Pre-flop stage.
The dealer dealt the cards to the six players one by one. (The small blind should be Miss Ge, which has been corrected at the end of the previous chapter) Doyle Brown, who was under the gun, scratched his two hole cards with his thumb and glanced at them. , tap your finger lightly on the desktop to choose check.
The following players, including Shao Nanyin who had performed extremely well in the previous two games, all chose to check after that, and after going around in a circle, they returned to Lin Nian who spoke last.
He glanced at the other people's eyes, and then tapped the table with his index finger: "check."
Nothing happened, which made the players at the table and the guests behind them a little regretful. It seemed that the exciting situations in the first two games were accidents, and in the third game everyone began to be conservative.
In the first round, all six players checked. I don’t know if someone is playing a long-term game to catch the big fish. Anyway, it’s time to enter the flop stage.
Three public cards are revealed, including the q of clubs, 10 of spades, and the rainbow side of 8 of diamonds. The probability of a flush decreases.
Doyle Brown thumbed through his cards again and saw the two hole cards of the Queen of Hearts and the Ten of Clubs. He had already won two pairs on this card, that is, two cards of the same value, plus two other cards. Cards of the same rank.
He pointed at the chips with his finger, and then chose a normal amount to bet. He also gently pushed out a blue chip: "One hundred thousand."
Shao Nanyin, who was ranked first, did not look at her own cards or the community cards on the table. She was looking at Lin Nian. Others at the table also noticed that she was looking at Lin Nian, but no one commented on it because Shao Nanyin Da may be analyzing his opponent through his expressions, and this behavior is understandable.
"Call." Shao Nanyin threw out a blue chip and followed suit, gently rubbing his two trump cards with his fingers.
"Call." Russian Hanzhukovsky took a look at his hole card, which was a pair of pocket pairs, 8 of clubs and 8 of hearts.
This is already a three-of-a-kind combination with the public cards on the table. There is even a chance that when the last two public cards are turned out, the bet will lose only a straight flush and a four-of-a-kind full house, that is, a full house (three cards of the same value, plus A pair of cards with other points, which is the famous joke in "The Gambler": Can a flush beat a full house?).
There was no reason not to follow. In fact, Zhukovsky could have made a tentative raise, but they did not do so. Maybe they were worried about scaring away others. After all, there was a chance of a straight on this card, so they rashly increased the bet. Other players may simply run away.
Under normal circumstances, he would raise the bet, but based on his observation of the playing habits of other players at the table in the first two games, he decided to wait until the turn stage before slowly betting. After all, three of a kind has a high chance of winning, but it is not Absolutely, if the turn came full house, he would be free to bet.
Alicia, who was in the late position, also chose to call after looking at her hole cards, but when it came to Miss Ge, she folded her cards cleanly and ran away.
"Are the cards so good?" Miss Ge threw the cards into the dealer's hand and glanced at the follower, "It seems like this game is quite interesting."
It was Lin Nian's turn to speak. Lin Nian glanced at Zhukovsky.
At this moment, the Russian, who was still observing the expressions of others, suddenly felt a chill all over his body. The strong body wrapped in the suit shuddered violently, and the movement was so big that it slightly shook the chair under him. Like a brown bear sneezing.
Zhukovsky suddenly raised his head and looked around, feeling an inexplicable panic in his heart. The last time he felt this way was when his enemy in Russia tried to kill him with a car bomb. The moment he saw his car turning into a ball of fire not far away, the feeling of fear filled his blood vessels and made him shiver even if he was wrapped in a warm coat.
"Raise, two hundred thousand." At this time, Zhukovsky heard the new young man on the opposite side say.
When someone on the table raises, others must follow the raise or continue to counter-raise, otherwise they can only fold and give up the game.
Two blue chips were thrown out, and the expressions of the others did not change much. After all, they had seen Shao Nanyin all in like a lunatic before, and now they would not have any big reaction if they saw this simple raise again.
"Young players seem to have pretty good luck? Are you really anxious to use up all our chips and eliminate us all?" Doyle Brown touched his trump card and casually talked nonsense, wanting to see Lin Nian's face. But it's a pity that Lin Nian's expression was so cold from beginning to end, with a poker face that showed nothing.
Tianshun? It was unlikely. Doyle Brown was inclined to believe that he was bluffing. Judging from Lin Nian's previous words and deeds before going to the table, it was very likely that everything was just a show, just for bluffing at this time.
He had already won two pairs in his hole cards, so there was no reason to be frightened by Lin Nian’s raise. This was playing classic Texas Hold’em, not short-card Texas Hold’em (the variation of Texas Hold’em removes the four points of 2, 3, 4, and 5. Of the 16 cards, only 36 cards are left for the game. There are more chances of a pair, a greater chance of a straight, and a smaller chance of a flush.) The chance of a smooth is... not high?
"Call." Doyle Brown chose to follow.
"Call." Shao Nanyin followed immediately, almost without hesitation.
However, others cannot analyze her hand from this aspect. First, her table is very deep, and the few chips she throws out now can be used as tuition to figure out her opponent's habits. Second, this woman does not seem to regard money as money. There is no logic at all in raising and calling.
"Call." Zhukovsky gathered his emotions and returned to the game. He pretended to think for half a minute and then called.
He was happy to see this scene. The dominant position of rushing to raise was in the hands of others. It was better for him to hide in the call and use his big hand to absorb all the pots at once.
Miss Alicia turned her head and thought for a while, and then followed suit.
As the pot rose rapidly, the dealer gathered all the chips, turned over the fourth public card, and entered the turn stage.
Community cards: q of clubs, 10 of spades, 8 of diamonds, 7 of diamonds.
The guests around the gambling table began to talk, because this public card was too dangerous, the connection was too strong, and the probability of a straight was rapidly expanding.
At the beginning of the second round, Ms. Ge, who was in the small blind position, spoke, but because Ms. Ge folded, Lin Nian, who was in the big blind position, spoke.
"Five hundred thousand." Lin Nian continued to raise the bet and threw out the crimson chips. In just one or two moves, he had almost thrown away half of his chips.
Doyle Brown finally fell silent at this time, and there was no more trash talk in his mouth. In fact, judging from the calling situation in the last round, he had already begun to consider whether the two pairs in his hand were worth his continued calling.
Everyone was so active in following Lin Nian's raise. Maybe someone really had a straight in his hand. Even if Lin Nian was bluffing, as long as someone really had a straight or a trip, he would lose all his money.
Forget it, the position of the muzzle of this gun is indeed a bit wrong. He just needs to stop the loss in time to make a small loss in this round. It is not easy for him to follow up to now.
"Fold." Doyle Brown threw out his hand and folded.
When Shao Nanyin came to speak, as expected, he immediately said: "call."
Zhukovsky's turn came next. He was expressionless with three pieces in his hand, but in his heart, he couldn't hide his face, and his brows were almost watered.
He looked at Lin Nian and then at Shao Nanyin. The two men behaved as if they were clearly telling others that they were going well. Their aura of being the best and second best could hardly be suppressed.
To follow or not to follow?
After much deliberation, Zhukovsky decided to follow. No one pushed him all-in with this kind of card. He almost followed to the end. Even if he lost, he had to follow. Not only did he have to follow, he also had a slightly tentative mentality in his heart. made a raise.
Zhukovsky threw out a pure white chip, which was also the chip with the highest value on the table.
"Rise, one million." The dealer said.
Ms. Alicia had the final say. After thinking deeply for a while, Ms. Alicia shook her head and chose to discard her cards. At the same time, she also showed her own card when she discarded her cards. It turned out to be pocket ace and a heart. a, an ace of spades.
It is very rare for pocket a to fold. After all, the double a in the hole is already the biggest hole card in Texas Hold'em. But now being forced by this dangerous community card and high raise situation, she still has no choice but to fold. She has to say that she is very willing to do so. .
It was Lin Nian's turn to speak again. He threw out his chips and followed Zhukovsky's raise, and Shao Nanyin followed suit immediately.
The game continued into the final river card stage, and the last card turned out turned out to be an ace of clubs.
Community cards: q of clubs, 10 of spades, 8 of diamonds, 7 of diamonds, a of clubs.
"Ah." Alicia smiled bitterly, and the guests behind her also made a lot of heated discussions.
If she hadn't folded, she would now have three aces, but unfortunately the ace came too late.
"Three players, Mr. Lin Nian, it's your turn." The croupier stretched out his hand to signal Lin Nian to speak.
At this time, Lin Nian didn't have many chips on the stage. He didn't talk nonsense and said nothing. He just pushed out all the chips.
After pushing out the chips, he looked at Shao Nanyin, lowered his eyes, and tapped his fingers on the table. The other party just glanced at his gesture, understood the underlying meaning, and sighed inaudibly.
"All in, eight hundred thousand." The dealer said.
Zhukovsky didn't react much, because Lin Nian had never been a problem. The boy's table was only two million. Even if the opponent really got a straight, he would lose at most two million if he lost the trip. He has about 30 million chips in hand, so he can afford to lose.
But the question is Shao Nanyin, what cards does this evil Chinese woman hold? She followed from the beginning without any hesitation. Was she bluffing because of her large chips, or did she really get a big hand? Will she continue to call next?
Zhukovsky felt that the other party had no reason not to follow the bet. Before Shao Nanyin placed the bet, he had counted 800,000 chips on the table and was ready to follow the bet, but what Shao Nanyin said next made him hold the chips with both hands. Shaked.
"Rise, twenty-nine million." Shao Nanyin said, and then she turned to the dealer and said something familiar to everyone, "Can I keep my castle before the cards are drawn?"
"Yes, of course you can." The old dealer used honorifics to the girl as he should, because he had never seen such a crazy woman in all his years as a dealer.
"All in, twenty-nine million." The dealer said. Just like reading out the emperor's imperial edict, those few words are piled with terrifying wealth like a golden torrent.
"You are provoking me." Zhukovsky suddenly turned his head and looked at Shao Nanyin beside him and said expressionlessly.
He used declarative sentences because what he said was indeed an indisputable fact.
Normally Lin Nian's all-in was only 800,000. Shao Nanyin could just throw 800,000 and call. Then Zhukovsky continued to call 800,000 and it was time to compare the results of the opening cards.
But now Shao Nanyin inexplicably made a raise, and the raise was full of malice when the chips were lost - only the malice directed at her next player, Zhukovsky, because the 29 million happened to be the Russian natural gas Tycoon now has all the chips on the table.
"You don't have to follow." Shao Nanyin tilted his head to look at the Russian tycoon and said with a smile, "Just like Mr. Doyle Brown said, I like to give face to newcomers."
"Does this have anything to do with you provoking me?" Zhukovsky did not understand the meaning of Shao Nanyin's words, and no one on the table could understand it. Only Lin Nian waited silently for the cards to be opened.
"It doesn't matter. If you don't follow, just fold. Don't waste time." Shao Nanyin said.
After speaking, she paused and uttered another word in Russian. As soon as this word came out of his mouth, a vein appeared on Zhukovsky's forehead.
There were not many people who could understand Russian at the scene, but Lin Nian happened to be one of them. He tapped his fingers on the table indifferently without looking at Zhukovsky's reaction, but he must have been scolded "coward" by a girl indifferently. ", even a Russian man would not have a good temper.
The dealer immediately warned Shao Nanyin. As a senior dealer, this old British gentleman knew at least four common languages, and Russian happened to be among them. He reminded Shao Nanyin that this was the first time he had warned her about speaking inappropriately. If there was a second time, he would not warn her and would directly ask security personnel to take her away from the card table and forcibly take away her qualification to participate in the game.
Shao Nanyin did not express this, but looked at Zhukovsky with a livid expression next to him with a smile. The Russian tycoon, who had always been calm in the past, only had a few short conversations, but now his emotions inexplicably reached the threshold! It was as if Shao Nanyin's words had hit his emotional breaking point.
A method of provoking generals? Or are you bluffing with trash talk?
Almost everyone was staring at Shao Nanyin's expression, trying to analyze what she was thinking now, and at the same time looking forward to Zhukovsky's next move.
Zhukovsky raised his hand. His arm span was very long, and his arm circumference was also thick to an astonishing degree. When he raised his hand, the suit on his shoulders was stretched out and stretched out the formidable lines inside. On the top of the gaming table The lights were slightly obscured, and the shadows covered Shao Nanyin's face at the side, but she still remained calm, playing with the chips on her fingertips, not worried at all about what bad things would happen next.
The old croupier next to Shao Nanyin was almost immediately ready to move over to stop the violence that might happen next, but Zhukovsky quickly dropped his hand.
The rounded arm did not hit the girl next to him. In the wind, everyone heard the sound of chips collapsing and colliding. That was the chips worth 29 million being drawn into the pot in one breath. inside.
"Call." Zhukovsky swept away all his chips with a wave of his hand and scattered them all over the gambling table. He stared at Shao Nanyin and said with a cold face, "If you want to anger me, then I congratulate you for doing it. I It depends on your trump card.”
Shao Nanyin held his chin with his hand and tilted his head to look at her, reflecting that the Russian's eyes had a beautiful golden color under the refraction of the light.
The croupier stopped and looked at the scattered chips on the table. After a moment of silence, he stood back to his original position, collected all the chips, and then said: "Mr. Zhukovsky, all in, twenty-nine million chips, Please open the cards."
Zhukovsky revealed his hand with pocket eights.
The dealer puts the two hole cards in front of him and releases the five cards with the largest combination: 8 of diamonds, 8 of clubs, 8 of hearts, a of clubs, and q of clubs.
"Three of a kind."
Amid the low shouts of the onlookers, Zhukovsky looked at Shao Nanyin expressionlessly: "Let's open the cards."
Shao Nanyin made no move, but raised his head towards the bad-tempered Russian tycoon and motioned for him to look across the table.
Zhukovsky turned his head and looked over, and then he was stunned.
In front of Lin Nian, two trump cards were revealed.
Jack of spades, nine of clubs.
The dealer puts the two hole cards in front of him and recombines them into the largest order: q of clubs, j of spades, 10 of spades, 9 of clubs, 8 of diamonds
"straight."
In Texas Hold'em, the straight flush is the biggest, followed by four of a kind, full house, flush, straight, and then...three of a kind.
But so what? Zhukovsky was stunned for a moment, but he immediately realized that Lin Nian's all-in was only 800,000, and the total chips in the pot were only 2 million. In this situation, even if Lin Nian won , he could only win two million each from Shao Nanyin and Zhukovsky. How much bets he placed, how much he won were the rules.
Zhukovsky was relieved and was about to say something coldly when he heard the croupier say again: "straight."
Why did the dealer report the cards twice?
Zhukovsky turned back and saw a scene that made him stunned.
He saw Shao Nanyin slowly reveal his trump card: J of Hearts, 9 of Hearts.
It was exactly the same size as Lin Nian's card. Naturally, the community card they finally combined was also exactly the same size.
"The straight tie, three of a kind is out." said the dealer.
"He doesn't have enough chips to beat you, but I do." Shao Nanyin said quietly, her eyes sweeping over the stunned players on the table, "...I can only blame you for your bad luck, some people have already lost their money. I am impatient to speed up the game, so I can only accompany you, someone will always suffer, but this person must not be me."
