Just watched this episode - very nicely done, an excellent match, and conclusion - match could have gone either way. Interesting touch that they don't seem to draw out the episodes/matches/games, typically I'd expect (from watching an episode) that game/match would be drawn out over a few episodes, however seems to end/conclude very abruptly at times, reflects nicely on nature of the gamble.

Looks like next episodes will have skipped forward in time, thankfully - I'd say series will really start to bloom now (as if already wasn't vastly better than expected).

Shame triad don't seem to like this anime (or at least that was impression I got from their site).