Chapter 483 - Poker (2/2)

“If you really want to find out, then throw all your money in,” Xiao Luo replied. Then he turned to the staff in the private room and asking for a cup of water to drink.

Su Li and Shen Qingyan stared at him without blinking their eyes. They were breaking out in a cold sweat on account of him. This was a bet where one could instantly lose twenty million. No matter how rich they were, losing twenty million so suddenly was never a good feeling.

Leon took another look at his face down card. It was indeed an Ace, but he just couldn’t figure out what Xiao Luo’s face down card was. Leon also considered that if he called and it really turned out to be an Eight, he would lose in front of Su Li—and losing twenty million in just the first round would be very embarra.s.sing. He chose to fold.

“Mr. Xiao, you win this round.”

“Thank you.”

Xiao Luo put his hands around the large pile of gambling chips and pulled them in toward him.

Sitting beside him, Su Li was very curious and couldn’t help flipping over his face down card. She screamed in shock, “How is it a Ten of clubs?”

Leon almost vomited blood as soon as he saw the card! He was a veteran gambler, and yet he had allowed himself to be fooled by a guy like Xiao Luo.

Shen Qingyan smiled a little and said, “Xiao Luo, you’re quite the poker player. You even managed to fool Mr. Leon with just a pair of Eights although he had a double pair with Aces.”

“I didn’t manage to get a good look at it. I really thought that the face down card was an Eight,” Xiao Luo said, playing dumb and waving his hands innocently.

“Yeah, right, you didn’t get a good look, indeed!” Leon sneered.

He almost shouted at Xiao Luo and felt that his pride was at stake here. He had lost six million, just like that. Looking at Xiao Luo now, his perception of the man had changed, and he no longer despised him. He would never have imagined that his guy had the kind of guts to play the bluff with so much at stake.

“Su…”

Xiao Luo was initially going to call her Ms. Su, but since he had a romantic rival right in front of him, he decided to address Su Li differently. “Wife, CEO Shen, you guys can rest from here on. I’ll finish this poker game with Mr. Leon,” he said.

Wi… wife?

Su Li was utterly shocked. Her face turned red like a bashful bride, and she felt her heart thump rapidly in her chest.

“Sure. We’re not really interested in gambling anyway. In that case, we’ll just watch the both of you gambling,” Shen Qingyan responded. She understood what was going on between the two men, and it was best to stay out of the fray.

Su Li didn’t say anything, and it seemed like she had just accepted it. Still ringing in her ears, the term “wife” kept repeating itself over and over again against the rhythm of her thumping heart.

“Mr. Xiao, are you sure you want to play poker with me?”

Leon said with a playful smile. He had once won a billion USD in just one night, and his opponent was one of the most renowned gamblers in the whole of North America. He would be playing against a nameless guy that he would never have even heard of, but for Sabrina. It would feel like using a sledgehammer to kill a chicken.

There was a glint in Xiao Luo’s eyes. “You don’t have the guts?” he taunted.

“Why would I not have the guts? Deal the cards!”

The dealer duly dealt out five cards to each of them; four were facing up, while the last card was facing down and hidden.

It was interesting. By some coincidence, they both had cards that were remarkably similar to the previous round. Leon’s four cards were two pairs of Sevens and Aces, while Xiao Luo had a pair of Eights, a Six and a Seven.

Leon took a look at his face down card and saw that it was an Eight. If Xiao Luo’s hand was going to be bigger than his, then his face down card would have to be an Eight as well, to make a “three of a kind.” But of course, there were only four Eights in a deck. One was in his hand, and two in his opponent’s. This meant that the chances of the last Eight being in his opponent’s hand were low.

“Bet—five million!” Leon bellowed, pus.h.i.+ng out several stacks of his gambling chips.

“Call!”

Xiao Luo followed with five million dollars’ worth of gambling chips as well, and then added, “And, I raise another nine million.”

CRAs.h.!.+

The air was thick with nervous emotions as Xiao Luo raised the bet, and several stacks of gambling chips fell over like skysc.r.a.pers.

Leon’s face looked dull and gloomy. He only exchanged twenty million, and he had already lost six million earlier on. He only had a total of fourteen million left now, and with Xiao Luo’s raise, the bet was now fourteen million. He was obviously being forced by Xiao Luo to throw in everything he had.

Leon stared at Xiao Luo with a casual smile on his face and said, “Mr. Xiao, you should only use the same trick once. I’d be a fool to fall for it again. Do you really think I’m going to fall into the same trap twice?” He then pushed out all the gambling chips he had into the pool.

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