Hebei Yushi players watch gambling at close range

"The madman bought, the madman sold, and a madman was waiting. The whole thing was gray, and the three madmen wept. The whole thing was green and white. The three madmen laughed, and they were all green with one knife and three madmen fighting." The funny poems that are widely circulated in the gambling stone circles really reveal the vicissitudes and excitement of bet stones. In an interview with the reporter, it was discovered that as the price of jadeite skyrocketed, bet stone culture gradually spread in our province. Although the risk of gambling is huge, the huge profits still make people hard to resist.

One knife goes down and the price doubles. "I'm taking a 2.5 million bet to return this gambling stone. How much do you think if you sculpt it into a decoration?" Chen Li (a pseudonym) took a piece of semi-precious jadeite stone back from Yunnan Ruili. Asked at a jade shop in White City, Shijiazhuang.

The staff of the jade shop first touched the delicate skin layer and then looked at the lines. Finally, they took a bright light flashlight to carefully observe the exposed material texture. Only the exposed material was dark green and there was no obvious The cracks were bright and bright under the bright light. The staff member said decisively: “The only piece of this exposed material is worth 50,000 yuan.”

Chen Liyi listened to the flowers and asked the staff to remove some of the other skins. Under Chen Li’s guidance, this piece of raw material opened a small mouth in the front and back and left and right. As a result, it was found that the texture was far from revealing this piece of good, and there was a dark impurity in the middle. It can be said that there is little value left. It can be said. This makes Chen Li, who thinks he will make a fortune, somewhat disappointed.

Although Chen Li’s experience with gambling is only a few months old, he has already turned around in several large gambling stone markets such as Guangdong and Yunnan, and once he sees a gambling stone deal, he will have to bet one or two pieces back. This time, the original stone returned from Ruili was the most satisfying to him. According to him, this piece of material only revealed a small piece of green when it was traded. After he bought it, he was looking for someone to cut along the outcrop. As a result, when a piece of skin was cut, it was still a green material, and immediately after that, someone asked for a price of 50,000 yuan. "It is exactly the price that doubles with one knife." Chen Li said with a smile, he did not agree to a shot, then let it cut. When the third knife came out to see the green material, the person in charge of cutting immediately shouted, "I'm good (good material)." Then there were people bidding for 150,000 yuan. He was not willing to sell and brought back directly to Shijiazhuang.

"Although the last ones of these materials are worthless, only the ones that are revealed above will already be able to recover the cost and earn money." Chen Li told reporters that he intended to sculpt this raw material into a cabbage. Blocks of good material are carved into a frog, the following carved into cabbage, black impurities carved into two insects. "This is like frogs and bugs are attached to cabbage, it seems very meaningful, if carved well, the finished product may be able to sell 100,000 yuan."

Chen Li told reporters that since he had just set foot in gambling stones and had a lack of experience, he had made some losses but also lost a lot. Not long ago, he spent 7,000 yuan on a piece of material. As a result, he opened it and saw that the texture was very bad. At most, the finished pendant sold for 1,000 yuan. But for gambling, he is playing more and more addicted.

“Betting on gambling stones is the quality of gambling jade raw materials under the jadeite stone surface. The key to attracting collectors is the gambling. The gambling participants are rich overnight; the gambling losers are bankrupt, and the so-called “bare knife, rich knife, One knife over linen." Chen Li said with a smile.

Billions of Funds Participate in Gambling

In the past two years, the price of jadeite has soared, causing people who had little knowledge of Jadeite culture to start paying attention to this market. The wind of betting stones prevailing in Ruili, Yunnan, has also spread rapidly throughout China. In Beijing, Shanghai, Fujian, and Guangdong provinces and cities, there are various types of gambling stone clubs, gambling stone cultural festivals, gambling stone exhibitions, and gambling stone exchange meetings. The theme of gambling stone will take place in turns. Recently, the news that China's first gambling stone culture club will be set up in Tangshan has also been heard, and the number of people playing gambling stones in our province has gradually expanded.

In the ancient jadeite city of Shijiazhuang Waiting for Jade, Cheng Lei told reporters that the gambling wool material currently gambling can be roughly classified into dark material, semi-clear material, and bright material. Dark material is a masked material with no texture exposed. Only by judging the stone's value through a strong flashlight, the risk is extremely high; semi-clear material means that the original stone was wiped off by a small mouth, also known as “window opening”, with a slightly lower risk; and the clear material is the original stone, which is all in two. , also known as "open the door", the least risk.

“Now most people who play gambling on the market are collectors and operators. Whether it is in Yunnan or Guangdong, most of the people in the bank are gambling with clear and semi-clear materials.” According to Lei Lei’s introduction, it was on the site of Ruili Gongpan. Only 20% of the gambling is dark. Since most of the players in the bank are mainly aiming at making jadeite products, they are used to buying relatively simple materials with a relatively low risk, and seldom go all out to bet on high-risk dark materials. "While the price is relatively high, it can be seen that half will always make people feel more secure, playing with stability and winning, and seeking the least risk."

The reporter was informed that at the same time as the price of jade driven by the original stone prices soared, the trading price of bet stone also rose. The original medium and low-grade raw materials for a few hundred kilograms of raw materials are now worth a thousand dollars at a time, and the price of raw materials with good origin and texture is more than doubled.

“There are also hot money speculations here.” Mr. Zhong, who often visits Myanmar, said that from the turnover situation of Myanmar’s public trading last year, the most obvious is that a large number of venture capital injections have gone wildly. According to him, a banker who valued 20,000 yuan in gambling stone, someone dared to use 30,000 yuan to buy it. When the merchants took the opportunity to raise the price, the buyers bid more fiercely.

In the report of the industry expert on Myanmar's jade investment in November last year, the reporter saw that in the case that the quantity and quality of jade raw materials are not comparable to the previous one, the turnover has increased from 4 billion yuan in 2009 to 80 yuan. 100 million yuan. It is reported that the hot money for participation in gambling stones has reached as much as 5 billion yuan, and gambling stones with a unit price of over 100 million have frequently appeared.

“On the Burmese public board last year, many insiders were unable to buy the goods. Even some of the big households in Guangdong Jieyang, which is quite powerful, did not compete for a few things,” said one person in the industry.

"Ten gambling is not eight, one level, one win"

“A friend of mine, in the gambling stone trading market in Myanmar, spent 500,000 yuan on a piece of woolen material. As a result, it took a look and it only cost 30,000 yuan. This phenomenon is widely seen in the betting stone market.” Cheng Lei introduced, He had witnessed a friend who knew nothing about gambling and casually took out thousands of gambling stones that were not favored by all the practitioners to cut out the finest clinker, but he also saw a lot of gambling losses. Phenomenon, and the gambling phenomenon accounts for more.

“Among the people who bet against stone, it is very rare to really create good materials. The industry has such a statement that ten bets are not eight, one level, and one win.” In Cheng Lei’s view, betting stones are just rich people. Between transactions, flat people are not suitable for playing gambling stones if they are not psychologically tolerant.

An analyst who did not wish to disclose his name also stated that gambling stone was originally a historical culture. However, in Shandong and Fujian provinces, including provinces such as Hebei, where there is no advantage in jadeite cultural background and rough stone processing technology, there is an increasing number of betting activities. However, in these gambling activities, either the high price of rough stone or the low-priced gambling stone of a few hundred or several thousand yuan is aroused by people's desire to gamble, but in fact, the insiders know that these low prices should be It is almost impossible to make good stones.

According to him, at present, many markets, clubs, and cultural festivals that organize gambling activities in China are not perfect and have not formed a good atmosphere. Some people even use the name of gambling stone to sell some garbage that people in the line do not see. Stone", set aside the hot money in the field. There are also only a "gamble" word to attract popularity, and even meet the desire of some people to gamble.

"As the saying goes, the immortal jade is difficult to cut off the jade. It refers to the original jade stone." Cheng Lei told reporters that for the jadeite stone, generally only from the appearance point of view, can not see its true colors at a glance, even to the advanced technology today There is no instrument of any kind that can quickly judge whether it is "garbage" or "deceased" through this shell, so the risk of buying and selling is very high.

"Of course, there are gambling stones whose prices are in the hundreds of dollars and a few thousand dollars. If you just play with interest, you don't care, but don't hold a profit or speculative profit idea. "Ray reminded me.