Vol 2 Chapter 4.5 (1/2)
Special Chapter 2 – Method to Win
The Gambler’s Fallacy
This was a casino in a famous health resort.
At the corner of a gambling table in the hall, there was a youth and a girl.
This was a man who was handsome and his age was unknown, and a pet.i.te girl who was wearing a strange outfit.
The girl propped her face on her hand and appeared to be unhappy, there was an empty gambling chips box in front of her.
And the gambling chips box of the man, was already filled to the brim with gambling chips.
“It looks like you’re quite lucky.”
A pa.s.sing stranger spoke to the youth.
It was a gentleman wearing a dress suit. He held a gambling chips box which was completely filled in his right hand, and oddly, in his left he held a book.
“Like what you said, I’m quite lucky today.”
The handsome man smiled at the young gentleman.
“Heh heh, luck… that’s quite hard to say.”
The gentleman said with an intrigued tone, then shook his head as if worried.
“You can’t put too much faith in your luck and abilities. They purposefully let the visitors win a few rounds first, letting them have the wrong impression that they are lucky. When the visitors become more excited and start to place larger bets, then they will win back their money with profits. That is the common tactic used in casinos.”
After the handsome man heard this he had a grateful expression.
“Oh, that’s scary.”
The young gentleman nodded.
“Yes, so you have to be careful. A man who looks as serious as you should be even more careful. Anyone would think that you are unaware of worldly matters and will be easily tricked… I apologise, I’m being rude. I was too nosy.”
The young gentleman said and faked coughing.
The handsome man looked at the young gentleman, seeming to be suspicious as he asked:
“That’s what you say, but you seemed to have earned quite a bit of those gambling chips.”
The young gentleman gently held up the gambling chips box he had and said:
“Ah, you’re referring to this… Heh heh, please don’t worry. If it’s gambling, I definitely won’t lose.”
“Oh, why is that so?”
The handsome man asked curiously. The young gentleman smiled.
“Have you heard of Phantom Books?”
“Phantom Books?”
“Yes. It refers to books that are like illusions, they record the forbidden knowledge in this world. Let me tell you a secret: in one of these Phantom Books, there is one that records all results of the gambles in this world.”
“That means, if you have the book, then you can know all of the results of the gambling beforehand?”
The young gentleman proudly nodded in confirmation to the handsome man’s queries.
“Exactly.”
“Even the poker cards and the roulette in the casinos?”
“Of course. Even the cards in the dealer’s hands, or which slot the roulette ball will fall into is clear.”
“Don’t tell me the book in your hands is…”
The man looked at the book in the gentleman’s hand as he asked.
The young gentleman looked proud.
“Heh heh. Someone like me who knows everything about the society, is able to gain information of every kind. Among them are information that normal people do not know of, too.”
“Like where the Phantom Book is?”
“Exactly, even the location of the Phantom Book. So that I could buy this book from the previous owner, I had waste a large amount of energy on negotiating. As to the result, like what you’re seeing now, my efforts weren’t in vain.”
The young gentleman said in exaggeration, looking at his box of gambling chips.