Kogas stared fixedly at the screen, his fingers drumming incessantly on the table.
He sat out the next several small betting rounds.
He was analyzing the situation, waiting for the right moment to place his bet.
With the amount he owed now, betting on small rounds was pointless. Even if he followed the crowd and won on an obvious outcome, the meager returns would do him no good.
There was still risk involved, too. If another upset happened—like earlier, when Huang Ji had insisted on outsmarting himself and gotten the question about the Solar System's major planets wrong—he would have nowhere to turn.
The atmosphere was electric, countless people flushed with excitement as they opened betting pools, but Kogas forced down his impulses.
He had never been like this before. It had only been a game, after all. Just as Evil Dragon said, having fun was all that mattered.
But now his goal had changed. He was no longer enjoying the gambling; he was thinking about winning back his losses.
He had lost more than anyone else there, and he could no longer keep a level head.
Kogas immersed himself in the Death Game, studying the situation and trying to recover his losses through the skills and experience he had gained over years of frequenting casinos. At the very least, he had to recover half, or the days ahead would be rough.
His card might have had unlimited credit, but that did not mean he could skip repayment. Once his debt exceeded his ability to pay, all the growing businesses under his name would be seized.
Fourteen billion was the absolute limit Kogas could bear to lose. Losing fourteen billion meant losing every business he owned, and he was already down more than a third of that.
If the gambling