"Wanna play a round, buddy?"
A guy with a buzz cut approached Lin Tian, who was idle, looking to pair up for a game.
"I'm not that good, just watching is fine."
"You guys are always posing. Twenty bucks a round, are you in or not?"
As soon as Lin Tian heard this, he knew he had encountered a gambler.
At the pool hall, it's common for solo players who can't find a partner to look for an opponent to play a game with them. Some people play for the table fee, losing means paying up just a few bucks. Others play big, betting ten or twenty a game. They're mostly local thugs, the kind without a decent job.
"I came here to meet someone today," Lin Tian wasn't really in the mood to play; he wasn't feeling too well either.
"Come on, if you're not playing, then don't sit here. This is a pool hall, why would you come here if you're not going to play?"
Lin Tian still didn't agree, so the buzz cut guy pulled out a pack of cigarettes and gestured to the stand owner.
