The renowned gambler, Uncle Tuo!
And that saying, he taught it to me.
Don't look at ten million as a lot, when placed in the Heavenly Realm club… hehe!
Gamblers like Uncle Tuo, when they go to the Heavenly Realm, they book presidential suites.
A presidential suite in the Heavenly Realm has a minimum spend of thirty thousand.
And Uncle Tuo’s favorite move was "one yang swallowing three yin," so basically, every visit started at a hundred thousand, with no upper limit.
And this was just his personal consumption.
If he brought someone along, it started at two hundred thousand, plus no upper limit.
Gamblers make money, after all, for pleasure.
So, Uncle Tuo felt that using the most profitable top-tier skill in cutting and stealing cards, to match the most luxurious and money-consuming Heavenly Realm in entertainment venues… it was simply too perfect!
Without further ado, let's get straight to the point.
The Star Plucking Hand and the Moon Grasping Hand can be used together simultaneously, there is absolutely no problem with that.
The difficulty lies in using the Star Plucking Hand to break the Perfect Shuffle while, without anyone noticing, using the Moon Grasping Hand to complete the act of stealing cards.
To steal cards the moment you cut the deck, how fast does your hand speed need to be?
I can do card flicking, but for something like this, I haven't dared to try it lightly.
And as far as I know, many high-level gamblers have failed because of this.
A gambling match where both the Star Plucking Hand and the Moon Grasping Hand are used must involve other gamblers.
You can't expect the opponents to be fools, to just watch you steal cards and not call you out, right?
No exaggeration, if the speed of the Moon Grasping Hand is just a tiny bit slower, and it doesn't connect smoothly with the Star Plucking Hand…
Be prepared to have your fingers chopped off!
Although the moment Luo Qiwén made her move, I saw through her technique, it was a pity that I couldn't clearly see her stealing action.
From beginning to end, I only caught a glimpse of it.
This alone was enough to show how fast Luo Qiwén's hands were!
If nothing unexpected happened, Shen Mèngqíng and the others were likely also bewildered.
As expected, Shen Mèngqíng's words in the next second confirmed my deduction.
Glancing at Luo Qiwén, Shen Mèngqíng frowned and said, "Your card cutting technique is very unusual."
"It's a bit like the Star Plucking Hand!"
Upon hearing this, Luo Qiwén's expression changed slightly, but she didn't refute. Instead, she sneered, "You're allowed to use the Perfect Shuffle, but I'm not allowed to use the Star Plucking Hand?"
"Is this trying to play the game where only officials are allowed to set fires, but the common people are not allowed to light lamps?"
As soon as Luo Qiwén finished speaking, not only the four people at the gambling table, but even the surrounding plainclothes guards, their expressions froze.
No one expected Luo Qiwén to dare to admit publicly that she had used a technique.
But in a sense, since the Perfect Shuffle was universally recognized as not a cheating technique, then the Star Plucking Hand, which was the only way to break the Perfect Shuffle, certainly couldn't be considered one.
After all, the Star Plucking Hand only broke the card order of the Perfect Shuffle.
Apart from that, the Star Plucking Hand did not involve any card stealing or hiding actions.
The so-called catching a cheat requires catching the person and the stolen goods. If the person isn't hiding or stealing cards, what are you catching?
From this point on, if Shen Mèngqíng didn't point out the Moon Grasping Hand, then Luo Qiwén's cheating would be considered successful!
Of course, if Shen Mèngqíng could point it out, she would also have to find the stolen cards on Luo Qiwén, otherwise, she would still fail to catch her.
After all, one couldn't expect Luo Qiwén to be foolish enough to admit she used the Moon Grasping Hand, right?
However, unfortunately, Shen Mèngqíng seemed to have completely missed Luo Qiwén's subsequent actions.
With a somewhat displeased expression, she finally said faintly, "Deal the cards!"
Hearing this, Lu Yong, with a grim expression, began to deal the cards.
This scene surprised me somewhat.
Undeniably, my starting point in learning gambling techniques from Uncle Tuo was much higher than that of ordinary people.
Afterward, I continuously practiced under his guidance, and my growth was also quite rapid.
This led me to quickly become like a closed-door disciple of a peerless master in martial arts movies.
But these plainclothes guards were not nameless, faceless, or factionless pawns!
One by one, they shouldn't be so weak, should they?
Especially Shen Mèngqíng, although I hadn't seen her in action many times during my time in Ruichi, I had learned about her strength from Li Sheng and the other plainclothes guards.
Logically speaking, there was no reason for Shen Mèngqíng not to see Luo Qiwén using the Moon Grasping Hand.
After all, the Star Plucking Hand and the Moon Grasping Hand were two completely different techniques, one for cutting cards, the other for stealing them.
And between the two, there was a relatively obvious small movement to connect them.
With Shen Mèngqíng's eyesight, I didn't believe she couldn't see it.
What was this woman doing?
I found that ever since I fell out with Shen Mèngqíng, her style of behavior had become erratic, making it difficult for me to understand.
………………
As soon as Lu Yong finished dealing the cards, Luo Qiwén impatiently placed her bet.
Because she had the lead in this round.
Luo Qiwén, uncharacteristically, took out a chip worth ten thousand and threw it directly onto the gambling table.
I originally thought that Shen Mèngqíng would at least have a round of folding first, before considering whether to continue.
But unexpectedly, she directly picked up the cards and then… looked at them!
After Shen Mèngqíng folded, Li Sheng and the other two also symbolically folded for a round, and then they all picked up their cards to look at them.
Luo Qiwén, who had intended to trap Shen Mèngqíng, could only settle for second best, seeing if she could use the folding strategy to hold back Li Sheng and Lu Yong.
Among the three, only Qi Bin folded directly after looking at his cards.
If a one-against-two hold could last until the end, it was one hundred percent certain that one of them would be held back.
But unfortunately, Luo Qiwén's wishful thinking was in vain.
In the one-against-two hold, just as it reached the third hand, Li Sheng and Lu Yong compared their cards.
Next, after the loser Li Sheng folded his cards, Lu Yong decisively threw two chips worth ten thousand onto the gambling table and directly revealed his cards.
Helplessly, Luo Qiwén had to passively reveal her cards.
A flush of spades, QKA, a straight flush.
Clearly, Luo Qiwén had won.
Moreover, in addition to the chips on the table, everyone had to give her an additional five thousand chips as a lucky money.
Just as Luo Qiwén was getting up to collect her chips, Shen Mèngqíng suddenly said something.
"I had a premonition that a big hand would come out this round, see… I threw away my pair of 5s!"
After saying that, Shen Mèngqíng directly flipped over the three cards in front of her, and they flew into the deck.
A pair of 5s, while not small, was certainly not considered big.
With everyone else not having revealed their cards yet, folding was normal.
But what was not normal was Shen Mèngqíng's "premonition," which was clearly a remark with hidden meaning.
Could it be that she saw Luo Qiwén using the Moon Grasping Hand? But not confident enough to call her out, she chose to play it safe?
Or perhaps, from the very beginning, Shen Mèngqíng was setting a trap?
Hearing Shen Mèngqíng's words, Luo Qiwén's expression first froze slightly, and then she immediately spoke in a cold tone, "I admit defeat for the second round, let's decide the winner in the final round!"