Garten Chen wasn’t stupid.
He’d hidden six cards in total:
Two Jokers, four Aces.
No wonder he’d set the minimum bet at $30,000.
Six winning hands meant $180,000—then he could reshuffle and cheat again.
The bastard had planned it carefully.
"Show your hand already! What are you waiting for?"
The room buzzed with impatience.
I turned my card over slowly.
Silence.
A red 2.
It's the lowest card in the deck—except it beats an Ace.
"What the hell?!" Red Hair cursed.
Garten Chen’s face darkened. He shot me a venomous glare.
I’d ruined his scheme.
What he didn’t know was that I’d memorized the sequence when he fumbled the shuffle.
"Next round. Place your bet," Garten Chen snapped.
I now had $280,000 in front of me.
I reached for $30,000—but Garten Chen’s eyes flashed.
"No. You just won big. Now you’re trying to lowball me? You think I’m an idiot?"
His lackeys chimed in:
"Yeah! You lose big, bet big. You win, you chicken out?"