Rebirth: My 80s

Chapter 758 Thunder Baby

At the corner of Las Vegas' Flamenco Boulevard and Boulevard, there is currently the most luxurious and lucrative casino hotel in Las Vegas called Caesars.

The early morning bell is only a quarter of an hour away, in the innermost part of the casino on the first floor of Caesars Hotel, in VIP box No. 007.

A card game has been going on since around six o'clock in the evening. At the peak, all seven seats at the oval gambling table were occupied. People came in and out from behind. There were always about twenty people participating in the game, and some people lost all their money. After leaving the market, some people won a small profit and stopped, until a certain loser lost, and after the bets became bigger and bigger, few people dared to participate.

Now, there are only three gamblers next to the black-framed gaming table covered with blue velvet.

Li Jiankun took a sip from the free cigar provided by the casino. The thick white mist with a bit of chocolate flavor circled around his mouth, but it was not enough for his lungs, and he slowly spit it out.

The VIP box not only provides good free cigars, but also free meals and drinks. There is a waiter standing by the door at any time.

Compared to what gamblers spend here, this fee is completely negligible.

The game played on the gaming table is blackjack, also known as blackjack.

There is no fixed dealer, and the gamblers compete against each other. There is only a good-looking white female dealer who is responsible for dealing the cards, and table fees are collected for each round.

Li Jiankun's small win, should you say it or not, is a bit lucky, where is his mind on this?

In fact, when the Flamenco Hotel was built, it made millions of dollars in profit. There must be a process in doing business. In later generations, it was called "keeping the shop and gathering customers".

He is the co-founder of the American Mafia. Of course, they themselves and the official do not call him this name, but in fact, this is what it means. A man named Siegel took a fancy to the prospects of Las Vegas and lobbied various parties within the organization. The family raised $6 million to build the first luxury casino hotel in Las Vegas, the Flamingo Hotel, also known as the Flamingo Hotel.

He has a Chinese name called Lei Baobao.

He is the leader of the Las Vegas Circle Gang and the grandson of Mr. Lei. Li Jiankun really didn't find out the full name of this leader. Firstly, no one knew it. Secondly, even if they knew it, the gangsters on the streets would not dare to call him.

Needless to say, the American Mafia, to some extent, created what Las Vegas looks like today.

Nevada passed a bill legalizing gambling in the early 1930s, but until the 1940s, there were only two small hotel-style casinos in Las Vegas.

However, everyone knows the three forces that are most difficult to provoke.

They are: Mafia, Jewish Gang, and Big Circle Gang.

As more and more wealth gathers here, more and more dark forces want to get a piece of the pie.

It’s hard for local street gangsters to tell how many underworld forces there are in Las Vegas.

The "nail house" sitting diagonally across from Li Jiankun had red eyes and gritted his teeth. He lost this round again. Another gambler who was closer to him was a fat white man with a bright smile. He was the biggest winner in the VIP box tonight, and the chips on the table in front of him were piled up into a small mountain.

When the hotel was first built, business was not so good that the Mafia suspected that Siegel had embezzled money and failed to build the hotel well. At the meeting, Siegel was sentenced to death.

Siegel seemed to have foreseen this. He once said: "We will only kill each other."

The "nail house" who entered the market before him was the one who lost the worst, and had probably lost two hundred thousand dollars.

Despite his appearance as a street boy, this guy has a lot of background. After many inquiries, Li Jiankun took the first step of contacting the local underworld on him.

In fact, he followed this "nail house" in.

Most likely, it was chosen casually by the elders. After all, in the United States, Chinese names are not very important.

Just hung up.

Therefore, it is a sure-profit business.

This person is about twenty years old. He has a rock-and-roll bun that was popular in the United States in the 1980s. If it were a girl, it would be cute, but it would be a bit outrageous to put it on a man. He has a Chinese face and speaks authentic American style. English.

With such a thing, can Li Jiankun get in touch with them?
The Jewish gang came later. These people were not strong in force, but they were smart and good at doing business.

Li Jiankun didn't have any contact with them. There was no special reason. It was purely due to poor senses.

The Big Circle Gang is a general term that exists in many places. The local Big Circle Gang, perhaps their fathers, have a history of working in Las Vegas earlier than the Mafia.

As early as the middle of the last century to the beginning of this century, due to the impact of the Nevada gold rush and the construction of the California railroad, there was an urgent need for labor, and a large number of Chinese traveled across the ocean to earn money.

If the Mafia created Las Vegas, then it was these Chinese who built Las Vegas.

At that time, the California Railway wanted to pass through the barren Las Vegas, and it needed to blow up mountains and dig holes. The most painful, tiring and dangerous jobs were all done by Chinese. They were not afraid of death, as long as they were given money, they would risk their lives to make money. The money received was sent back to his hometown to support his parents and take care of his wife and children.

These workers themselves are very innocent. Even so, as long as they have a stable job and make money, they will not do anything wrong.

The problem is that there is always a shortage of people to bully them. Faced with the indifference of the police, they have no choice but to rise up and fight violence with violence.

Therefore, the initial image of the Chinese underworld in the United States was actually somewhat heroic.

It was precisely because of this that Li Jiankun planned to contact the Daquan Gang. It is said that Mr. Lei, the leader of the Las Vegas Circle Gang, was one of the workers back then.

"Are you with him? Why do you always deal me bad cards?!" After losing another round, Lei Baobao almost threw two poker cards in the dealer's face, which frightened the dealer and quickly apologized and left voluntarily. .

Not long after, a new dealer came in.

Facts have proved that the hands are so smelly that it is useless to change a hundred dealers to deal the cards. After continuing to lose several games in a row, Baobao Lei's face turned green, and the fat white man became more and more happy. I really don't know if he would still be able to laugh if he knew Baobao Lei's identity.

Lei Baobao is not angry with Li Jiankun. If the fat man doesn't follow and only he and Li Jiankun are left, he can always win. The key is that the fat man is very lucky. The probability of following is too high. Li Jiankun originally won more, so he also gave it to He's quite a bit.

In the next game, Li Jiankun saw Lei Baobao's confident look and wanted to give him some points, but the fat man followed suit again.

"All of me!" Lei Baobao pushed the chips on the table in front of him into the fund pool in the middle of the gambling table.

Li Jiankun looked at his hole card, the Ace of Clubs. The two open cards he wanted were the six of diamonds and the four of spades, so he folded them simply.

"You don't have many chips at all, why don't you change some?" the fat man said with a smile.

"You're the one who's trying to beat me. I'll tell you if you win. Let's open the cards!" Lei Baobao took the lead in turning over his hole cards and added them up together. It was eighteen points. No wonder he was full of confidence.

"Hahahaha!" The fat man laughed, "I'll just eat you."

The hole cards are turned over and the cards are added up, which is nineteen points.

Lei Baobao stared with wide eyes and almost ran out of breath and vomited blood.

"Would you like a handsome guy? It's no fun to be together." The fat man asked.

"Come!" Lei Baobao turned his head and poked a young man with long hair like a wooden stake behind him. Through the black hair that covered the left side of his face, Li Jiankun could vaguely see a group of scars.

A ruthless character, his dark and stern face had no expression change from beginning to end. At this time, he just spread his hands and said nothing.

"Call your manager!" Lei Baobao knew him very well. He said no, which was true, so he shouted to the waiter.

Soon, the casino manager came to the box.

Lei Baobao said he wanted to borrow 100,000 US dollars.

"Mr. Lei, it's easy to borrow money. The question is, can your father and Mr. Lei admit the money you borrowed?"

"What do you mean, you look down on me or my family?!"

Snapped!
Without waiting for the casino manager to speak, Li Jiankun suddenly stood up and slapped the table, saying, "What do you mean, you look down on us Chinese?"

God knows, he has been waiting for this kind of opportunity all night. He didn't get it tonight, so he will wait for it tomorrow night...

He will not take the initiative to find the Daquan Gang.

That is the most unskilled behavior, and it is probably equivalent to sending meat to your door. After all, they are also a dark force.

By chance, he found out that Lei Baobao liked to gamble at Caesars, and there was no better way to break through than this kid.

He planned to spend a few days getting this kid to call him brother, and then introduce himself to the senior officials of the Daquan Gang. He wants the Big Circle to support him, rather than showing that he needs the Big Circle.

The casino manager looked at him in surprise. If he hadn't seen that he was a VIP customer, he would have said, "What do you want from me?"

When Lei Baobao saw him standing up for him, he naturally had a different reaction, favorable impression +1+1+1...

"I think this little brother has a straightforward personality and is generous with his money. He must have lost at least 200,000 in your casino tonight. Why are you afraid that someone will pay you back if you borrow a mere 100,000? Who are you looking down on?" Li Jiankun didn't know why. He was so angry that he was spitting everywhere.

"That's right!" Lei Baobao said to himself that this guy is really capable and said everything he wanted to say.

"You don't know something. This Mr. Lei... has a complicated background. His family won't let him gamble outside."

"Why don't you give in if you don't want to? What excuse are you looking for? Oh, I lost so much money and you didn't even give me a chance to make it back?"

"How about you borrow it? Isn't it just a hundred thousand yuan?" The casino manager also got angry, what the hell are you messing with?

Pretty!

"I'll borrow it if I borrow it. Let me tell you, we Chinese out there help each other out like this!" Li Jiankun immediately picked up a handful of his chips and put them on the table in front of Lei Baobao. One hundred thousand dollars was just over 100,000 U.S. dollars. Quite a few.

Casino manager: "..."

Lei Baobao: "..."

The fat white man scratched his head and said, "Shit, if you do this, can you still play this card?"

Lei Baobao poked him with his index finger: "Don't even think about running away, you beat me so much..."

"Master Lei!" The casino manager interrupted with a straight face. As the most influential casino hotel in Las Vegas at the moment, Caesars Hotel naturally has no shortage of backstage and power.

"I didn't threaten him. Fatty, this will prove that I have nothing to do with him. Come on, let's fight until dawn!"

Lei Baobao was in a good mood now that he had the bargaining chip to turn over. After he sat down again, he looked at Li Jiankun and said with a smile: "Brother, don't say anything. If I win, I will pay you back immediately. I have made you my friend!"

Li Jiankun smiled and nodded, spitting out a mouthful of chocolate-flavored white mist.

(End of this chapter)