Entertaining Children

   Chapter 1250 Division of Labor and Cooperation

   "It's a talent again?" Sandra looked at Xiao Yao, "Since you are so talented in mathematics, why not study science and become an artist?"

   "Because I have a higher talent in music and acting!" Xiao Yao said without blushing at all.

   "Well, I'm taking the test, not here to discuss my life and career choices with you!" Xiao Yao continued, "Excuse me, have I completed the test? Did I pass the test?"

  Sandra, Taylor, Sam, and Raj looked at each other, and then nodded together.

   "Then can you teach me to count cards?" Xiao Yao asked.

   "Of course!" Taylor nodded and stretched out his hand. "Welcome to the MIT 21 o'clock team."

   "Join?" Xiao Yao smiled, "But I am not a student of MIT!"

   "Yes," Taylor said, "you are the first non-MIT student in our group."

   "Well, my honor!" Xiao Yao reached out and shook Taylor's hand.

   "I'm hungry!" Sam raised his hand and said, "I think we should celebrate the addition of new members and find a place to have a big meal!"

   "OK, I'll treat you!" Xiao Yao smiled, "This is your site, you find a place, I will pay the bill!"

  Xiao Yao, Yan Ke and others came here not too early. An introduction and two tests took a lot of time. Now it’s almost time for lunch.

   "Since it is our site..." Taylor said.

  "I agree!" Yan Ke interrupted, "He is a star, very rich, so he should pay the bill! Let's pick a more expensive place!"

   "Okay!" Taylor thought for a while and nodded.

  Discussed, the group went out of school to have lunch.

  Although Yan Ke said that he wanted to “eat the big family”, in the end everyone took Xiao Yao to a small restaurant not far from the school. In terms of scale and decoration, it did not seem to be a particularly high-end place. Xiao Yao's invitation to dinner was just polite, not trying to show off how rich he was, so he didn't raise any objections, and followed everyone into this seemingly ordinary restaurant.

  After everyone entered the restaurant to find an empty seat, the waiter of the restaurant quickly came to greet them and brought the menu to everyone.

  After receiving the menu from the waiter, Xiao Yao was dumbfounded.

  "What menu is this?" Xiao Yao was a little speechless.

  The menu of this restaurant is very special. The normal menu includes the name and price of the food. On the menu of this restaurant, the name of the food is nothing special, but the price position corresponding to the name of the dish is not a number, but a different mathematical formula. Moreover, these formulas are not simple arithmetic operations or equations, but complex formulas involving advanced mathematics, of which more than 80%, Xiao Yao can't even read it, let alone forget it.

   "Ha!" Seeing Xiao Yao's speechless expression, Taylor and others all laughed.

  "The owner of this restaurant is a teacher in the math department of our school!" Sandra explained with a smile, "The customers here are basically students from our school! So, welcome to MIT!"

  This restaurant is not far from MIT. Hearing what Sandra said, Xiao Yao understood.

   "You said just now that I have passed the test," Xiao Yao leaned forward and tentatively asked Sandra in a low voice, "So, this is not another test for me, right?"

   "It seems that you haven't studied advanced mathematics!" Sandra understood, smiled, "Yes, this is not a test."

   "Oh!" Xiao Yao breathed a sigh of relief and leaned back on the chair.

   "But," Sandra asked again, "You can't understand the menu. How do you order and pay?"

"Cut~" Xiao Yao curled his lips, "I just don't understand the formulas on the price, so why don't I understand the menu? I am a rich person, and I don’t look at the price when I place an order. I just need to know the name of the dish. As far as the bill is concerned, I will pay as much as the waiter says, I don’t care!"

   "噫~" Sandra curled her lips with disgust.

Taylor and others all knew that Xiao Yao, the star must be a rich man, but after contacting him in the morning, they found that Xiao Yao neither had the air of a star, nor did he have the kind of rich man’s dude, and they still had a very good impression of him. Ok. Now Xiao Yao deliberately raised money in response to Sandra's ridicule. In their view, it was wit and humor, rather than showing off. Not only was it not disgusting, but it felt a little cute.

  Xiao Yao doesn’t think that students in schools like MIT are all nerds, especially those who think of using mathematics to count cards and use them to win money in casinos, even less likely to be nerds. Xiao Yao is also very interested in this group of people, and has a certain affection, and behaves very affectionately.

  So, the atmosphere of this meal is very good. After a meal, Taylor and others had a good conversation with Xiao Yao, and they had a better understanding, and they seemed to know each other a lot.

  After lunch, everyone took a break and went back to a classroom at MIT to start teaching card counting.

  In the afternoon teaching, Taylor and others took turns to play. Someone is responsible for explaining to Xiao Yao the formulas and calculation methods used in counting cards, and some are responsible for demonstrating.

  Xiao Yao’s learning ability and efficiency are very good, and he does not need to understand the deep mathematical principles and knowledge involved in formulas, but only needs to master the method, and quickly understand and learn the method of counting cards.

   "I think I understand!" Xiao Yao said confidently after not too long.

  The people in the card counting group did not appear to be too surprised, and without any compliments, they seemed to have expected this result.

   "Really?" Sam carried a bag and walked in front of Xiao Yao, and took out playing cards and chips from the bag, "Then let's try it! This time we will play with three decks of cards!"

   "Okay!" Xiao Yao was also a little eager to try, and nodded happily.

  This time, unlike the memory test in the morning, it was conducted to simulate the actual situation of the casino. Taylor was the bookmaker, Sam, Raj and Sandra all played the same players as Xiao Yao, but Yan Ke still didn't participate and just watched from the side.

  Sam, Raj and Sandra are playing, but they are just playing ordinary passers-by players in the casino, not with Xiao Yao. In the following process, the three people's betting and requesting cards appeared very casual, and everyone's focus was on Xiao Yao.

  And Xiao Yao’s performance is very good. After studying during that period of time, Xiao Yao indeed understood and mastered the card counting method they taught. After more than an hour, the chips in front of Xiao Yao almost doubled.

   "It seems that I can set off to Vegas tomorrow!" Xiao Yao looked at the bargaining chip in front of him, turned his head and smiled at the three Yan Ke.

   "What? Are you going to Vegas tomorrow?" The people on the card counting team were surprised this time, and Taylor asked even more.

   "Yes!" Xiao Yao smiled, "If you don't go to Vegas, why should I learn to count cards?"

   "No," Taylor said, "My point is, do you plan to go alone?"

"Yes!" Xiao Yao nodded, "I've heard Yan said that when you go to Vegas, all the team members are dispatched and act collectively. They will cooperate with each other. But not all of you have been taken by Vegas. Is the casino blacklisted? I want you to go with me, but if you say you can’t go to the casino, then I can only go alone.”

   "Also," Xiao Yao looked at the chips in front of him, and then said, "It seems that this kind of card counting can be operated by one person!"

   "Really?" Taylor smiled, "The casino is not playing three decks of cards. Let's try with a few more decks of cards?"

   "OK!" Xiao Yao nodded.

  He heard that the casino’s blackjack tables generally use five to six decks of cards at a time. The difficulty of the three decks of cards is indeed lower than the actual situation, but Xiao Yao admits that he has learned the card counting, and does not think that adding a few more decks of cards will not win.

   "This time we use eight decks of cards!" Taylor took out another five decks of playing cards from Sam's bag.

   "What?" Xiao Yao was a little surprised, "I heard that casinos generally use five to six decks of cards!"

   "Yang, there are also eight decks of cards, we met in the casino!" Yan Ke said.

   "Okay!" Xiao Yao nodded.

  The difficulty of eight decks of cards is indeed higher than the difficulty of five or six decks, and it is even more difficult to calculate. However, Xiao Yao is confident enough in his memory and mental arithmetic ability. For him who has mastered the card counting method, he still has the confidence to cope with this increase in difficulty.

  From three decks to eight decks, the difficulty has increased a lot, but Xiao Yao's performance is not bad, basically the chips are still increasing slowly, so Xiao Yao still looks relatively calm. But when Taylor increased the difficulty again, Xiao Yao was not calm.

  "Come over!" After changing to eight decks of cards, Taylor did not deal with all the cards, but after seven or eight rounds, he combined the discarded cards with the unused cards.

  The more discarded cards and the fewer unused cards, the higher the accuracy of player judgment. However, it's not that you can't play when you have a lot of cards. Xiao Yao thought that Taylor had started again after seeing that he didn't show signs of decline in the first few games, so he just shrugged and didn't object.

   What Xiao Yao didn't expect was that after Tyler put the eight decks of cards back together, he didn't start to deal with the cards. Instead, he took a large pile of cards, put them aside, and started with only the remaining cards.

  In this way, the number of points and some special cards on the gaming table cannot be estimated.

   Xiao Yao immediately frowned and said: "Hey~"

   "This situation also happens in casinos!" Yan Ke said on the sidelines.

  Although Xiao Yao heard that Yan Ke's tone seemed to be a little gloating, he didn't question him, just frowned and nodded, motioning Taylor to continue.

  From the card counting method Xiao Yao learned just now, this situation is a bit super-class. When Xiao Yao was playing, his speed obviously slowed down, and the time he considered when he said whether he wanted a hand or not was obviously longer.

  Although Xiao Yao considered the time longer, the situation did not get better. After ten rounds, Xiao Yao's chips in front of him have obviously decreased. Card counting is the probability of playing, which improves the overall chance of winning. The more you play, the more obvious the effect. There is no guarantee that every hand will win. Therefore, it is normal for the chips to decrease in a certain period of time. The ten rounds are not too many, which does not necessarily mean that there is a problem with Xiao Yao's algorithm, but Xiao Yao clearly feels that there is a problem with himself.

Cutting off a part of the cards at the beginning has already made Xiao Yao very difficult. Unexpectedly, after playing for ten rounds, Taylor opened a new set of unused cards. After shuffling, some of them were added to the cards to be dealt. Pile.

   "Hey!" Xiao Yao immediately cried out dissatisfied when he saw Taylor's movements.

   "Yang~" Taylor laughed.

   "Don't tell me this is what really happens in the casino!" Xiao Yao said, looking at Taylor.

"It's really true!" Taylor said, "We have really met. You know, we are not the only people who count cards, and casinos have not met people who count cards. Those who don't use snail dealers When a suspected card counter is found at a gaming table and cannot be determined, these additional methods will be used to deal with the suspected card counter!"

   "I'm going, there is this kind of thing?" Xiao Yao stared, "So, don't you have to play?"

   "Lost confidence?" Taylor smiled, "Are you going to give up?"

"I didn't come to gamble with you!" Xiao Yao said, "The things you taught me can't cope with such a situation. If you continue to gamble, it is pure luck. I am not a gambler. It doesn't make sense to go down."

   "Ha~" The people in the card counting group all laughed.

   "Are you kidding me?" Xiao Yao looked at them and said, "Well, I admit that I was too arrogant just now. You haven't finished teaching yet, I can't wait to say I learned it!"

   "Why do you say that?" Taylor asked.

"Yan tells me that you have already been to Vegas and have been blacklisted by the Casino League." Xiao Yao said, "Only when you win will you be blacklisted by the casino. Yan also said that you are indeed You won money from the casino. You have encountered this situation and you can still win money. It shows that you have a way to deal with this situation! I have learned everything you taught me, but I still don’t know how to deal with it. Maybe you haven't taught me yet!"

"Yes!" Taylor nodded, "However, we didn't tell you that you learned it, so we deliberately hid something and didn't teach you, but told you that you can go to the casino alone. Our card counting is a teamwork. Different people play different roles, have different divisions of labor and tasks, and one person cannot complete it!"

  "Division of labor? Different roles?" Xiao Yao waved his hand, "Can you elaborate?"

"We go to the casino as a group action." Taylor said, "In a group, there will be at least three people. Among them are two card counters and one big player. Of the two card counters, one is responsible for the preliminary investigation. , To detect the trend of the card piles on the card table, send signals to the big players, notify the big players to enter the table. Another card counter is responsible for controlling the field, and reminds the big players. Among the three, the big players are the main players, and the other two People are assistants. Although they are assistants, these two people are also indispensable."

   "There must be at least three people? Then I can't go to Vegas?" Xiao Yao turned to Yan Ke and said, "Why didn't you tell me this before I came?"

"It's not impossible to go." Yan Ke said, "Although all of us have been blacklisted by Vegas casinos, it doesn't mean that our card counting is over. We can teach you, naturally. You can teach others. During this time, we have been looking for new card counting team members. When we find new card counting team members, we can go to Vegas with you."

   "I will find new team members, when will I have to wait?" Xiao Yao said.

"Quickly!" Taylor said, "In the card counting group, the big players are the main force, and they also have the highest requirements for all aspects of ability and quality. Relatively speaking, it is difficult to find people who can be big players. Players should be easier to find. We believe that your abilities and qualities meet the requirements of big players. What you just taught you is what big players need to master. With you as a big player, it won’t be too much to find two support Difficult, it is not expected to take too long. We are at MIT!"

   Xiao Yao nodded and looked at the people: "Could you tell me, who of you is the big player, who is the card counter, who is the early investigation, who controls the field?"

   "Me, Yu Gang and Taylor are big players, they are all card counters..." Yan Ke said.

   "Wait," Xiao Yao interrupted, "You said that a team requires at least three people. You only have seven people in total. There are three big players?

  "The three of us are mainly big players, but at the same time, we can be competent as card counters and assist others!" Yan Ke said, "Fixed combinations are easy to be discovered, and we will carry out some rotations!"

   "Oh!" Xiao Yao nodded, and suddenly moved in his heart, and said to Yan Ke and others, "Can you show me how your three-person team divides and cooperates? Just the situation just now!"

  A few people looked at each other, Taylor smiled and nodded: "Of course!"

  (End of this chapter)