The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-09-29

Shekels or silver q gold,
Take His money, my son, praising
Allah.
The kid was ordained to be sold.'
AS a general proposition it is an
error in judgment to go against the
other fellows game, for he holds the
cards and the player does the guessing.
The truth of this deduction is proven
by the fact that the other fellow owns
the brick fronts and the diamond stud
shirt front, while it requires all the
ingenuity of the player to present any
front at all. The statement applies
equally to investment in wildcat min
ing stock as to the purchase of red or
blue faro chips; more so in fact, for in
the latter instance the player has
a run for his money, the
fun of the game and the opportun-
ity to shuttle up for a new deal; in
stacked and the only element of ex-
element that enters into the game is
when the player musters up sufficient
n rye to go cunning for the dealer.
1t is an interesting study of human
nature to watch the faces of the men
who nightly gather around the gaming
tables of the camp for the purpose of
taking a fall out of the tiger. Men
crowd and jostle each other as they
place their wagers on the layout and
liberal rotations of cocktails and wine
%incite them on to higher play. Twelve
anu a half and twenty-five is the limit
for ordinary players at the faro tables,
but if a plunger makes his appearance
the limit is raised and he is at liberty
to stack his chips to the ceiling. Under
the latter conditions the play is often
high and thousands of dollars change
ownership during a single deal.
For the prospector and other old
habitues of the green cloth the bank
holds unvarying fascination and they
seldom wager as much as a two-blt
piece at any other game. They are
recognized instinctively by less quail
fled players and a place at the cases
is always yielded to them. They make
their bets with the same ta%citurnity
and phlegmatic department as that
which characterize the dealer and the
lookout, and their acquaintance with
the latter is always of an intimate
character. Win or lose, their aplomb
is never shaken, and the attempts of
the n~ovices to assume the same air of
reserve is often the subject of much
quiet jest between, these veterans who
face each other over the layout. No
loud talk or boisterous laughter is ever
interspersed with the stringing of a
bet or the coppering of a card, for
faro bank is a Students game and
most of those gathered about the table
attempt to ngure out a system whereby
they can break it; the vast majority
go broke in the effort, but occasionally
one turns the trick, and when he does
neither dealer or proprietor ~begrudges
his success, for they know full well
that it is but a question of time, and
a short time at that, until he will grav-
itate back to the table and dump
his roll. Then back to the hills goes
the philosophical old veteran where in
the solitary precincts of his cabin he
studies out another system, the sue
cess or failure of which he demon
strates Immediately upon the accumu-
lation of another hundred or SO.
In contra-distinction, the whir of
the roulette ball exercises a seductive
spell over the tenderfoot. This game
might well be classed as the primary
grade in a novice's gambling career,
from whence he passes along in sue
~cessive stages until he matriculates in
the faro or collegiate degree and be-
comes a ~full-fedged member of the
fraternity. For a number of years
thereafter even, he will occasionally
bark back to his discarded primer and
take a shy at the odd or even, red or
black, or thirty-fve for one straight
up on a single number. With the I'd
vent of maturer years, however, these
lapses from dignity become less and
less frequent and are finally totally
eradicated. He will sometimes while
en- route to his Alma Mater loiter for a
few minutes at the side of the crou-
pier and with supercilious air watch
the efforts of the novices to acquire
knowledge, but never, never AGAIN
does he wager the smallest mite of his
roll upon the fall of the little ball.
Not for him are such trivial efforts,
for his acumen is demonstrated to bet
- $500 - Tho p+riaaaiaS of single