Chapter 39 – Insatiable


Apart from Glasses Guy, I also dealt a flush headed by an Ace to my next player.

Of course, I intended to use him to boost my game.

As long as he didn’t discard his cards, the money on the table wouldn’t exceed twenty thousand.

Glasses Guy wouldn’t be able to challenge my cards.

After two rounds of silence among the six of us,

Three players discarded their cards after checking them.

Only Glasses Guy, me, and my next player were left at the table.

The three of us also chose to check our cards.

My next player and I continued to place bets.

Seeing that neither of us intended to discard our cards,

Glasses Guy feigned a movement of his arm.

I knew he was preparing to change his card.

As long as he swapped out his Hearts Jack, he could basically secure a win in this round.

After all, the probability of a straight flush appearing in three-card poker is not high.

Glasses Guy directly placed a bet of one thousand, and hypocritically said,

“I’ll bet a little more this round, trying to recoup the losses from the previous rounds…”

In fact, Glasses Guy was the only one winning money in the whole game.

But this guy was greedy.

As long as there was a lot of money on the table, he would choose to change cards without hesitation.

He didn’t give anyone else any chance.

I deliberately hesitated for a while before following with a thousand.

Of course, I did this on purpose to make the two of them think that my cards were not good, and I was just stubbornly following.

The three of us kept placing bets of one thousand.

In a short while, the money on the table had reached twenty thousand.

Looking at the red hundred-yuan bills on the table,

Everyone showed a bit of greed.

This was the charm of a cash game.

Unlike betting with chips,

The red bills could stimulate people’s nerves even more.

The card comparison began.

Glasses Guy thought that his 10, J, Q straight flush was a sure win.

But to his surprise, the cards I dealt to myself were a straight flush of Diamonds J, Q, K.

Just enough to beat him.

Glasses Guy was pissed off.

He threw his cards into the deck with a bang.

He muttered a bunch of swear words under his breath.

I ignored him, collected the money, shuffled the cards, and everything went on as usual.

In the following card games, I started to play steadily.

The number of times I discarded cards and lost was much more than the number of times I won.

If people didn’t pay attention to me, they might even think that I didn’t win any money.

But in reality, I had already won nearly a hundred thousand.

My strategy was simple, win big, lose small.

For example, if I won ten big bets, it would add up to over a hundred thousand.

Even if I lost a hundred times, I would only lose twenty or thirty thousand in total.

And once the money in front of me reached thirty or forty thousand,

I would only keep twenty thousand, and give the rest directly to Old Hei.

I subconsciously felt that the money was much safer with Old Hei than with me.

Apart from me, the only other person who won money was Glasses Guy.

He won the most, probably over two hundred thousand.

But this guy still didn’t stop.

Gamblers usually lose their cool when they lose.

But he, on the other hand, lost his cool when he won.

He kept changing cards without stopping.

After thinking about it, I decided to wait until I was the dealer,

And deal a few big cards to others.

I had to take down Glasses Guy hard.

I couldn’t let him mess up the game like this.

But before it was my turn to be the dealer,

An accident happened in the game.

The player sitting to my right was a man in his twenties.

He had a buzz cut and wore a thick gold chain around his neck.

He looked like a man from the world who was involved in gang activities.

He also had a bit of a temper.

Whenever he lost a card, he would either tear up the poker cards,

Or slap the table loudly.

And tonight, he lost the most.

From the time I came in until now, he must have lost over a hundred thousand.

This round his cards were not bad, a straight.

But he still lost to Glasses Guy’s flush.

The man with the gold chain angrily threw the poker cards on the table.

He picked up his phone and made a call to someone.

“Send me some money, I’m in the private room of the teahouse…”

Everyone didn’t take the words of the man with the gold chain seriously.

Some even joked with him, asking if he had lost his mind.

But I found it a bit strange.

The man with the gold chain still had at least forty or fifty thousand on the table.

He didn’t need to have someone send him money.

And now, it was already late at night.

His actions seemed a bit unreasonable.

I decided not to cheat for now, and wait and see.

The card game continued.

After a while,

I heard the door of the private room being pushed open.

I turned my head and saw,

A beautiful woman walked in.

The moment I saw her, I was slightly taken aback.

I never expected,

The person who came was He Huan.

Unlike when I saw her at Eighth Brother’s place in the afternoon,

She wasn’t wearing that heavy smoky makeup.

Instead, she was wearing normal light makeup.

Her hair was also tied up in a ponytail.

She didn’t have the dusty air about her anymore.

She looked more like an employee of some company.

He Huan obviously didn’t expect to run into me here either.

After glancing at me, she immediately looked away.

Pretending not to know me.

Although I had never seen He Huan in a card game,

But through the incident in the afternoon, I was sure that He Huan was definitely a swindler.

I also understood.

The man with the gold chain had lost too much and became suspicious.

Suspecting that there was a swindler in the card game, he called He Huan over.

Either to help him win money, or to help him catch the swindler.

Walking up to the man with the gold chain,

He Huan took out twenty thousand from her purse and threw it to him.

She also deliberately put on a dissatisfied look and said,

“What time is it, and you’re still playing? Are you planning to stay up all night?”

“You mind your own business!”

The man with the gold chain said coldly.

Judging from his tone, the two seemed to be a couple.

But I knew that all of this was a disguise.

With the appearance of He Huan, Glasses Guy also became cautious.

For several rounds, he didn’t change his cards.

His eyes kept glancing at He Huan.

But He Huan didn’t even look at the card game.

She stood aside, quickly engaging in a lively conversation with Chen Xiaoxue and her girlfriend.

Women’s topics.

Nothing more than shopping, nail art, and makeup.

I knew that He Huan was deliberately creating a smokescreen to numb the Swindler in the card game.

Sure enough, when Glasses Guy saw that He Huan’s attention was not on the card game at all, he felt relieved.

He started to change his cards again, following the same routine as before.

This is the greed of human nature.

Normally speaking, Glasses Guy had won enough tonight.

Even if he didn’t want to lose some on purpose,

With so much winnings, he should have stopped.

But he didn’t, he seemed to want to win even more.

Little did he know, his greed

Was leading him step by step into hell.

In this round, Glasses Guy was the dealer.

He dealt me a pair of Ks.

Normally, this hand could last two rounds.

But I took one look and immediately discarded my cards.

Because I knew that this round, Gold Chain and the next player’s cards were not small.

And Glasses Guy was very likely to change his cards again.

Sure enough, the three of them kept raising their bets, none of them willing to discard their cards.

The money on the table was almost twenty thousand.

Glasses Guy kept his cards in his hand the whole time.

His palm was upright, the back of his hand facing outwards.

This gesture of his was to use his palm to block the view of the people at the table.

He was about to change his cards!

His arm slightly lifted.

The card in his sleeve instantly slid out.

His movements were very fast.

So fast that the fools at the table didn’t notice anything.

But, suddenly.

A fair hand gently patted Glasses Guy’s shoulder from behind.

The movement was small, but it scared Glasses Guy into a shudder.

He turned his head sharply.

Only to see He Huan, smiling at him.

“What the hell are you doing?”

Glasses Guy shouted angrily.


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