Chapter 1636: The Secret of Gambling on Stones!
"If you want to come to the gambling stone shop to make money, I guarantee that you will lose everything in no time."
After getting this answer, Liu Yidao immediately carefully examined the ore in his hand and then said.
"Miss Meng, I also know a thing or two about gambling on stones."
"The stone in my hand has definitely not been tampered with by anyone, and the probability of producing an alien divine source is not small."
"So no matter from what angle, I shouldn't lose money."
Hearing this, Chen Mengjie took the stone from Liu Yidao and said, "The business of gambling on stones also exists in the mortal world."
"It's just that when ordinary people gamble on stones, they're betting on jade and the like, but we're betting on divine sources."
"To determine what is wrapped in the stone skin, mortals use the method of judging by the characteristics of the stone skin surface."
"Some monks who often hang out in the gambling stone shop also use this method."
"Some small stone gambling shops occasionally use exquisite techniques to cut the ore themselves, then take out the divine source inside and reseal it."
"This kind of low-level manipulation can deceive ordinary monks, but it cannot deceive true experts."
"So what's wrong with my stone?"
Halfway through listening, Liu Yidao asked curiously.
Seeing this, Chen Mengjie glanced at him and said calmly: "I said it at the beginning, nine out of ten gamblings are scams, and nine out of ten gamblings are losses."
“Although this is a gambling stone shop, it is essentially no different from a gambling table.”
"As the dealers at the gambling table, how can they make money if they don't cheat?"
After getting this answer, Chen Feng looked at the stone in his hand curiously and said.
"I don't know how to gamble on stones, but I can be sure of the integrity of the stone in my hand."
"The stone skin of the divine source ore is very special, and most divine senses cannot penetrate it. If this is the case, how can the gambling stone shop cheat?"
Facing Chen Feng's question, Chen Mengjie said, "They didn't cheat by tampering with the stones, but by tampering with the prices of the stones."
"After each piece of divine source ore is mined, the gambling stone shop's official 'miner' will screen it in advance."
"Rumor has it that the good stones are all opened by the gambling stone shops themselves."
“But in fact, the gambling stone shop rarely digs stones themselves, and all the stones they dig out are inside.”
“It’s just that they set different prices for these stones according to the grade of the ore.”
"Take the ore I have in my hand as an example. Its price is 10,000 kilograms of divine source, and the chance of producing a different kind of divine source is 90%."
"As long as we can successfully mine the source of the alien god, then this stone will be a profit."
After saying this, Liu Yidao became even more proud.
"Miss Meng, it's not shameful to admit that I have a talent for gambling on stones."
"I'm not interested in this, so you don't have to worry about me competing with you."
Looking at Liu Yidao's smug expression, Chen Mengjie said coldly: "What the gambling stone shop likes most is talented geniuses like you."
"Because people like you always think you can make great strides in all fields."
"When you have this mentality, it will be hard for the gambling stone shop not to make money."
"The stone in your hand has a 90% chance of making money, but also a 10% chance of losing money."
"On the surface, this looks like a good deal, but in reality it's a sinkhole."
"Because even if this stone wins money, its highest value will not exceed 15,000 Divine Sources."
"Using 10,000 Divine Sources to earn a profit of less than 5,000 Divine Sources is a very unprofitable business at the gambling table."
As she spoke, Chen Mengjie pointed to the surrounding stones.
"Every stone you see has been selected by someone else."
"The mine masters in the gambling stone shops cannot make a 100% accurate judgment, but if they are asked to estimate the approximate range of the ore's value, they rarely make mistakes."
"The price of each piece of ore in the outer area will hardly exceed 30,000 Divine Sources."
"The better the quality of the ore, the more expensive it will be."
"Assuming that the price of each piece of ore is 10,000 Divine Sources, the average probability of making money by mining a different type of Divine Source is 70%."
"You can earn 3,000 Divine Sources for each piece of ore. If you open ten pieces of ore in total, you can earn a total of 21,000 Divine Sources."
"But the three pieces of ore you failed to obtain cost 30,000 Divine Sources, so you will lose 9,000 Divine Sources in the end."
"Excuse me, in this kind of gambling situation, what do you have to win?"
As soon as the words fell, everyone immediately started calculating in their minds.
As expected, no matter how they calculated, the outcome of gambling on stones was still a loss.
Thinking of this, Chen Xiao on the side said: "That being said, many people in the gambling stone shop really made money."
“It’s called survivor bias!”
"It is said in the chapter on making money in the Eternal Medical Classic that people only remember the last lucky person and subconsciously ignore the unlucky ones who died."
"A gambler who often hangs out in the gambling stone shop will not remember how many times he has lost, but only how many times he has won."
"Under such word-of-mouth propaganda, the gambling stone shop will naturally 'win more and lose less'."
Everyone: "..."
These guys are so wicked. What's wrong with their brains that they can come up with such a way to make money?
"Mengjie, are all the stones in the gambling stone shop like this?"
Chen Xiao asked curiously, and Chen Mengjie nodded and said, "Yes, all the stones in the gambling stone shop are carefully divided."
"It's basically impossible to make money here."
"This is also why I don't recommend you come to the gambling stone shop to obtain resources."
"So how do you make money?"
Liu Yidao, who was short of money, spoke up unwillingly. Chen Mengjie said calmly, "I make money in the gambling stone shop not only by relying on gambling stone skills, but also by long-term preparation."
"The higher the level of the gambling game, the greater the probability of Master Kuang making mistakes."
"In order to win money, I spent a long time collecting the odds of opening stones in the gambling stone shop."
"I decided to take action only after I learned that the success rate of opening stones in three of the gambling stone shops in the past ten years was extremely low."
"But even so, the cost of my gambling on the stone was about 300 million divine sources."
"Strictly speaking, I only earned 700 million divine sources that time."
"That's not a small amount!"
Liu Yidao continued to explain unwillingly, and Chen Mengjie curled her lips and said, "Just looking at this time, it is true that the profit is not small."
"But why don't you ask me how much I spent to enter the inner courtyard of the gambling stone shop?"
"If I can come up with this method, the gambling stone shop can naturally come up with it too."
“So they set standards for high-end gambling on stones and inner courtyard gambling on stones.”
"If you want to enter the high-end game, your daily spending in the gambling stone shop must reach more than 30 million."
"If you want to enter the Inner Court Gambling Stone Bureau without a recommendation from an acquaintance, your daily spending in the Gambling Stone Shop must reach more than 100 million Divine Sources."
“Each company’s standards are slightly different, but the gap is not huge.”
"In order to obtain the qualifications for the inner courtyards of those three families, I spent a total of 450 million. In total, I lost about 200 million."
"If we subtract 200 million from the 700 million profit, the profit will only be around 500 million."
"That is to say, I spent about 750 million and prepared for a long time, but in the end I only made about 500 million. Do you still think it's too much?"
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