"Essence" determines the choices a person can make in critical moments
In gambling, seeing through the "essence" of your opponent is the shortcut to victory.
Once seen through, they will be disturbed, induced, and even manipulated, and eventually fall into the abyss of failure.
Mr. Jing's failure falls into this category.
Feng Bujue's words and actions... while advancing the game, are also testing the "essence" of his opponent.
Take this opponent as an example... Brother Jue soon discovered that the essence of Mr. Jing is "concession", or "concession under the premise that there is still room for improvement".
It should be more appropriate to describe this kind of person as "a conservative who is strong on the outside but hard on the inside"...
Years of bureaucracy have allowed him to develop the principle of not seeking merit, but seeking no faults; as long as there is room for maneuver and a safe space... he will make concessions and deceive himself by telling himself, "This is
A rational, helpless choice."
But in fact, due to lack of ability, he is simply unable to judge what is a rational and correct concession...
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"The settlement begins now." After hearing the "declaration of surrender," the referee immediately said, "The party that raised the question declared surrender in the twenty-first round, and the fine is... 31,000 US dollars."
"What...what! So much?" Mr. Jing couldn't help shouting when he heard the amount, "Why did I lose so much even if I surrendered?"
"The penalty formula is written in the rules, you can check it yourself." the referee replied coldly.
Upon hearing this, Mr. Jing lowered his head somewhat dullly, picked up the printed paper with the rules written on it from the middle layer of the cart, and found the relevant content.
Starting from the 21st round, the second penalty formula is adopted, which is:, while the 21-30th round is.
To sum up, Mr. Jing’s fine is: 10,000*(50-20)%+80,000*10%+20,000, which is indeed 31,000 US dollars...
"Do you understand?" The referee waited for Mr. Jing for a minute and then continued. "In addition, the amount of the 'bet round' must be included, which is 1,000 US dollars, so... at the end of the round, the party that gave the question should pay the guesser.
32,000 US dollars, please pay."
"Damn... damn..." Mr. Jing muttered through gritted teeth, and reluctantly took out the money from his plastic bag.
After taking the banknotes, the referee took out a money counting machine from the trolley, quickly counted out the correct amount, and handed it to Feng Bujue's hand.
"Haha...thank you." Feng Bujue took the money from the referee with a smile and said thank you to Mr. Jing.
"Humph..." Mr. Jing snorted coldly, clenching his hands into fists, his whole body trembling with the frustration of failure.
"Then..." At this time, the referee took out the paper with the correct answer that Mr. Jing had just put there from his jacket pocket. "This answer is invalid from now on." He said,
He stuffed the piece of paper into the shredder at the bottom of the trolley, "You two... please prepare for the second round of the showdown."
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Just when they were clearing the table and settling the bill...
"Friend, play a game with me."
"I challenge you. Yes, it's you."
"Handsome guy, can you give me a compliment?"
"I want to challenge you, come."
Many people in the surrounding crowd suddenly started to take action.
Those who were the first to take action...had already seen the dangers of this game, so they quickly launched a "challenge" to those around them.
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At the same time. The second floor of the main hall.
"Haha... have you finally realized it?" The organizer looked at the people who were starting duels one after another and said with a smile, "But... no matter how fast they are, they can't catch up with the man wearing the crow mask, who is ahead of them
It’s a whole round.”
"Young Master." A, a big man in a suit, stepped forward and reminded him, "That gentleman... his name is Jiang Daode."
"Jiang Daode?" the organizer responded. Then he made a few operations on the tablet device in his hand and retrieved Jiang Daode's information from the database, "Well...well-known entrepreneur...ten outstanding young people...game industry
...The company is currently on the verge of bankruptcy..."
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On the other hand, the second match between Feng Bujue and Mr. Jing is about to begin.
At this time, Brother Jue had quickly scrawled six numbers on the paper and handed it to the referee.
The moment he saw those six numbers, the referee almost knelt down...
"Are you...sure it's these six numbers?" The referee looked at the piece of paper with "1456" written on it. His eyes were aching under his sunglasses.
"Yes." Brother Jue replied without thinking.
The referee nodded: "Okay..." He put the piece of paper away and turned to look at Mr. Jing, "Then please guess who will say 'round declaration' first."
"Fifty rounds." Mr. Jing chose a very safe number; of course... given his ability, he didn't have the capital to take risks.
"1,000 US dollars." Feng Bujue also gave a minimum bet amount.
"Wait!" Mr. Jing said loudly immediately, "This bet amount is wrong? Your current holdings are already 132,000 US dollars. You must place a minimum bet of 1,320 US dollars."
"Hmph..." Feng Bujue chuckled, "How about you go check out the rules again?"
"Huh?" Mr. Jing was stunned by what he said, and then he went to read the rules again.
As a result, he was dumbfounded again...
According to the rules, when "betting on the round", the minimum bet amount placed by the question maker shall not be less than 1% of the total amount of money held at the beginning of the duel.
Please note that here is used instead of .
This concept is undoubtedly different, because there are two "games" in a "match".
"As this gentleman said." A few seconds later, the referee also spoke, "The minimum amount of 'bet round' is based on the proportion of gold holdings at the beginning of the duel. Otherwise... in case there is a guesser.
He only lost a few hundred dollars in the first game, so wouldn’t it only cost him a few dollars to place the ante as the question maker in the second game?”
"Tch..." Mr. Jing spat, "Okay, okay~ One thousand is one thousand." He took the pen and looked ready to go, "In the first round, I bet 680 US dollars, you
Do you want to follow or not?”
Mr. Jing's holding amount for this round is 68,000 US dollars, and the "minimum betting amount per round" is still calculated based on his total holding amount at the beginning of the round, so the amount he bids is reduced accordingly.
"I surrender." Unexpectedly, the next second, Feng Bujue replied in a very calm tone...
When he said this, Mr. Jing had already written two zeros on the paper...
"You surrender...huh?" It wasn't until he was about to finish writing the six zeros that Mr. Jing realized, "What? You surrender?"
Feng Bujue ignored him at all, looked directly at the referee and said: "Mr. Referee, settlement."
"So that's it..." The referee was thinking secretly at this time, "This kid planned to surrender in the first round, so he can write anything..."
So, the referee calculated in his mind for a few seconds before announcing: "The party that raised the question surrendered in the first round, and the fine is... 6868 US dollars."
When Mr. Jing heard this number, he really wanted to curse...
But he did not question it again, because he had just read the rules again, so he knew that the number was correct.
Since Feng Bujue surrendered in the first round, he followed the first formula, that is, after plugging in the numbers, it was 6800*(50-0)%+68+3400, and the result was several thousand dollars.
That's all.
"Including the amount of the 'bet round', the total is 7868 US dollars." When the referee said this, he looked at Brother Jue and said, "Please pay."
Feng Bujue casually took out a stack of money and handed it to the referee, and asked, "What do you mean by change?"
"Of course we are prepared." When the referee responded, he had already taken out a small box from the locked part of the middle layer of the cart. The box was filled with several sizes of small-denomination banknotes.
To make a long story short, the number-guessing showdown between Feng Bujue and Mr. Jing ended just like that.
In the end, Feng Bujue won US$24,132 from the other party, accounting for almost a quarter of the total loan amount from the other party.
Seeing this, the onlookers finally realized the importance of "total gold holdings" in this game.
Although the base bet of "bet the round" depends on how much money you have at the beginning of the duel, the "surrender penalty" depends on how much money the opponent has at the beginning of each round...
When the player acts as the "guessing party", the higher the total amount of gold held, the higher the penalty given by the opponent. On the other hand, if your holding gold is small, the opponent can pay less penalty.
From this point of view, the "challenger" undoubtedly occupies the dominant position, because the challenger can first act as the "guessing party". As long as you gain enough benefits in guessing the game and lower the opponent's capital limit, then
When you become the question maker, the surrender penalty you need to pay will naturally be reduced.
Moreover...this "financial advantage" is basically a snowball effect. Winners will be more and more advantageous, while losers will find it increasingly difficult to come back, so...be quick!
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"I challenge you!"
"I challenge you!"
"No, I challenged you first!"
"Nonsense, I said it first!"
For a time, the surrounding crowd was in chaos.
Those who reacted quickly had already quietly found someone to start the duel when the first game between Brother Jue and Mr. Jing was settled.
As for these "slow-paced" guys now, or rather... "the vast majority of people", they only reacted after watching the settlement of the second game, and they eagerly challenged each other, and everyone wanted to be the first to guess the solution.
Scenes like this are common for men in suits and sunglasses, and they are also familiar with how to deal with them.
"Everyone, please calm down. There is no need to argue. The two who need to show off please come to the table first."
"You two, please come to the table."
"Be calm and please come to me."
Under the persuasion of the men in suits, those who had disputes came to the table one after another. Then...the men in suits took out their tablet devices and retrieved the real-time video to determine who "said" first.
Challenging the declaration.
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on the other hand……
"Hmph... Even if you win this time." After Mr. Jing took back the 7,868 US dollars, he said to Brother Jue viciously, "We have a similar relationship..."
"No more." Feng Bujue interrupted without letting the other party finish his harsh words. "People like you... are destined to be unable to leave this ship tonight."
"What did you say..." Mr. Jing became a little angry and raised his arms and sleeves and stepped forward, as if he wanted to use force.
Suddenly, when he rushed in front of Brother Jue, a chill hit his whole body.
At that moment, Mr. Jing was not only unable to speak anymore, but even breathing became very difficult.
He suddenly had a feeling that what was under the strange crow mask... seemed not to be a human being, but some kind of more terrifying, unknown creature...
"Whether you agree with what I said or not, I still have to say it." Seeing that the other party stopped talking, Feng Bujue continued coldly, "If you are not convinced by the loss, I don't mind talking again later.
I’ll bet you one round, or even two or three rounds, until I win all your money.”
At this moment, a tall man wearing a golden crying face mask was already standing behind Brother Jue.
"I've kept you waiting for a long time." Feng Bujue looked at the other party and said following the trend.
"Haha...it's only a minute or two." The tall man responded with a smile.
The two conversations between them sounded like ordinary polite words to others, and they seemed to have no beginning or end.
But in fact, these two simple "hellos" are not only a test of each other, but also a demonstration of each other's strength.
Feng Bujue's "I've kept you waiting for a long time" is intended to mean "I know you have been behind me for a long time, waiting to challenge me."
The tall man's calm response and his act of "challenging the man in the crow mask" also showed that he was by no means an easy person.
"Then... let's start." Feng Bujue continued.
"Okay." The tall man said, then he took a step forward and walked boldly towards the place where Mr. Jing was standing before.
"Referee, I have challenged the gentleman wearing the crow mask." As he walked, he turned to say hello to the referee.
When the referee heard this, he glanced at Brother Jue; although he was wearing sunglasses at this time, he could feel that... he had a questioning look.
"Why are you looking at me?" Feng Bujue responded, "This is my second duel. I cannot refuse the challenge until this one is completed."
"In that case, then... please ask the question first." The referee continued.
Feng Bujue shrugged, took out another piece of white paper from the cart, and spread it on the table; still without thinking much, he wrote a set of numbers.
This time, when the referee took the "answer sheet", he was already prepared to see "1456" again, but... Brother Jue's answer this time was more normal, which was "953724".
"Huh? There are no repeated numbers..." the referee immediately thought, "but...if you think about it carefully, under the premise that all the numbers are bound to be tried in the first nine rounds, deliberately not using repeated numbers seems to be a good choice.
After all, 'which six numbers' is no longer a problem from the tenth round onwards. Once the numbers are determined, there are more non-repetitive combinations."
Thinking of this, the referee put the answer into his jacket pocket, and then said to the tall man: "Please declare the round."
"Haha..." The man chuckled twice, "Eighteen rounds."
"What?" Mr. Jing, who was standing aside and had not walked far away, couldn't help but screamed when he heard this.
"Hmph...what's all the fuss about?" The tall man looked at Mr. Jing and felt funny, "By the way...why are you still here?"
When he asked this, Mr. Jing was not happy: "What's wrong? Can't I just stand here and watch for a while?"
"Don't you understand?" the tall man replied, "Now... we are racing against time..." He raised his finger and pointed at Feng Bujue, "That Mr. Crow Mouth did not hesitate to give away time in order to buy time.
Why don’t you know how to cherish your thousands of dollars?”
"What did you say?" Mr. Jing asked suspiciously, "When did he give me thousands of dollars?"
"Oh?" When the tall man heard this, he laughed again, "What? Don't you even know the most basic things like 'in which rounds you can escape'?" He shook his head and continued,
"Huh... no wonder people say you can't leave tonight."
"You guys, what are you talking about!" Mr. Jing's anger was aroused again, "If you have something to say, say it clearly, don't beat around the bush!"
"Alas..." the tall man sighed and explained, "Then let me give you an example... If that gentleman just played with you for a while, for example... you wait until the nineteenth round to suddenly surrender, and you
Calculate the difference between the penalty and the stake you paid at that time."
This kind of mental arithmetic that can be completed by primary school students can still be completed by Mr. Jing. He looked down at the formula on the rules and immediately did the math.
Ten seconds later, Mr. Jing’s face suddenly changed, and he murmured: “The 18 times the ante of 680 US dollars was... 12240... and the penalty for surrendering in the 19th round was 11492... I... not only did I not win any money,
Still lost by 748?”
"That's right." The tall man continued, "However, you still have the 1,000 US dollars for betting on the round, so you can still earn 252 US dollars (because the base bet for the betting round is fixed at 1,000, so when Mr. Jing guesses the solution, he will not know it.
In the nineteenth round, it is still a slight loss, and you have to wait until the twentieth round to make a profit), but it is far worse than 7868?" He paused for half a second, and then said, "Then if...he drags it to the second
What if you surrender after ten rounds? You don’t have to forget it, let me tell you...even if you include the 1,000 US dollars for betting on the round, you will still lose 40 US dollars..." He smiled (although the other party could not see it) and said, "This...
...is the so-called 'escape round'; for the party who sets the question first, this is very important, but you have not grasped it well... When you are the party who sets the question, if you are one or two rounds earlier,
Surrender before the other party raises the stakes, and even if you can't win much money, at least you won't lose more than 30,000."
"I...I..." Mr. Jing bared his teeth regretfully under the mask and muttered depressedly, "If I could have been one round earlier..."
"There is no such assumption." The tall man interrupted him, "I advise you to find a place quickly and calculate the comparison of fines and benefits in each round...and then while everyone still has to accept the challenge
, finish your 'second duel', and as for what we are going to play here..." He said, looking at Brother Jue again, "It is not a game that people of your level can intervene in...
