If they won, they could take home large sums of cash. But if they lost, their families would have to ransom them; otherwise they would become slave labor. Many unfortunates were worked to death or sold off.
賭勝了便拿著酬金揚長而去，萬一賭輸，要親族限日贖人，否則便把人當奴隸虐待鞭笞，不少人因此被虐待致死或當作「豬仔」載出賣掉。