The card game continued for over an hour. During this time, I won two small pots, bringing my total winnings to over fifty thousand dollars. Initially, I intended to start cheating for money. However, I was surprised to discover that someone had already beaten me to it.
The culprit was not the monk but the Orchid Lady at his side. In this high-stakes area with no betting limits, the cards are dealt by professional croupiers, and the deck is changed after each hand, making cheating rather challenging. The way the Orchid Lady cheated was through card stealing. She discreetly retained a card while helping the fake monk to discard his hand, slipping it into the discard pile.