Just as Wang Haoran knew Ye Qiu well, Ye Qiu was also very familiar with Wang Haoran, so when faced with Wang Haoran's invitation, he naturally had no reason to refuse.

Wang Haoran's courtyard was quite large. It used to accommodate dozens of households, but now it was just him and his grandson living there.

Ye Qiu didn't have a good impression of Wang Haoran's grandson, because Ye Qiu felt he was the kind of person who was unlearned and unskilled.

In the evening, after finishing his meal, Wang Haoran hurried back to his room to study Bai Lan's illness, leaving the space to Ye Qiu and Wang Haoran's grandson, Wang Longbo.

Wang Longbo, though unlearned, was also without any scheming. Seeing his grandfather leave, he immediately pulled Ye Qiu aside and said, "Brother Ye, I heard from Grandpa that you're a versatile talent. Do you play poker?"

Ye Qiu shook his head.

"No problem! If you don't know, I can teach you. No fear in telling you, I'm really good at playing poker." The mention of poker got Wang Longbo excited, like a man who had taken Viagra seeing a stunning beauty.

To be honest, Ye Qiu was quite helpless now, but with Wang Longbo dragging him like this, he had no choice but to follow him to the study.

Once inside the study, Wang Longbo couldn't wait to take out the poker cards.

"Brother Ye, do you know Texas Hold'em?" Mentioning this, Wang Longbo got really excited.

"Yeah, I know."

Texas Hold'em is known as one of the famous gambling games in poker, played globally, especially in Hong Kong and Taiwan where many films about it have been made. As a Demon King, Ye Qiu was naturally familiar with these things.

"That's great! How about we play a few rounds?"

Knowing Ye Qiu understood this, Wang Longbo couldn't contain his excitement. He felt he wouldn't be able to sleep without playing a few rounds tonight.

Ye Qiu didn't want to gamble, but Wang Longbo persistently insisted that Ye Qiu should play a few rounds with him, otherwise, he wouldn't let Ye Qiu rest.

"Alright then."

Helpless, Ye Qiu had no choice but to agree to Wang Longbo's request.

Neither of them intended to gamble real money; they were just playing casually. So, each took out a few hundred bucks as a betting fund.

In the first deal, Ye Qiu wasn't lucky, drawing a lousy hand, while Wang Longbo seemed quite excited. It looked like his cards were good, so Ye Qiu naturally didn't follow and folded directly.

In the following rounds, Ye Qiu also didn't get any good hands, so he just folded after taking a look.

Although Wang Longbo kept winning, he was only winning the ante, which he found unsatisfying.

"Brother Ye, the key to playing Texas Hold'em is courage. As the saying goes, 'the bolder the heart, the greater the yield.' You're always folding, that's too boring," Wang Longbo lectured like an old hand.

"Hmm..."

Ye Qiu casually replied without paying much attention to him. If he wasn't afraid that Wang Longbo would continue pestering him, he would have left long ago.

Dealing again, this time Ye Qiu didn't fold because he looked at his cards and they were quite good.

"Brother Ye, you're not going to fold again, are you?" After Ye Qiu kept folding, Wang Longbo almost didn't even look at his own cards, thinking it didn't matter since he was surely going to win.

"Alright then, I'll call a hundred."

Upon hearing this, Wang Longbo immediately perked up, not even checking his own cards, directly throwing in a hundred, "I call."

Deal again.

Ye Qiu drew a spade Q, while Wang Longbo drew a heart A.

Ye Qiu and Wang Longbo's first face-up cards were a spade J and a heart K, respectively. In comparison, Wang Longbo's face-up card was larger, so he started the betting.

"Continue with a hundred, how about it? Brother Ye, will you follow?"

"Follow."

Both picked up new cards, getting a spade 10 and a heart Q.

Based on face-up cards alone, Ye Qiu had a spade 10, J, Q, while Wang Longbo had a heart A, K, Q; thus, Wang Longbo still had a better hand.

"I'll continue with five hundred, Brother Ye, do you dare to follow?" At this point, Wang Longbo was very confident, and his hole card was likely another heart card. Whether it was a 10 or a J wasn't known.

However, at this point, Ye Qiu wasn't backing down either, immediately putting in five hundred to follow.

Spade A, heart 10!

"Haha!"

Seeing his last card, Wang Longbo couldn't help but burst out laughing. "I see you only have three hundred left; I'm going to all-in, dare you?"

Ye Qiu smiled, "Why wouldn't I?"

Ye Qiu threw in his last three hundred.

When those three red Mao notes were pushed into the pot, Wang Longbo's heart twitched, "Brother Ye, your hole card wouldn't be a spade K, would it?"

"Take a guess," Ye Qiu replied with a mysterious smile.

Seeing Ye Qiu's confident demeanor, Wang Longbo hesitated.

"As you said, the bolder the heart, the greater the yield. You won't be backing down, will you?" laughed Ye Qiu.

"No way! I don't believe you can beat me!"

Provoked by Ye Qiu, Wang Longbo instantly lost his rationality, revealing his hand, "My hole card is a heart J; unless you have a royal flush, don't hope to beat me!"

Wang Longbo flipped his hole card onto the table forcefully. It was his first time getting such a strong hand in Texas Hold'em.

"Haha, sorry about that, my hole card is indeed a spade K, as you wondered — I have a royal flush!" Ye Qiu leisurely flipped over his hole card.

"How... how is that possible!"

A royal flush is the highest hand in Texas Hold'em, getting these five cards out of the 54-card deck is an astronomically small probability, yet Ye Qiu got it!

"Nothing's impossible."

Ye Qiu said this while quietly collecting the money in the pot. This round was nice, not only did he win back what he lost earlier, he even won several hundred from Wang Longbo.

"I just don't believe it; let's go again!"

Unconvinced, Wang Longbo continued to gamble with Ye Qiu.

This time, Wang Longbo's hand was still quite good, showing a sequence. Of course, Ye Qiu's hand was no worse.

After some raising and following, both of them revealed their hands.

Ye Qiu's face-up cards were 10, J, Q, K, while Wang Longbo had 8, 9, 10, J.

"My face-up cards are bigger than yours, so I get to call first. I'm going all-in!" Ye Qiu said this as he pushed all his money into the pot.

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