"Are you also Chinese?" Chen Yiyang asked.
"Yes." The young man, who appeared to be about twenty years old, replied, "Is this your first time at the casino, boss?"
"Sort of." Chen Yiyang didn't explain further and simply admitted it.
In fact, when he was in Australia before, he had watched around a casino for a while.
However, casinos in Australia were different from those in New Zealand; some of the dealers were indeed quite attractive.
This might be the difference between casinos in Europe and America compared to those in Asia.
There weren't many people at the table right now, so the young dealer had time to talk to Chen Yiyang.
He explained, "The casino operates 24 hours non-stop. In Auckland, except for closing for half a day on Christmas, dealers have to work at all other times, often including night shifts.
This schedule is very unfriendly to women. Moreover, the dealer's job is very boring; basically, you just deal cards, collect cards, and handle chips.
In fact, if we handed our job over to robots, I feel robots would do it better than us.
Moreover, in Auckland, an ordinary dealer like me earns about RMB four thousand a week, no more than other regular jobs.
So, unless really desperate, attractive women wouldn't leave other good jobs to be dealers at a casino. In fact, our industry's resignation rate is quite high, and there are no gambling enthusiasts who come here to be dealers, because once you become one, you cannot gamble at any casino in New Zealand unless you go abroad or resign."
"No tips?" Given the cost of living in New Zealand, Chen Yiyang calculated and found that this salary was indeed not high.
But Chen Yiyang wondered if the dealers' wages were so low because when guests won money, they would tip them a portion.
"Dealers can't accept tips. Even if you win big and throw me a few chips, the casino will confiscate them." The young dealer answered, "In the casino, only tips for the service staff won't be confiscated."
In fact, halfway through the dealer's answer, Chen Yiyang realized what was going on.
If dealers could accept tips, some might use their position to deliberately create opportunities for guests to win big money.
Although this would significantly harm the casino, it wouldn't affect the dealers.
Therefore, dealers can't have any extra charges.
"In Europe, the people who come to the casino are real gamblers." Brian, who was beside him, told Chen Yiyang, "The gamblers here only focus on winning or losing. Even if the dealer strips, they won't bother to look."
"Tch, as if someone comes here just to see pretty women."
After betting a few rounds, Chen Yiyang felt it was quite pointless.
However, he still had over three hundred in chips left, so he casually slipped them to a mixed-race service girl who brought him a drink.
Meanwhile, Brian seemed to have a good streak; he even earned a bit more chips.
But his focus wasn't on the gambling table at the moment.
Chen Yiyang saw that although Brian was placing bets, his gaze was constantly glancing at the table next to theirs.
"What's up? Did you see something?" Chen Yiyang asked curiously.
Upon hearing Chen Yiyang's words, Brian immediately signaled him to keep his voice down.
After a while, he distributed all his remaining chips to several service girls and then pulled Chen Yiyang aside.
"I saw something interesting. Want to watch the fun with me?"
"Sure." Chen Yiyang nodded.
Brian then made a phone call.
Soon, a man in a suit came over.
"This is the manager of this casino, and also my friend." Brian introduced the man to Chen Yiyang.
No wonder he invited me over; it's his friend's place.
No wonder he called me over.
Chen Yiyang immediately realized that if he wasn't uninterested in gambling, he surely would've been tempted to spend by this guy.
However, at this moment, Chen Yiyang's attention wasn't on that; he really wanted to know what Brian had discovered.
After Brian whispered with his friend for a while, the casino manager directly took Brian and Chen Yiyang to the casino's surveillance room.
As a casino, the surveillance cameras here were definitely the densest in all of New Zealand.
Under Brian's direction, the security personnel in the monitoring room quickly zoomed in a camera view.
Everyone looked at the footage on this camera.
The camera was aimed at a roulette table.
The gameplay at this table consisted of numbers and grooves carved on a spinning wheel, with a ball on top.
After all the gamblers placed their bets, the dealer pressed a switch, the wheel started spinning, and stopped after over a minute.
By then, whichever groove the ball landed on, the gambler who wagered on that number won.
The smaller the groove, the higher the payout ratio.
This style of play is very old-fashioned, so there were only a few patrons at the table.
But the way these patrons bet was somewhat odd.
Because they didn't wait for the dealer to spin the wheel before betting, instead, they waited until the wheel was about to stop before placing their bets.
This was almost like open gambling.
Thus, these gamblers had a high win rate, usually winning a round every two or three turns.
At this point, Chen Yiyang finally realized.
The dealer was colluding with the patrons to cheat and steal from the casino!
"Check the surveillance footage from the past few days." The manager immediately ordered.
And so, the recordings from this table over the previous few days were replayed.
As expected, these guys weren't pulling this off for the first time.
Every two or three days, the same group of people would come to this table and play like this, and the dealer at the table would happen to be the same person.
However, if other patrons also came to this table, the dealer would immediately signal all guests to place bets before spinning the wheel.
And when serving other patrons, the dealer would put on an unfriendly face with a bad attitude.
So other patrons would leave shortly after trying a few rounds.
In reality, cheating in this manner was not only inefficient but didn't win much money either.
Even when the roulette was almost stopping, the ball could still land in one of two grooves.
You still required a bit of luck for your bet to land correctly.
Moreover, unless the ball landed in the narrowest, highest payout grooves, the odds weren't high even when winning.
Chen Yiyang felt that even if this group pulled this off for a week, they'd only earn tens of thousands.
However, this was indeed the only method a dealer could think of to cheat.
"Start gathering evidence and call a few people over to take that dealer away," the manager ordered.
"What about those patrons colluding with the dealer?" a subordinate asked.
