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	Faro (Game) - LoveToKnow 1911
		FARO (from Pharaoh, a picture of the Egyptian king appearing on a card of the old French pack), a game of cards, played with a full pack.
		The dealer places the pack, after shuffling and cutting, in a dealing-box face upwards, and the cards are taken from the top of the box in couples through a slit in the side.
		Faro is played considerably in parts of the United States, whither it is said to have been taken from France, where it had a great vogue during the reign of Louis XIV.
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	Games - Faro
		Faro is a card game, a descendant of Basset
		Faro was undoubtedly one of the most popular card games of the 18th century, especially among the lower classes.
		Faro bankers were alleged to employ 'gentlemen' to give a very favourable report of the game to the town, so that the games would be allowed to transpire without further inquiry.
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	Gambling Guide > Casinos > Casino Games > Faro
		Although both Basset and Faro were forbidden in France, on severe penalties, yet these games still continued in great vogue in England during the 18th century, especially Faro; for the alleged reasons that it was easy to learn, that it appeared to be very fair, and, lastly, that it was a very quiet game.
		Faro was the daughter of Basset -- both alike notorious frauds, there being no one, except professed gamblers, who could be said to understand the secrets of these games.
		Faro was played with an entire pack of cards, and admitted of an indeterminate number of players, termed 'punters,' and a 'banker.' Each player laid his stake on one of the 52 cards.
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	Faro Gambling Card Game History and Rules
		Faro was the most popular card game in the 19th century America.
		Faro was originally a European card game that that used to play by low class people in France and England during the 18th century.
		The card game name is a misspell of the ancient Egyptian king who has been an inspiration on French playing card designers.
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	The Game of Faro - History & Rules for the King of Old West Card Games
		Faro (also commonly spelled “Pharo”) is an old card game that is not much played today, as casinos tend to favor games where the odds are more clearly in favor of the house.
		Faro is a "banking" game where any number of players (which were then called "punters") play against the dealer or the house, referred to as the "bank".
		As such, faro dealers often travelled with their gaming equipment from town to town, setting up their faro bank and often risking their personal fortune in a saloon for a fee or running a "house" bank in exchange for a piece (percentage) of the action.
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	USPC - General Rules That Apply to All Card Games
		A fifty-third card–the joker–and a fifty-fourth card, which may be used as an extra joker, are usually furnished with the standard 52-card pack and may become part of the pack if the rules of the game require it.
		Games that use six or more packs invariably call for a "shoe," which is a container that houses several decks from which the cards are dealt one at a time.
		In most games, the first card dealt goes to the "first player," and the cards are distributed in clockwise rotation.
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	Faro
		Faro is not much played today, as it is a banking game and gambling houses tend to favor games where the odds are more clearly in favor of the house.
		In its most basic form, the Faro table is a long rectangle (perhaps two feet by one and a half) It is covered in green felt, and laid upon this felt is the "lay-out".
		A proper game of Faro must involve keeping an accurate track of the cards played, and if a Cue Box is not present, then the players must "Keep Tabs" by tracking the cards with a paper and pencil.
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	Playing Cards - rules of the gambling card game faro
		Casinos abandoned the game in the early 20th century because it offered a very low house edge and was thus not very profitable for the house.
		If two cards of the same rank come up on the same turn, so that a bet on that rank both wins and loses, it is called a split, and the dealer takes half of all bets on that rank.
		When only three cards remain, a player may bet on the exact order in which those cards will come up, and the dealer pays off the player's bet at 4 to 1 if he is correct.
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	Card Games from The Good Gambling Guide
		The appeal of the game, usually played by two but can be four or sometimes three, is evident from two facts: few changes have been made in the original rules, and it remains one of the most popular of all card games.
		In the game the 13 cards of the spade suit, representing the ranks of all suits, are enameled on a layout on which the bets are placed against the house.
		Stuss is a variant of the game in which the cards are dealt from a pack held face down in the dealer's hand, not from a dealing box.
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	The Vegas Guy - The Ghosts Of Faro
		The reason we're revisiting faro is that there was a burst of interest after my column last week on the decline of table games and why people can't be lured away from the fljack tables anymore.
		The first card out of the dealer's box was called the "soda." The last card was the "hock." "Coppering the bet" meant betting on a card to lose--the equivalent of playing the "don't pass" line in craps.
		Faro is, at any rate, commonly considered the oldest banking game in the world, but I think it will be remembered more for the men who ruined it than for the men who actually played it.
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	Online Texas Holdem
		Of all games, faro was a particular favorite for both professional and casual gamblers.
		Faro is a game where players would bet on which cards would be dealt next.
		Banking and percentage games had a built-in house edge that guaranteed the professional to be a statistical winner.
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	The Game of Faro - Rules
		Faro games in the South and Northeast (particularly New York State and the Boston Area) saw a variety of rule modifications and fluctuations over those years, just as the game "evolved" considerably in 20th century Nevada, before it's demise.
		The game begins with each punter (player) laying their wagers on or around the card layout (sample layout pictured left), consisting of all 13 card ranks (Ace through King) laid, glued or painted on the Faro table, generally in the spade suit (although the suits of cards in faro are not important).
		The other card bets on the layout (other than the "high card" bet, explained below) are untouched by the dealer and remain in play for the next turn, unless pulled by the punter or clearly "barred" by the punter (meaning they suspend their placed bets for one or more turns).
	www.bcvc.net /faro/rules.htm (4029 words)

	Card Games Faro. How To Play Faro.
		Faro was once the most popular and celebrated card game in the days of the wild west.
		Faro, sometimes spelled pharo, pharaon or pharaoh, was a card game invented by the French, who took it from the Venetian game of basetta.
		Though the game has intricate props, elaborate betting formalities, plus ornate names like soda and hoch, Faro is a game you can set up and learn on your kitchen table in less than 2 minutes.
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	The rise and fall of Faro, a card game.
		Today, the card game known as faro is all but forgotten, but when America was young – before windsurfing, Packard automobiles, computers, Hoover Dam, the Scopes “monkey” trial, Route 66 or wind farms in the desert had ever been mentioned – faro was the most popular card game in the country.
		The faro table was square, with a cutout for the banker, that is, the house.
		The final bet, when there are three cards remaining in the deck, is known as “calling the turn.” The object is to predict the order of those three cards: the loser, followed by the winner, followed by the “hock” card, which is not used.
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	USPC - Casino Games
		Thus, a player may stand on the two cards originally dealt him, or he may ask the dealer for additional cards, one at a time, until he either decides to stand on the total (if it is 21 or under), or goes "bust" (if it is over 21).
		If the third card is not between the face-up cards, or is of the same rank as either of them, the player loses his bet, and it is added to the pot.
		Faro was also very popular in America, and during the 19th century, many referred to it as "the national card game." It is of historical interest to note that during the Civil War era there were more than 150 gambling houses in Washington D.C., and Faro was the principal attraction at every one of them.
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	TheHistoryNet \| Wild West \| Faro: Favorite Gambling Game of the Frontier (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Some early faro cards and layouts also displayed a portrait of a Bengal tiger, inspiring such terms as "bucking the tiger" or "twisting the tiger's tail" to describe playing the game.
		Faro was the premier game; high-rolling gamblers liked the easy odds, and others enjoyed the quick action and the thrill of staking it all on the turn of a single card.
		At a faro game in a Leadville saloon in 1879, a local hard case named Brown shifted one of Luke's bets on the layout.
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	Faro or Bucking the Tiger - A Little History
		Not a direct relative of poker, Faro was played alongside its other popular counterpart, and played by the masses, due to its fast action, easy-to-learn rules, and better odds than most games of chance.
		The Faro layout consists of a board where one card of each denomination is displayed at the top of the table, usually in the suit of spades.
		The banker would win all the money staked on the “banker’s card,” while paying double the sums staked to those who had placed their bet on the “player’s card.” If the banker dealt a pair, he won half the stakes that were bet on the card.
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	faro, card game. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		First played in France and England, faro was especially popular in U.S. gambling houses in the 19th cent.
		Players bet against a banker (dealer), who draws two cards–one that wins and another that loses–from the deck (or from a dealing box) to complete a turn.
		Bets–on which card will win or lose– are placed on each turn.
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	Faro (city) - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Faro (city), city, port, and capital of the Faro District and the Algarve, in southern Portugal.
		Algarve, region of southern Portugal, comprising the administrative district of Faro.
		Faro (game), card game played with an ordinary 52-card pack by any number of people, for the sole purpose of gambling.
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		Empire Cards are a six suited deck of 78 cards.
		Holdem or Foldem Cards: the face of each card of this deck has information on the odds of winning a hand of Texas Holdem when it is one of your two hole cards.
		MacGregor Historic Games produce reproductions of historic board, dice and card games.
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	Mercante in Fiera Italian Card Game
		She holds the cards under the table so the other players do not know how many cards they are bidding for.
		The remaining cards in the players’ hands, after the Merchant has been through the entire blue deck, are the winning cards and each takes the prize according to the card that he or she holds.
		The key to a good game is to choose an experienced "merchant": he can make the auction exciting, by alternating the number of cards sold in each group, so that he will obtain good bids even for groups of one or two cards.
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	faro â“ Dictionary Definition of faro \| Encyclopedia.com: FREE Online Dictionary
		One problem faced by members of FARO is retailers who don't pay their bills.
		I would like to thank the investors for their support, and finally, I want to thank the FARO employees for their dedication and performance over the last 18 months.
		European investors, and I find their level of interest in FARO to be very similar to what I see from investors in the...
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	faro - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Faro (city, Portugal), southernmost city in Portugal and the capital of Faro District.
		Faro is a seaport on the Atlantic Ocean, at the western end...
		Faro (administrative district, Portugal), province of southern Portugal.
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	Faro (card game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Faro is the game played in Aleksandr Pushkin's short story The Queen of Spades.
		Faro is referenced throughout Jacques Casanova's autobiography 'L'Histoire de ma Vie', depicting the game as it was played throughout 18th century Europe; it was one of this delightful rogue's primary sources of income.
		Faro is played by characters in saloons on the HBO series "Deadwood".
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	From The Felt Top Table
		There were a few fljack tables set up and the game was easy to play and the most important thing to the casino was it was an easy win for the house and it was a fast game.
		Few won at either game and after the thrill of the dealers' hole card exposed; he was lowered to a couple of Blackjack and Poker tournaments a year.
		The fact that dealers have a tendency to shuffle cards in slugs, whether small or large, these clumps re-appear in the next shoe and a good player recognizes and uses it to their advantage, this will never happen on the shuffle machines.
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		A card game is any game using playing cards, either traditional or game-specific.
		This article will describe the general mechanics of card games: that is, those rules which are so widely known that they are often omitted in rules of card games, because the author assumes that "everyone" knows them.
		They should therefore not be taken as rules; rather they should be used as default rules if you are trying to play a game from an incomplete set of rules which omits the general mechanics.
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	Television Point \| Dictionary \| Meaning of faro
		[n] a card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box
		[Said to be so called because the Egyptian king Pharaoh was formerly represented upon one of the cards.] A gambling game at cardds, in whiich all the other players play against the dealer or banker, staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pack.
		{Faro bank}, the capital which the proprietor of a farotable ventures in the game; also, the place where a game of faro is played.
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	Faro
		Faro, or Farobank, is a very old banking card game, and is thought to have originated in Italy, belonging to the same family of games as Lansquenet, Florentine and Monte Bank.
		Players try to predict whether the next card to appear, of the denomination bet on, will be a winning or a losing card.
		The first of each pair is always the losing card, the second the winning card.
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	Faro - Tombstone Card Game - Ghosttowns.com Forums
		For example, if the dealer is halfway thru the deck, the counter might show that 3 queens are left so the player would know that a queen would be a good bet.
		They would place a copper on top of their chip if they wanted to bet that the card would NOT be dealt next.
		There were many ways you could place chips and get different odds (similar to roulette where you can bet on 4 numbers at a time or a row of numbers,etc.).
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