Las Vegas 02
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Hyun-joon arrived in Las Vegas.
Currently, the weather in Las Vegas in February is similar to the weather in March or April in Korea. It was cool, but on the other hand, it was such a good weather to be active.
Hyeonjun successfully completed the immigration screening. I took a taxi and arrived at the Bellagio Hotel, and after checking in, I entered a very spacious penthouse suite.
There, I took a shower, ordered room service, and took a break.
Around 9 p.m., Hyun-jun entered the hotel casino wearing a simple shirt and jeans.
I snooped around the poker room and roulette table for a while, but then I sat down in front of the slot machine and spent some time there.
Then Hyun-joon stood up, looked at the baccarat table, and eventually went to the blackjack table and sat down.
And from then on, Hyeon-jun started a quiet gamble and a small test of his ability.
In fact, the blackjack game is quite simple.
A game in which two cards are dealt and the closer the sum of each number is to 21, the winner. At this time, if 2 cards are not enough, you can receive additional cards, but if the sum exceeds 21, you will automatically lose. Of course, since this is a casino, the opponent is the dealer.
And betting begins.
However, from the first betting game, Hyun-jun lost lightly, and then continued to lose his 10-dollar chip as ‘losses’ came out one after another.
By the time he lost about 30 chips, Hyun-jun’s expression was changing little by little.
Meanwhile, an American couple enjoying a game of blackjack right next to each other. They looked at each other, laughed, and whispered something as Hyeon-joon played endlessly. Hyunjoon was a little concerned, but ignored it.
He remained expressionless throughout.
However, I would make eye contact once or twice with a Latina dealer who glanced at me.
However, looking at the dealer’s eyes, he seemed to think that Hyun-joon was Hogu.
However, even so, Hyeon-jun continued to focus on his game, expressionless.
In the meantime, I lost one after another and kept giving chips to the dealer.
In fact, blackjack games don’t have very low odds. Even so, Hyeon-joon is recording a ‘lose’ without a break.
Then, at some point, the Latino female dealer also tilted her head as if it were strange.
On the other hand, little by little strange changes began to appear on Hyeon-jun’s face.
In particular, the size of the pupil, which enlarges a little and then returns to its original size.
And after several trials and errors, Hyeonjun’s eyes were becoming more and more different.
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stocks, gambling.
yes, they are all the same
Everyone seems to be involved in mathematical calculations, but a world where all kinds of coincidences and variables are prevalent.
After all, isn’t blackjack also determined by numbers?
Ultimately, the future numbers determine the outcome.
after a while
Hyeon-jun suddenly grinned and was betting all 10 of his current $100 chips on one game.
Then I got 2 cards right away.
5 of spades and 7 of clubs.
When you add up the two numbers, you get a total of 12.
That’s not a very good number.
And in this case, it is better to receive one more card unconditionally to increase the odds of blackjack.
However, Hyeon-jun cut right away and did not receive an additional card.
Then, the dealer with a smile.
Soon after, the dealer’s cards were also revealed.
7 diamonds, 4 hearts.
Total is 11.
So, as soon as the dealer revealed another card, short screams were heard from here and there.
An Ace (1) of Hearts appears on an additional card.
Usually, an ace counts as 1 or 11.
If the ace is counted as 11, the total is 22 and the dealer loses.
So the ace of hearts immediately counted as 1.
And the dealer opened another card.
By the way, the 4th card that follows.
The moment it was revealed, exclamations of ‘Ah!’ were erupting from the surroundings.
Oh My God!
Spade J.
Unexpectedly, J of spades came out. In the game of blackjack, K, Q, and J are all cards with the number 10.
So the dealer’s total is 11+1+10=22. In other words, it exceeded 21, and eventually the dealer lost.
“Hey, Lucky Guy.”
The dealer smiled bitterly and handed out as many chips as Hyun-jun bet. In the end, with just one win, Hyeon-jun could restore the 100 $10 chips he had lost so far.
But that was just the beginning.
In the middle of the game, once in a while, the form of Hyun-jun’s pupils getting a little bigger continued to appear. Each time, once or twice, Hyeon-jun bet his chips very hard.
More and more, $10, $25, and $100 chips piled up in front of Hyun-joon.
Hyeonjun was placing his bets harder and harder.
#
Hyeonjun pushes away.
It’s $5,000 in chips.
As the betting ended, the first card was finally revealed amidst the nervousness.
Ace of Spades.
Surprised dealer.
With his eyes slightly shaking, the dealer revealed the next card.
Hyunjoon’s eyes widened in an instant.
And at the same time, cheers bursting out here and there.
“Wow! Blackjack!”
“Wow! cool!”
“Jesus, Lucky Boy.”
Surprisingly, the King of Spades (K) was unfolding in front of Hyun-Jun’s eyes.
Blackjack immediately popped on the first card.
The dealer’s expression hardened.
At this time, the manager appeared and said something to the dealer, but will the dealer be replaced as it is?
But fortunately that didn’t happen.
In fact, Hyun-joon, who was a hogu a while ago.
But now, in front of Hyun-joon’s eyes, there were as many as five chips worth $1,000, and chips with $25 or $10 were piled up.
And some more time has passed since then, and Hyun-joon has now cleaned up his seat and stood up, with 30 $1,000 chips and 35 $100 chips piled up in front of him.
“thank you!”
Hyun-joon smiled and thanked him right away, and threw two 100-dollar chips as a tip, so the dealer forced a smile and took the tip.
Come to think of it, Blackjack started with a total of $2,000.
However, two hours later, Hyun-Jun had a chip worth a total of $33,300.
Just like that, when Hyeon-jun stood up, everyone gathered around him looked at him and cast envious glances…
“Wow, that person is great. That Asian kid.”
“That’s counting.”
“You can never get a multiplier like that without counting.”
“Jesus, Asian boy.”
Even though he was whispering like that, everyone was watching Hyeon-jun carefully.
And at this time, a couple was approaching Hyeonjun.
“Oh, by any chance… are you Korean?”
Koreans visiting Las Vegas.
Quite a lot though.
Nonetheless, when he heard the very familiar Korean words, Hyeon-jun immediately turned his head toward them.
#
A slender man and a beautiful white woman with long blond hair. They were standing side by side, staring at Hyeon-jun, and it was the man who spoke Korean.
Let Hyunjoon stare at him puzzled for a moment.
“You were really great. While I was doing it in that seat, I brushed it off and got up. I came back to watch the game, wow! You were so amazing.”
Was it someone you used to play with?
I was so focused that I didn’t notice it right away.
So, Hyunjoon answered roughly.
“I was lucky.”
However, the man kept talking to him to see if he had anything more to say.
“No, but you really couldn’t do it at first. Do you have any secrets?”
secret?
At that moment, the corners of Hyeonjun’s mouth go up slightly.
Well, if it’s a secret…
As soon as a round is over, before a new round begins, the number of cards that will appear shortly after appears and disappears like a ghost.
It was simpler than stock prices
Stock prices have continuity.
Blackjack always ends in one simple round.
So, the ghost numbers Hyun-jun saw were unconditionally the numbers of the next edition.
On the one hand, what is surprising is that his ability was not limited to just stock numbers.
Come to think of it, stocks and gambling.
A strange ensemble.
Hyun-joon got an unexpected result here, and now he was in a situation where he needed to organize his thoughts about his abilities more.
“By the way… did you wear something like circle lenses in your eyes?”
But the man suddenly brings up a different story.
“Looking at it earlier, the size of the pupils changed little by little.”
“yes?”
Hyeon-jun immediately wondered and asked back, but soon his expression changed slightly. Are the pupil sizes different? no way? Come to think of it, the subtle change in vision I felt when I saw the ghost number, and the pressure. Could it be that it was accompanied by a change in appearance?
“Oh, no. look at this. My eyes are normal.”
However, Hyeonjun deliberately opened his eyes wide to show it.
Then the opponent immediately admitted that he had seen it wrong.
“Haha, sorry. But how can the win rate rise so suddenly? Did you really count the cards?”
“no. You are just lucky.”
After giving the same answer again, Hyeon-jun left the place.
#
Meanwhile, Hyun-joon exchanged his chips for cash, bought a set of cards from a nearby shop, and immediately went up to his hotel room.
And from then on, Hyun-joon sat in front of a very large mirror and proceeded to play his own card game while recording his face with his smartphone.
long after that.
Hyeon-joon made a subtle expression once while watching his recorded video, and strange facial expressions were constantly happening, whether he knew it or not.
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9.
OK. matched
The appearance of the 9 of spades.
10.
good for this too
10 hearts came out.
3.
got it right again
Clover 3 is out.
11?
Also, Spade J.
Hyeon-jun continued to check his ability by laying down a card and unfolding it without a break.
After hitting the jackpot in stocks and options, I started researching my ability more diligently than direct investment over the past week.
Deliberately choosing Las Vegas, the heaven of gambling, as a destination was unexpectedly a godsend.
In fact, as soon as the blackjack game began to fall short, there was a definite sensory change in body and mind. Because no one can feel good under any circumstances when they lose money. So my concentration got higher and higher, and in the meantime, I unexpectedly read the card number. And at that time, surprisingly, the number of times increased.
The problem is, of course, the conditions for activating the ability.
Now, as Hyun-joon continues to ponder in his hotel room, he feels more and more coming out of the fog.
Until now, I had seen the number of ghosts with difficulty through posture maintenance, etc., but now I have something more clear.
it’s snow
eyes looking at the world.
eyes for change.
Eyes spying on the future.
After all, his ability did not start from something else, but from his eyes. Come to think of it, whenever I saw a ghost number in the past, there was something like a strange eyeball pressure, and that was the condition for activating the ability.
It wasn’t just concentration.
If you concentrate so that your eyes will fall out, the eye pressure artificially increases, and the probability of ghost numbers appearing at that time increases.
Anxiety about the so-called stock price. That can be stressful, and it seems that it became the mechanism for seeing the number of ghosts as the intraocular pressure increased.
Investing overnight is also a kind of stress.
So it seems that there were some parts that became more advantageous in seeing the ghost numbers.
On the other hand, Hyun-jun also found that reading card numbers was easier than stock prices with continuity.
“Ha, but that doesn’t mean I can’t be a gambler.”
Looking at the mirror, Hyeon-jun unknowingly monologues.
Anyway, gambling is illegal in Korea. Well, there is Kangwon Land.
However, more gambling-like stocks, options, futures, etc. are not illegal, but rather legal.
Unlike a casino where you play games while watching the dealer directly, you cannot directly know who is intervening or who is adjusting the stock price, and is it not a more gambling-like place dominated only by numbers?
However, it can bring huge astronomical profits beyond casino gambling there.
Meanwhile, Hyun-joon shouted out a number before continuing to unfold the cards.
Little by little, he seemed to be learning how to see the ghost numbers.
“8.”
As expected, when the card is turned over, the number appears as Hyun-jun said.
Although you can’t see the patterns, such as hearts, clubs, spades, and diamonds.
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And at 6 o’clock the next morning.
Early in the morning, Hyeon-jun got up early, and as soon as he washed himself, he packed things and hurriedly ran to the parking lot near the Bellagio Hotel.
Today, I made a reservation for the Grand Canyon bus tour. You can rent a car and go there yourself, but since you are traveling alone, you have booked a package bus tour first.
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“Hey Guys. This is the Hoover Dam. The Hoover Dam is located on the border of Nevada and Arizona and is located in the middle reaches of the Colorado River. It is 726 feet high and 1,244 feet long. Construction took place between 1931 and 1936…”
Sitting in the back seat of the bus for the bus tour, Hyeon-joon fell asleep for a while and then opened his eyes to find that he had arrived at the Hoover Dam before he knew it.
An older white guide who seemed to be in his early to mid-60s was explaining in quick English at this time. After a while, the bus stopped there for a while, and I got a chance to see the Hoover Dam for a while.
So Hyun-joon came out of the bus. I looked at the Hoover Dam quietly, and at this time, I laughed at the Korean words I heard here and there.
