The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-26
GAMBLING At
MONTE CARLO.
The Most Famous
Gaming Place
Visited.
DETAILS OF
ROUGE ET NOR
Some Sensational Attempts to
Beat and to Plumber
the Bank.
Special Correspondence


MONTE CARLO, March IA little
before Christmas last year, when Nice
and Monte Carlo had filled up with
their sporting cosmopolitan winter pop
uIatiOns, one of the trusted employees
Of the bank called croupiers made a
combination with nine other Christmas
noney-seekers to defraud his own
trente-et-quarante table.
It is a curious fact that scarcely one
man in ten of those who play against
the game through a Monte Carlo season
understands how trente-et-quarante is
operated They see the croupier,
taiIleur, deal the cards into two little
piles. they hear him count the points
and they perceive that red or black has
won-but why or how they seldom take
the trouble to ask.
This game, sometimes called rouge
et-noir or red and black, preferred by
serious players to roulette because of
its smaller percentage against them, is
operated with sixty packs of fifty-two
cards each. The picture cards count
ten each. the others count their points.
In trente~et-quarante. meaning thirty
and forty, the winner of each deal is
the color whose little pile of cards,
surprising 80, comes nearer to 80. The
taileur deals first for black. Suppose
The cards come: King of clubs Q0),
seven of clubs 60, two of hearts ~,
ace of diamonds %. three of spades
81, six of diamonds 49, and three Of
hearts 80. Total 80. The employee
announces simply Two" and then be-
gins to deal for red Suppose they
come: Five of diamonds (5). three of
clubs 80. jack of hearts 40, two of
spades (2l nine of hearts (9)1 and six
Of clubs 90. Total, 50. The employe
announces Five and adds. Red
loses"
DETAILS OF THE GAME
1t is this Red loses" that the aver
age player goes by. He does not know
that each packet must add up more
than 80 and less than 40 and that the
winner is the weakest total nearest to
20 Thirty-one is the lowest total pos
sible and 40 the highest. The word
black" is never pronounced. Suppose
black adds up 80 and red &c. The
tailleur calls "Two-six. Red losesi''
Suppose black adds up 81 and red 81,
he calls: "Seven-one. Red winsi"
When both count the same total. say
&c. he calls: "Six-six. After!''-taf-
ter signifying mo play" A tie means
mo play except in one case, when
both colors count a." This makes the
refait the banks commission, CORE
sponding to the Zero" Of roulette. AS
with the money bet on the even chances
at roulette, the refait puts all the
money on red and black Gin prison.
The next deal decides whether the
money on red or that on black is to be
irreyocably lost. The non-loser simply
gets his stake back
Even imagining the average player tc
get this far, he is most unlikely to mas
ter the intricacies of couleur and in
verse and the manner of calling them
CouIeur is blacks first card i. e., the
first card of the first rangee Couleui
wins when it is the same as the win
ming color at trente-et=quarante sim
pie: but the manner of CALLING it is con-
fusing. Suppose the first card be black
Suppose blacks total comes to be 81
and reds "a The tailleur announces
the coup: "Six-four; red wins ant
color loses" If the first card has beer
red (the winning color at the simple
eame), he would have said: Six
four: red wins and color" When colo1
loses inverse wins. but the word i:
never pronounced.
BEATING THE BANK.
To return to the unfaithful croupie'
and his combination. The syndicate
was made up of an ex-croupier. at tn
time operating a clandestine roulette
at Nice a man without profession, hi
woman friend. an employe of the eX
crOupier and five other individuals o
the same morality, who got away. TIL
so 900 francs capital of the syndicat
was divided equally among the nine
who stationed themselves around thel
partners table. When it came his turf
to take the bank they made ready III
gave the signal. Immediately three o
four of his associates demanded gol
for 1000 franc notes from the thre
other croupiers of the table At tn
same instant the lady, who had re
mained standing, let fall to the floor
handful Of gold 20-franc pieces.
stopped the game because many of tn
players had to make room for the ser
wants to pick up the'coins.
At the moment when the attention G
All was distracted one OF the syndicat
slipped into the unfaithful tailieur'
hand. on top Of the other cards he helt
several similar cards arranged to max
red win eight times in succession. Tn
game started up again. The syndicat
net on req anu III tilt1 Spei't VI a. -
minutes relieved the Monte Carlo ban
Of 100000 francs, or $4,000.
Put Monte Carlo is we'll served on tn
whole. The chef de partie, who ha
noticed that all the heavy betting re
mined faithful to red. even after it ha
Won five, six seven times in succession
counted the cards later on and foun
thirty too many The unfaithft
cr'upier was conducted to the directo
and, after being passed through tn
third degree. arrested. Brought up be
lore the Monaco tribunal. he was cor
nemned to eighteen months Of prison
nut he had won 10000 francs TIL
others. escaping with the spoil, re
NAMED faithful to him; and it is sal
mat though still in prison. he is in tn
'Fment of all kinds Of favorE
''hers pretend that he is not in prison