Card game for up to 10 players

Usage examples of faro.

Valentine concentrated on thoughts of ugly old chits and losing at faro.

Desarmoises, my party at Choisi, my trust in Costa, my union with the Renaud, and worse than all, my folly in letting myself play at faro at a place where the knavery of the gamesters is renowned all over Europe, followed one another in fatal succession.

I took a job dealing faro when I hit Germiston, a quaint little village a couple of miles east of Johannesburg.

But the afternoon was dull and the faro dealer was idly shuffling a double stack of chips when Rimrock brushed in through the door.

It was the hand of a Chinaman, those most passionate of faro players, and at such times, seeing it follow his luck, the face of Rimrock lightened up with the semblance of a smile.

With fifty cents to eat on, and one more faro game behind him, Rimrock stood thoughtfully on the corner and asked the old question: What next?

Carpenter knew well that Wheels Bryant would be after bigger game than the shekels that clanked across the roulette board and the faro tables.

We were not known to anyone, and were rambling through the apartments, when we arrived before a large table at which the princebishop was holding a faro bank.

I had placed my money in the hands of a certain Maroli, a major in the army and a gamester by profession, who held the faro bank at the coffee-house.

I immediately offered to procure a good company at my expense, if the boxes were at once subscribed for, and the monopoly of the faro bank granted to me.

I called again in the evening, and, after she had excused herself for not having been at home in the morning, the faro bank began, and I lost all my money, still having the countess for my partner.

Manzoni, who told me that she was at the faro table, losing her money.

Gondoin, a colonel in the service of the Duke of Modena, because he held a faro bank at his house.

After supper, which did not last very long, cards were produced, and one of the officers held a bank at faro.

I felt myself safe as far as love was concerned, but I had reason to dread fortune, always the friend of those who keep a bank at faro, especially as I had already lost.