The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-02-07

ing continuously. But this per cent. In
favor OF the banker Is tri vial compared
with others. In fact, 1t amounts TO very
little.
The great percentage In favor OF the
banker is the propensity OF 30 players
out of every 100 to stay longer TO lose
h to win. In other words, the aver
age player with $1,000 In his pocket, II
he should strike a losing streak, will lose
the entire sum, investing II In chips, $5o
or even as low as S25 at a time. lie will
'stand the gan" In sheer desperation un-
til he Is broke.
Now let US suppose that on the first $50
invested he should strike a winning
streak. Seventy men out OF every hun
dred will quit when they have won 5000;
equat to the 1900 they have I'm their
pockets. At the same time the seventy
who would quit at $500 winning would
stay for $1,000 losing. 1t can readily be
seen that the bank has much the better
of it. II is human nature and not
"splits'' that gives the bank it's big per-
centage and enables IL to Withstand such
severe onslaughts.
But these advantages do not satisfy
the average faro banker He wants TO
operate a game In which he cannot lose.
In order TO do this the dealer can do one
of three or four things He can use the
double deck box, or IL he is thoroughly
acquainted with a players system he
may use "strippers' to advantage. a
pack OF such cards contains rs cards cut
To an exact parallelogram and "a cut with
a curve on each side. That is, they are
slightly wider han the others.
FOR illustration, let US suppose that one
side OF the faro layout-the king, queen,
jack, ten, nine and eight-are cut
with a curve. TIL other, are straight.
No matter how often the dealer may
shuttle them, by a simple pull with the
fin ba An hanI ont oil tho kinDc
queens, jacks, tens, mines n Fights.
Now let us suppose that after a long,
vigorous and impressive shuttle he pulls
the t~wenty-four wide ards out. Then with
another swift movement he butts" them
together, getting them in alternately
with the straight cards. he gives them
a few rapid cuts, which DO not affect the
case in the least, and places them in
the box.
HOW HE DOES 1T.
. This box Is arranged with a wide slot,
so that by al extra dig the dealer can
shove out two cards. Suppose you are a
sucker" and nave placed s100 bet on
the jack ''open" and another S1C0 on the
tray '~'coppered." That Is, you are bet
ting that in the two piles of alternate
cards as they come from the jack will
fall on the outer pile and the tray next
the box.
Suppose the s'soda' or card showing
in the top OF the o Is a King. The
dealer knows the~cards are in alternate
order, and that the next card must be
lower than an eight. He knows that your
bet is all right and that you will bet him
out OF 500 IL permitted to do so. Now,
to reverse the order of things and get the
better OF you.
His long white fingers hover over the
box for a moment, then out come the
first two cards. lie has not tried To cheat
you, teeause OF the first turn the chances
are that he would be discovered. Re
makes two or three turns, with the big
cards always showing in the box. Still
YOU have got no action for your money.
Then there comes a deeper dig than
usual with the long finger, a rapid flip OF
the ~Iastetoarcs, and a little card-or
one under an e~ight-comes up in the box.
lie has pulled ont two cards simultane-
ously, and reverses the order of things.
He Is positively certain now that you Will
lose your money. The little cards are
showing as winners, and the big ones as
losers. They are coming just opposite 10
the way in which your bet is placed. IL
you shit your bets, it is easy enough to
shift the cards tack again.
In making these strikers, IL Is not at
all necessary to have them run in big
and little turns. They NAV ne made al
~ternately wide and narrow from the ace
around to the king. At any rate, 1t is
extremely hard for even a sharp eyed man
to detect a fly dealer in the act of pulling
out two cards.
OF curse the cases will be wrong at
the end of the deal, hut that occurs so
often, even I'm square games, that il oc-
casions no sus picion. The dealer in a
T" brace game sits serene and imps able,
while the losers in front Of him exhibit
in face and gesture all the varying and
manifold forms of human distress.
The roulette table seems fair enough on
fAa to- - 81. H.. l-A
Thirty-eight compartments are made at
the edge of a horizontally revolving wheel
and an ivory Dali IL sent whirling by the
dealer around the circumference of an
outer and stationary circle. Two of the
compartments are numbered ''On end
80 o." The Others are numbered from
one to t~hirty-six, The ball, after spinning
around the circls for fifteen or twenty
seconds, drops into one OF the compart-
ments of the wheel, which is moving in
an opposite direction. III it drops into
''O' or double 80 o" the wheel takes all
the stakes on the board.
II it should drop into any other COM
partment, toe player, IL he should happen
to have a stake on the right number, is
entitled to 36 times the amount Of his
stake, while the stakes OF Gil the other
players are confscated. 1t will be seen,
therefore, that the legitimate advantage
OF the wheel is, therefore, as thirty-eight
W slAs W ~ NIAht oNtl - DtI SlHl.
on each revolution of the wheel.
The real percentage, however, as i'm ia
70, is the propensity of the majority OF
the players to stay longer to lose han to
win.
The Legitimate percentage at roulette,
as in faro, does not satisfy the average
dealer. He wants ii II. IN order TO ac-
complish this end several appliances are
used. 1t is practically impossible to de-
scribe these appliances here in a way that
would be clear to the average reader.
AN ELABORATE AFFAIR.
A roulette wheel captured in a police
raid in Chicago was a marvel of inFe-
nuity. The under part of the wheel was
as full OF wires as a typewriter. They re-
volved with the wheel, but we're connect
cd with the edge Of the table, where the
dealer stood by other wires, running from
the axle OF the wheel. On the edge OF
the table underneath the green baize mar
gin we're several buttons that We're practi-
cally invisible.
BY pressing one of these buttons the
red compartments were widened and the
blacks narrowed. BY pressing another
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