Faro
Familiarly known as "Bucking the Tiger", Faro is also a bank game, meaning that the dealer is the bank against which any number of punters bet. Faro must be played on a gaming layout made up of the suit of spades, as shown below.
The punters use the layout to place their bets. A counter (chip or cash) is placed directly on a card painted on the layout. It is a bet that this numbered card will be the next winning card dealt. If a copper is placed on top of the chips bet then the player is betting that this card will be dealt as the losing card. The players can also bet on the winning card being a higher or lower denomination than the loosing card by placing a counter or copper on the High Card bar.
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