"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.
To be continued...