Chapter 93 - The Game Was Simple (2/2)

Hecathe only chuckled as he heard the man and said nothing in return.

The two men laughed as they heard the young man barking like a Dog but they also didn't bother commenting on it.

”So ten cards each?” Hecathe asked as he cautiously glanced up at the two men who nodded as they confirmed it.

Hecathe started placing the cards down on the table and he placed ten cards in front of each player which made thirty cards in total that were being used.

The remaining cards were placed on the desk for everyone to see so that they could not be tampered with.

Hecathe smiled as he picked up the ten cards and took a peek at them.

The game was simple.

There were going to be a total of ten rounds and in each round, the players would be asked to place one card down on the table. The one with the smallest number wins and everyone else loses. After each round, they get to place more bets. If a player thinks that he has a better chance of winning with the hand that he had been dealt with then he would place a higher bet, but this could also be done to intimidate the other player who would then be forced to think that his own cards are probably not that great compared to his confident opponents.

This was a game that was quite dependent on luck and a bit dependent on intelligence as well.

Hecathe had never found an interest in card games but this didn't mean that he hadn't ever seen people playing them. His father was a man who usually loved to play cards in his free time, although he didn't gamble, he was still good at cards, and just from watching him play, Hecathe had learned a lot about cards.

When he was checking the deck of cards under the excuse of simply checking to see if they were all correct or not, what he was really doing was counting them to see if the cards were 52 in total or not.

In a normal deck, there were 54 cards and this was including the two jokers that came with each set.

In most of the games, the joker was always removed which left the players with only 52 cards in total.

Out of those fifty-two cards, thirty were currently placed in front of the players and the remaining 22 were placed on the table.

There were four Ace of each suit in a deck and with the game that they were currently playing, the ace was considered as the card with the lowest value. In other words, it would be a card that could make a player win the game.

Or to be more exact, all Hecathe needed was the Ace of spades in order to win this game since the spade was also considered to be the lowest suit.

As much as Hecathe hated to say it... He had to admit that he was planning on cheating in order to win this game.

Hecathe wouldn't have planned to cheat if these two men had been fair since the beginning but since they were the ones to take on the means of cheating first, he would naturally give them a taste of their own medicine.

The chance of getting the ace of spades in a deck of 52 cards was naturally one in fifty-two so this meant that a person would have 1.92 percent chance of getting such a card if they were to pick only one card from the deck. Since they were picking ten cards, they would naturally have a higher chance.

There were a total of four aces in a deck and since all the aces were powerless in this particular game, if the opponent didn't have an ace of spades, some other ace would also work to their benefit.

The chance of getting an ace was 4 in 52 which was a 7.69 percent chance of getting such a card if the player was to only pick a single card from the deck.

This number looked a bit higher and better, however, it was still just as low and the chance of getting a two of any suit was also the same percentage since there were only four cards with two on them.

If this game was truly fair then everyone would have the same chances of winning, however, this game was anything other than fair and this meant that these calculations were incorrect.

The true chances of the other two having an ace were zero because all the four aces were with Hecathe at this moment and this was no luck or coincidence. It was because Hecathe had counted the cards and shuffled them in a manner where he would get all the aces.

This was the second thing that he did when he flipped the card and casually announced that he was seeing if they were right or not.