The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-11-19
SCHEME FOR FARO BANK.
PAT SHEEDY PROPOSES TO TRY
THE FOREIGN SYSTEM HERE.
How Matches Can DO for Layout II
You want to Got Around tho Law
Tho Copper They Don't use Abroad
Auction Bankers Rights at Bids for
Capital. IT a --'-.

''If I ever deal a faro bank in New
York again." said Pat Sheedy, I'll in
troduce the game as it is played abroad
The American game is good enough fol-
me as far as that goes, but we've had Sc
many expositions of double percen-
tages' in the way of crooked boxes and
scientific dealers that something would
besneeded to- restore public confidence
in the honesty Of the game, no matter
in whose house 1t might be dealt.
AS they deal it in England, to get
around the law they abandon the lay
out as we know it here. Instead of the
thirteen cards spread out on board as
a chart for the players bets they take
seven matches. They spread these out
on the table each with its red head
pointing away from the dealer and
each match about four or FIVE inches
away from the other. .E*
Of the six matches beginning from
the dealers left hand, the heads indi-
cate the king, queen, jack, ten, nine and
eight spot, while the feet Of the matches
stand for the ace, deuce, tray, four, five
and six. The odd match, Of course, is
the seven spot up at the head of the
pot.
They don't use copper in foreign
countries You've got to play cards to
win. Of course you don't get as much
play through deal as you get here,
but you can't get whip-sawed either.
Another rule is that having bet you
can't take It up. 1t must stand until
you get action on it. I tried to intro
duce the copper in Cairo, but they
thought they were getting sufficient
action as it was, and wouldn't stand for
innovations. f..
The box used is so simple that it is
plain to every player that isn't con-
nected with any devices to shift the
cards. 1t is plain square box, which
stands upon four little legs SO that you
can see under it. Every player has a
right to shuttle the cards before they
are put in the box which is the guaran-
tee to the players that the expert isn't
setting them UP on him. OF course the
dealer has the privilege of cutting them
in the box, but the man who can con-
struct deck to his own way by merly
cutting the cards hasn't turned up vet.
Some Of the players who might ask
to shuttle the cards are undoubtedly
able to set a few of them where they
can tell whether they are going to win
or lose. but all that is upset by a, cut.
NO longer can the dealer, manipulating
the dock with the noiseless shuttle that
is peculiar to linen cards at 1.50 a deck,
wholesale, pile in four losing sevens on
the sucker who is dead stuck to make
the seven spot win, nor can it force a
double out deal on the man that he
knows nothing but single out.
with the house and the PLAYERS pro-
tected against fraud by means as simple
as they are effective, the deal begins
The cards are put in the box face down
instead of face up as here. The soda
card is therefore on the bottom and Is
shown to the players at the beginning
of the deal. Action is had on the top
card. As in the American game, the
first card loses and the second card
wins. zsj z5-
Where the game is played as a club
game abroad, the right to be a banker
is sold at auction to the highest bidder.
Whatever he bids becomes the CAPT.
ia of the bank, and any player may bet
as much as the bank contains and no
more. The highest bidder holds the
bank for an hour, or until the capital
is exhausted. The rake-off comes out
OF the bank before the play begins. In
England it is generally So for the hour.
The bankers advantage is in the splits,
which are treated the same as In this
country. Sometimes a deck Of but
fhirty-two cards is used instead of the
full deck. This shortens the deal and
decreases the number Of bets one may
WIN or lose in a deal, but it also large