What is Faro?
March 8, 2008
Faro is an even-money game you can set up on your kitchen table and learn in less than a month; in fact, two minutes should do it. So, Peter and other readers, go fetch yourselves two decks of cards and learn by doing.
Lay out in neat rank order‹ace through king‹the thirteen cards of a single suit (traditionally spades) face up on the table top (or on an enameled green cloth if one happens along). It is on this spread that you do your betting. The other deck is for the game itself.
As the bettor, you “back a card” by placing your chips on any rank (card), or on more than one if you like. With the other deck shuffled twice, cut once, and put face up in a topless box, the deal begins. The top card, called the “soda” for some obscure reason, is pulled off and laid aside, then the next card is dealt. Anyone whose chips are on that rank (regardless of suit) loses. The next card is then drawn, and anyone who bet on that rank wins. That constitutes “a turn.”Bets on any of the other ranks, can be withdrawn or left standing for the next turn. The house derives its advantage when a pair is dealt. Here the bank would take half the money that had been staked on the paired cards.
There¹s another guy standing beside the dealer with the title “casekeeper.” He keeps track of the cards that have been played, and when only three card remain in the box, bettors can have a crack at a heftier win by guessing what they are.
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