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On August 29, 2018, Dai Zilang carried more than 400 million won and hundreds of thousands of baht in cash (approximately RMB 2.67 million), Was stopped at Taiwan Taoyuan Airport.

The cash was confiscated by the customs because it was not declared in advance. It took more than an hour for the customs to register all the banknotes, Dai Zilang couldn’t help but said to the staff who was counting:

“I don’t want the money, so I will pay taxes to the government. Can I go first? Friends are still waiting for me to play mahjong.”

For Dai Zilang, a backpack of cash thrown away is really not as important as playing mahjong. This is just a fraction that he didn’t have time to remit when he came back from a Korean casino. He and his team won nearly the whole journey. NT$1 billion(about 230 million yuan).

Compared with these boring banknotes, what really made him the “Taiwan God of Gamblers” was his blacklisted record by 260 casinos around the world.

“There are more than 6000 casinos worldwide, and there are more places to explore.”

Compared with today’s all-powerful situation, who would have thought that ten years ago, he was still a desperate who had a debt of more than NT$50 million and had to go to gambling to pay off his debts.

The turning point of his fate was the moment he became the “dominant player”.

As early as more than 20 years ago, foreign countries created a special name for a group of people like Dai Zilang——Advantage Player(advantage player)< /span>, referred to as AP.

Different from the gamblers who borrow luck from the sky, the dominant players are best at finding the flaws in the game and sweeping the casino through the rules. When they have determined their goals and chances of winning, they will approach without a word, like walking towards an ATM cash machine.

No one knows how many advantageous players there are in the world. Together, they form a flexible international alliance. They usually live around the world and have their own careers and lives.

But once someone finds a loophole in the casino, they will call a large number of masters in a short period of time through the invitation system to encircle the casino like a hyena.

An anonymous AP once recorded his experience of encirclement and suppression on the Internet

In more cases, the superior players don’t even know the members acting together. Before setting off, they only know the general direction of the destination on the earth, and don’t even know the specific country. All the information is in the back. In the hands of the promoter.

Only shareholders who spend money to invest in shares can know a littleInformation about geographic location.

Not all APs have the ability to organize teams, which requires a lot of money, time and manpower. Most APs will also receive the wages distributed by the promoters. The thrilling gambling game in the eyes of ordinary people is just a business trip to work for them, and they don’t even know who their colleagues are.

The only thing that can prove their connection with each other is the $50 settled when they leave the casino.

The sponsors or bosses of the project often do not reveal their true identity. People who are as public as Dai Zilang are still in the minority, because once their identity is revealed, it is easy to be blackmailed by the casino. The true faces of the big guys behind the scenes also remain in some vague guesses in the circle of dominant players.

When there is no team action, some dominant players will discover some loopholes in the casino themselves to win bonuses. A handsome lucky guy who has been sitting in front of a slot machine all night may have just participated in a fierce battle for gambling tens of millions of dollars.

In the casino, they are always taciturn, and they never easily teach skills to others, let alone mention their identity. In contrast, there is no shortage of people sharing their experiences on the Internet. On Black Jack, they never hesitate to teach novices to popularize science, and even open classes.


“The old superior players are most taboo from others talking about technical principles. Once someone raises a technical topic, they are immediately blocked, for fear that others will surpass themselves and steal their own jobs. This development is very discordant. Better than blue, this is an irresistible historical trend.”

Most of the dominant players in Taiwan’s lineage are from Dai Zilang. Although the tuition fee for two classes totaling 8 hours is 40,000 yuan, at least more than 300 students have attended his class. He will also take students to the casino to have practical lessons and teach them to count cards.

New Oriental in the casino

Card counting is one of the necessary skills for every high-level superior player. Almost all the dominant players learned to count cards in the blackjack game in the early stage to lay the foundation. They were alsoKnown as the “counter card”.

The 21-point team of MIT, which was the first to publicly teach card counting skills, can be said to be the ancestors of dominant players. In 1979, they set up a mini-course of “No Gamble, No Gamble” to allow students who specialize in mathematics. Study 21 points, adjust the playing strategy by calculating the probability to achieve the maximum chance of winning.

As long as you memorize these three matrices, you will master the best blackjack play

The book “Beat The Dealer” written by Professor Edward Thorpe of the 21 o’clock team has also become a must-read classic for dominant players, including Dai Zilang who was inspired by this book to create a casino legend.

Kevin Spacey’s prototype of the professor played in “Blackjack” is Edward Thorpe

The famous Chinese gambling god Ma Kaiwen was invited to join the MIT Blackjack team in his junior year. He took $100,000 every weekend to Las Vegas casinos to play cards, and when he came back, he became hundreds of thousands of dollars. . During that time, they won a total of about 15 million US dollars.

Bleeding casinos have built a blacklist of photos of these dominant players through their monitors. Since then, Ma Kaiwen and others have become the blacklist of nearly 100 casinos in the United States.Reject current account”.

The gambling god Ma Kaiwen

Everyone who wants to become a superior player can find some MIT card counting secrets on the Internet. Almost every superior player starts with their theory and does not have a degree certificate that can quantify the level.< strong>All results are written on the gaming table.

There are also some people who conceal their faces and claim to be superior players to teach their own skills online. It is difficult to understand the true and false. All these undoubtedly lower the threshold for superior players and increase the troubles of the casino.

They have to keep an eye on everyone who looks weird at the gaming table, sweep all suspicious objects out of the casino, and sometimes accidentally hurt some rookies who have not yet started.

When Ben Affleck, the actor of Batman, was playing blackjack at Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas, was identified as the dominant player. After the security guard surrounded him, he said, “I’m sorry, you will be banned for life Participate in this game here.”

And Ben Affleck said:


“I just wanted to try whether card counting can really stimulate adrenaline growth, so I learned a little entertainment.”

In order to prevent the siege of dominant players, the casino has to update the blacklist at any time. Large casinos may lay 2,000 cameras connected to 50 monitors to monitor the players in the casino 24 hours. Once someone wins unusually The money will become the protagonist in the monitor.

Some casinos have replaced the snail shuffler, shuffle the order of the cards to the extreme, basically eliminating any possibility of card counting.

But these can only block some basic players. For real masters, these only increase the fun of the challenge. When the dominant players begin to lay out, the level of gorgeousness is beyond the reach of the gambling screenwriters.

The Baccarat Casino in Atlantic City once received a call. The man Ivel on the other end of the call claimed to play Baccarat and sent them $3 million in advance.

At the same time, he also made some strange requests, including a designated brand of shuffler and poker, and an Asian dealer.

His only explanation for these requirements is “superstition”. His Chinese female companion, Cheung Yin Sun, firmly believes that these can bring him good luck.

Out of professionalism and service spirit, the casino met all their needs, and in Cheung Yin SWhen the croupier asked the croupier to rotate the card 180° in Cantonese, he also regarded it as just a way to pray for luck.

What the casino does not know is that Cheung Yin Sun is a superior player with superb observation and memory.

Cheung Yin Sun noticed that some cards have different patterns due to the cutting method on the back. In this way, she can recognize the numbers and even suits of the cards.

Especially the Gemaco card poker, which is equivalent to transparency in her eyes. Professional poker player Ivel found out about her abilities, he asked her to jointly win nearly 20 million dollars in Baijia Tower and another casino.

Later, the casino sued Ivel, believing that it was cheating, but Ivel did not believe that he had cheated.

“They confuse cheating with superior play.”

After 6 years of entanglement with the casino, Ivel was not caught and imprisoned, but he was still sentenced to return all the prize money.

In this beautiful battle of Cheung Yin Sun, a film and television company bought the story rights and prepared to make the movie “Baccarat Queen”.

Cheung Yin Sun

There are always advantageous players who can make a fortune in the casino, but in the long run, Casinos are always winners. In front of a casino with a God’s perspective, everyone in the game is a trump card.

Even industrial terrorists like dominant players can become a good card in the hands of casinos. p>

When the Shinhwa Casino in Jeju Island, South Korea first opened, business was bleak due to its poor location. So the rebate mechanism was relaxed, and even smarter gamblers can figure it out. Going here to gamble is a trade that makes no money.

“We buy 50 million won in chips (mud code), less than 50,000 dollars, the casino has to post our hotel and 500,000 won Airfare. If I play blackjack, as long as I lose 430,000, the casino will give me a profit of 1.9 million. In other words, I can also earn 1.47 million KRW in commission.”

The business strategy of Shinhwa Casino has been reported by the media, attracting a large number of tourists, but insiders know that those so-called “tourists” are actually dominant players.

Jeju Mythical Casino

According to the casino’s agent, it lost 10 million US dollars in July alone and 8 million US dollars in more than ten days in August.

But it is the casinos that make the most money. The crowds of gamblers make their stocks soar, and the house prices of surrounding villas are soaring and selling hot.

The dominant players who aim to combat the casino loopholes have also evolved a way of symbiosis in the process of gaming with the casino. No one is a loser at this gaming table.

I guess some people are already eager to see if they have the qualifications to become a dominant player, but I advise everyone to worry about it. After all, you can’t resist the temptation of Macau’s largest online casino.

In a real casino, you and I will only become chips.