The Shell Game (II) — Season 1, Episode 2: Episode 2
Drama • 46 min • 1 season, 20 episodes
Episode synopsis
It ends a drawn game. TAM flatly declines TO's second proposal of challenge and quietly leaves Shanghai. M LOON feels pretty disappointed and turns to TO for his new target. To raise money for the bet, the crook plays his tricks again at several gambling tables. On one occasion, he even swindles a lady reporter, FOK SZE LING, and gets her camera. When everything is ready, the lad wittily gets TO accept his challenge. And logically enough; he also gets himself beaten in the game and has to suffer several humiliation of strolling half-naked through the streets.
About The Shell Game (II)
This series about gambler-rivalries in China. It was 1935 in Shanghai, a young country lad, Ah Long, who just arrived the city then to challenge Tu Yi Xiao (King Punter of the North) but soon he found himself insufficient and humbly begged to serve Tu as his master. Soon, Tu's gambling business expanded so fast cause other gangs felt annoyed and rivalries began.