After hesitating for a moment, he decided to start with the shell game.
"I'll bet a hundred thousand." Tianqi walked up to the shell-game table and slapped a hundred thousand down on it.
"Sure thing, boss!" Seeing someone bet a hundred thousand, the dealer immediately perked up. The win rate here was so low that hardly anyone usually played.
He hadn't expected a little lamb to wander in—and put down a hundred thousand right away. He began plotting how to get the money out of the man's hands.
Looking at the dealer's excited expression, Tianqi knew he'd been taken for a lamb. He chuckled to himself. Heh. The best hunters often appear as prey. You want to fleece me? We'll see who the real lamb is.
"Watch closely, boss," the dealer said. He scattered a pile of chess pieces, picked up a silver-white cup, and started to cover them.
Just as the dealer was about to trap the pieces beneath the cup, Tianqi activated his Sharingan. With the dynamic vision of his Three-Tomoe Sharingan, the dealer's movements seemed to slow to a crawl.
Before the dealer had even covered the pieces, Tianqi had counted them: there were 25 within the cup's range. This is pretty easy. Let's see whether you'll try to cheat. He fixed his gaze on the dealer.
With a thud, the dealer finally covered exactly 25 pieces with the cup, then pushed the uncovered pieces aside.
"There are 75 pieces in total, boss. If you guess how many I covered, you win double," the dealer explained with a smile. He was absolutely certain the man wouldn't guess correctly. Even if he got lucky this time, he'd lose it all on the next round.
That was why hardly anyone played at this table. Other dealers played the long