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– Yes.

Georg and I stopped on a balcony overlooking the hall, in the middle of which there was a tape measure. All around are men in expensive suits. One of them loosened his tie knot, the other managed to throw off his jacket. Controlling everything around them in everyday life, here they were just players chasing luck by the tail. Some of the women who accompanied them were very young… The city of revelations, big money and forbidden pleasures.

– Someone will be unlucky today, – Georg remarked when the tape measure stopped, and the one whose jacket hung on the back of a chair ran his fingers through his graying hair.

– How many now? I asked.

Georg took out his phone and dialed one of the guys in the lower hall. He asked a few questions and then said:

– Almost eight hundred thousand euros.

I nodded in satisfaction. Yes, some people are unlucky today. For a few more minutes we stood on the balcony, watching the roulette wheel spin. Bets were made on a new circle, the ball rolled, going over red and black…