Underground Casino in Beijing Suburb: Hiding in factories and whistles, winning or losing a million cards
In late August, dozens of people gathered around a casino to bet in front of it.
Secret Casino: Joint Point Special Bus to Receive Gamblers
On August 20, the introducer sent the joint location of the day's gambling house: a gas station in Panggezhuang Town, Daxing District.
After driving along the Beijing high-speed through the South Sixth Ring Road, the car drove 10 kilometers south to the remote gas station shown by the introducer. According to the tips of the introducer, the reporter parked the car on the roadside, reported the license plate, personal characteristics, and after 3 minutes, the other party called to request that the car be driven into the backyard of the gas station.
The respondent, known as "Four Sisters-in-law", was a middle-aged woman, followed by a blonde woman. After looking at them, they motioned the reporter to drive the car into the hospital. More than 20 cars, mostly Beijing licenses, are parked in the backyard, including luxury cars. Three cars in the yard did not go out, and there was a middle-aged man wearing a headset in each car. When the reporter drove into the hospital, a man immediately got out and stared at him.
Four sisters-in-law, there are gamblers come here to meet, and then shuttle bus. Knowing it was introduced by acquaintances, sister-in-law took reporters on a Jilin licensed car and drove to the gas station.
The car turned into a narrow village road and, two kilometers later, into a factory area. Within 10 minutes, the car turned five or six corners and finally stopped at the door of a farm with a locked iron door.
The driver shouted "Guests are coming" through his headset, and a crack flashed through the iron door. The man in black recognized his sister-in-law and opened the door. Compared with the quiet factory area, the noise of the factory buildings in the courtyard is comparable to the night market.
A casino set up a special bus to pick up gamblers, gamblers must be introduced by acquaintances or acquaintances.
Several middle-aged men walked back and forth, and when they saw the reporters coming into the hospital, they all looked forward, while the row of factories behind them was the gambling place.
On the way to another casino in Daxing, the reporter found that a car stopped every other section of the road near the junction, and the driver looked around. After arriving at the roadside of an industrial park, the driver of the connection was very cautious. He carefully questioned the reporter's "informant" and then phoned a casino manager to verify it before allowing the reporter to board.
Similarly, the driver turned into a dirt road and drove four kilometers. There were few pedestrians on the road. Occasionally, he greeted the passenger's return car. The driver waved. Along the way, the driver passed the rearview mirror and kept looking at the reporters sitting in the back row. He kept a secret about the casino situation.
The driver said that he was a local and only responsible for delivering customers to the banker. There were three or four drivers like him. "Just like every drop, the banker pays 300 yuan a day." He disclosed that the casino had a large number of customers, and he had made eight trips to and fro in the first hour of the day.
Around August 20, reporters from the Beijing News secretly visited four underground casinos hidden in Panggezhuang Town and Qingyundian Town. They found that most of them were hidden in remote factories. Before gamblers entered the casino, they had to go to the "connectors" arranged by the bankers and were escorted by specialists.
One gambler said that the casino did this to avoid risk and avoid being "fired". Drivers had to check the identity of the guests with the banker when they received the guests before pulling to the casino. "A few kilometers away, there were special people at the intersection, and even high-speed gates were arranged for people to stare at. Ordinary people could not recognize it. Some casinos had only 30 bars. More than one."
The casino near West Han Road in Panggezhuang Town is located in a factory. A factory building on the side of the courtyard was decorated into a casino. Four or five middle-aged men patrolled the courtyard with earphones outside. They saw gamblers enter the courtyard door and quickly approached and looked around.
Acquaintances said that these people's task is to show the market to the bankers, they will pay special attention to the costumes of gamblers, many gamblers do not carry backpacks. In addition, once the gamblers who lose money make trouble, they should stop it immediately.
In the courtyard of Qingyundian Town, Daxing District, there are gambling groups that set up Baikale Gambling Gambling Gambling Gambling, and they spend millions of money on water every day.
Crazy Gambling: Gambling starts in 20 seconds and wins tens of thousands at a time
On August 22, the reporter contacted a casino located in Qingyundian Town, Daxing District. Its connecting point was on the road opposite the comprehensive administrative service center of Qingyundian Town, which was only 500 meters away from the government of Qingyundian Town.
The casino is located in a factory several kilometres away and is listed on the door as Beijing * Eco-Agriculture Co., Ltd. The second floor of an office building in the courtyard is the place where gambling places are located. In order to hide, gamblers need to cross a path that can only be accessed by one person to get to the front of the building.
Around 2 p.m., the casino has been open for an hour. The casino is a large room on the 2nd floor, with sofas, refrigerators, toilets and other settings. It is exquisitely decorated with a safe more than one meter high standing prominently. The door of the room is opened only when the gambler enters, and the curtains are drawn tightly.
After entering the door, two "flower arm" men will take the gamblers to the yard to change codes. A simple desk with three black purses stuffed with 100 yuan red notes, two POS machines and two mobile phones on it. Two men would glance at the costumes of gamblers and see the bags carefully examined. There will be new people coming, and there will be special people to follow.
In the yard, gamblers can choose cash or credit card transfers to exchange codes. Some gamblers hand in black bank cards to exchange 100,000 yuan chips at a time, and the other party hand in 10 pink cards with the number of "10,000" inscribed on each card.
In the yard of a casino, two women exchange chips.
Every time a gambler changes codes, a woman sitting at her desk keeps an account in her notebook, indicating the name and amount of the gambler. Reporters saw at the scene, a notebook about 1 centimeter thick has been used up most, one page can see "6800 yuan, 25,000 yuan" and other figures, dense dozens of.
Bypassing the yard is a noisy space. Smoke filled the air and the voice of the people was boiling.
Here is the betting area, a fan-shaped baccarat table more than five meters long and two meters wide. On the dark green table, 16 betting areas are drawn, which are divided into "zhuang", "leisure" and "he". At each betting point, there was a "big bet" gambler, and more than 30 retail investors crowded around the table.
In the middle of the gambling table, a young woman, Lotus Officer, was sitting at the dealing table, and a woman on both sides was responsible for killing and compensating. The gambler can bet at will, and then the Dutch official opens two decks of cards to compare the number of points. The opening of each game is recorded on a large screen behind them in real time.
This is a common way of playing baccarat in Macau casinos.
The second round of the casino had just begun when the reporters came in. Female Dutch officials took out eight decks of playing cards and put them in front of them after skilled shuffling. Then she rang the bell three times, "Open the card!"
The gamblers quickly gathered at the table, fiddled with their chips and filmed in the betting area. Within seconds, tens of thousands of dollars of chips were betted on the table. "Buy and leave!" The Dutch official rang the bell again and began to open the cards.
"Zhuang8, Zhuangwin!" Two men at the Dutch official's side stretched out their hands to collect the idle chips, and then took out the chips from the box on the side to pay the winner. For a moment, the laughter and abuse of gamblers mingled, and the Dutch official rang a bell, and they began a new round of betting.
Reporter observation found that the "big bet" sitting around the table with tens of thousands or even 100,000 yuan of chips, often people throw out 230,000 yuan of bets, behind the stand betting gamblers are more than 1000 yuan.
A gambler introduced that the casino required a cap of 30,000 yuan from 500 yuan, while the total amount of each bet on the table was tens of thousands of yuan. Each casino opens four cards and 60 cards, each cards only takes about 20 seconds. The atmosphere is very tense. "This means that every 20 seconds, there are tens of thousands of wins and losses, a card game down, there may be someone ruined."
In a casino, three Dutch women officers are in charge of licensing and paying chips.
Out-of-control gamblers: "It's common to sell houses and cars."
After seven consecutive wins, the casino atmosphere reached its climax.
The gambler sitting at the table fiddled with the chips in his hand, and the standing gambler held out his hand for betting. A bell rang and chips made a sharp noise on the gambling table. The Dutch official glanced at the table. The chips of nearly 100,000 yuan lit up the atmosphere on the scene.
"Nine o'clock idle home, idle win!" 7 Lianzhuang ended, and several gamblers who had lost big bets patted the table and stood up and left the table. With only one shot, the banker killed nearly 30,000 yuan. A gambler ruefully drilled out of the crowd, the second card is not over, "lost 29 (10,000)!"
Many gamblers believe that Lianzhuang is a good omen. They bet a lot, but they often plant the next one and the bankers can harvest one. He thought that it might be "the Dutch official's trick", but after years of playing cards, he couldn't see the greatness of it.
After a guest leaves the table, the flower arm man will immediately bring several new "big note" seats. These "big bets" are mostly middle-aged men, dressed up, rarely communicate with each other but contend with each other secretly. "If you bet 10,000, someone will bet 15,000, and you will be the biggest one."
Reporters contacted a number of gamblers to learn that the casino in the circle is relatively hot, every day more than 100 people come, most of them from Beijing, Chaoyang, Fangshan, and some drive an hour to play. Among gamblers are young people and some company bosses with different identities. "Half of them are regular customers, coming almost every day."
Lao Liu knows gamblers who lose money. "There is no winner at the gambling table. Some people lose seventy or eighty thousand in one game. It is common to sell houses and cars."
Win-win banker: soliciting customers, setting up nurseries and lending usurious loans
In a casino in Zhuozhou Wharf Town, Hebei Province, a reporter saw a man borrowing money from the banker after losing money. He owed the banker 60,000 yuan and mortgaged his own gold necklace. Even if he pleaded bitterly, the banker refused to borrow again. A gambler said that it is not uncommon to borrow money from a banker. It is called borrowing money. In fact, it is usury. "The interest on a dime is terribly high, and you have to mortgage your valuable household, car and house."
Hiding Cat Game: Fixed Field and Guerrilla Field
According to many insiders, there are two kinds of underground casinos active in Beijing at present, one is the fixed field of "Bao Bao" and the other is the guerrilla field of "shooting for a place".
"Four Sisters-in-law" shares in two casinos, one is a fixed field, the other is a guerrilla field. She said that this year, the "guerrilla ground" can only be changed in one or two days. The casino in Panggezhuang Town, which is still open on August 19 outside the East Fifth Ring Road in Chaoyang District, was transferred to the vicinity of Xihan Road in Panggezhuang Town the next day.
The equipment of the "guerrilla ground" is simple. A gambling table and a yard can start. An insider said that the dealer would look for remote factories everywhere, rent several houses for thousands of yuan, and then inform gamblers. "No one knows where tomorrow's opening will be. They have to wait for the banker's notice."
During a reporter's secret visit to a casino, an insider sent three locations in one day. At noon, he said that Fangshan had become a great pleasure in the afternoon.
Another casino, which had been in Fangshan for a long time, has recently been quietly transferred to a factory in Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province. The casino insider said, "It's all for safety. Go anywhere safe. Maybe you'll return to Beijing tomorrow."
This casino is located near the village road, very remote, starting at 8 p.m., the banker arranges a special guard on the roadside one kilometer away, and there are two men guarding the entrance of the factory area. Reporters in the parking area of the courtyard saw that most of the cars were Beijing license plates. "Beijing has a lot of guests, and then go back at night after playing."
According to the insider, "guerrilla fields" need more people to guard them. They are temporarily employed and pay 500 yuan a day. Counting Dutch officials and spectators, the bankers spent about 50,000 yuan on a bureau.
The casino located in Qingyundian Town, Daxing District, is the fixed place where "four sisters-in-law" shares. A viewer with a northeastern accent told reporters that the casino had been going on for more than a year, on the premise that it was safe and sound, "The banker spent a lot of money." In order to ensure safety, the banker can only arrange gamblers to connect several kilometers away, "so that no one can find a place, the public security can not find it."
At 5 p.m., the casino of Qingyun Dian is over. Three cars transport gamblers between the factory and the street. After the sad gamblers got off, some drove back and some went to the next casino to continue their gambling.
After learning the news of the end of the casino, another casino insider sent an invitation to reporters: "I have a stake of up to 100,000, bring more money to come over."