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sums adventured, supposing the punters to stop when only six cards remain, but with hocly it is full 5 per cent. |
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EO.
An EO table is circular in form, but of no exact dimensions, though in general about four feet in diameter. The extreme circumference is. a kind of counter or depot, for the stakes, marked all round with the letters E and O ; on which each adventurer places money according to his inclination. The interior part of the table consists, first, of a kind of gallery, or rolling-place, for the ball, which, with the outward parts, above called depot or counter, is stationary or fixed. The most interior part moves upon an axis or pivot, and is turned about with handles, while the ball is set in motion round the gallery. This part is generally divided into 40 niches or interstices, 20 of which are marked with the letter E, and the other twenty with the letter O. The lodging of the ball in any of the niches, distinguished by those letters, determines the wager. The proprietors of the tables have two bar holes, and are obliged to take all bets offered either for E or O ; but if the ball fall into either of the bar holes, they win all the bets upon the opposite letter, and do not pay to that in which it falls ; an advantage equivalent to 2 1/2 per cent, on all the money staked. |
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