About 20 years ago, movies related to gambling were often shown on TV, such as the King of Gambling, the Saint of Gambling, the God of Gambling, and the King of a Thousand Kings...... The officials who can be sealed are all sealed, and the movie is not enough.
I was not very old at the time, and I watched more excitement than plots, and I couldn't tell the difference between these films with similar names, and I remember all the pictures of turning over his hands and covering the clouds and rain: the protagonist in the film practiced his gambling skills hard, and finally became a master, and he won every gamble.
How amazing is gambling? If you look at the movie, most of the protagonists have special abilities.
I just didn't get it.
Until I met a person, his name is Yao Bo, a post-80s generation, graduated from university, studied art as an undergraduate, and seems to be a typical cultural person.
You would never have thought that he would have a great connection with gambling.
In his sophomore year, Yao Bo made an unusual decision. He wants to be a gambler, and not only that, but he also wants to be a gambling king.
No one said he was ridiculous, and if you ever met Yao Bo, you would know that he was a shrewd man, and he didn't do anything that was not brainy.
That time, he took immediate action.
Yao Bo told me several times about what happened back then. Northeast people like to brag a little bit when they chat, which is also quite interesting, and it is part of his story.
Some of the words with his personal style, I choose to present them directly. Most of the stories related to gambling are confusing and have some unspeakable secrets. See for yourselves.
The story is 13,000 words, it's very long, and it's complete, and I don't want to push it in two parts. In the past, some people always complained that the story was too short to read, but now I'll put this one here, and you can decide if you can't read it.
Event Name: Northeast gamblers flee Macau
Event Number: Friends 01
Witness: Yao Bo
Time: 2007-2014
Recorded in May 2018
Northeast gamblers fled Macau
Zhuhai, Hengqin Coast.
By the light of the moon, two sneaky shadows climbed over the sentry and walked through the man-high barren grass.
Five minutes later, Yao Bo and a middle-aged man appeared on the beach in Hengqin, wearing only boxers. The middle-aged man carried a waterproof plastic bag from the Galaxy Casino, which contained 2,000 Hong Kong dollars, an Armani jacket and a dark green Hong Kong and Macau pass.
The middle-aged man tied the waterproof plastic bag to his arm and looked at Yao Bo.
"How long can you swim through?"
"It will take more than ten minutes."
"It's good to be young, I smuggled once before, and it would have cost more than half a little to say the least."
He put on a life jacket and took Yao Bo into the water. The two were about 1,000 meters away from the opposite bank, two and a half laps of a standard playground.
This was the first time Yao Bo went to Macau in 2010, and the pass he had prepared did not come in handy. The middle-aged man told him, "Come with me into Macau, you don't have to bring these things with you." ”
The lights on the other side were bright, and Yao Bo was very excited. Why he decided to go to Macau, his idea is very simple, "I feel that I am such a big hand, if I have never been to Macau, it is a little low." ”
Later, someone asked Yao Bo that going to Macao was his fate, "What kind of things people experience in their lives and what kind of people they meet are inevitable." ”
Before smuggling to Macau, a rumor quietly fermented in Siping's large and small casinos, "a college student took 400 yuan and took 200,000 yuan in the Little Swan Casino." Even in the small gambling house on the street corner, there are people who can call out Yao Bo's nickname - Siping Smurfs.
The Smurfs' flower name rang, which means that Yao Bo can't bet on Siping. "Blue" refers to a thousand arts, and the reputation of the old man does not dare to enter the casino easily.
Only Yao Bo himself knows whether these rumors are true or not.
Yao Bo's way of speaking is very northeastern, and he speaks quickly and urgently. When it comes to the key, the tongue reacts faster than the brain, and "what" is often used instead of a title, making it less like telling than memorizing.
He is good at defining life, and he will add an opening sentence before telling a story, "Why did I have that (gambling) experience, because I had a sense of the underworld when I was a child." ”
Yao Bo grew up in Siping City, Jilin Province. At that time, Siping was the hub of the Northeast, and the underworld atmosphere was very strong, and he was obsessed with Gu Chao Boy when he was a child. When I was in high school, I was expelled from school 31 times for fighting, and each time I relied on my father, who was a teacher, to get myself back.
When he was a university student at Jilin Normal University, Yao Bo stopped indulging in street fights and borrowed money from his family to open a bar.
The bar business was booming, and Yao Bo met a deputy bureau member of Siping in it. "Later, he (the deputy bureau) came to play again, and I didn't let him spend a penny."
This is a cost-effective investment, relying on the help of the deputy bureau, Yao Bo opened another bar in the city center, and the industrial and commercial fire protection problem was handled by the deputy bureau, and everything went smoothly.
The new bar is close to the downtown area, and most of the people who come are from the community, and a few of them don't look normal. A group of thugs became regulars at the bar, and when they didn't fight and didn't want to pay the bill, they came to Yao Bo to cheer here.
There are many gangsters, and the deputy bureau gradually stops coming. A brother came to the bar and felt that the smell was wrong, so he reminded Yao Bo, "You have to pay attention." ”
Yao Bo didn't care much, his friend simply found out that someone was taking drugs inside, and the recent investigation was particularly strict.
If you have something to do with drugs, you have to make more money. Yao Bo was worried about getting into trouble, and he was only a junior at this time.
After the bar closed, Yao Bo had no financial resources and begged the deputy bureau again. The deputy bureau asked Yao Bo to open a chess and card room, saying that he had a few friends who were doing business, so it was just a bite, and it was not a problem to give one or two thousand tea fees a day.
Yao Bo lives people as a deck of cards, others are the king or pair in his hand, he is deliberate, in order to find a suitable time, the cards are properly thrown out. The deputy bureau was Yao Bo's "trump card" at that time.
He rented a bungalow and replaced the chairs with leather sofas. In order not to provoke social distraction, he installed a roller shutter in the bungalow, which was opened only when guests came.
After a long time, there were more and more guests in the chess and card room, and Yao Bo found that one of them was very unusual.
"He's in a different state from others, and he's confident when he plays. Others usually pile up 350,000 yuan, and he throws more than 100,000 yuan there. It's all cash, someone else wins 1,000 and gives me 100 at most, he wins 1,000 and gives me 300, it's not a handful, it's a win. ”
This extraordinarily generous gambler is called Brother Hong. Red only uses three fingers when shuffling the cards, and occasionally one or two cards will pop up. But as long as you sit down at the poker table, Red Brother will win more and lose less.
Yao Bo was curious about what was behind Brother Hong's doorway, but he couldn't ask directly.
There was a return to the game of cards, and Yao Bo was about to close the roller shutter, when he saw that Brother Hong had not left.
Brother Hong asked Yao Bo, it's early to break up today, do you want to go to the game hall together?
At about 12 o'clock that night, Yao Bo didn't take Brother Hong to the game hall and led him to find a place to drink. After going down two bottles of beer, Yao Bo couldn't hold back, "Brother, you are too good at stringing ideas (lucky) every day, who do you sleep with at night?" ”
In Siping, everyone says that sleeping with people can change luck. Yao Bo didn't believe that Brother Hong relied on luck to win in a row, he knew that Brother Hong could understand, and he was asking the real "secret".
Brother Hong asked Yao Bo to buy a new poker piece, shuffle the cards and then spread them out, and pick out two of them. It only took three or four seconds for the back of the card to say the correct suit and number of points in turn.
Yao Bo's first reaction was, "Who believes it?" It didn't take long for his mind to change. That was my first encounter with a master. ”
Then, a thought popped into his mind, "This person is very important." ”
Brother Hong said that someone in the local area chartered a printing house, printed a specific pattern on the back of each poker, and then sold it to the commissary at a low price, knowing this old man at the table a few glances, can feel the opponent's cards clearly. He is familiar with the local versions sold in Siping.
That's nothing. Brother Hong demonstrated a set of fancy shuffles, one by one the pokers were crossed and stacked in his hands, flying from his left hand to his right hand, and the sound of cards bending and rebounding crackled.
"Doctor, I'm not very high. This is magic, just practice, but actual combat is different. ”
"I want to learn this thing so much, even if it's magic." Yao Bo said to Brother Hong repeatedly.
Later, Yao Bo learned that fancy shuffling is used for performance, and 80% of the moves are not used in actual combat. The master shuffles the cards very stupidly, the hands are the same as the feet, but the move is fatal.
The two of them talked all night and drank a case of beer. Yao Bo left Brother Hong's phone and begged him to take him out for a long time, "Don't worry, I will definitely not say it." ”
Within a few days, Brother Hong really took Yao Bo to gain knowledge. He called and asked Yao Bo if he had time, and Yao Bo said that he was convenient every day, "Now I will mess with you." ”
Yao Bo asked a friend to help him look after the store and followed Brother Hong to Beijing. Yao Bo saw a door on Brother Hong, and outside the door, "At least the wealth is abundant." ”
In 2007, the amount of money in the gambling game was not large, and it was too much if there were three or four hundred thousand yuan in a game. In Beijing, Yao Bo saw the big scene as he wished, and he also came into contact with one word: blue road.
According to Yao Bo's understanding, "Lan Dao is a thousand people with a bottom line." ”
After the trip to Beijing, Yao Bo let go of the underworld feelings of the previous 20 years and changed to a new way of living. "Lan Dao is different from the underworld, the underworld is licking the knife, and Lan Dao has to use his brain."
He summed up the blue road in Siping, and there are probably two bottom lines:
First, don't lose money, adjust your mentality, and try to let yourself win.
Second, in the case of guaranteed winning, don't cause other people's families to be ruined.
"Why don't you win people to die, there is knowledge in this. You win more than half of his money, he is not convinced, he will come back next time he earns enough money, he is equivalent to working for you, you want to win him miserably, isn't it just killing chickens and taking eggs? ”
After thinking about things clearly, Yao Bo decided to apprentice. If you want to go down the blue road, Brother Hong's teaching is obviously not enough.
At that time, on TV stations in Northeast China, there were often people who claimed to be gambling kings, and they used reality shows to "counter gambling" on the show. In fact, they are all disguised frauds, charging tuition fees under the guise of anti-gambling.
Yao Bo fell in love with one of the gambling kings named "Huoyan", "It looks very powerful, I usually live in Songyuan, and the actions staged on TV are very exaggerated." ”
Brother Hong looked down on Huoyan, saying that none of those tricks could be used in actual combat, and he could only cheat money on TV. Yao Bo said that he should go chasing a star, he memorized Huoyan's mobile phone number, and took the train to Songyuan the next day.
The two met at the train station, Huo Yan was wearing a white shirt and jeans, quite an ordinary person. After returning to his residence, Huo Yan deliberately changed into the black suit in the TV show, and flapped a deck of cards twice, and with a twist of his wrist, all the cards were gone. Take the "two, four, eight" three cards to the table and buckle, close and turn over to become three twos.
Huoyan led Yao Bo to make a wide suit with a bow. Yao Bo found that this suit was a little different, the cuffs were wider than normal clothing, and there was a hidden slide at the wrist, which was textured like a transparent rubber back.
Huoyan showed Yao Bo, he put his palm on the card, and instantly pressed the poker with the tense muscles of his fingertips, and flicked it hard to the cuff, and the poker shot directly into it. After finishing the matter, he put his hand on the back of his head and asked Yao Bo to come and search casually.
Yao Bo subconsciously pinched his squeaky nest and found that there was nothing inside.
Huoyan told Yao Bo that the moment he raised his arm, the card had slipped into the inner pocket of his clothes.
"Actually, I can see that he (the igneous rock) is timid. He's not really a master, his skills aren't actual combat, but he can bluff people. ”
Yao Bo practiced for three days and two nights at the Huoyan house, but his technique was still not proficient, and sometimes as soon as his fingertips were forced, the playing cards would shoot in his face.
On the day he left, Yao Bo gave Huoyan 2,000 yuan to take the train back to Siping.
Back in Siping, Yao Bo touched into the school's self-study room, plugged in the door, and hid in it to practice cards.
For 26 days, I practiced in addition to eating and sleeping. He said that the process of practicing poker is more difficult than the postgraduate entrance examination, "It is because of this (poker practice) foundation that I can sink down, and my patience and temper have been grinded out." ”
After that, Yao Bo went around to learn from teachers, and he successively visited Ma Honggang, the gambling king in Northeast China, Qin Erye in Beijing, and Brother Guang in Zhuhai.
He claimed to have seen the gambling king Yao Jianyun, "Yao Jianyun confiscated me, I saw him once, he saw that I was not a person on this road, and it may be that I am unwilling to pay tuition." ”
Yao Bo also specially followed the senior gamblers to practice courage, "If you don't have the guts, don't go to the big gambling game to be embarrassed, at the critical moment, you will get hundreds of thousands, it depends on whether you dare to go out of thousands." ”
The more he comes into contact with these thousand masters, the more Yao Bo can understand a truth: Lao Qian's heart should have a rod and scale, look at how many chips on the table there are, how much his life is worth, and have a trade-off to see if he can use his life to play the chips on the table.
In a way, it's still a gamble.
Yao Bo occasionally competes with people in the blue road to learn card skills, but it is far less exciting than the gambling king duel in the movie, "Make cards in front of the masters, catch it, everyone is a thousand, who is higher than whom?" ”
It took half a year for Yao Bo to become famous in his chess and card room, but the battle that really made him famous in Siping was an almost absurd gamble.
"At that time, there was a guy who always drank with me, and he was not short of money, so I asked me to push two with him. I said I didn't dare to touch it, it was easy to chop my hands in a big field. He said it was okay, and if he lost, it would be his. At that time he didn't know how tall I was. ”
The person Yao Bo said was named Yan Laoqi, and he was a typical second ancestor. After he lost more than 100,000 yuan in the Little Swan Casino in Siping, he took out another 200,000 yuan to find Yao Bo, saying that he wanted to get the money back.
Yao Bo, who pretended to be a little brother with a bag, followed Yan Laoqi into the Little Swan Casino, where most of the people were playing "Little Jiu". The rules of this game are the pair is the largest, and the nine is second. Yan Laoqi sat on a gambling table, and he wanted to bet against everyone.
After a few cards, Yan Laoqi lost 80,000. The gamblers saw that his money was too easy to win, and they came to place bets, three thousand five thousand in a row. In the first half, Yao Bo was busy basically helping Yan Laoqi send money everywhere.
Yan Lao Qi was sweating when he lost, so he hurriedly took the opportunity to go to the toilet and let Yao Bo go to the table to be a banker.
When he gave money to Yan Laoqi before, Yao Bo had already memorized most of the pokers scattered on the table.
The first hand, Yao Bo shuffled the cards, he used a thousand skills to get a pair and won 20,000.
The second one, Yao Bo sent himself a pair. Before the opening of the cards, he provoked more than 20 people at the table, "It is better to believe in God and Buddha than to believe in Yao Bo", and someone bet 40,000 yuan, which Yao Bo still won.
By the third hand, the gamblers felt that the banker's luck could not continue to be good, and the bet finally reached 120,000. Yao Bo restrained a little, he took apart all the pairs, and left eight points for himself, as for whether others can get nine points, it will be lucky.
Showing the cards, a three, a five, a nine, Yao Bo won 100,000, lost 20,000, made a net profit of 80,000, and collected money.
After the game ended, Yao Bo's deeds in the Little Swan Casino were spread.
Before sitting in the village, he handed Yan Laoqi 400 yuan in front of everyone, saying that he only had these on his body and couldn't afford to lose money. It is rumored that a college student took 400 yuan and swept the casino for 200,000 yuan.
Within a few days, Yan Laoqi shook out Yao Bo's thousands of things by drunkenness at the wine party. Since then, Yao Bo can't get along in the local casino.
In search of a new gambling location, more than 20 days later, Yao Bo and a few friends went to a rural village in Liaoning.
The casino was housed in a dilapidated mud hut, and the yellow mud fell off the walls as soon as the skin of the walls was picked. The gamblers are all farmers in the village, and they put down their hoes and come to play cards.
Yao Bo saw that they were all rural corners, and the stakes were small, so I was afraid that he would not be able to win money. He wanted to leave, but his friends persuaded him to wait and see, it was the end of the year, and the businessmen near the village had spare money in hand, and they would go to the small mud house to gamble like a market every week.
It snowed heavily that day, and many people were delayed on the road. After waiting for two hours, more than 20 cars appeared in front of the earthen house—the earth bosses flocked to the house, and the room was so crowded that everyone in the room could not stand.
"People are close to people, and the windows are open on a snowy day. A room full of people were smoking, and the windows were smoking, worse than Beijing's smog. ”
Yao Bo is not annoyed by second-hand smoke, and the environment surrounded by clouds and smoke is more suitable for going out of thousands. He does the bank, others bet, the flow of people at the table is very fast, each person bets three or five hundred, no one is in love, the money is withdrawn if he loses, the money is withdrawn if he wins, and a batch of people is withdrawn.
Small bets are not a problem, the more people who flow water, the more money they have.
After the New Year, Yao Bo got acquainted with a group of Landao Chinese people, and often followed them to Shijiazhuang to do a game of "killing pigs".
Killing pigs is a group of people teaming up to set up a game to cheat money. Yao Bo participated in the more exaggerated pig killing game, where 11 people sat at the table, and 7 of them were accomplices. "You can win with your eyes closed."
has done more games, and Yao Bo's understanding of Landao has become deeper and deeper. He said that there is also "friendship" among people in the Blue Track.
"Sometimes you do a good game, and suddenly there is a person at the table, who can win, but deliberately bet to lose to you, this is the signal released by the person in the blue lane, he wants to make you a friend. At this time, you have to have the ability to see and return the money to others when you go out. ”
There is also a situation where "if you do a game alone, someone else gives you a look, and then he takes the lead and asks the other person to bet with him." At this time, when you go out, you not only have to pay back the money, but also give a little more. ”
Randolph friendships are fragile, just like playing cards. The moment the cards are opened, humanity is fully exposed.
Once Yao Bo formed a mahjong game, and there was a shortage of three, so he called a friend to come over and make up the numbers. My friend was not good enough, so he lost a few handfuls when he came up, and then he bet more and more, and his eyes changed when he lost. He was worried that Yao Bo would not return the money to him without explaining it in advance.
The game that originally killed the other two became Yao Bo's one kill three. Everyone has to protect their own interests, after all, the original purpose of gambling is to win.
Yao Bo sometimes takes friends other than Lan Dao to gamble. If you win, you will share a little of them, some people don't look at it, they just put the money in their pockets, and some people secretly click it.
Yao Bo said that through this kind of small action, you can judge where a person's mind is.
He is not angry with people who want money, but people who take his money and look down on him.
Some will show off outside in a mocking tone, "Hey, I went to the doctor yesterday and how much money I got again". At this time, he became a "pig" in other people's mouths.
The most feared situation is that a friend loses miserably, and in order to get back the book, he tricks Yao Bo into jumping. said that he was going to make a lot of money, but when he arrived at the place, he realized that he had entered someone else's bureau.
In Liaoning and Shijiazhuang, Yao Bo made money and felt tired. The methods of doing the game are repeated over and over again, which is not only boring, but also makes him "look down on himself".
He said that doing the bureau "is not a particularly technical thing, like a worker on an assembly line." ”
"To put it bluntly, this is what a liar does, an out-and-out liar, with a sense of guilt in his heart, and what he does is not advanced, I can't admire myself."
Yao Bo felt that it was better to meet the real masters.
Around 2011 was the hottest time for Macau's casinos, and the gambling industry pulled Macau's per capita GDP to a new peak. In the relatively large gambling games on the mainland, it is common to see gamblers from Macao, and the topics they chat about are also inseparable from Macao.
Just because Macau is a top casino doesn't mean that the gamblers there are also top-notch. Yao Bo's accomplices in Shijiazhuang have to go to Macau to gamble every time they make enough money.
Yao Bo decided to go to Macau with his friends. He used his student ID card to buy a discounted ticket, and took 30,000 yuan and a Hong Kong and Macao pass all the way from Shijiazhuang to Zhuhai.
The car stopped at Zhuhai Station, and Yao Bo and his companions went to the nearby Gongbei Port, where he remembered that he had a friend in Macau.
When he opened the chess and card room in Siping, Yao Bo met a middle-aged man named Lao Hua. Lao Hua had killed people, spent 18 years in Changchun Prison, and went to Macau not long after his release.
The first time the two met was at a dinner, and a friend introduced them, "This is Brother Lao Hua, who made a fortune in Macau." Lao Hua raised his glass to Yao Bo, "You're the doctor who is very good at playing poker?" ”
After a few more face-to-face meetings, Lao Hua left a deep impression on Yao Bo. When Lawrwa laughed, he showed two leaky front teeth. He often knocked on his front teeth and joked with others that it was a financial ruin.
With the mentality of giving it a try, Yao Bo called Lao Hua. The phone was connected, and Lao Hua asked Yao Bo to wait where he was, while the others went into Macau first.
Lao Hua is a broker business, and one of the business scopes is to pick up people from Zhuhai to Macau casinos to play. Yao Bo and others are located in the southeast of Zhuhai City, which is connected to Macao by land and is the dividing line of "one country, two systems".
Yao Bo didn't know that in the sea area in front of him, at the end of the seventies of the last century, there were often dead bodies drifting in.
The body was a smuggler from the interior. Around 1978, there was a saying in Zhuhai: "The thatched houses here have no walls, and the lights on the other side are like heaven." ”
On the other side, the mainland refers to Macao, which has a per capita GDP of 3,147 US dollars, and the mainland on the other side does not even reach one-tenth of Macao's.
Under the huge gap in living standards, countless mainlanders have smuggled themselves to Macao at all costs—surviving to the other side of the strait, and can build a small half of a building in their hometown with a month's salary.
By 2006, no one was risking their lives for a bowl of food, but the number of smugglers in Macau had doubled since Macau's casinos became the world's number one casino for the first time — surpassing Las Vegas in annual revenue.
The gamblers took a risk, boarded a motorized plank boat with a snake head, and crossed the coast of Hengqin under the cover of night.
Lao Hua was late, and the sky in Gongbei was already dark. An ill-fitting designer coat was put over his bony body, and his clothes swayed as he walked.
When he came up, he put his arm around Yao Bo's shoulders and said that he would take Yao Bo to eat lobster. In fact, what Lao Hua took Yao Bo to was a seafood buffet with a discount of 59 yuan.
There are oysters, scallops, salmon, but no lobsters.
At the dinner table, Lao Hua said to Yao Bo, "You can't play with your friends, it's risky, and you'll lose money." He also said, "Macau is our ATM, and we just go in and withdraw money." Seeing that Yao Bo was a little hesitant, Lao Hua added that he had been in Macau for three or four years, and he was familiar with all kinds of situations.
Lao Hua asked Yao Bo to put away his documents and money, and went to Macao with him, without spending money on food and accommodation. Yao Bo was not at ease, so he went to the bank to change 2,000 Hong Kong dollars and brought it with his documents.
Before leaving, Lao Hua found a waterproof plastic bag from a Galaxy casino and took Yao Bo to a fishing tackle shop.
In the store, while picking out a life jacket, Lao Hua asked Yao Bo if he could swim. Seeing Yao Bo nodding, he said casually: "Then I won't buy it for you."
Yao Bo asked what to do with life jackets, and Lao Hua replied in a low voice: "Wait a while, we have to swim for a while, we have to smuggle over."
By smuggling, he meant swimming across the waters connecting Zhuhai and Macao without a smuggler taking a boat.
Lao Hua has been arrested twice by the police before and has been banned from entering Macau. In addition, smuggling can save a lot of money, and there is no limit to the length of stay. In the end, he comforted Yao Bo, "Don't be afraid, the water is shallow enough to wade through, and you can see the other side at a glance." ”
At that time, Yao Bo had two thoughts in his heart - one was that swimming and smuggling was a bit interesting, and the other was that it was not quite right to follow the murderer to smuggle.
He didn't hesitate for long, the previous thought overpowered the latter, and he decided to listen to Lawr.
They made an appointment to set off at 11 o'clock and took a taxi from Gongbei to the coast of Hengqin.
The scenery outside the car window changed from a bustling port to a suburb, and Lao Hua was a little nervous along the way, constantly looking back at the back of the car, and then asked the driver to go around after arriving at the destination. The number on the meter kept soaring, all the way to more than 80 yuan.
The taxi eventually stopped at the gate of an abandoned factory, and Yao Bo and Lao Hua crawled through the gate and circled between the bulldozers and dump trucks outside the factory.
When they finally reached the edge of the factory, the concrete road under their feet disappeared, replaced by wet sand that would leave footprints with the slightest exertion.
Yao Bo was not steady, and every step was very light.
After a while, Yao Bo saw two sentry posts in the distance, as well as a barbed wire fence separating the coast.
The two quickened their speed, and after confirming that there was no one at the sentry, they put their clothes and mobile phones in waterproof plastic bags and walked out shirtless. Climbing over the 3-meter-high barbed wire, a barren field of grass lay in front of them.
At that time, Hengqin was in the development stage, and a lot of land was left on hold, and it was covered with weeds that were one person high. The two of them went into the path bare-chested, and the weeds scraped against them from time to time.
Yao Bo asked if there were snakes in the grass, and Lao Hua replied impatiently while hugging the weeds at the entrance: "Yes, what are you afraid of?" ”
Five minutes later, they came to the beach in Hengqin.
The color of the sea water was very dark, Yao Bo leaned over to take a look, and knew that the water was not as shallow as Lao Hua said, he squatted down, put his hand into the water and tested the temperature, it was not too cold, and the current was not large.
Without the help of currents, it is much more strenuous to swim. When Yao Bo swam past Lao Hua, he saw that he was being put on the water by a life jacket, his limbs flapping wildly, like an orange king.
Every time he looked back, he had to fall a little behind. By the time he swam more than 100 meters, Lao Hua was already seven or eight meters away.
Yao Bo kept treading water in place, and whispered to Lao Hua to speed up. But Laurwa is not water-savvy, and no matter how much he urges, he can only swing his limbs vigorously and slam the waves around him - but the speed is still slow.
The two seem to be locked in a strange tug-of-war. Yao Bo in front repeatedly urged "You hurry up", and Lao Hua in the back gasped and shouted, "Wait for me".
In a hurry, Yao Bozha swam back to Lao Hua in the water, took the plastic bag, and taught Lao Hua how to swim on the spot.
"Take it easy, paddle slowly."
"Oh, no, you need to hurry!"
It took more than ten minutes in the water for the two to swim to the middle of the sea.
Looking at the moonlit sea, Yao Bo realized that there might be no one else in this sea area other than the two of them.
The surroundings suddenly darkened, "I don't know if it's a few seconds, anyway, all of a sudden, the moon (moonlight) around me is gone." ”
Yao Bo looked sideways, and 200 meters away, an industrial ship weighing three tons and more than ten meters long blocked the moonlight and was heading towards him.
He felt the water surging under the surface of the sea more and more intense, "At that time, I had a picture in my mind, a big iron wheel crushing on my back, and the sea water turned red. Normally we should have heard it, but I can assure you that we didn't hear anything before it came over. ”
The first person to react was Lawr. He shouted at Yao Bo: "It can't be like this, if you really want to get involved, we'll be finished." ”
Yao Bo subconsciously changed from breaststroke to freestyle, and paddled a few times before remembering that Lao Hua was still behind him.
He hesitated for two seconds, not hesitating whether to save Lao Hua or not, but hesitating where to swim.
The two of them had swam to the middle of the sea at this time, and four or five hundred meters ahead was Macau, Yao Bo decided to continue moving forward, he paddled hard to Lao Hua's side, grabbed his life jacket with one hand, and fished into the water with the other hand.
After swimming desperately seven or eight times, Yao Bo became more and more struggling, and his speed slowed down. At this time, the big ship was about 100 meters away from them.
At the current rate, sooner or later the two will be run over by the ship. Yao Bo walked around behind Lao Hua and gave him a push. There was not much resistance on the water, and Lawr, who was wearing a life jacket, floated forward smoothly for some distance. Yao Bo didn't dare to stop, and followed closely and pushed again.
Push, swim forward, save some strength, and push again, Yao Bo kept repeating this set of movements, and his arms were sore and numb, and he didn't dare to stop. He wanted to glance back several times, but he was afraid that as soon as he turned his head, the black bow of the ship would drive through the corner of his eye.
The sound of breaking waves came from behind them, and the current pushed them out, which meant that the boat had passed them.
At this time, Yao Bo dared to stop and hesitantly observed the situation behind him.
His mind went blank, and he remembered that he was only 20 meters from the boat, watching the boat pass where it had just swam. I wanted to say something to Lao Hua, but my chest was choked by a breath and I couldn't say it.
"If I really want to say it, I also wonder why the ship is so fast, and when it passes by us, it feels old and slow."
After a moment of relaxation after the panic, the adverse reaction of physical exhaustion came. Yao Bo's stomach spasmed, then his throat and eyes were pantothenic, and he vomited three times in the water, vomiting all the scallops he ate that day.
Lao Hua was very relaxed on the side, and he was still in the mood to play in the water.
Yao Bo once heard a friend say that it is a small matter to be caught for smuggling, and if he is blacklisted by the Macau checkpoint, he will not be able to get out of the casino for a few years. It was not easy for him to set foot in Macau, and he didn't want to miss out on the casino.
A beam of light suddenly shone through, and Yao Bo realized that his worst fears might be about to happen.
"That's not the bright light of an ordinary flashlight."
The two of them immediately bent down and nestled on the ground not daring to gasp. Yao Bo grabbed Lao Hua's arm tightly, and the closer the light shone, the harder he pulled.
The two pressed against the ground, watching the light sweep over the stone and reach them.
The light moved a little more in Yao Bo's direction.
While it was still dark, Lao Hua turned his head and shouted at Yao Bo: "Run!" ”
They were still overtaken by the light.
The two heard a question from the light source: "Hou Shengzi, do you?" "It's an old couple fishing.
Lao Hua reacted quickly, saying that he was fishing for something, and dragged Yao Bo to pretend to pick up shells. I don't know if it was bending over that stimulated the stomach, or the relaxation after the tension, Yao Bo spit on the sea water in front of him again.
At about two o'clock in the middle of the night, Yao Bo and Lao Hua climbed ashore and quickly put on their clothes.
The shore is still three kilometers away from the Galaxy Casino, Yao Bo and Lao Hua have just finished smuggling, they have no strength, they run very slowly, and when they arrive at the door of the casino, they are so tired that they sit on the steps.
They rested on the steps for half a minute, and there were policemen with guns standing dozens of meters away, and Lao Hua told Yao Bo not to be afraid, and slowly got up with him.
The two walked into the casino, and a few dozen meters away from the entrance of the casino, there were slot machines in rows.
This kind of gambling game only requires a very small amount of money, and you can click a button to know whether you win or lose. The lender Ma Tsai and the young lady shuttled between them, looking for people who needed services.
The waiter pushed the dining cart past, with drinks and food on the car, Lao Hua proposed to eat something first, Yao Bo did not answer, he only had 2,000 Hong Kong dollars on him, and it cost dozens of yuan to buy a meal in the casino, and a few bites down was a betting opportunity.
Before smuggling, Lao Hua told Yao Bo that he didn't need to bring money. Now at the casino, Yao Bo wanted to ask Lao Hua to borrow some money, but Lao Hua said that he didn't have a penny.
Yao Bo was a little angry, but he didn't expect that when it was only a cigarette, Lao Hua came to the "starting capital" with empty gloves.
How did the money come from, Yao Bo told such a story.
Generally speaking, there will be some young horse boys in casinos who are loan sharks, and they have to show their ID cards to borrow money from them. That day, Lao Hua negotiated with the lender for a few minutes, relied on the Armani coat and the Mercedes-Benz key in his pocket as a guarantee, successfully borrowed 50,000 yuan, used the money to play baccarat, and won more than 3,000 in one night.
Lao Hua played very steadily, others bet on ten hands, but Lao Hua only bet on one hand, and the probability of winning is not low. Yao Bo is very curious about the way to bet. Lao Hua taught him a lesson, "There are five roads in baccarat, and if you want to win more, you will see the road." ”
The "road" is the record of winning and losing. Before baccarat betting, the casino will give gamblers a "road sheet" to record the banker, player, and sum on the gambling table. Gamblers will add their own analysis to the record, and after a long time, some analysis methods are circulated among the people, and they are called "road numbers" by gamblers.
Some people also believe that the number of roads is just the imagination of gamblers, and some people replied to questions about the number of baccarat gambling roads on the Internet: "What road is a dead end in the end, Huangquan Road." ”
Yao Bo only saw the wealth in his eyes, he wanted to learn how to bet, and begged Lao Hua to introduce him to a master who could understand the number of roads.
Lao Hua said that he knew a master, whose nickname was Maitreya Buddha, and his real name was rarely known.
Yao Bo first met Maitreya Buddha at the Sheraton Hotel, where Maitreya Buddha gave classes in the private room of the hotel, talking about the number of gambling roads, and charging according to the time.
There are a lot of formulas in the number of roads, and it is boring to remember, Yao Bo said that it is good for ordinary people to learn four roads. "The fourth path Maitreya Buddha spoke about 4 times, and I was afraid that I would not be able to remember it and made notes. He talked about the fifth way countless times, but I still didn't understand it. ”
When he first arrived in Macau, Yao Bo was very excited. "We basically sleep 24 hours a day, and we have to share our experiences during the hour of eating and resting."
From the décor to the operation, every design of the casino has gone into the way. The room is always kept at a slightly cooler temperature, and sometimes oxygen is poured to refresh the guests.
Some gambling halls also have hidden scheming chips, and the large amount of chips is small, giving people the psychological illusion that winning 1,000 is a lot, and losing 10,000 is very little.
Yao Bo remembers two things very clearly, one is that he won money in the casino for the first time, from 50 yuan to more than 500 yuan, and the whole person was very excited. "It's like when you go fishing, you don't get hooked for three days, and on the fourth day you are about to lose interest, and the fish suddenly bites, and you snap and pull the fish up, maybe from this moment on, you will fall in love with fishing for the rest of your life."
Another thing is related to losing money, that is the one he lost the most, 60,000.
At that time, Yao Bo was playing a slot machine, and there was a foreigner sitting next to him who was not bad for money, betting 1,100 yuan each, and a large stack of money was gone immediately, and the foreigner went to get a stack of money, and won 150,000 yuan in a bet.
Yao Bo saw it and felt that he could do the same, he failed repeatedly, ran a few times to the counter machine, and found that more than 60,000 yuan in the bank card were lost, and his brain was blank.
"Someone advised me not to compare, but I didn't learn to understand, I couldn't control myself, and I lost one game at a time."
At the beginning, Yao Bo was quite modest, so he bet three or five hundred, and he was not afraid of losing. Later, he went to the VIP room, and saw that the chips that those guests used as tips were worth all the money in his hands, and his mentality slowly changed, and he felt that "where are I a human being?" ”
"This kind of environment is too inflated for people's desires, I can't help but think, this person is betting five or six hundred yuan, I am betting five or six hundred, anyway, all of them are tens of thousands of yuan, compared with others, where can I lose?"
For a while, he has been pondering: "No matter what kind of business I do in the mainland, how long will it take to get 1,000 capital and want to multiply it 10 times?" But in Macau, if 10,000 is right, a hand of cards may become 80,000. ”
"There are too many people who take tens of thousands of dollars to play baccarat and become multimillionaires after that. I have seen a person bet 200,000 yuan, and then bet 400,000 yuan if he wins, and then bet five or six hands with interest, thinking that it is too easy to overtake 10 million. So don't say that Macau doesn't give you a chance, it's giving you a chance every minute, of course, this chance is very small, 100 people go in, 99 have to lose. ”
Yao Bo's days in Macau, is he the 99 losers, or the only lucky one? Nobody knows.
But one thing is for sure, Yao Bo did not dare to go out in Macau.
"It's densely packed with cameras on the top, and if you want to make a thousand out of it, it's pure. I met once, the staff happily greeted people: 'Pretty boy come here', the person went to the corner, and directly pushed down the two plainclothes people. The process is very fast, and it will definitely not affect the mood of other customers, I stared at it for a long time, and the person never came out. ”
In addition to tight surveillance, the mainland's blue road does not work in Macau.
"In the later stages of playing, I found that the blue road can only survive in a small circle in the mainland, and it can't be used at all in Macau. If you abide by the rules of the Blue Road in the local area, everyone will know that you are okay and are willing to play with you. But Macau is different, basically no one here can make a thousand games, the second is the large flow of people, who leaves today, who comes again the day after tomorrow, the circle you have painstakingly cultivated, may not be long before the birds and beasts disperse. ”
can't go out of thousands, there is no blue road, which means that Yao Bo desperately smuggled to Macau, just an ordinary gambler.
In the casino, the basic needs of guests are met, except for sleep.
"No corner allows people to lie on their stomachs for more than 3 minutes. Once a waiter saw it, he came over and shouted to people to 'get up and be spiritual', he was afraid that the sleeping person would affect the whole environment and make the atmosphere cold. ”
"I spent 20 hours a day in the casino, and I couldn't sleep with my eyes closed, and all I saw was the stuff on the table, red, blue, and stable. When I arrived at the hotel, I felt that I could sleep all day in bed, but I woke up and found that I had only slept for 3 hours, and someone knocked on the door and called me to gamble, and it was 20 hours to go to the casino. After staying up for a long time, I felt that my eyes were thin. ”
Once Yao Bo was tired of gambling and couldn't rest in the casino, so he could only go to the beach outside to breathe, and there were two young ladies walking nearby.
After a while, a couple in their 30s walked in the distance, "At first glance, they lost miserably, and that state could not be hidden, and there was a heavy feeling." ”
The couple sat on the steps and wept, and then went out into the sea while crying.
The two young ladies nearby jumped up, hugged the couple, and pushed desperately to the shore, and Yao Bo was a lively watch on the side.
The man's strength is so strong that the young lady can't stop it at all. Seeing that the situation was not good, Yao Bocai stepped forward and took the hand and dragged the couple back.
"Now I doubt my indifference at that time, when this kind of thing happens, I should save 11 times out of 10, but in this environment, I have become indifferent inexplicably."
In this environment, Yao Bo was not in good shape in the casino. A friend described him like this: "In a room, a person who overindulges, and a beautiful girl one after another." When the matter is over, the gambler calms down, but soon the desire is aroused again, and he immediately enters that state of excitement. ”
Yao Bo did not deny this statement, he studied art in college, and after gambling to calm down, he would go to the museum. "I want to edify, when I look at those paintings, I forget about gambling in an instant, in fact, I still love art, but as soon as I get out of the museum, I think about going back to the casino quickly."
If someone asked Yao Bo what kind of state the gambler was in when he calmed down, he said that he was lonely.
"In the past, pornography, gambling and drugs were a system. These gamblers are because of loneliness, losing money because of loneliness, looking for a lady because of loneliness, and taking drugs because of loneliness. They want to find Miss when they win, and after they lose, they want to change their luck or find Miss, and they take drugs and have energy after finishing with Miss. ”
In Yao Bo's narrative, pornography and drugs form a cycle under the loneliness and emptiness of gamblers, gambling when they have energy, looking for a young lady after gambling, and gambling again when they have the energy after taking drugs.
Yao Bo goes to museums when he's lonely, and his friends have their own places to go.
"I have known Maitreya Buddha for more than two years, his aura is different, he used to be a big boss, playing hundreds of thousands a day, playing for seven or eight years, his daughter-in-law followed his good friend, and the child also took someone else's surname. He would gamble with me, win the money and disappear for two days, and when he came back, the money had already been lost, and he didn't care. ”
"Maitreya Buddha is using gambling to kill time, he can win money steadily, he has to turn around and change to a casino, lose the money, win again tomorrow, and continue to lose the day after tomorrow."
But sometimes, Yao Bo feels that it is not so simple, "Maitreya Buddha is very empty in his heart, chatting with me, saying that if he dies today, maybe no one in the world will shed a tear for him, and the old men will cry when they chat." ”
What about Lao Hua, who took Yao Bo to smuggle into Macau? It's hard to say about this person, Yao Bo said that Lao Hua doesn't do much other than gambling, and if he really wants to talk about it, it may be to find a young lady and eat oysters.
Lao Hua carried a piece of paper with him, and wrote the contact information of the young lady in the small card of the hotel on it, one is not enough, and he will replace it with a new one when it is full. He never used his ID card to open a room, and would coax the young lady to take a bath, taking advantage of this time to steal chips from other people's bags. ”
Yao Bo said that Lao Hua is the kind of person who lives one day at a time, and he must enjoy it when he lives. He always said that he had been in prison, and he was looking for a woman, and he had to eat oysters regularly. It was too expensive in Macau, so when he went back to the mainland, he would go to eat a seafood buffet, which cost dozens of yuan, and he was very happy when he had oysters. ”
In 2014, Yao Bo decided to leave Macau.
Yao Bo's own statement is related to Maitreya Buddha. "That night, Maitreya Buddha persuaded me more harshly, saying that he never wanted to see me in Macau again, and let me go back to live a life of flesh and blood."
At half past twelf, there was no news from Yao Boyo's boat. After a while, the boatman called and said that the wind and waves were too strong tonight, and a boatload of people must have been photographed in the waves when they went to sea.
"I didn't know how big the sea was at the time, so I thought I had to go out, otherwise I would wake up tomorrow and be entangled by people and things in Macau, and if I didn't leave, I might not be able to get out."
Yao Bo called another boatman, and the two agreed to board the boat near the black sand beach.
At 4 o'clock in the morning, Yao Bo arrived at his destination, he looked at the sea, and the waves hit more than two meters high.
"Usually there are no waves, people stand on the shore and call the boatman to come, jump out more than a meter and get on the boat. As a result, the water rose that day, and the boat could not reach the shore, so it had to jump far away from the stones to have a chance. ”
After the boat came, Yao Bo was very hesitant, he looked at the small boat, which was only four or five meters long, and kept wondering whether to jump or not.
In the end, he figured it out, "It's nothing more than the last gamble, jumping up is the banker, and dying is the player, and there is no chance of a tie." ”
"I jumped down, my left hand in the air, and I was in despair. I grabbed the edge of the boat with my right hand, and my fingernails were purple, and I almost fell into the sea. ”
By the middle of the sea, the boat could be lifted up to a meter high by the waves at the bottom of the boat, and Yao Bo was already numb.
"In the violent shaking, my mind suddenly quieted down and my heart calmed down. It's like playing in a casino for hours and not hearing anything. ”
Yao Bo said that at that time, he came to inspiration, and silently recited in his heart: "Amitabha, just live." ”
Now open his circle of friends, and the personality signature under the avatar reads: "It is better to believe in God and Buddha than to believe in Yao Bo." ”
After 20 minutes, the boat arrived on the mainland.
After going ashore, Yao Bo had to pay the boatman for smuggling. "The boatman took me to get the money on a motorcycle, and he turned around and scolded me for being in a hurry to get on the boat and not preparing in advance. I was going to beat him up, but I felt so happy at the time, my pulse was still beating, and I felt happy to be scolded. ”
After that, it is the experience of Yao Bo after leaving Macau. He said that now he loves to swim in Qinhuangdao, "Swimming in Beidaihe, that feeling is happy." ”
Others asked him if he still gambled, and he said he didn't gamble, "I went back to play cards with my friends during the New Year, and I let go after playing for three minutes, which was boring." ”
Yao Bo stopped betting, and his poker skills were always a mystery.
I took out the playing cards in my pocket and hoped that Yao Bo would demonstrate them. He took the card. "I'll show you how to punch the arrow (bounce the card into the cuff)."
He puts a card squarely on the table, and at each step he takes shows me the steps.
"Look, put your hand up, and hold the card in your palm."
"Then it's time to start exerting force," but instead of pushing right away, he used his left hand to widen the cuff of his right hand.
It wasn't as fast as I had imagined, and I could clearly see his wrist slightly raised, the back of his hand raised, and then the poker sprang out of his palm, deviated from the intended track, and brushed the side of his face.
He picked up the poker on his shirt and laughed that he hadn't played in a long time.
Then he was silent for two seconds and said he wanted to show how to hide the cards. I quickly got up and sat down next to him.
"It's actually very simple, it's a trick," he said, holding the poker in his palm with his hand facing away from me. ”
I shook my head, and then he scratched the back of his head with the hand he was holding. When the hand is withdrawn, the playing cards are gone.
Yao Bo explained that when he scratched his head, the cards had been hidden in the collar, a technique that would not have been detected in a crowded casino.
I was sitting 40 centimeters away from Yao Bo, and the playing card was stuck in his collar, half exposed.
Compared with Yao Bo's card skills, his statement about the five roads of baccarat is more confusing.
At first, Yao Bo was reluctant to reveal too much about the five roads, and he said that after being exposed, he would be poked in the backbone by people in the blue road.
After asking repeatedly, he said that I could not understand it, so he handed me the mobile phone, saying that the information on it was a detailed explanation of the number of baccarat roads. This information is very detailed and can be found directly on the Internet.
In the end, I still don't know what Yao Bo's poker skills are. However, Yao Bo told me that he won 370,000 yuan in an hour at most in Macau, "It's all profits, which is already quite powerful." ”
Since you can make so much money, it would be a shame to leave Macau, so why not stay there? The exact reason may only be known to him.
Yao Bo is 32 years old this year, and he has his own plans for the future.
Yao Bo is currently engaged in art-related business in Beijing. He opened a café on the top floor of a building in Beijing's Third Ring Road, where he usually entertained customers, and when he had to do events, he used tables and chairs together to open a cultural salon.
Our conversation also took place in this café. When I talked about the Macau prostitute, I was a little louder, and he immediately got up and looked around.
"These people are all people with status, let's be quiet." He said solemnly.
Yao Bo said that in addition to the café, he and his friends also engaged in a project - to open an unmanned supermarket chain in Guangxi, with a registered capital of 50 million yuan, and he accounted for 8% of the shares.
In this way, Yao Bo is also a successful person with considerable value. But this money should not be a lot to him, and he once told me mysteriously: "I have several projects worth a billion dollars." ”
I haven't seen these big strokes mentioned by Yao Bo with my own eyes, and I have heard of some of the "small businesses" he did.
That time, Yao Bo set up a table of wine, invited a well-known calligrapher and painter, and between pushing the cup and changing the lamp, the calligrapher and painter took advantage of the wine to give Yao Bo a few words with a stroke of his pen.
Two days later, Yao Bo sold the painting for 50,000 yuan.
At the end of the conversation, on the first floor of the building, Yao Bo stretched out his hand and pointed to the hanging tower: "The design of this hanging tower is inspired by the shape of ancient lanterns. ”
He said very excitedly, his eyes kept looking up, and when he looked at the top floor of the hanging tower, he was stunned for a moment, and then asked leisurely: "Do you know why I like it here?" ”
Yao Bo paused for a few seconds and gave himself an answer, "From this point of view, this place is too much like a Macau casino." ”
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If you equate Yao's experience in Macau with a gambling game, it's clear that he didn't win.
But that doesn't stop me from documenting this story. After all, those who are silent at the table also have something to say.
Yao Bo is a camp step by step, every step he takes is calculating, he went to apprentice, thinking about what he can get, whether he wants to "see a long way", "learn some skills", or "watch a lively scene", he has a clear price there, and if it is not cost-effective, he will not shoot.
Yao Bo now feels like he has lived a life. He gambled forward, first looking at how thick the money in front of the person was, and then trying to find a way to win. But in Macau, no matter how carefully observed, the result may be the same: buy codes, bet, open cards, and leave.
On the last step, someone loses too badly and leaves too ugly.
Yao Bo is one of the many gamblers, he still loses every step of the way, but he doesn't have to work hard to let go of this matter, he can simply accept it when he sees it and retreat with his whole body.
(The names of the characters in the article have been changed)