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Chapter 20 Alice Tang Wei

"Wow!"

"He actually won again!"

"Great, great!"

I don't know when it started, a blackjack table not far away was full of people, and there was a burst of exclamation from time to time, which attracted the attention of the croupier who dealt the cards to Locke.

Listening to the discussion of those onlookers, there was a gambler who used [-] U.S. dollars and had won nearly [-] U.S. dollars so far.

In the casino, it is everyone's consensus to follow Hong. After all, sometimes when one's luck comes up, it is really a god blocking and killing a god, and a Buddha blocking and killing a Buddha.

If you play along at this time, you will definitely win money, and it is also what some people call good luck.

But there is also a prerequisite for this, that is to control one's greed and know when to withdraw, because if it continues, no matter how big the luck is, it will be exhausted, and the situation will reverse at that time, and it may even be reversed. clean and dry.

The croupier saw a lot of these things, and at this moment, he just sighed in his heart that he was lucky, and then found that Locke was sitting still, and couldn't help asking: "Sir, don't you want to play two games with the past?"

"No, I'm actually quite lucky today." Locke smiled.

"Indeed." The croupier nodded in agreement, and glanced at Locke's chips, which had changed from a thousand dollars at the beginning to more than 4000 dollars now.

"It's almost there." After another $300 was added to the account next time, Locke didn't choose to continue, but threw a chip to the dealer as a tip, put away today's gains, got up and left.

Seeing that Locke didn't stop and chose to exchange chips, the croupier thought to himself that this is a smart man who knows how to accept when he sees a deal.

After exchanging the harvested chips into cash, Locke switched to another medium-sized casino. This is also to avoid attracting attention. One casino wins a part, and one shot is exchanged for another land, as much as possible.

He is actually not very interested in gambling. He came here this time to earn some living expenses, and he didn't plan to come here often to delay the time for learning and brushing up skills.

On the first night, Locke changed several casinos, returned to his room in the morning and rested for a whole morning, then changed to a luxury hotel, had lunch, and changed his outfit from top to bottom in a nearby shopping mall, leaving his shopping certificate .

These are tax deductible, and these shopping lists will come in handy when Locke is ready to leave Las Vegas.

Locke had no intention of risking stacks of cash tied to his body in order to avoid a tax, like the team in the blackjack movie.

The tax after winning here is indeed terrifying, basically close to 50.00%, but for Locke, such a small profit saved by tax evasion is far from enough to let him risk being troubled by the IRS.

After leaving the mall, Locke had already put on high-end brands, and asked the mall to deliver the rest of the purchased goods to the hotel room. He came to the magnificent Caesars Palace Hotel.

Turning around in the hall, Locke came to the VIP area.

The level here is obviously much higher. Locke, who already has confidence, is relaxed at this time. There are more anti-grafters in the big casino. He plans to play casually and lose a little, so he chooses to sit at a baccarat table. , put down the chips.

After the croupier dealt the cards, he imitated the classic card-reading posture he had seen in gambling movies in his previous life with great interest, slowly unveiled the cards there, and secretly glanced at them.

This kind of feeling that does not need to consider calculations and is purely based on luck, it is quite interesting to experience it occasionally.

At this time, a gust of fragrant wind hit, and then a pleasant female voice came into my ears.

"Three sides, three sides, top, top!"

This is a classic bidding sound. After Locke finally lifted the cards, he did not expect to win the bidding sound behind him.

He turned his head and took a look, only to see a young and charming girl in a tight-fitting suit and a red skirt standing beside him, and he couldn't help showing surprise in his eyes.

In the Caesars Palace Hotel, beauties are not uncommon. Although he is not well-informed, he has experienced all the top beauties, and he has been able to calm down for a long time. He was surprised by the familiar appearance of the beauties around him, which made him think of Met BJ and met Wen Jiajia in Seattle.

And judging from the youthful appearance of the other party, he should be under 20 years old.

There was interest in his heart, but Locke remained calm on the face. After the croupier pushed over the winning chips, he handed over a [-] chip to the opponent.

A look of joy flashed in the beauty's eyes, and she took it smoothly, with a bit of proficiency in her movements.

Looking at the beauty's dress, Locke has confirmed that she should be the female publicist in the casino, or a female gambling partner who specializes in gambling with customers and earning tips.

For a single gambler, it is indeed a very good thing to be accompanied by a beautiful woman, calling out for him in various ways, having intimate contact from time to time, and even having the opportunity to invite her to a follow-up event after the end .

When the gamblers are more interested, they will naturally play for a while longer. Even because of the presence of beauties, vanity is the cause, and the more they gamble, the casino will naturally earn more. After all, nine out of ten bets lose.

Wanting to be a female gambling partner also requires skills. In addition to being beautiful, she must also be familiar with various gambling games, be able to grasp the gambler's psychology in time, mobilize the gambler's gambler's nature, and when the gambler loses money, she must also To appease the emotions of the gamblers.

Interested in facing this person in his heart, Locke didn't count the cards, thinking that if the money he just won was lost, he would go to blackjack to complete the task planned for today.

The beautiful publicist was still standing behind him, and every time Locke looked at the cards, he would help him call in various ways.

What Locke didn't expect was that in the next period of time, his luck was very good, but after a while, the chips he exchanged for [-] US dollars more than doubled, which was regarded as the completion of the initial plan.

That being the case, Locke saved the effort of going over there to count the cards. He closed it when he saw a deal, and got up to leave the gaming table. After all, luck is temporary.

The beautiful publicist was still following Locke at this time, Locke turned his head and looked at her, and then stretched out his hand with a smile: "Rock Lee."

"My name is Alice." The other party smiled and shook hands with Locke.

"Your Chinese name, real name." Locke changed into Chinese.

"Tang Wei." The beauty publicist was surprised that Locke could speak Chinese so well, he was slightly taken aback, and said another name.

"Hangzhou people?"

"How did you see it?"

"Above heaven, there is Suzhou and Hangzhou, and Hangzhou is famous for producing beauties." Locke said with a smile, "How did you come to America to study abroad at public expense?"

"No, my father is here, and he took me over."

"The time spent here should not be short. How do you feel that Millikin is not a paradise?"

"Why do you say that."

"Otherwise why would you work here instead of going to school." Locke said with a smile.

Tang Wei said with a smile: "I have already received an offer from Columbia University. I am here to work part-time to earn tuition fees. After all, tuition fees are too expensive."

"Yeah." Locke nodded understandingly.

"You think so too?"

Tang Wei joked: "The tuition is expensive for me. For a rich person like you, it's just a matter of buying a car, right?"

"The landlord's family has no food left." Locke shrugged his shoulders and didn't explain too much.

"Are you still playing?" Tang Wei suggested, "You're lucky today, and you'll definitely win a lot if you continue."

'Sure enough' Locke knew that the casino grasped human nature to the fullest. As long as they won money, the female publicist would definitely encourage the gamblers to continue, and they would get a lot of tips.

Facing the invitation of beautiful women, coupled with the psychology brought about by winning money all the time, will reduce people's vigilance.

But there is no reason to win all the time, luck can be high or low, if you keep playing, it will only be the casino that wins in the end.

If you want not to lose, you still have to change to a familiar battlefield: "Then blackjack, which I am best at. People call me the little prince of blackjack."

These days, the so-called legend of gamblers eating chicken has not been widely spread, and there are still a small number of people who can count cards, and they all fight in groups.

With a female publicist next to him, it is impossible to form a group to fight. As long as Locke is well controlled, the casino will think him lucky at best. A genius like him who can form a group by himself is too rare, and there are not many in the entire country of America.

It's just that he won more this time, so he probably won't be able to come to this casino for a while, lest he be targeted.

Locke didn't care, he was just supplementing his pocket money, and he didn't intend to treat this as a long-term career, let alone come every weekend like in the decisive blackjack.

And it's only 1990 now, and it doesn't look like ten years later, casinos will even pay a lot of money to buy a system, through monitoring and computers, directly based on facial expressions and abnormal card table income and expenditure, it will automatically check out Qianhe card counters. people.

Even if you come here every week, wouldn't you change a few casinos? There are so many casinos in Las Vegas. The team in that movie can run a family and not be targeted?
(End of this chapter)