Chapter 751 The First Game
In August, early autumn, the two-month polo match officially began in the free trade zone.
In order to make the game fair and just, the three parties jointly made the following regulations:
Each team can select fifteen players, and the starting lineup cannot be changed.
Only the teams that enter the top three have the right to re-select teammates.
Afterwards, nine polo teams appeared one after another.
It is unknown how Dali and Xianbei organized and allocated their teams. Anyway, Pingzhou’s team is composed of Jintai Army Team 1, Sun Family Army Team 1 and the third team composed of soldiers from other military districts in Pingzhou.
What everyone can see is that almost all the young generals and generals in Dali, Xianbei and Pingzhou armies have appeared in the polo team. And the players of the participating polo team are all strong and upright, and all of them are good players in the army.
Before the polo match started, the Qingyanxu Sanzhou Free Trade Zone was already crowded with people and lively.
People from the Royal Business Group also came, Liao Xuewang, Qiao Xitong and Hu Jiangyi came with their capable subordinates.
In fact, it is not just them who have come.
The life of the common people and herdsmen in Dali and Xianbei is much harder than that of the common people in Pingzhou. It is said that it is easy to find work in the Sanzhou Free Trade Zone, so many young and strong men and women come here.
This is quite normal. Because now almost all the hot money has flowed into the Sanzhou Free Trade Zone. If you want to make money, you have to go there.
The Sanzhou Free Trade Zone has been intentionally or unintentionally built into a siphon point, and countless common people rely on it.
There are polo matches, so naturally there are people who bet on the ball. In the free trade zone, after the nine polo team members have appeared, various odds have appeared.
It is crucial which two teams will start the first game of the polo match.
After the three parties negotiated, Dali, Pingzhou and Xianbei each sent a team, and the result of the draw determined which two teams would start.
The result of the draw was that the Jintai Army team of Pingzhou played against the team led by Xianbei Tuoba Yu.
In the first game, the seats in the stadium were full, and it can be said that there was no empty seat. The revenue from ticket sales alone made the Sanzhou Free Trade Zone a lot of money.
Guo Wanli spent a lot of money to buy a seat with the best view.
As soon as he sat down, his friend next to him asked him, "Have you placed a bet?"
"I placed a bet. After all, this is just the first game, so I didn't dare to bet too much."
"You don't bet, but someone else does. As far as I know, someone bet a lot on Tuoba Yu's Xianbei team to win."
Guo Wanli heard this and hummed.
"By the way, which team do you bet on to win?"
Guo Wanli didn't reply, and an acquaintance next to him interrupted, "Isn't this nonsense? You must bet on the Xianbei team!"
"The Xianbei Tartars all grew up on horseback and are good at equestrianism, so they have a great chance of winning."
"But the cavalry of Pingzhou is not weak either. Otherwise, how could they defeat the Xianbei army again and again?"
"Haha. I admit that Pingzhou's weapons are powerful, but if you insist that Pingzhou's cavalry is more powerful than the Xianbei army, it's a bit far-fetched."
The odds can reflect the probability of the two teams winning or losing. The odds of betting on the Xianbei team are low because everyone is betting on it to win. The odds of betting on the Jintai Army team are high because everyone thinks it will lose.
"Although I am a Han Chinese and I really hope that the Jintai Army team will win, we have to be realistic, right? After all, we are betting real money."
"But I am a little worried. Will someone cheat here? For example, someone who can win will deliberately lose the game for the bet on the handicap?"
Guo Wanli subconsciously retorted, "Impossible! There are many prizes in each game. The whole team must go all out in the game. There is no such thing as showing weakness." Whether it is Dali, Xianbei or Pingzhou, the relationship between the three parties is not close, so there is no need to play a friendly match.
Outside the polo field, the team headed by Wu Ren, Ji Wuyin and Gu Huaisheng were also arranging people to place bets after calculation.
Not long after, the first polo match kicked off.
At the same time, this game also refreshed the audience's understanding of polo matches.
The audience went from being furious at the beginning to being stunned and expressionless at the end.
This polo match was very different from the ones they had seen before. Friendship first and competition second, the tepid play between the enemy and us, did not exist.
In the current game, everyone was just about to draw knives like on the battlefield.
In fact, it was not the fault of the Jintai Army team, it was the Xianbei who were the first to lose their martial ethics.
The Xianbei team was the first to use despicable means, and sometimes even did not hesitate to use the principle of Tian Ji's horse racing, letting both their own team and the enemy commit fouls at the same time to eliminate the opponent.
In the first half, Chen Jinlong, who was weaker in skills, was eliminated by the opponent, and the Xianbei team led by Tuoba Jin took the lead.
At the beginning of the second half, Qin Sheng organized the serve. With a look from him, the tacit understanding cultivated in the army for many years made all the players excited.
When they came on the court in the second half, the eyes of the Xianbei players were full of provocation.
The players of Jintai Army looked at them with a blank expression. "Okay, okay, you want to play like this, right?"
So in the second half, the two sides fought back and forth.
These players are all skilled in martial arts, and they don't foul unless necessary. Except that they didn't fight on the spot, the polo match was as fierce as a battlefield.
The audience felt like they were watching a close-up melee, and they only felt it was exciting and enjoyable. Everyone watched intently, and felt that the ticket was worth it this time.
Everyone can't go to the battlefield, but they can come to watch the polo match, the same as before.
The result of the match was unexpected. In the end, the Jintai Army team won the first match with one more point than the Xianbei team and took away the corresponding rewards.
In the Xianbei team, several people were carried or supported off the field.
Some people were very cruel.
Because the first match was very exciting, the tickets for the rest were sold out immediately.
At this time, in the main city of Qingzhou District, the team led by Wu Ren, Ji Wuyin and Gu Huaisheng were also calculating their profits this time. In fact, not only them, but also the Huangshang Group, Wang Yun and others, it should be said that countless people are redeeming their prizes.
Wu Ren smiled and said, "These odds were initially determined when the nine teams appeared. I believe that the odds will definitely change later."
"That's right."
I believe that after a few games, different payout ratios will be generated between teams and different matches.
The odds for the first game today are as follows:
First game:
If you bet on Xianbei team 1 to win, and you guessed it right, you will get 3 to 1.
If you bet on Jintai Army team to win, you will get 5 to 1.
If the two teams tie, you will also get 3 to 1.
They had bought all the odds before, so that even if Xianbei team 1 really won or the two teams tied, they would only break even.
But if Jintai Army team is really a dark horse and wins Xianbei, then they will make money.
Of course, there will be no such stable profit in such odds now, so in the face of various odds, they follow the governor's instructions and cross-arrange the purchase of corresponding positions according to the payout ratios given by different audiences for different games. In order to achieve this worst-case scenario, they will not lose too much.
It is different from other teams seeking maximum profit.
In the words of the governor, their strategy of sacrificing maximum profit and multiplying it by hundreds of thousands, millions or even tens of millions of dollars on the basis of steady progress is called hedging.
The safety of the principal is very important. Only after the safety of the principal is ensured, can we make money.
This is the governor's request and the purpose they adhere to in this participation.
Qingzhou District has the best infrastructure and can accommodate the largest number of people.
The two-month polo match is enough for Pingzhou to make a lot of money in terms of food, clothing, housing, transportation and entertainment. They don't need to rack their brains to gamble on the ball.