Card Games Faro. How To Play Faro.

The card game of Faro

The most popular card game of the old west

Faro was once the most popular and celebrated card game in the days of the wild west. Many a plantation, many a man's gold fortune, many a slave and sometimes a life was won or lost on a faro table.

So popular was the game, faro could be found in just about every saloon in every Western one-horse town.

Faro, sometimes spelled pharo, pharaon or pharaoh, was a card game invented by the French, who took it from the Venetian game of basetta. French card players called the game Pharaoh because one of the honored cards bore the face of an Egyptian Pharaoh. Thanks to an exiled Scotsman named John Law, it was taken to the United States via New Orleans and slowly moved up the river on the Mississippi steamboats, then spread across the country.

Faro is very simple to play, there were 2 reasons why the game became so popular. 1st, it held a slight house advantage, less than 2%, and the game was played at such a fast pace-2 hands per minute-that it was the ideal game for impatient gamblers looking for fast action.

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Though the game has intricate props, elaborate betting formalities, plus ornate names like soda and hoch, Faro is a game you can set up and learn on your kitchen table in less than 2 minutes.

With the 1st deck we'll use just13 cards for your spread or layout. The other pack of cards is for the game itself. Using one complete suit (layouts generally used spades), running from ace to king, lay them face up.
This is your game layout. As the bettor, "back a card" (place your bet) on any rank (card) by putting a chip on it. With the other deck shuffled, deal the top 2 cards (dealers in the past dealt from a box, a bit like today's shoe). If you backed the 1st card dealt you lose. Place a bet on the 2nd card, you win.

If you have a bet on any of the other cards, they can be withdrawn or left standing for the next turn. The house got it's its advantage when a pair was dealt. The bank would take 1/2 the money that had been staked on the paired cards.

Faro's demise came about because of a number of factors but 2 stand out. The opportunity for a dealer to cheat was greater than in any other card game, also faro had a low house edge.

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