Kaiji- Fourth Episode

Ladies and gentlemen: this is Andou's only useful contribution to the group.

Kaiji is the worse for wear with this gamble. He might as well do something else

Shoot him, you say?

Kaiji makes an amazing comeback by putting a brilliant plan to work. How can someone hatch such a cunning plan in place like this, you ask? What just happened is that Kaiji just had one of those flashes of enlightenment, which allowed him to devise a plan to gamble his way out his bind. While staring at his set of gesture cards, he noticed that it would be convenient to maintain some sort of balance with the remaining cards in order to not end up deprived of any choice to make in the final rounds. Next he realised that more people would be playing by the same reasoning. So it was a short jump from his figuring out that he needs to detect this trend in someone else first to engage them armed with this powerful knowledge. It happens with someone they nicknamed "hyena", which can be traced to the way that he seems to prey on the weak and derive enjoyment from doing so. According to what I read from the caption, "he was unusually happy after having beat someone". It was also important for the struggling threesome to catch notice of the way that someone might play a run of some matches. If their wanted man happened to use an alternate game, then he was the one to fit their description of someone who relied on balance to win.

Looks like Ken Master has a debt-ridden cousin.

They wound up wracking up two more stars. It also bears mentioning that Kaiji is the brains of the group, but Furuhata occasionally contributes with some welcome nuggets of knowledge. His intervening comments often prevent Kaiji doing something hasty, which would otherwise ruin his whole scheme. Andou is of no help at all. An unaware viewer could even think that he's just in for the free ride. Oh well....

Behold the mighty Hiodo- the man behind the system Kaiji has been put through.