Chapter 105 Poker Shark
The entry threshold is 10,000 yuan, and the prize is 10 million yuan. Calculated in this way, the number of participants is about 1,000. According to general rules, 10%, or about 100 people, will enter the money circle and share the 10 million grand prize. , the first place will probably get 17.5%, which is a championship bonus of 1.75 million, and the lowest one can only get 0.17%, which is 17,000 yuan, and you can make a profit by entering the money circle.
The first card was received. Shen Long knew that his hole cards were the King of Hearts and the 6 of Clubs without turning over the cards. This hand is not worth much in Texas Hold'em. Let's look at the first five cards in the dealer's hand. , which are 10 and 8 of clubs, J of hearts, 4 of spades and 2 of diamonds. No matter how hard you try, you can't get a good card.
Shen Long pretended to look at the hole cards for a while and then chose to fold. After the cards were dealt, he regretted it. The dealer actually dealt a King of Spades, allowing him to form a pair of KK. In this game, is the largest.
Oops, I just played on the online platform before, and I almost forgot that the dealer actually has to burn a card every time he deals out community cards, that is, he first removes the top card and then deals it out again. There are three community cards, then one card is burned, the turn card is dealt, and finally the top card is burned and the river card is dealt.
To see clearly the final result of this card game, you can't just look at the top five cards, but the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th and 8th cards.
In the second hand, Shen Long learned his lesson. After getting the pair of 22, he decisively looked through the five target cards and found that the river card was another 2, which made him make a set of 2. Then he looked at the other cards on the table. The player's hole card, his own set of 2s, is the second highest, but the player with the largest hole card has a very small hole card. Although he can get the flush in the end, he probably won't follow to the end.
Shen Long chose to raise the bet without hesitation, and another player holding the hole cards A and J also raised the bet. Seeing that the two players in front of him had raised the bet, the player holding spades 3 and 9 hesitated. Choose to follow.
After one round, three public cards were shown, Diamond A, Club 8 and Spades 10. Through perspective, Shen Long could clearly see that the player holding A and J was heartbeating rapidly. He hit the pair of A, and that The player holding 3 and 9 of spades was quite disappointed. The probability of pinning his hopes on the last two community cards being spades was too small.
Shen Long pretended to hesitate for a moment and slightly increased his bet, giving others the impression that these three community cards were useful to him, but not that useful. Maybe he had a 10 or 8 in his hand, which happened to match the community cards. The cards made a pair.
A and J didn't want to scare Shen Long away so quickly. He just followed the bet without raising. Spades 3 and 9 chose to fold. In addition to the players who had folded before, only Shen Long was left on the table. Long and A, J two.
The turn card was the 5 of spades, which had little effect on either of them. Shen Long chose to check, A and J chose to raise, and Shen Long hesitated for a moment to follow.
Up; the last river card was dealt, spades 2, and the discarded spades 3 and 9 slapped the table in annoyance. If he persisted until now, he would be the winner.
Seeing this card A, J was completely relieved. According to his guess, Shen Long had no card in his hand that could be better than his. After raising the bet and calling, the two showed their trump cards, and Shen Long's set of 2 defeated him. The opponent's pairs A, A, and J were immediately stunned.
"What a mistake! You actually played the 2 hole card like this?" A and J were depressed and speechless. The 2 that he originally thought was insignificant became the key to defeating him.
"Hey, I was a little depressed because I folded too early in the last round, so I'll give it a try this time." Shen Long shrugged.
In the next card game, he deliberately established himself as an aggressive player who really liked to participate in gambling. Regardless of whether he had cards or not, he liked to persist until the community card came out. During this period, he lost and won, but in general , with his "luck", he still won more.
The competition was held over three days. After the first day of competition, Shen Long ranked 232nd among all contestants. This position was enough to enter the second round, but it was not optimistic whether he could enter the money circle on the last day. If he wants to persist until the third day, he must at least enter the top 108. His current chip count is still far behind the 108th place.
After going back to the room to rest for a night, he got up the next day and went to the gym to exercise. Then he walked around the streets of Macau and tasted the local delicacies. After Shen Long returned to the casino, he started the next day's competition.
In today's game, Shen Long's luck seemed to be better. He hit the cards he wanted on the river several times and gained a lot of chips. Of course, there were also times when he tried to steal chickens and was caught. He waited until the game was over to figure it out. In terms of chips, Shen Long ranked 62nd and was lucky enough to squeeze into the money circle on the last day.
After these two days of competition, many experienced gamblers have already seen Shen Long's background. He is a new player who likes to take risks. He has been able to reach this point by relying on "luck". In the next competition, he may not be the best. There is no such good luck. Once he is killed by a certain shark...a high-end player in the Texas Hold'em game...he will definitely die miserably.
However, to their regret, Shen Long's luck seemed to have been blessing him. On the third day of the competition, he was still very lucky. He got the cards he wanted on the turn and river many times, which made him almost useless. The entry value hole card turned into a straight, two pairs, and I gained a lot of chips.
"Fuck!" A shark who once achieved good results in a Texas Hold'em game in Las Vegas watched as Shen Long hit a straight on the last card, defeated his two pairs, and cleared all his chips. , I was so angry that I exploded, Damn, you only have 3 and 6 on your hands, and you have been following them for so long?
"Man, before the river card comes out, any hole card has the hope of winning." His friend, a young American with short hair, comforted him.
"Tom, help me teach this guy a lesson at the final table!" Shark patted the short-haired young man on the shoulder hard.
"Don't worry, I will." Even if he didn't say it, Tom still wanted to defeat Shen Long. After all, he came here for the championship. If he wanted to win the championship, he had to defeat Shen Long.
Shen Long almost made it to the final table in eighth place, while the young man named Tom took first place with nearly ten times his chips.
The final table competition officially began, and players entered the venue one after another. When Tom entered the venue, the surrounding audience burst into warm applause, as if welcoming a certain emperor and superstar.
"Who is he? So cool?" Shen Long turned his head and asked the player next to him.
Chapter completed!