It was a cold and snowy winter night in a casino. A Friday. "The house always wins" is what they say, and is usually true. You might be lucky at the beginning, but if you keep playing, you will start losing, potentially gaining debt. However despite the odds, as it's true for almost everything, there are a few exceptions. Particularly one gambler who seemingly never loses, his name is Bandeer. That day he was playing poker, gambling, just like every single day.
Bandeer with 6 other people playing, including Bandeer, 4 of them is currently betting 150 000 dollars individually, so the total amount on the line is about 600 000 dollars.
The board: 7♦ 9♥ 9♦ K♥ Q♥
Player A shows his hand: A♥ J♥
Player A: HAA! I HAVE A FLUSH! THERE'S 5 HEARTS!
Player C: Don't get too excited! My hand is...
Player C reveals his hand: K♠ 4♣
Player B: WHAT!? A FULL HOUSE? NOOO! I HAD A FLUSH AS WELL!
Player C: Seems like I won this one, hehe!
Bandeer: Are you just ignoring me?
Player C stops just before he would sweep all the tokens worth 600 000$.
Player C: Hah? Alright, you right, this is how the rules says right?
Bandeer reveals his hand: 9♠ 9♣
Bandeer: Four of a kind.
Player C: WHAAAT?! NO WAY! YOU ARE CHEATING! YOU SURELY ARE!
Bandeer: I'm not cheating, I'm just lucky. As always.
Player C: NO ONE CAN BE THIS LUCKY EVER! YOU ARE LYING!
Bandeer: Well, maybe then it's just you being unlucky then.
Player C: YOU BASTARD! COME HERE I WILL SHOW YOU WHO'S THE BOSS HERE!
Masked referee: I recommend you to stop. Bandeer won.
Player C: TCH! Hey referee! He's cheated! Ban him from this casino right now!
Masked referee: It will get you banned if you don't wanna stop. Bandeer won, and he didn't cheat.
Bandeer: Thank you referee...
Player C: Alright then, huh. Then I'm done with this place! I'm not gonna ever come here again! Why would I if they can cheat so easily? I'm serious, are these referees blind?
Bandeer: They have left. Hmm, I guess I should do the same, it's getting really late.
Masked referee: Bandeer, wait a little.
Bandeer stops and looks back to the referee: Hm?
The referee removes the mask.
Referee No.1: I want you to come with me. I want to tell you something.
Bandeer follows the referee.
Bandeer: So what is it?
Referee No.1: What do you think about death gambles?
Bandeer: Sorry? What? Why are you even asking?
Referee No.1: Would you try it?
Bandeer: A... Death gamble? Well, it sounds interesting, but is that kind of gamble even legal?
Referee No.1: No it's not, but if it's this casino who holds an event like that, then the cops won't care.
Bandeer: Why wouldn't they?
Referee No.1: So let me ask you again. Would you play? We only need one more competitor to play a 12 player russian roulette.
Bandeer: 12? And I guess only one lives.
Referee No.1: Indeed. I will be the referee. Starting next midnight, a little less than 24 hours from now. In the main hall of the hotel that is got abandoned in the past few years. If you want to, would like to see you there.
Bandeer: I understand. Okay, thank you for inviting me.
Referee No.1: Of course...
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Saturday, 23:44
Bandeer arrives at the hotel where the referee said they will play, and everyone is already there.
Referee No.1: Bandeer! I thought you are leaving out on this opportunity!
Bandeer: I don't even believe a thing about this death gamble thing.
Referee No.1: You will believe it, very soon. But now, I would rather introduce the games for you all!
3/8 Roulette
All 11 players will start with a revolver that has 8 slots in it and all players will get 3 bullets to put in the revolver just as you like. Since you can insert the bullets in any way you want, there are 13 different possible bullet distributions.
The winner will take everything, and I mean everything. Not just their money, but also their possessions, their home, their clothes, personal items, even their wives if they obey. They basically only want money anyway, Because I forgot to mention but all of you here are dollar millionaires, the winner takes all!
The players will stand in a circle, the one behind you will aim to your head in a way that you will not survive. You can rearrange the bullets in your weapon as many times as you want, but to shoot, you have to spin the cylinder of the revolver to make sure you don't know which slots the bullets are in.
A turn ends when a gun fires, or in other words someone dies. At the start of a turn, I will spin on who will start with the first shoot. After that person shoots, but it was a blank, the person that the gun was pointing at will take turn, it goes until someone dies then the next round will start until only one is alive.
Referee No.1: This should be all the rules, do you all understand? Any questions maybe?
P1: Are you for real then? Will we actually kill each other?
Referee No.1: Huhuhuu... Yeah, you have to kill, if not, then you will die.
P2: Y-You know what? I regretted coming here! I would rather not play! I'm going home!
Referee No.1: No. You will play! You have no other choice!
P2: And what will stop me from leaving huh? What could possibly-
Referee No.1 suddenly aims a pistol at P2.
Referee No.1: I could, and you are naive if you think I won't shoot.
P2: H-ah? Y- You are kidding! That pistol surely is not ---
BANG!!!
The referee shoots the wall next to P2 to prove it's not just a toy weapon and it is actually loaded, ready to kill.
P2: AAAHHHH! S-STOP! OKAY! I'M NOT GOING ANYWHERE!
All players were totally shocked, the ruthless truth finally getting to them. This is serious, they actually have to kill, or they will die.
Referee No.1: The current time is 23:58, the game soon begins. I hope you are ready, and I wish you good luck, you will need it.