The Gaming Table - Volume 2 by Andrew Steinmetz
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page 233 of 328 (71%)
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talliere took the pack in his hand and turned them up--the bottom
card appearing being called the fasse; he then paid half the value of the stakes laid down by the punters upon any card of THAT SORT. After the fasse was turned up, and the talliere and croupiere had looked round the cards on the table, and taken advantage of the money laid on them, the former proceeded with his deal; and the next card appearing, whether the king, queen, ace, or whatever it might be, won for the player, the latter might receive it, or making paroli, as before said, go on to sept-et-le-va. The card after that won for the talliere, who took money from each player's card of that sort, and brought it into his bank--obviously a prodigious advantage in the talliere over the players. The talliere, if the winning card was a king, and the next after it was a ten, said (showing the cards all round), 'King wins, ten loses,' paying the money to such cards as are of the winning sort, and taking the money from those who lost, added it to his bank. This done, he went on with the deal, it might be after this fashion--'Ace wins, five loses; ' 'Knave wins, seven loses;' and so on, every other card alternately winning and losing, till all the pack was dealt but the last card. The LAST card turned up was, by the rules of the game, for the advantage of the talliere; although a player might have one of the same sort, still it was allowed to him as one of the dues of his office, and he paid nothing on it. |
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