Now I'm obsessing over how, with the way that dice game works, one could make money as a professional gambler unless one was in on yakuza machinations involving it.
In Zatoichi canon, at least, somehow between his blindness and his martial training, all of Ichi's other senses are abnormally acute; so he picks up on little cues of sound, smell, etc. that fly past normal people -- it seems like he can even hear which way the dice are going to fall. With Gojyo being only half-human, you could possibly hand-wave similar super-human keenness of perception giving him something of an edge...
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Date: 2008-03-17 06:10 am (UTC)In Zatoichi canon, at least, somehow between his blindness and his martial training, all of Ichi's other senses are abnormally acute; so he picks up on little cues of sound, smell, etc. that fly past normal people -- it seems like he can even hear which way the dice are going to fall. With Gojyo being only half-human, you could possibly hand-wave similar super-human keenness of perception giving him something of an edge...