Almighty in the city

Poker, the full name is Texas.Holdem.poker, originated in Texas in West America. It is a player-to-player public card game.

The rules of poker are basically the same as those of "Stud". For a gambling game to be established, there must be at least two people at a table, and no more than 22 people at most. Generally, two to ten people participate.

The playing cards used in gambling, like "Stud", are fifty-two cards from the ace of spades to the king of squares after the two trump cards and one replacement card are removed from a new deck of cards.

At the beginning of the card game, each player on the gambling table will be assigned two cards, but unlike "Stud", the two cards here are hidden cards, which are "hole cards".

Subsequently, the croupier will first issue two community cards with the face up at the gaming table, and "bid" in the order of counterclockwise where the players are sitting at the gaming table.

The biggest difference between this and "Stud" lies in what Stephen Wynn calls the "big and small blinds".

The so-called "big and small blinds" means that before the start of each hand, according to the player's position at the table, there will be two players who need to bet "guarantee" chips.

Therefore, poker tables are generally marked with "chip limit".

For example, a gaming table with a one-hundred-dollar chip limit tells the guests who come to play cards that they want to play at this table, and each big blind needs to "guarantee" one-hundred-dollar chips. "Blind" requires a "guarantee" of fifty dollars in chips.

For poker tables like Bai Yifan and Stephen Wynn where there are only two people betting against each other, each hand will have a "guaranteed" chip amount.

For example, in the first game, Bai Yifan wants to secure the big blind, and Stephen Wynn must secure the small blind; then, regardless of winning or losing, in the second game, Bai Yifan is to secure the small blind, and Stephen must secure the big blind.

The amount of chips in this kind of rotating minimum and big blinds is also very considerable for both parties' gambling capital.

This means that in every hand, even if you fold at the beginning, you have to pay the price of guaranteed chips.

If you keep folds, your own side’s chips will continue to flow to the other side. Once you let the other side have the advantage of chip capital, the difficulty of the game will obviously increase by more than one level.

Therefore, playing poker is essentially different from "Stud" in terms of strategy. It is impossible to wait for the arrival of the "big names" to "make a bet".

In that case, you may not be able to wait for the arrival of the "big names", and the guaranteed chips you have been losing to the opponent by folds are enough for the opponent to form a capital advantage.

From a purely competitive perspective, the difficulty gap between poker and "Stud" is almost as large as the difficulty gap between war3 and the glory of the king.

Compared with "Stud", poker requires players to have a better overall view, not only the ability to draw and count cards, but also to balance the relationship between chips and cards.

Stephen Wynn’s choice of poker as a gambling method is actually from another aspect, suggesting his fear of Bai Yifan in drawing and counting cards.

If you simply bet on "Stud", the Las Vegas gambler did not have 100% confidence, so he chose poker, which is more difficult and requires a higher overall view.

Of course, externally, Stephen will never admit this.

The reasons he gave out sounded reasonable to others.

After all, there are big and small blinds to guarantee the bottom, and the progress of the game will definitely be much faster than the "stud" without a guarantee.

It's just that a gambling master of the level like Zhang Jiuye can read this deeper connotation from the changes in this gambling method.

In the operating room of Jinghu Hospital, King He Gambler looked at the pictures of Bai Yifan and Stephen Wynn on the screen, chuckled, and said faintly to Zhao Liancheng: "This Stephen is very cautious."

In the office of the president of Saint-Yong Xingguang, Monaco gambling king Lavrio Boudin, took a sip of red wine from his goblet, with an expression of interest on his face, watching Stephen Wynn on the TV screen, and said to himself Muttered to himself: "After all, it is a gambling of the century that is related to 16 billion gold coins. It is also in such a public occasion. The more the gambler, the less you can't afford to lose, and the less you can't lose."

In the Zhou family mansion, Zhou Zhisen looked at the giant screen. When Stephen Wynn offered to bet on poker, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, revealing a ridiculous arc: "Since there is no certainty of victory, why should we come here? This is muddy water. People die for money, and birds die for food. One hundred and sixty-one gold coins are certainly a huge sum of money, even enough to directly establish a gambling family in Australia, but if they lose— This huge benefit is naturally accompanied by huge risks, especially in the current Australian city."

His younger brother Zhou Zhigang pondered: "I didn't expect the Sun family to be able to invite Stephen. It seems that they have established a close relationship with the two gambling kings in Simi."

"This is just the opening scene." Zhou Zhisen said lightly, "Now in Australia City, it is the time when the demons are dancing. At Jinghu Hospital, once there is news that the gambling king is heading west, what will happen to Australia City? All things are possible."

After a pause, his brows wrinkled slightly, and his tone suddenly felt cold. "Even, some people may not be unable to do that crazy thing in order to ensure that King He will not be able to pass this hurdle. ."

Zhou Zhigang shook his whole body when he heard it, and for an instant it seemed as if there was an electric current rushing through his forehead, exploding his scalp numb, dense cold sweat, and instantly soaking the white shirt on his back.

Geely gambler Carl Hamilton, who had just returned to Australia from the Hong Kong International Airport, sat in the Rolls-Royce bulletproof car heading for British Entertainment, watching the live broadcast on the car TV at the same time. The recorded video of Bai Yifan and Zhang Jiuye's gambling, frowned deeply, and muttered to himself: "If it were me, I would never go to this muddy water at this time...unless, Stephen has already Find out the depth of this young man, or is he confident enough to bet on this game?"

In the mansion of Stephen Wynn, one of the three largest mountain villas in the Southern Peninsula, SheldonGary.Adelso, the gambling king of Simi, was also watching the live broadcast.

He was not surprised that Stephen would choose the poker gambling method, because it was originally the gambling method that the two of them discussed and decided after watching the live broadcast of Bai Yifan and Zhang Jiuye.

Only at this moment, watching the live broadcast through the giant screen, his face was full of surprised expressions.

There is no other reason, just because Stephen Wynn lost a hand of 490 million gold coin chips to Bai Yifan shortly after the start of the game.

What's more, this hand loses is a very rare "enemy hand" like flush versus flush.

The five community cards on the table are Cao Hua Six, Cao Hua K, Ace of Hearts, Square Piece Nine and Cao Hua Two.

Bai Yifan's two hole cards are Cao Hua 7 and Cao Hua Q.

Stephen Wynn’s is the Flower Nine and the Flower Ten.

According to the rules, after the combination of the two hole cards and the community cards on the table, they are all in the same flower, but Bai Yifan's two, six, seven, Q, and K, in terms of single card size, are better than Stephen Wynn's two. , Six, nine, ten, K is just a little bit bigger.

And it was this point that allowed the Las Vegas gambler to lose 490 million gold coins immediately after the start!