"Whoa~ Looks like I was lucky tonight."
Sitting diagonally across from Fang Ran, Jia Nan De Gu, holding a king, shrugged with feigned relief. But everyone present except Fang Ran could hear the self-mockery in his voice.
After all, there was no under-the-gun +1, no middle position +1 or +2. In a Gambling Game with only four people,
the positional advantage of being the dealer was nowhere near as obvious as it was at a nine-player table.
After confirming that Jia Nan De Gu, who held the highest card among the four, would be the dealer for the first round, Ilise pressed a button resembling a chip and pushed it in front of him.
Then the casino employee sitting opposite him looked toward Fang Ran. Seeing no reaction from Fang Ran, he gave a slight nod and pushed out a quarter-stack of chips.
"Once the dealer is decided, the positions to the dealer's left become the small blind and big blind in order, placing mandatory bets to ensure there is a pot and prevent meaningless rounds where everyone folds immediately over bad cards."
"The big blind is twice the small blind. Since you did not indicate otherwise, he has wagered fifty thousand US Dollars, one percent of tonight's ten-million-dollar Gambling Game."
Dealer, big blind, small blind, mandatory bets.
Still wondering why the casino employee had looked at him, Fang Ran heard Adeline's explanation and felt all sorts of information tangling in his mind.
"So, young master, you should now put in twice his amount."
Unable to make sense of it at all, Fang Ran could only follow her calm, indifferent voice and do as instructed, taking out his wager from the mountain of chips before him.
Then, seeing the 10,000 denomination, he watched half of a twenty-chip stack—a full hundred