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Thorns in the Heart I

" Shaking disk. I lost 2 thousand, winning last weekend, but last
night I had bad luck, it burns up my pocket. " He said.

Phuong opened wide her eyes.

" How do players play this game? I have heard about it, but I do

not understand how to play, what are its rules. " She asked.

He held his cup and watching the black water of coffee that
glinted

and stirred in the cup. He shook his head and sighed.

" You don't need to learn about this thing. Your life was burned
enough! Do you know that? "

" Yes...! I want to know only. "

Nguyen looked at Phuong and said:

" The basics of this game are betting on even and odd number,
that is divided by a line marked on the large mat, which spread on
the floor. Players sit or stand around the edge of the mat. The game
has four thin pieces of metal like a penny side. Each piece was
painted black and white on each side. The banker places these pieces
on the disk and cover them by a bowl, then he shakes them, and
places it on a line marked of even and odd. Players had right to
choose the side of even or odd, and put their money on it. After the
banker looked at both side of the mat, and he will make a eyes check
all the players to indicated that players had a choice and ready
waiting him open a bowl. The banker is careful to open the bowl
from his hand. Players' eyes watch serious to the disk, then they are
angry, laugh, or cry, which depends entirely on their cases of lost,
won, or sunk in debt. Sometimes the banker can make a lot of
money from his trick; he set up under the mat of the thin piece of
the strong magnetic field to control the four pieces of metal to cheat
the players. Most of the time, players search under the mat before
they sit around the mat. This is a basic of the game, but there are so

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