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ROUGE ET NOIR. |
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or, " Votre jeu est il pret ?" Is your game ready? He then commences dealing, placing the first card with its face upwards, saying " Noir," and continues dealing until the cards turned exceed thirty points, which he announces as irente et tin, or whatever it may be.
Another parcel is then dealt for Rouge in a similar manner, and the punters win who had staked on that colour the points for which were thirty-one, or the nearest to it, which the dealer declares by saying, " Rouge gagne," or " rouge perde." These two parcels constitute what is called a coup. When the same number is dealt for each, the dealer says, " Apres," which forms a refait, or doublet, by which neither party wins.
Hitherto it must be obvious, that the chances between the banker and the player are equal; but when the banker, having turned up thirty-one for Noir, deals the same number of points (31) for Rouge, he is intitled to half the amount of every stake on either colour.*
As the principle of this game requires that the number of points dealt for Noir or Rouge should, at least, amount to 31, a little reflection suggests to us, that the doctrine whereby the numerical value of the cards is determinable, precludes the
* The banker seldom takes the money, but removes it into the middle line on which colour the punters please; this is called la premiere prison. If they win the next coup, they win the whole; but in the event of a second doublet of trente et un, it is removed into the third line, or la seconde prison; the dealer has now won three-fourths of the money, and the next coup determines whether the player loses all his stake, or whether it is to be removed again into la premiere prison. The amount of the stakes is generally limited; but it may be exceeded by an agreement to that effect between the punter and the banker, in which case he announces his intention thus—" Je vais a la banque." |
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