shadow empire

Line The door opened with a clang, and the sturdy man inside the door looked at Enzio with his hands on his waist, "This is not a playground. You always go in and out and will cause some unnecessary trouble. Do you understand what I mean?"

Casinos require a special license to open federally, so most of these casinos are illegal.

Due to the special geographical and environmental factors of LOS City, sailors and travelers from all over the world would stop here, so the state government specially approved LOS City to operate a casino.

But the prerequisite is that all procedures and special business licenses must be obtained.

Formal casinos have very high taxes. Eighty-three percent of the business income of the legal casino run by the Kodak family in LOS City needs to be handed over to the three levels of government.

That is, local government, state government and federal government.

For the Kodak family, net profit was only about nine percent.

But even if it was only 9%, it made them unimaginable money. If there was any family in the entire LOS City that was the "cleanest", the Kodak family might be one of them.

They do not engage in other criminal businesses, such as smuggling, kidnapping, extortion, protection rackets, etc. They cannot say that they do not do it at all, but basically they will not do it personally unless it is necessary.

Because the profits from the casinos can satisfy their desire for wealth, compared to the other families whose every pore is filled with black blood, they are as kind as missionaries!

It is precisely because of the huge profits from the casinos that the Kodak family's attitude towards illegal casinos is more severe and terrifying than that of the government.

In order to ensure their dominant position in the gambling industry in LOS City, once illegal casinos are discovered by them, they have only two options.

Either they arrange for someone to manage the accounts, and 70 percent of all income must be handed over to the Kodak family as "authorization" fee to continue operating the casino.

Otherwise, after they recover a large sum of money, they will be driven out of los City and will not be allowed to return.

These are the two options they give people, but there is actually a third way.

Conflict, fighting, and then the water level of Angel Lake rose again while the experts were shouting miracles!

No matter which one it is, it is not what the small casinos want. In order to avoid risks, they will change places every once in a while and filter out some guests.

Enzio pulled the cigarette Lance had given him from his pocket and handed it over, "I went out and bought a pack of cigarettes."

The sturdy man looked at the cigarette in his hand, then looked at Enzio, and finally moved aside to make way for him. "You'd better not make things difficult for me."

Ennio said thank you and returned to the casino.

The gambler was standing at the gaming table again, waving money in his hand and placing bets on the blackjack table.

People like this gambling game, probably because it seems... fair, at least fairer than others.

The gambler had good luck. He had already won twelve dollars when he came in. It seemed that he had won back the money he lost.

Ennio didn't care too much, because even if he wanted to pay the money back in advance, he still had to pay the interest.

The noisy environment, the smell of cigarettes, sweat, bad breath, and smelly feet weave a cage of desire in the basement, tightly entrapping everyone here!

By the evening, they had completed four orders and earned fourteen dollars.

Not everyone is willing to lend a hundred yuan. Many people only borrow thirty or fifty yuan, so the commission is relatively not that much.

But even so, fourteen dollars still made these young people feel excited!

They just stood here for a while, and then saw someone lose all their money, and asked the other party if they wanted to borrow money. They didn't actually pay anything!

Money is so easy to make, this is their only thought at this time.

Of course, Morris might not feel that strongly. After all, his mother could earn three dollars in just a dozen minutes - what a damn joke.

Business at the casino got a little better after dark, but Ennio left with his companions, the company had closed for the day, and Lance had gone home.

Ennio's several business orders today made Lance decide to rent a house nearby and open a "branch".

Two or three dollars a month is enough. After all, it is not for people to enjoy, but just to make money.

After the casino closed in the evening, several dealers sat together and chatted, "Do you know that the gambler lost more than 100 yuan today?"

The dealers at the blackjack table couldn't help laughing and sharing today's happy events. They are people with "skills". In order to ensure that the dealer can win, they will put three tens at the bottom of the deck every time they shuffle the cards.

In this way, they can control whose cards will explode and whose cards will not explode at any time and anywhere.

If someone has been studying this, they will find that most of the time, the probability of busting in the long betting area is very high.

At the same time, in order to ensure that they can win in games with a larger total bet amount, they will always make sure that the first card in the deck is an A①.

In blackjack, "A" can represent one point or eleven points.

As long as the first and last cards are drawn, the dealer wins.

But most of the time, gamblers will focus on the current game and they can't tell whether the dealer is cheating or not.

Speaking of this, others were also amazed. It was indeed rare to lose more than a hundred dollars at once in such a small casino.

Most people lose only five or ten dollars, because it is a small underground casino, even if someone wants to gamble big, they are not allowed.

The maximum bet size for each table is ten dollars. The upper limit of betting is set on the one hand to protect the casino itself, and on the other hand to prevent people from losing money and getting angry.

"Where did he get so much money?" the casino owner asked curiously while chewing on a beef bone.

He knew most of the people in the casino, and he also knew the gambler they were talking about. He would come and take two or three dollars and then leave.

It was hard for him to believe that he lost more than a hundred dollars at once.

The dealer shook his head. "I don't know. He goes out for a while and comes back with money."

The other dealers seemed to remember something, "Someone on my side also lost all his money, went out for a trip, and came back with money again."

The casino owner put down the bone in his hand and wiped his mouth. "Go find someone you know to ask. We need to clarify this matter."

If someone commits a crime just to raise money for gambling, he and his casino will be the ones who suffer in the end.

The police love to arrest illegal casinos because they can not only take away all the cash on the spot, but also extort a lot of money from the operators!

In order to reduce their own sentencing in court, most casino operators will cooperate with the police in extortion.

The abnormal behaviour of these people has made the casino owner somewhat alert.

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Soon, they found one of the guys.

"How much money did you lose today?"

Because everyone was from the Empire, even though the casino owner won their money every day, he was not a vicious person. Most of the time he was easy-going and easy to talk to, so everyone was not very afraid of him.

The gambler curled his lips and said, "I lost thirty-seven dollars!"

The casino owner wanted to laugh but held it back. After deducting the almost non-existent operating costs, the share of the dealers, the wages of the thugs and daily expenses from the thirty-seven dollars, his net profit was about twenty-five dollars.

A fool contributed twenty-five dollars to himself a day. It was hard for him to imagine how much money the Kodak family could earn every day!

No wonder some people say they are cash cows, and no wonder they have such a good relationship with those congressmen!

"What a pity, it seems that your luck is not very good today. If your luck is so bad, why do you still gamble so much?"

"I remember that you still have half a month before your salary is due. Are you going to go out and steal something to exchange for money to play cards with me?"

The casino owner looked at him and said, "You know, what I hate most is someone bringing bad things from outside into my casino."

Several thugs also stood up. Those strong men were already scary without them even having to move, not to mention that they were now staring at him with wide eyes.

The gambler quickly confessed, "I borrowed thirty-five dollars."

The casino owner looked at the others and asked, "Why didn't I know that someone borrowed money today?"

There was a hint of anger in his tone. He thought someone was doing something tricky, which were taboos in the casino.

He also stipulated that too much cannot be borrowed. If too much is borrowed, the gamblers will lose too much and might cause trouble, which will also cause trouble.

If anything goes wrong, he will be implicated!

The person in charge of outgoing payments looked confused and said, "I don't know. No one came to the counter to get money today."

Several other dealers also shook their heads, not to mention the thugs.

The boss looked at the gambler and said, "You'd better make your words clear. You know the rules here."

Anyway, these have nothing to do with gambling, so he won't hide anything. "Morris brought a few young people to lend it to me. The interest rate is very low, and the repayment method is very flexible..."

The boss looked at the burly man guarding the gate. The guy touched the cigarette in his pocket and finally nodded. "He said he brought a few friends here to see the world."

The casino owner smiled more, put some uneaten beef bones on a plate and gave them to the gambler, "Please make a trip and bring them back for the child to eat."

The gambler was a little surprised and thanked him quickly, "Your generosity warms people's hearts like the sun..."

"Haha, even though what you said sounds nice, I won't give you back the money you lost!"

The gambler's stance quickly changed at this time, and he gritted his teeth and said, "If they hadn't insisted on lending me money, I wouldn't have lost so much!"

After sending the nagging gambler away, the casino owner picked his teeth with a steel pick, his face showing no emotion, "Someone has overstepped the line..."

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①: The dealer's long working hours will lead to increased fatigue and hand sweating. It will gradually become difficult to control multiple head cards when dealing cards, but one card is easy to control, so there is often only one head card and multiple tail cards.