At this moment, the four face-up cards in front of the man with glasses were Q, Q, 8, and 3.
On my side, they were 7, 9, 6, and 8.
Judging solely by the face cards and hand types, his hand was at best three of a kind, while mine was a mixed straight.
A mixed straight eating three of a kind was as easy and simple as a big fish eating a small fish.
Seeing this, the man with glasses, who was unsure, fell into a silent pause.
Clearly, he couldn't figure out whether my hole card, when I dared to call the two hundred thousand bet at the start, was the 8 that could complete the straight, or one of the cards from the 7-9 pair.
If the first possibility were true, he would lose for sure.
While the man with glasses furrowed his brow in thought, my left hand, which was pressing on my hole card, slowly began to retract, preparing to take a peek.
Seeing this, a sharp glint instantly flashed in the eyes of the man with glasses, and he then stared at me without blinking.
When my left hand completely moved away from the hole card...
I caught a glimpse from the corner of my eye that a look of extreme excitement flickered in the man with glasses' eyes.
At this moment, Xue Chuang signaled me, who had the straight face-up, to speak.
Hearing this, I pretended to be profound and lit a cigarette.
After a while, I said in a deep voice, "I go all in!"
Seeing this, the man with glasses immediately put on an act and said, "I said earlier, life or death depends on this hand, so..."
"I'm going all in with you!!!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the man with glasses pushed all the remaining chips in front of him into the pot.
This fool, who thought his high-tech gadgets could beat traditional skills, probably forgot how I swapped my hole card to a spade 2 in the previous hand, which he couldn't even understand. Now he still had the courage to go all in with me?
Did he really think that Xue Chuang, the referee, wouldn't notice, and that no one else present had the ability to discover that the glasses he was wearing were actually expensive high-tech x-ray glasses?
I couldn't be bothered to argue with such a classless, amateur cheat anymore. I decided to send him to his doom in this hand!
The bell rang, signaling the moment to send him to his doom...
After calling and going all in, the man with glasses suddenly burst into laughter, "Hahaha~ Buddy, with my pair of Qs, I'm betting you're not a straight!"
After speaking, the man with glasses immediately revealed his hole card, a small 4.
Yes, with just a pair of face-up Qs, the man with glasses dared to raise the stakes wildly and even went all in in the end.
Upon seeing the man with glasses' hole card, the other three players at the table, along with the referee Xue Chuang, all cast glances of surprise mixed with a hint of admiration towards him.
As if enjoying being surrounded by such gazes, the man with glasses said smugly, "Do you know why I dared to go all in with you?"
"Because, the probability of a mixed straight in a 52-card draw is less than 0.4%!"
"In other words, you'd have to play over 250 hands to get one!"
"I don't believe that this 0.4% probability would happen in this hand!"
"So, let's reveal the cards, my friend!"
Heh heh~ This fool is actually calculating probabilities with me, thinking he's so smart!
Although I'm not a professional poker player who can calculate every possibility, I've long memorized the probabilities of various hand types.
After extinguishing the cigarette butt in the ashtray without a word, I decisively reached out and flipped over my hole card.
Without any suspense, it was a club 10!
The moment the club 10 was revealed, the man with glasses was instantly stunned, his mouth agape.
His eyes were wide open, but they were dim and lifeless, filled with disbelief.
"How is that possible!? It wasn't a club 10!"
"That's right! I remember now, your hole card wasn't a club 10 at all, but a heart 7!"
After regaining his senses, unable to contain his excitement and anger any longer, the man with glasses actually exposed my original hole card.
What he said was absolutely correct. My original hole card was a heart 7, and it hadn't changed before the reveal, but... who could prove it?
Seemingly guessing that I must have swapped my hole card before the reveal, the man with glasses immediately pointed at me and shouted at Xue Chuang, "Referee, I want to report this person!"
"He cheated, quickly send someone to search him!"
Hearing the man with glasses' shout, many people from surrounding tables, in addition to those at our table, turned their heads to look this way.
Seeing that his shouts had attracted attention, the man with glasses immediately gained confidence and spoke to Xue Chuang again, "Referee, this person is definitely suspicious!"
"Believe me! Hurry and find someone to search him!"
Upon hearing this, Xue Chuang immediately turned his gaze to me and asked politely, "Sir, do you have anything to refute the accusation of cheating?"
"If you do, please state it quickly!"
"If not, then please excuse my rudeness!"
"I would like to remind you that if the situation is confirmed, besides being directly disqualified, you will also be blacklisted by the Gambling King Competition as a participant who is permanently banned from competing!"
After hearing Xue Chuang's words, I suddenly stood up from my chair and chuckled, "Heh heh~ I've been waiting for you to say that!"
Xue Chuang remained silent, instead looking at me with a frown.
"Don't look at me!" I said, pointing at the man with glasses, "Take off the glasses he's wearing, and everything will become clear!"
The moment he heard this, the man with glasses was immediately stunned, and then his whole body suddenly trembled inexplicably.
However, this guy's reaction was quick. He immediately stretched his neck and shouted, "Retaliation! This is a blatant act of retaliation!"
Hearing this, I chuckled coldly, "Since you say I'm retaliating, then how about this..."
"Let's both stand still right here, and wait for the organizers to send someone to search both of us simultaneously!"
"If you're clean, I'll kneel down and apologize on the spot, and vice versa!"
"Let everyone open their eyes wide and see who is retaliating against whom!"
"What do you say? Do you... dare or not?"
As the referee, Xue Chuang was naturally not a fool.
The moment he heard this, he immediately realized that there was something wrong with the glasses the man with glasses was wearing.
Before the other party could react, Xue Chuang rushed over in three quick steps.
Then, he reached out and snatched the man with glasses' glasses, put them on his own eyes, and focused his gaze on the pile of poker cards on the table.
In just a few seconds, Xue Chuang took the glasses off again.
After taking off the glasses, Xue Chuang's expression immediately changed. He turned to look at the man with glasses, who was already stunned there, and sternly questioned, "Sir, are you going to get up and leave voluntarily, or should I have someone escort you out?"
When saying the last sentence, Xue Chuang deliberately deepened and emphasized his tone.
Hearing this, the man with glasses jumped up from his seat as if he had been electrocuted, then quickly left the competition area with his head down.
According to the competition rules, if one party is disqualified for using props to cheat, their accusation of the other party cheating is automatically invalidated.
After eliminating the man with glasses in the next round, my momentum, which had been steadily rising, had completely taken hold, and advancing to the second half of the competition was now within reach...