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Chapter 166 The Test at the Poker Table
The young female dealer, wearing white gloves, unpacked a brand new deck of cards.
Skillfully shuffle and cut the cards, then deal the bottom cards one by one.
In Texas Hold'em, each player receives two face-down cards as their hole cards, and five community cards are dealt to the table.
Players use their hole cards and community cards to compare their hand size.
The first hand begins.
Gu Tingchen didn't even glance at the two face-down cards in front of him.
He reached out and grabbed a handful of the highest denomination chips, 100,000, and pushed them to the middle of the table like trash.
One million.
The audience was silent.
Even the gamblers at the next table were drawn to the commotion.
Without even looking at their cards, they blindly bet a million?
Is this guy crazy?! Or does he have so much money he's losing his mind?
The pot-bellied coal mine owner wiped the sweat from his brow and glanced at his cards.
King of Hearts and Queen of Hearts.
An excellent starting hand.
The coal mine owner counted out ten red chips and pushed them out. "I call!"
The skinny man in sunglasses sneered and threw out his chips to call.
The wealthy woman looked at her hole cards and chose to fold.
Hui-ge stood by the table, arms crossed, watching the high-stakes gamble with great interest.
He wanted to see if this arrogant Boss Gu was truly confident or just bluffing.
The dealer deals the first three community cards: 10 of spades, 10 of hearts, and 2 of clubs.
The coal mine owner's eyes lit up. He had the King and Queen of Hearts in his hand, and there were 10 and Jack on the table. If he could get a 9 or an Ace, he could make a straight!
"Add another million!" the coal mine owner excitedly pushed the chips forward.
The man in sunglasses glanced at the table and decisively folded.
This round turned into a one-on-one duel between Gu Tingchen and the coal mine owner.
All eyes were on Gu Tingchen.
He still didn't look at his cards, and he didn't even change his sitting posture.
He picked up ten chips worth 100,000 each with his fingers and casually tossed them forward.
"I followed."
A few gasps of surprise rippled through the crowd.
Song Qianxia watched from behind, her heart pounding with fear.
The actress playing the "Living Yama" is absolutely brilliant. Her attitude of treating money like dirt is even more natural than when she was a con artist in the underworld.
But the problem is, this is public money!
If they lose, will Old Zheng make them write self-criticisms until their hands cramp up when they get back to the station?
The dealer continues dealing cards.
The fourth community card: the Ace of Spades.
The coal mine owner stood up excitedly.
He not only made a straight, but the biggest straight!
The fifth community card: Ace of Diamonds.
At this point, the card layout on the table is fixed.
The coal mine owner held an incredible straight in his hand and simply didn't believe that the nouveau riche who didn't even glance at his cards could possibly come up with any incredible hand.
"I'm betting everything! Five million!"
The coal mine owner pushed out all the chips in front of him, shouting loudly with his face flushed red.
Gu Tingchen smiled.
He finally sat up straight, placing his fingers interlaced on the table.
"Are you sure you want to bet everything?"
The coal mine owner, neck stiff with arrogance, shouted, "Enough nonsense! Deal the cards!"
Gu Tingchen stretched out his right hand and revealed the two cards he had never seen before.
One Ace of Hearts, one Ace of Clubs.
The entire venue was deathly silent.
Even the croupiers, who were used to big events, were stunned.
Adding the community cards on the table, Gu Tingchen's hand was an incredible four Aces!
It completely wiped out the entire audience!
"This is impossible!" The coal mine owner slumped into a chair, his face ashen.
Gu Tingchen didn't even glance at the collapsed coal boss, but turned to look at Brother Hui beside him.
"This place in Jiangcheng doesn't seem to be very challenging."
Hui-ge's expression was rather unpleasant.
This Mr. Gu won over six million in one go; it was such an uncanny win.
He turned his head and gave a wink to his black-clad subordinates behind him.
The subordinate understood and quickly walked deeper into the casino.
Song Qianxia narrowed her eyes. She knew this kind of place all too well. They would never let someone just walk away after losing money.
Sure enough, within two minutes, a thin, old man wearing a gray overcoat was led over.
The old man was unremarkable in appearance, but his ten fingers were unusually long.
Song Qianxia knew something was wrong; these were the hands of the King of Gamblers.
Years of practicing shuffling and cutting cards cause the finger joints to become abnormally thin due to excessive friction and stretching.
"Boss Gu, you're having a really good day!"
With a smile, Hui pushed the skinny old man to the other side of the gambling table.
"This is Old Wang, our spotter. Since Boss Gu thinks it's not challenging enough, how about we at Shengshi Jia Hua take the lead and have a one-on-one match with Boss Gu?"
Hui tapped the table and waved away the young female croupier:
"For a private game, to show our sincerity, we won't trouble the dealer. Let Old Wang shuffle and deal the cards himself. Boss Gu, you don't mind, do you?"
Being both the opponent and the dealer—this is blatant predation by underground casinos.
Gu Tingchen, however, leaned back in his chair without flinching and gestured for him to follow: "When in Rome, do as the host says."
Old Wang picked up the playing cards on the table and weighed them in his hand.
The deck of cards seemed to come alive, flitting and dancing between his slender fingers.
Bridge shuffle, one-handed cut, perfect shuffle.
The movements were so fast they were dazzling.
The surrounding gamblers cheered, saying that this technique was even cooler than the God of Gamblers in the movies.
But Song Qianxia's expression darkened.
The shuffling technique that Lao Wang used has a name in underground casinos: "Pigeon Tail Swing".
On the surface, it appears that he is shuffling the order of the cards, but in reality, he is using a covert method to hide useful cards in specific locations within the deck.
And at the very last moment of shuffling the cards, he slightly curled his left pinky finger.
That was a preparatory move for switching cards; there was definitely something fishy hidden in his sleeve!
Old Wang dealt the cards extremely quickly; in just a couple of swift movements, the bottom card was already in front of Gu Tingchen.
Gu Tingchen glanced at his hole cards, then presented his cash chips with a blank expression.
"Two million."
Old Wang smirked: "I'm going with it."
The first three community cards were dealt.
They are the 7 of Hearts, the 8 of Hearts, and the 9 of Hearts.
With just one 10 of hearts and one Jack of hearts, you can make a straight flush.
Gu Tingchen glanced at the table and raised his bet again: "Three million."
Old Wang agreed without hesitation: "I'll go with it."
The fourth card is dealt: the 10 of Hearts.
The tension on the table had reached its peak.
Song Qianxia stood behind Gu Tingchen, her gaze fixed on Lao Wang's left hand.
The fifth card, which is also the final community card that determines the outcome.
Old Wang reached for the deck of cards, but suddenly slowed down.
Just as his fingers touched the edge of the playing card.
The pen in Song Qianxia's hand suddenly fell to the ground.
She bent down and squatted down, pretending to pick up a pen, intending to use her blind spot to give a reminder.
However, Gu Tingchen pulled his long leg to the side.
An impatient rebuke exploded above Song Qianxia's head.
"Clumsy ass, get out of here, don't ruin your luck!"
Song Qianxia paused for a second, then pretended to be aggrieved and stepped back.
It seems that Captain Gu discovered the camera under the table.
Just as Old Wang's thumb twitched slightly, thinking that this little incident had distracted Boss Gu, and he was about to slip the Jack of Hearts from his cuff into his palm.
A large hand reached across the gambling table and clamped down on Old Wang's left wrist.
"Hey, what are you doing!"
Old Wang let out a miserable scream.
Gu Tingchen's movements were too fast and too ruthless; he pressed Lao Wang's wrist onto the green velvet table with one hand.
Roll it up along the cuffs of Old Wang's gray traditional Chinese jacket!
A Jack of Hearts fell out of Old Wang's sleeve and landed in the center of the gambling table.
The entire audience gasped.
"Cheating! The casino staff are cheating themselves!"
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