The Long-haired Female Ghost Deals the Cards Online
"It's just a gambling table, isn't it? You guys are just making a big fuss over nothing." Burrlett casually walked up to the gambling table and stood where the dealer should have been. The drone's lights illuminated the table at that moment. The betting symbols for big, small, points, and triples were covered with a thin layer of dust. Chips of various colors were scattered randomly on the table. Only a dice cup was placed neatly in its proper place.
Burrlett is a materialistic streamer, so naturally he wouldn't carry any so-called ghost-catching props. He just stood in front of the gambling table with his hands empty, reached out and picked up the dice cup, and then, amidst the noise of the live chat, pinched the three dice under the cup.
"See? There's no ghost at all, just three dice! Come to think of it, before I came to the city, I worked as a croupier in a small gambling den in the countryside. It's been so many years since I've touched one, it actually feels quite familiar!"
As he spoke, Burrlett threw three dice over his head, slammed his hand on the table, shaking the dice cup. He then caught the three dice and began to shake the cup in a fancy way, a move far more flamboyant than any so-called flair bartending.
"Hey viewers, wanna bet on the size of a ball?"
[Damn, the streamer still has the nerve to play this? Can't you even look at the hands lurking in the shadows opposite you?]
[Damn, why is that Gambling Ghost standing opposite the streamer?]
[This guy isn't planning to gamble with the streamer, is he?]
"Smack!" Just as the comments section was buzzing with discussion, Burrlett slammed the dice cup down on the table in front of him. With three soft thuds, a slight smile played on his lips as he spoke in a rather familiar tone:
"Place your bet now!"
Glug...
There was no sound, but the Holographic Mode was on, staring at the audience in the shadows where no light was shining. They could vaguely see that the arm in the shadows suddenly stretched out its index finger and pointed to the "small" spot.
[Damn, a ghost placed a bet!]
[Holy crap, they actually placed a bet! Watch out, streamer, the ghost's betting on the small!]
[This Gambling Ghost actually started betting! If he really is a small-time streamer, is he doomed?]
"Is it really necessary to make it sound so mysterious? Why not just say you bet on small?" Burrlett muttered quietly, completely unfazed by any tension, before slapping the dice cup and lifting it up.
"3, 5, 6, fourteen points, big!"
"Smack!"
Before the viewers in the live chat could even breathe a sigh of relief, a muffled thud suddenly came from the corner. Burrlett immediately controlled the drone to shine a light in that direction, only to see a chip rolling on the ground.
"Honestly, it's all your fault for being so superstitious. I almost thought there really was a ghost!" Burrlett said, taking a few steps forward with a speechless expression. He picked up the dark chip and muttered casually:
"It just fell off the table out of nowhere, and there wasn't even a gust of wind. Could it be a mouse?"
I strongly suspect that the ghost lost to the streamer.
[But what's the point? It can't just be exchanging a life, can it?]
[Perhaps it's proof that the streamer is allowed to use their account?]
[Speaking of which, Ghost Hand didn't show his skills today. Was he afraid of Gambling Ghost?]
I've heard that in ancient times, if you couldn't pay your gambling debts, your hand would be chopped off. Do you think that ghostly hand might also belong to a Gambling Ghost?
Watching the comments section, Feng Xue suddenly had an idea even more interesting than her original script. She immediately discarded the original script, then flicked her chips high into the air. Watching the black and gold chips reflect a peculiar luster under the light, she said listlessly:
"This is so boring. Forget it, I'll go find the corpse instead..."
As he spoke, he suddenly opened a live stream clip, which was the video of Oseus's death.
Following the video, Feng Xue arrived at a gambling table and, sure enough, saw a corpse that had been turned into a mummified body.
"There really are corpses, and more than one? But they don't look like they just died. I'm increasingly convinced this is a conspiracy?"
Burrlett crouched down, approached the body, and pulled out white plastic gloves from his pocket, seemingly intending to begin an autopsy.
Upon seeing his action, a notification immediately popped up in the live chat:
[Watch out, streamer! After he died, quite a few fearless people came to examine the body. The extra corpses you see are the ones that didn't escape.]
[Yeah, yeah, I watched those crazy livestreams too. They were all attacked by ghosts while preparing for autopsies.]
[There are also those who intend to catch ghosts but end up being attacked by them.]
"That's why I always say there are no ghosts in this world! It's Year 2077 already, and there are still criminals who can disguise murder as ghosts. It's all your fault for spreading ghost stories! I'm going to perform an autopsy now. I'm standing right here. Did you see any ghosts? Where are they? Why aren't they attacking me?" Burrlett put his hands on his hips, looked around arrogantly, and had the air of Wei Yan shouting "Who dares to kill me?"
[Stop yelling! I'm only doing you a favor by losing the bet. Don't be ungrateful!]
[Yeah, even if I were a ghost, I couldn't stand it.]
[You know you're going to cause trouble by setting such a high bar!]
The live chat was filled with condemnation, but Burrlett remained completely unmoved. He put on plastic gloves, squatted down, and began to unbutton the corpse's clothes to conduct a basic autopsy. Under the watchful eyes of the audience, in his blind spot, a dice monster with twenty-one eyes floated out from the corner. But just as its tentacles were about to touch the streamer, it was suddenly grabbed by a hand.
[Ghost Hand! Ghost Hand Bro has appeared!]
[This streamer owes his life to Ghost Hand Bro!]
[There's no such thing as being immune to all ghosts; it's just that Ghost Hand Bro is carrying a heavy burden!]
Suddenly, a lot of voices appeared in the barrage, but to the audience's surprise, this time, Ghost Hand did not beat up the ghosts that came up to him as before, but dragged the dice to the gambling table in front of the corpse.
The two ghosts seemed to be having some kind of communication at the gambling table that the audience couldn't perceive. Then, the Gambling Ghost's phantom appeared beside the dice, and a faint shadow slowly emerged from the white ghost's wrist, eventually forming a semi-transparent Ghostly Shadow that couldn't be captured by the camera but was clearly visible to the audience, without any details.
The two ghosts stood facing each other across the table, seemingly talking about something, yet also seemingly saying nothing. After a brief silence, several incredibly sinister-looking chips appeared in front of the Gambling Ghost, while in front of the ghost hand was only one chip that was exactly the same as the one that the anchor, Burrlett, had picked up earlier.
Immediately afterwards, the white ghostly hand vanished without a trace, leaving only a semi-transparent phantom standing in front of the table.
This stand lasted for a full ten minutes. Just as Burrlett began dissecting Oseus's body on the spot, and the audience thought Ghost Hand had escaped, the white ghost hand suddenly returned to the wrist of the translucent Ghostly Shadow. However, along with it returned a bewildered translucent Ghostly Shadow—
[Damn, isn't this the female ghost that Ghost Hand Bro beat up last time?]
[Wow, there's a sequel, huh?]
[Ghost Hand Bro called for backup? Wait, why is this ghost shuffling the cards? And where did the cards come from?]
"This thing looks like it's been dead for years! The blood's all dried up, and the skin's completely dehydrated... I Think..."
Burrlett squatted on the ground, reciting the autopsy report, but by this time no one in the audience paid him any attention. Even the person who had reminded him to look up at the ghosts was gone; everyone's attention was now focused on the female Ghostly Shadow shuffling cards in the center of the two confronting ghostly figures...
What's this all about?
[Long-haired Female Ghost, dealing cards online?]
Is the claim that buying everything guarantees a profit a math and physical education product?
Putting aside the fact that the odds for this kind of event are dynamically adjusted based on the number of bettors, the first problem is that if you bet on all the bets, it will not only reduce your profits, but also reduce the probability of making a profit.
Buying all bets seems to guarantee at least one winning bet, but it also means you'll lose at least all the other bets except the correct one (not considering winning all bets).
Take the odds in the book as an example: 1 to 5 for a clean break, 1 to 2 for a runaway, and 1.5 for a loss. Assuming a bet of 3, an average bet of 1 point per bet means a loss of 1.5 points for a loss, a loss of 1 point for a runaway, and only a clean break guarantees a 2-point gain. Therefore, betting all in will only reduce profits and losses, and will not guarantee a win. It's more reliable not to gamble than to rely on this method to stop losses.
Next, let's talk about the issue of odds adjustment. Simply put, casinos never lose money. The odds for sports events are adjusted based on the amount wagered by bettors to ensure that after all the winning bettors take their payouts, the losing bettors still have a surplus.
Take the odds in the book as an example: as long as the number of gamblers betting on the protagonist to be unharmed is less than 20% of the total bet amount, then the casino will make a profit.
The same principle applies to other bets; as long as you ensure that less than two-thirds of the bets are on deaths and less than half are on escapes, you can guarantee a profit.
As for what to do if it exceeds... well, of course, you adjust the odds!
Therefore, those who gamble will never outdo those who operate the casino. As long as no one resorts to metaphysics or cheating, the casino will only either earn more or less.
So, don't gamble!!!