Chapter 961 The Reason for Going to the Casino

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After the performance, Xiao Yao's mission in this awards ceremony was completed. After the performance was over and he stepped back from the stage, Xiao Yao went backstage and didn't even change back to the formal attire he wore when he walked the red carpet before. He just returned to his seat in a T-shirt and jeans. Of course, the shoes and socks were still on.

Xiao Yao's performance can be called very exciting, and the atmosphere of the on-site response is quite enthusiastic, but this is an awards ceremony, and the performers are just adding to the fun, and everyone is more concerned about the ownership of those awards. So after Xiao Yao's performance ended and he returned to the auditorium, everyone at the scene quickly turned their attention to the awards to be announced later.

Xiao Yao’s name was not included in the list of performers originally announced by the organizer of the Billboard Music Awards. Xiao Yao’s sudden appearance as a performer this time was a bit unexpected. The effect of the stage performance, after the award ceremony, Xiao Yao's name not only appeared in many news reports covering the Billboard Music Awards, but also occupied a lot of content and space.

After these news reports about Xiao Yao appeared, they quickly spread to China.

Different from the fact that the American media did not know beforehand, Xiao Yao's studio had posted a message on Huaxia's official social media. More people in the media and the public on Huaxia's side knew that Xiao Yao would participate in the Billboard Awards Ceremony as a guest performer .

Because the reporter named Wang Wen pointed out Xiao Yao’s frequent visits to casinos the day before, the news report interviewing Xiao Yao through online video has been released. The news also specifically stated that this is not a planned work trip, but a job temporarily accepted by Xiao Yao in the United States. Because of an accident with one of the originally scheduled performers of the Billboard Music Awards, the organizer met Xiao Yao who was on vacation in Las Vegas, and temporarily asked him to replace him.

Although there have been stars from Asia and even China appearing at heavyweight awards ceremonies in the United States, the number is still very small in general, especially music heavyweight awards ceremonies, compared with film and television awards and award ceremonies. It looks even rarer. There are so many opportunities that big-name singers can't even think of. Xiao Yao is on vacation in Las Vegas, but he is invited by the organizer to save the scene, and has the opportunity to be on stage as a guest performer?

Such a message is quite topical and attractive. In the eyes of the Chinese media, Xiao Yao and his personal studio have never used fake news to hype Xiao Yao to earn traffic. Since it is the news released by the official social media account of Xiao Yao's studio, there should be no doubt about its authenticity, so many The Huaxia media reprinted and reported the news, and the news quickly spread on the Huaxia network.

In terms of the international popularity of Chinese musicians, Xiao Yao is definitely the top existence in the Chinese pop music circle. But apart from appearing on the Oscar stage as a guest performer as a member of an American band, Xiao Yao himself has never participated in an American awards ceremony. This time, he attended the awards ceremony in the United States as a guest performer in his personal capacity, which also made many Chinese netizens and fans look forward to his performance.

So, after the news about this year's Billboard Music Awards Ceremony came out in the American media, many Chinese media reporters who stayed on relevant news websites immediately reposted those reports to China.

For Xiao Yao's performance at the award ceremony, most of the American media gave relatively positive comments, and some media even used adjectives like "surprise", which also made Xiao Yao's fans and most ordinary netizens feel that he was very happy. I feel very happy.

When I read the report that Xiao Yao actually performed a new song that hadn’t been released at the Billboard Music Awards ceremony, everyone was posting, “Xiao Yao also played this way at the awards ceremony abroad!” Very Xiao Yao!" When sighing like this, I really want to know what the new song performed by Xiao Yao at the foreign awards ceremony looks like.

It is a little regrettable that there is no video of Xiao Yao's stage performance in the media reports in the United States. Although Chinese netizens found the private video of Xiao Yao walking on the red carpet, they did not find Xiao Yao's performance on the American network. A private video of the audience of a performance. Netizens and fans on Huaxia's side haven't been able to see what Xiao Yao's performance was like for the time being.

But the good news is that the Billboard Music Awards will be broadcast on TV in the United States, and the bad news is that the awards ceremony will not be broadcast live, and it will be broadcast on ABC TV in the United States in about two weeks. Therefore, Huaxia netizens will have to wait at least two weeks if they want to see Xiao Yao's performance at the Billboard Music Awards ceremony.

Although there is no video of Xiao Yao's performance for the time being, it does not affect the enthusiasm of Huaxia netizens to discuss this matter.

Some "remote blowing" netizens boasted how awesome Xiao Yao is on the Internet, and made faces for Chinese stars at foreign awards ceremonies. There are also some more sour netizens who said that Xiao Yao was just a guest performer who was a substitute for others, and he might "lick" the opportunity in a low voice, and it wasn't an award, or even a nomination.

In response to such remarks, some fans and netizens presented evidence, explaining that although Xiao Yao did not win an award, he was nominated for the Billboard Music Awards before, and he received an invitation to attend in all seriousness, but because of the I was busy filming and didn't go. It can be seen from this that Xiao Yao doesn't even bother to post on foreign award ceremonies. This time, he happened to be invited to rescue the scene when he was free, and it was even more impossible for him to "lick" it!

At this time, the wave of public opinion that Xiao Yao frequented casinos and was addicted to gambling has not completely passed. As soon as Xiao Yao attended the awards ceremony as a guest performer, it suppressed the wave of public opinion about him going in and out of casinos to gamble. Therefore, some people who think they can see through the truth point out that this is a hype by Xiao Yao and his studio. Performers" come up.

Of course, such an argument was immediately refuted by some netizens...

Xiao Yao, who was far away in the United States, didn't pay much attention to the things on Huaxia Network after the interview. Anyway, the people in the studio are watching Huaxia's affairs, and if he needs to know, the people in the studio will naturally notify him and let him know. After the Billboard Music Awards ceremony ended, Xiao Yao still returned to the track of going to the casino every day to count cards.

Tim Haggis himself is not very interested in gambling. He accompanied Xiao Yao to the casino, in addition to protecting Xiao Yao in name, he also wanted to see how Xiao Yao counted cards. How Xiao Yao counts cards is something he can't understand, and he can't learn it if he reads too much. Moreover, Tim Haggis came to Las Vegas on leave, and the vacation was not that long.

After following Xiao Yao for a few days and thinking that Xiao Yao would not be in any danger, Tim Haggis greeted the local FBI colleagues in Vegas and asked them to help pay attention to Xiao Yao. Returned to Los Angeles shortly after the music awards ceremony. Therefore, within a few days after the award ceremony, Xiao Yao resumed his state of acting alone in Las Vegas.

After the Billboard Music Awards ceremony, Xiao Yao's actions in the United States were also affected to a certain extent.

The American media reported the news of Xiao Yao’s frequent visits to casinos before, but that report was driven by Matt Dino, with the purpose of spreading the news to China. The number and scale of the media of the brand music awards are completely incomparable.

Due to his outstanding performance at the Billboard Music Awards ceremony, media coverage of Xiao Yao is not small. The awards ceremony was held in Las Vegas, and people here paid more attention, and naturally more people knew about Xiao Yao.

Later, when he went to the casino, Xiao Yao finally got the celebrity treatment, and was recognized by other gamblers in the casino several times. Fortunately, the casino is a place to play, not a place to chase stars. Even if Xiao Yao was recognized, he was not surrounded by excited crowds. At most, he just smiled and said hello to people, and rarely even asked for a group photo. , did not have much impact on his playing cards.

Xiao Yao has been in Las Vegas for more than half a month. The total number of casinos he targets is not many, and he has been to many casinos more than once. It stands to reason that no matter how unlike a card counter Xiao Yao behaves, his "records" in various casinos are there. After so many days, he should have aroused the suspicion of the casinos.

However, I don't know if it's his "performance" when playing cards is too good, or because some news media reported on the Billboard Music Awards ceremony. The people in the casino recognized him as a superstar in Huaxia and lowered their respect for him. suspicion. Anyway, almost a week has passed, Xiao Yao can still play at the blackjack table in the casino, and he has not been refused service by the casino.

However, what should come will always come. Almost a month after Xiao Yao came to Las Vegas, he was finally rejected by the casino.

When entering a casino one day, Xiao Yao had just finished exchanging chips when he was taken aside by the lobby manager and told him that the casino suspected him of card counting and had blacklisted him. Considering his star status, the casino does not prohibit him from entering the casino, but in addition to playing slot machines, roulette, and craps, all poker tables in the casino will refuse him to sit on the table. provide services for it.

After the lobby manager finished speaking, Xiao Yao didn't argue, nor did he play slot machines or roulette as he said. He immediately went to exchange the chips, left the casino, and admitted in action that he was indeed a card counter.

After leaving this casino, Xiao Yao did not return to the hotel where he lived, but went to another casino. Although some casinos have already blacklisted him, although he heard that casinos share information with each other, Xiao Yao feels that the confidence sharing between casinos will not be so fast and thorough, so he wants to continue to try other casinos.

As a result of this trial, Xiao Yao found that there was indeed a loophole that could be exploited. Xiao Yao went to a total of three casinos this morning. In the first two casinos, Xiao Yao was blacklisted by the casinos and could not go to the blackjack table, but in the third one, Xiao Yao actually sat down to 21 o’clock normally. Spent a morning at the casino at the table.

It's rare to find a casino that can still be played. Xiao Yao didn't plan to change to another casino in the afternoon as before. He didn't even leave the casino to go out for lunch at noon, and asked the waiter in the casino to bring him some food. Sit at the table like a gambler.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long. At about two o'clock in the afternoon, a staff member in this casino with a manager's nameplate on his chest appeared and told Xiao Yao that the casino suspected him of card counting and had blacklisted him. Please leave the table.

Xiao Yao very cooperatively packed up the chips and left the gaming table, then exchanged the chips and left the casino. After leaving the casino, Xiao Yao still didn't go back to the hotel, but continued to go to other casinos. He will continue to test whether all the casinos he has been to have blacklisted him.

This time, after Xiao Yao visited four casinos, he found a casino that did not refuse him to play the blackjack table. After playing for more than two hours, Xiao Yao was asked to leave the blackjack table by that casino.

When I came out of the last casino where I could play blackjack, it was already past two o'clock in the afternoon. I went to four casinos in the afternoon and played in the fifth one for more than two hours. It was already night when I left, so Xiao Yao didn't I went to other casinos and went straight back to the hotel where I lived.

After returning to the hotel room, Xiao Yao called Nicky Thompson.

"Hi, Jan!" The call was connected quickly, and Nicky Thompson's own voice came from the receiver, "Why did you remember to call me?"

"I'll keep my promise!" Xiao Yao said straight to the point.

"Promise?" Nicky Thompson asked with some doubts.

"I promised you that I would let you know the real reason why I went to the casino earlier than most people." Xiao Yao reminded, "It's almost time now."

"Oh! Huh?" Nicky Thompson let out an ooh at first, and then asked in surprise, "Are you still in Vegas? You still go to the casino every day after so many days?"

"Well," Xiao Yao said, "but I will leave the United States soon and won't go to the casino again, so I called you."

"Are you going to tell me the reason you went to the casino?" Nicky Thompson asked with interest, "What is it?"

"Do you still remember that you promised me a condition at that time?" Xiao Yao said, "I need to let the media reveal the reason why I went to the casino. You will find a media reporter to help me through Mr. Matt Dino. The general media Reporters can’t interview people in the casino, so I need that media reporter to go to the casino with me tomorrow, and he will hear from the people in the casino why I went to the casino.”

Nicky Thompson said a little annoyed: "So you didn't call to tell me why you went to the casino, but asked me to notify Matt to find you a reporter?"

"He knows, and he will definitely tell you, then you will know about it earlier than most people." Xiao Yao said, "What I promise you is to let you know about it earlier than most people, not the first one. Actually, before I came to Vegas, other people knew why I went to the casino, and you couldn't be the first to know."

"It's okay to find a reporter for you, but I have a request." Nicky Thompson said.

"We agreed!" Xiao Yao frowned.

"Listen to me!" Nicky Thompson interrupted without waiting for Xiao Yao to finish, "My request is that I will go to the casino with you tomorrow. I am in Los Angeles now, it is very convenient to come here, and I happen to be free tomorrow , I don’t want to listen to others, I want to hear it myself.”

"Yes!" Hearing this request, Xiao Yao agreed.