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The crowd in the balconies gasped. It was a huge bet before the flop. The action moved to Jax. Evan stared at the Syndicate Boss. Jax’s glowing red cybernetic eye spun and clicked. Whirrr. The tiny, invisible laser shot out and scanned the deck in the Dealer’s hands. Jax’s mechanical arms twitched perfectly still. There was no hesitation. "I call the one hundred and sixty million," Jax said calmly, pushing his black chips into the center. Evan’s mind raced. He processed the data instantly. The yellow man was bluffing with terrible cards. The young boy had a decent hand. But Jax had scanned the deck. Jax knew what the community cards were going to be. Jax knew that if he called, he was going to hit a powerful hand on the board. Jax was setting a trap. The action finally came to Evan. He looked at his chip stack. If he called, he would be putting almost all of his remaining life into the center of the table. If he missed the board, he would die. Evan looked at the towering, face
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“Only plays premium cards. Touches necklace when strong,” Evan memorized. He watched the giant, scarred mercenary. The mercenary treated the game like a physical fight. He stared down the other players. He breathed heavily through his nose. But Evan realized the mercenary was mathematically stupid. The mercenary only looked at his own two cards. He never looked at the community cards on the board. He did not understand the changing probabilities. “Reckless. Ignorant of the board. Easy to trap,” Evan noted. Evan studied the old woman in the black dress. She was the most dangerous human at the table. She was completely silent. She never smiled. She never frowned. Her wrinkled hands moved with slow, deliberate precision. But Evan saw her eyes. She always looked at the chips before she looked at her cards. She cared more about the math than the game. “Cold calculator. Plays the odds perfectly,” Evan observed. And then there was the young, arrogant boy in the clear plastic jacket.
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Evan looked around the table. His stomach twisted into a tight knot. The game had just changed completely. It was no longer just Evan against the cheating cyborg. He was completely surrounded. Sitting to Evan’s left was a tall, thin man wearing a suit made of bright, glowing yellow silk. He had sharp, greedy eyes and a thin mustache. He tapped a solid gold cane against the floor impatiently. Next to the yellow man sat a beautiful woman wearing a heavy necklace made of glowing red rubies. Her skin was perfectly smooth, and her eyes were cold and bored. Across the table sat a very large, muscular man. He did not look like a businessman. He wore heavy gray armor and had thick, deep scars across his cheeks. He was a famous mercenary commander who had gotten rich fighting the Bank’s wars. Beside the mercenary sat an old woman. She wore a dark black dress. Her hands were covered in expensive diamond rings. She looked like a sweet grandmother, but her eyes were black and soulless. And
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The heavy, silent air inside the Glass Lotus felt like it was pressing down on Evan Kennedy’s chest. Evan sat in the soft leather chair. He looked at his two face-down cards. He knew what they were. The Ace of Hearts and the King of Hearts. It was a beautiful, powerful hand. It was a hand that screamed at him to bet all his chips. Across the black velvet table, Jax was smiling. The Syndicate Boss had pushed his massive mountain of eight hundred million years into the center. Jax’s dark metal arms rested on the table. His glowing red cybernetic eye spun and clicked rapidly.But Evan was not looking at Jax’s smile. Evan was looking at the tiny, invisible red laser shooting out of Jax’s mechanical eye. The laser was bouncing off the polished silver shuffling machine. It was scanning the tiny, microscopic barcodes on the edges of the physical paper cards. Jax knew the future. Jax knew exactly which cards the Dealer was going to flip over. "Call the bet, Evan," Jax mocked. His robotic
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Evan let out a long, heavy breath. He had risked his life, and he had won. The Dealer pushed a massive, towering mountain of black chips toward Evan. He now controlled over a billion years of life. He was the chip leader. "You read him, kid," Marco laughed softly, patting Evan’s back. "You called his bluff perfectly. You are amazing."But Evan did not feel amazing. His head hurt terribly. He wiped more blood from his nose. He knew he could not use the Perception again. The scramblers were too strong. If he tried it one more time, his brain would melt. "Next hand," the Dealer said smoothly. The game continued. It was a brutal, bloody war of attrition. Evan played smart. He used his massive stack of chips to bully the weaker players. He folded when he met resistance. He relied on pure, human poker skills. An hour later, Evan bet heavily against the woman with the fiber-optic snake hair. She tried to bluff him, but her hair cables hissed and flashed orange near the roots when she w
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Evan stared at the massive bet. His heart raced. He had Pocket Kings. It was an incredibly strong hand. The board was safe. If he called and won, he would eliminate the Brain and take a massive lead in the tournament. But if he called and lost, he would be crippled. He would have almost no chips left. Evan looked at the glass jar. The brain was a mathematical genius. It calculated probabilities perfectly. Would a perfect computer risk its entire life on a bluff? Or did the Brain have a set of Fours, Sevens, or Twos? "Kid," Marco whispered behind him. "It is a huge bet. Be careful. Machines don't bluff like humans do."Evan needed an edge. He needed to know if the machine was lying. He could not read its face, because it did not have a face. He could not read its heartbeat, because it did not have a heart. Evan took a slow, deep breath. He closed his eyes. He opened the mental door in his mind. He triggered his Chronos Perception. The pain was absolutely horrific. It was worse t
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