and 800ml will have an extremely high risk of death."

"Since your chip pool can't be infinitely deep, this final all-or-nothing gamble must be a bluff."

"To make matters worse... I just happened to have a good run of luck this round, so I decided to stick with it to the end."

Lin Sizhi was silent for a moment: "But my hand might be better, right? After all, I've had terrible luck in the previous six rounds, so it's about time I had a stroke of good luck?"

Lu Xinyi laughed: "Learn some probability. Every hand is an independent event, and there's no such thing as a law of conservation of luck in real probability."

As they were talking, Lü Mingxuan's thinking time was up, and he had already folded his card. Lin Sizhi's thinking time was also down to just a few seconds.

Lin Sizhi calmly reached into his suit pocket again.

"Really? What if... my hand is really good, and my chip pot is indeed infinitely deep?"

He reached into his pocket and gently placed three 1000-coin chips in the betting area.

"Add another bet, 3000."

Qin Yao also silently placed a bet of 3000: "I'll raise my bet too."

Clearly, Qin Yao was only betting 1000 more to cooperate with Lin Sizhi and ensure that her cards wouldn't be revealed.

Lu Xinyi's expression froze, clearly surprised by the 3000 chips.

But she quickly recovered, sighing and shaking her head helplessly: "Fine, you're quite good at squeezing toothpaste, you even hid these chips."

Are you planning to waste time?

"In that case..."

Lu Xinyi took out five 2000 chips from the chips in front of her again.

"I'll add another ten thousand."

In Lu Xinyi's view, ten thousand chips was an amount that Lin Sizhi could never squeeze out again.

He now only had one option: go all in and reveal his cards.

However, Lin Sizhi reached into his pocket again, fumbled around for a bit, and then took out four 2000-point chips.

"Raise."

Lin Sizhi placed two bets of 3000 points and 8000 points respectively, which was exactly 1000 points higher than Lu Xinyi's.

Lu Xinyi was stunned; she couldn't understand where these chips came from.

Lin Sizhi's suit pocket was like a treasure trove with unlimited chips; no matter how many times you reached in, you could always get chips out.

What's worse is that Lin Sizhi's chips are always only 1000 more than Lu Xinyi's.

This means that if Lu Xinyi folds at this point, she will never see what Lin Sizhi's hand is, and all the chips she threw out will be wasted.

However, if she continued to bet, Lu Xinyi had no idea how many chips Lin Sizhi could still put up, or how many chips she would have to bet.

"No, calm down. Even if Lin Sizhi still has leverage, Qin Yao probably doesn't have much left..."

As long as Qin Yao runs out of chips and can no longer raise the bet, she will still reveal her cards, and Lin Sizhi will still be able to see what her hole cards are.

However, the next second, a scene that Lu Xinyi never expected appeared.

Qin Yao didn't have enough chips on the table, but she reached into her pocket and gathered 8000 chips.

"Raise."

(End of this chapter)