Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-25
FARO AND IT'S vOTARIES.
POINTS OF THE GAME REYEALED
BY Il PROFESSIONAL GAMBLER.

Players Whom the Bank Does Not Wei
cOme-Trying 10 Scoop Rival-Heavy
Stakes and Cool Nerves-Wby Faro is
Popular.
A Cincinnati gambler has been chatting
with an Enquirer reporter about faro and
its chances. 'Say, for instance said the
gambler, ''there is somebody deeply in
debt and nothing to pay his obligations
with. He gets hold of S. or SO, and really
having nothing to lose, but. everything to
gain, he concludes to try his luck at faro.
By a scratch he runs his capital up may be
to $50. He follows this with two or three
bets of $25 each, which he wins. He now
has capital enough to play the limit, and
being desperate he bangs his money in a
way to either break himself in few turns
or win several hundred dollors. Care
less, reckless and desperate, he
simply guesses at it, and they happen to
come his way. Very speedily he has $500
to 5000, and he draws out. He pays his
debts with his winnings, and the bank
never has chance to win it back, because
the most that fellow will ever have again
at one time will be SIS or $40. The bank
may get numerous plays from him, but it
takes a good many such plays to get back
what he has won. Still, the bank is liable
to get another humping from the man
with the shoe-string, while it can win only
the s. or so from him.
''Again it frequently happens that some
gambler from abroad, with a good sized
roll comes to town, and after giving bank
terrible drubbing, goes away with his
winnings, thus precluding the possibility
of having the gap made good from that
source. Once in a while the p-oprietors of
one bank will conclude to eat another
smaller one up. They then send one of
the partners to the house selected, and a
very pretty battle ensues. You must un-
derstand that big advantage a bank has
over player is the weight of large cap
ital over small one. bank with cap
ital of $500 has hundred chances to win
S. from player who has but that amount
to play with. If the capital is 81 900 the
chance to loose the S. would be 200 to 1,
and so on. Then, at that rate, if the rival
banker, who starts out to break his neigh
Dor banker and takes with him $4,000 to
win out roll of 81, 600 or 5000, of course
it comes pretty near being an even thing,
or may be in the visitors favor. especially
when it comes to cases. One of these tits
is very exciting spectacle. There is no
talk, Outsiders recognize what is going
on. The dealer, the proprietors, the look
out and the colored waiter know what the
visit of the rival means, and all watch the
duel with bated breath, glittering eyes
cheeks pale or flushed as the tide turns
one way or the other, and perspirations
drip from their faces in great beads.
''The coolest men in the room must be
the duelists themselves. Both try to hide
their blanched countenances under the
friendly shade of their hats. The click of
the checks and the light grating noise
made by the cards as they are drawn out OF
the box are the only sounds heard save the
scattering of tobacco juice thahis expelled
in an excited manner by the interested
spectator, who, in his overweight state,
chews at his cud as though he were paid
thousand dollars all ounce for extracting
the essence from the weed. The bank
people understand that it is to be fight
that must end in the death of
one or the other. While the contest
lasts every nerve of the whole
party is strained to the utmost. and may
be the battle continues throughout the
night, first one and then the other of the
combatants being on top. In game like
this splits do not go for much, because the
bets that are up to the limit are almost
sure to De on the case cards. where splits
are impossible. Ii the cards come the
right way for the player he is soon going
to make q. big hole in the bankiroll, Or if
they come against him he is bound to get
hard punishment, for he trots at fearful
gait, and loses or wins very rapidly. It is
a question of nerve to very considerable
extent, and you may rest assured
that both men are cold as a
fish. It wouldn't do for either to
get hot. The loss of several hundred dol
lars on turn makes no perceptible i'm
preston on either, and the money changes
hands as though it were a few pennies
But there is the terrible agony all the
same raging in the breasts of all con-
cerned, and it is frequently hard work to
keep from grinding teeth. 1 tell YOU
Sometimes bank is compelled to turn
over the box and give the player every dol
lar in the roll. That ends the career of the
establishment, probably for long time,
or may be until another combination can
be formed. On the other hand the bank
may win, and the rival banker goes back to
his lair to explain how, if he had won such
a bet. he would have played smash"
''Does it ever happen that bank refuses
to play for rival?"
mo, indeed. They would send car
riage after him, and give him a. good, big
limit in order to let him dump himself the
quicker. Gamblers never decline game
from man with plenty of money, provid-
ed they know he will not kick If he loses.
and they won't stop dealing as long as
there is dollar left on either side to play
for.'
suppose case should occur in which a
player should take turn and take edvan-
tage of it, would the bet be paid?"
certainly. and nothing would be said
about it, even if it were stated voluntarily
by the player that such thing had been
done. The table talks. and after turn
there is no backing out on either side.
Any player would be considered a chump
not to take advantage of every opportunity
that presents ITSELF"
rs it probable that faro will ever be
supplanted?''
Il think not. No game can yet play
here while there is faro. man can't pro-
tect himself against the advantage of
other games like he can against faro. In
red and black dealt out of box there is
the jack to fear, and as YOU can't keen