Entertaining Children

  Chapter 136 Future Blackjack Team

   "I won't play 80 minutes today, let's play something else." At nine o'clock in the evening, Xiao Yao said to the three unscrupulous roommates in the dormitory with playing cards.

  After more than 20 days of training, Xiao Yao has basically no hope of entering the Olympiad National Team and becoming a regular player. Xiao Yao's mentality is quite calm about this, but he is still unwilling to be ravaged by three roommates playing cards in the dormitory. I really couldn't play with them at 80, so Xiao Yao simply changed his tricks today.

"You can't play anything with us," Yan Ke smiled arrogantly, "At most, we won the first few rounds while we are not familiar with the rules. Do you want to change your game every day? How many games won us at the beginning?"

   "Cut~" Xiao Yao curled his lips in disdain, and ignored him.

Chen Jiwei waved his hand to Yan Ke and Yu Gang and said: "Forget it, we have been bullying others for a long time. If they want to change the way of playing to find some confidence, we will just leave him alone." After speaking, he turned to ask Xiao again. Yao said: "What are you playing today?"

   "21 o'clock! Will it?" Xiao Yao smiled with a crooked mouth.

   "No!" Chen Jiwei and Yu Gang replied at the same time.

   "21 o'clock?" Yan Ke obviously would, but he was a little surprised and said: "Playing cards is fine, but the rules of training camps prohibit gambling."

  In the two hours of free time from nine to eleven, the four people in Xiao Yao's dormitory were not the only ones who played cards. The teachers do not prohibit playing cards. On the one hand, the dormitory of middle school students does not even have a TV. The students are really bored at night. On the other hand, playing cards is mostly an extra-curricular training. .

  However, for these teenagers, they cannot be completely indulged. The teachers strictly prohibited the students from gambling by playing cards. Once discovered, the training team will be immediately expelled from the winter camp.

"If you don’t play money, it’s not gambling." Xiao Yao explained with a smile, "I prepared melon seeds, green beans, toffee, and chocolate. Each has a big bag. We use these things to represent different points. At the beginning, people will get things of the same value, and in the end they will be determined by the value of the things they own."

   "Yes." The three think about it, this is feasible. Yu Gang was still a little unwilling to say: "Why do you have to get a little bit of money? Otherwise, it will be boring to play. Or is it the same as before playing 80 points, and the one who loses is responsible for the sanitation of the dormitory?"

  Yu Gang said, the eyes of the three of them all looked at Xiao Yao. Xiao Yao ignored the look of the three people's expectations, shook his head and refused: "I have cleaned up for more than ten days. I changed the rules today, and if I lose, I will treat you to dinner tomorrow."

   "Also, anyway, big stars have money." The three jokingly said.

   "Don't be proud, beware that I will eat you tomorrow." Xiao Yao said viciously.

"Let’s first give you two explanations of the rules. Simply put, it’s the points. The flower card JQK is all ten points, and the A can do eleven points or one point. The total number of 21 is the highest. If it exceeds it, it will burst. No Whoever has the most points above 21 points wins. Betting first, then the cards are dealt. At the beginning, two cards are dealt to each player, the player has two cards, and the banker has one open and one dark. If it is less than 21 points, it can be used again. Ask for cards until it bursts. Get an A plus ten cards, that is, two cards to form a blackjack, called BlackJack, the dealer pays 1.5 times, of course, the premise is that the dealer does not get the same BJ, otherwise it is a tie. If the starting two cards of the family have the same points, you can choose to split the cards, one family can be changed into two, and if you encounter the same two cards again, you can also choose to divide again, and the family can be divided into three at most, but the cards are divided The remaining number of houses must be made up with the same bet. After the cards are divided, each house will calculate the winning or losing separately. Do you understand?" Xiao Yao looked at the two of them.

   "Understand!" Two guys who can enter the Olympic Winter Camp, this IQ must also be leveraged. Xiao Yao explained so clearly, how could he not understand?

   "Okay, let's start. I'll be the banker!" As he said, Xiao Yao took out five sets of brand new playing cards one after another from the table.

   "Damn! Do you want so many?" The three of them stared at the five decks of cards.

"It's time to test your brains." After removing the big and small kings and an extra matching card, Xiao Yao shuffled the five decks of cards and shuffled the cards while saying, "I know you rely on your brains to play cards. , It’s not luck. If you can establish a mathematical model or formula for playing this to count cards, increase the probability of winning, and prove that it is indeed effective. In the future, I will take you to Macheng or Las Vegas. Go play."

  "Really?" The three of them said excitedly. If others said that, the three of them would definitely be skeptical, but Xiao Yao has the status of a star, whether it is going to Macheng or the American Emperor, it is really not too difficult for him.

"Don't be too happy. This is not 80 points for two decks of cards. You can calculate the main card and score card in other people's hands from the card path and the cards that have been played." Xiao Yao poured cold water on the three of them. "This is five decks of cards, and it is difficult for you to understand your opponent. Your choice is to ask for a card or not. Even if you are all mathematical geniuses, it is not easy for you to come up with such a mathematical model or formula. It can be achieved. If there is no way to ensure that the odds of winning can be increased, I will not take you rashly."

   "What do you want to do?" The more they listened to Xiao Yao's words, the more confused they became.

   "I want to play something big." Xiao Yao smiled and said, "I want to capture the casino."

   "How to capture?" The three people were surprised: "By 21 o'clock?!"

"Rely on mathematics! The way is through 21 o'clock!" Xiao Yao pointed to his temple. "In all the casino items, except for slot machines, the least human factor is 21 o'clock. Each gaming table has five decks of cards, and The cards are shuffled through the shuffle machine. The croupier and the banker are also trained in the same way. There is a regular pattern of playing cards and not playing cards. I think you can rely on mathematics to improve playing blackjack to win money. probability."

   "Why are you so clear?" Yan Ke asked curiously, "Have you played in a casino?"

   "No." Xiao Yao shook his head.

   "Then how do you know that you can win money in a casino by math?" Yu Gang also asked.

"I knew it from the way you abused me so coolly the other day." Xiao Yao smiled bitterly, "Why do I always lose to you when I play 80 minutes? Is the experience inferior to you? The rules or I taught you. Is it because the memory is not as good as you? Who dare to recite English words with me? It's not because your math is worse than me and can count cards. Eighty points can be counted, but 21 points can't be counted?"

   "Can I tell you that there was a guy named Ma Kaiwen in his previous life who did it with his companions?" Xiao Yao added silently in his heart.

  In his previous life, Xiao Yao grew up watching movies like Fa Ge’s God of Gamblers, Hua Tsai’s Gamblers, and Star Master’s Gamblers. Although he was fascinated by the various card-playing skills in gambling movies like everyone else at that time, Xiangjiang’s gambling movies seemed too exaggerated. He never thought about connecting with real life.

  Until 08 years in his previous life, as an adult, he saw an American gambling film called "Blackjack". To be honest, the film is not good overall, but the plot of counting cards to increase the chance of winning and successfully winning a lot of dollars from the casino still left him a deep impression.

  A little bit of investigation, he was surprised to find that this movie was actually adapted from real people. The protagonist Ma Kaiwen is a Chinese mathematics genius from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ma Kaiwen and his companions relied on the method of card counting and ran wild about 10 million US dollars from the casino in a few years. The United States not only made movies based on his deeds, but also bestsellers about the deeds of Ma Kaiwen and his companions adapted into novels. Since then, Ma Kaiwen's name and deeds have also been deeply imprinted in his mind.

  In his previous life, Xiao Yao was not a genius in mathematics, and he could only sigh for the deeds of the great **** Ma Kaiwen. But Xiao Yao in this world is different. Although he is not a mathematics genius, there is no Ma Kaiwen in this world, and no one has set off a "bloody storm" in Las Vegas with card counting. Xiao Yao wants to get his own blackjack team out and go to the casino to do whatever he wants. It is not entirely impossible.

  While being ravaged by three fellows in the same dormitory some time ago, Xiao Yao also discovered that the three seem to have some talent for using math to count cards. As he himself said, whether it is playing experience or memory, he is better than the three. Such a loss can only be because they are especially good at counting cards. Unexpectedly, I participated in a winter math camp, and when I was beaten to perfection, I accidentally discovered three guys who were quite talented in card counting. The crazy idea that Xiao Yao buried deep in his memory was a bit ready to move.

Seeing the three people’s hesitant and emotionally entangled expressions, Xiao Yao smiled and continued: "Don’t be so entangled, I just have this idea, just to mention it, it’s not that we will go tomorrow or next year. Do this."

"The U.S. law stipulates that you must be at least 21 years old to enter the casino. I am still five years away." Xiao Yao went on to introduce, "Moreover, it is not so easy to find a way to increase the chances of winning. We are now They are all high school students, and it is not certain whether they can get it out with their current knowledge of mathematics.” When Ma Kaiwen joined the blackjack card counting team, he was a high-achieving student in the MIT junior year. Now these middle school students are definitely not there. His level.

"I mean everyone should take this as a long-term goal. When will we find an effective card counting method, and when will we do it. A Mr. Ma once said, "Dreams are always required, in case they are realized. Up? "" Xiao Yao quoted the classic words of Jack Ma in his previous life.

   "Which Mr. Ma?" Chen Jiwei asked in a daze.

"This is not the point." Xiao Yao waved his hand. "The point is whether we can find an effective card counting method. Let's not treat this as a gambling, but as a math problem. When we solve it. At that time, we have to use a way to shock the world to let everyone know."

"But I guess, this matter will have to wait until college to have hope. First, we were old enough to enter the casino at that time, and second, it might not be until then that we have enough mathematical knowledge to support it. The theoretical basis for our card counting, and the third one is that we can only have the kind of personal freedom that can run around at that time." Xiao Yao clapped his hands, and finally concluded, "So, I hope you can now With such an idea in my heart, work hard in this direction. I hope that in a few years, we can really accomplish this."

   "Okay, interesting, let's do it!" Yu Gang was the first to respond.

   "Yes, just think about it, and it's exciting." Chen Jiwei flushed and said excitedly.

   "We treat him as a math problem. I don't believe that we can't solve it in a few years." Yan Ke was also persuaded.

   "Okay, you will be responsible for solving the problem, and I will be responsible for other aspects." Xiao Yao nodded with a smile.

  The world is now at the beginning of 2015. The development of science and technology is far from the previous life in the mid-1990s. It is impossible for Xiao Yao to spend several years in the casino like Ma Kaiwen in his previous life and win tens of millions of dollars. All he wants is to live the addiction that he has never forgotten in his previous life.

  P.s everyone can also see that this chapter is purely burying a pit. As for when to fill it, it does not necessarily have to wait five years.

  (End of this chapter)