WHAT BACCARAT IS.

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume X, Issue 939, 29 August 1891, Page 3

WHAT BACCARAT IS.

Baccarat is a favourite fashionable gambling game of England and the Continent. It is a gambling gamo pure and simple, may be played by any number of playem, and with any number of cards. All bet fagainat the dealer, who banks and dealt* from a box, similar to a cigar box. The fac« card* each count ten, uud the other* to the number of their spot*. After the bets have baen made the banker deals two curda to each of the p'ajers, inc'uding himself, but the other players must receivo their cards before the banker is served. The aim of the players m to make the number 9, 19 29, or an nemly those a* possible, as 8, 18, 28. Any player is *

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If. utter th» firm dj«tr hui'oii '><"' two* 1 I m ciich nny |i|ii\«r liiik n tit* iiihT thai •i Mini n ilk i ii .' 9, <n nex ni vmiio I V* — U • let; arcH ii, un<i tde bunk r fiavn nil wli h I ' mii» 'i >r Ii tmld t i iii« >*vn, hii<l ilaiin uun th-'fe iiolnicig iufrii'ir liuudN '\t> t ilnyer« Bt»ike »heir iiioaey aeparately, tb-Me h>v>% m tut us iiiauv yieparatu guin< a ih piDKrei-H 49 i lie; u a r e pluyej-e and the apertators may,- wager their money oa any <f ttiHin, nil of which muni bauccepteil by it»n danker.

Prior to tliu btnkor making a uturt he HtuteH the .uiKiunt m the baak— for examplf £50. Anyone sitting down at the table has the right to call tha whole of thn bank, selecting the left or the right on which to pick up the cardd. If the bank is not cullod, then the banker proceeds to dcul to £25 a side, or as much of it as may be 4 marked* or called— the former meaning that the banker has accepted tbe bet without the money being staked. The latter course, however is quite the exception, the ready coin being invariably planked. : Pre vious to the banker dealing the cards, it is the duty of two oroupiera, one on ' the r ght and the other on tlie fcft, to count up the stake deposited on either side, and then make up the bank. Thus the banker knows to tlie smallest coin the exact amount of his liabilites. Had th« game been properly played at Tranby Croft no ame would have srood im earthly chance of cheating; v !