Once the bets were in, Long San began ransacking his memory.
By this point, the gambling match had gone on long enough that even his exceptional eyesight and memory had begun to fail him. He could only vaguely recall eight or nine cards; he wasn't so sure about the remaining two or three.
He vaguely remembered that among the twelve cards, quite a few fives had appeared, along with two or three thirteens.
If either Xu Yi or Miao Chunsheng had a Five Leopards, the situation would turn extremely dangerous.
With that thought, he called to see.
By the rules, when two players were playing blind, a player who had looked at his cards had to keep betting for five rounds before calling.
Five rounds had now passed, so Long San's call came at just the right moment. The player he wanted to compare cards with was Fei Wu, who had also looked at his hand.
The two were allies. In a game like this, naturally, the more chips your own side kept, the better your chances of winning. It was almost unthinkable for allies to compare hands.
But Long San's purpose was to see Fei Wu's cards and ease his lingering worries as much as possible.
He raised the bet and called. With the dealer watching, the two exchanged cards and revealed their hands to each other.
The moment Fei Wu's cards were laid out, Long San's heart settled.
Fei Wu had a pair of thirteens and a two.
Everyone knew that each card rank in a deck appeared four times, in four different suits.
Fei Wu's pair of thirteens meant that there could be no more Thirteen Leopards in the game.
In other words, Long San's Twelve Leopards had become the theoretical Heavenly Card in this hand.
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