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I should correct this. I forgot that if the two cards dealt have the same
rank, the bank takes half of the money that the punters bet on that rank.
This is a more important house advantage than the odds on "calling the
turn" of the last three cards.
A Nabokov connection is that faro is related to lansquenet, which is
mentioned in *Pale Fire.*
Jerry Friedman
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Jerry Friedman <jerryfriedman1@gmail.com>wrote:
> This book discusses the game of faro in *The Queen of Spades*, including
> the reference to *mirandole*:
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=9dD4E1Yv8dsC&pg=PA170
>
> The game seems to be the same as that described in the "Hoyle" I have: a
> punter bets on a rank, and then the cards are dealt alternately into "win"
> and "lose" piles. If the first card of that rank falls on the "win" pile,
> the punter wins; if not, he loses.
>
> The calculation of the house advantage is very simple (there isn't one
> except for the last three cards), and a precocious child might be
> interested in it.
>
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rank, the bank takes half of the money that the punters bet on that rank.
This is a more important house advantage than the odds on "calling the
turn" of the last three cards.
A Nabokov connection is that faro is related to lansquenet, which is
mentioned in *Pale Fire.*
Jerry Friedman
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Jerry Friedman <jerryfriedman1@gmail.com>wrote:
> This book discusses the game of faro in *The Queen of Spades*, including
> the reference to *mirandole*:
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=9dD4E1Yv8dsC&pg=PA170
>
> The game seems to be the same as that described in the "Hoyle" I have: a
> punter bets on a rank, and then the cards are dealt alternately into "win"
> and "lose" piles. If the first card of that rank falls on the "win" pile,
> the punter wins; if not, he loses.
>
> The calculation of the house advantage is very simple (there isn't one
> except for the last three cards), and a precocious child might be
> interested in it.
>
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