Then the Widow Van Flange told of her son's infatuation; and how blacklegs in Barclay Street were fleecing him with roulette and faro bank.
A sport can buck faro bank for a million as easily as for a white chip.
From the time you start him with those offices in Broad Street, our party's business habits are hop and faro bank.
However, that is only hearsay; I didn't follow young Van Flange to Barclay Street nor meet him across a faro layout by way of verification.
Faro bank, the capital which the proprietor of a farotable ventures in the game; also, the place where a game of faro is played.
The man referred to is the special faro expert, a fellow named Farnham.
He discovered his particular goal at last, almost at the farther end of the great apartment, the crowd gathered about the faro table dense and silent.
Often when they begin they expect to make the check good; generally, they would have made good if the right card had only turned up in the faro bank, or the right quotation on the stock exchange.
Perhaps some hard luck or an unfortunate venture on the Board of Trade, or in a faro bank, makes him write a check or note.
Romanticism triumphed in Spain through the efforts of the Duke of Rivas, who won the day for its doctrines in the drama with his Don Álvaro, in narrative poetry with his Moro expósito, and in lyric poetry with his Faro de Malta.
It developed that in this house there was always running, on evenings when Kelliner and Tollman came to New York, a faro game.
With these prospective victims in mind thefaro gang was organized.
Kelliner told particularly of the inception of the plans of the faro gang.
Finally, there was developed another woman with whom Walls was known to have been friendly, and who had a part in the activities of the faro gang.
He looks after the faro game in a back room on the first floor, while the chink runs the black smoke upstairs on the stop storey.
I was sitting in a little game of faro at a joint in the Commercial Road about a week ago, when this tough pulls me out and puts it up to me.
He threw it open and entered thefaro room with quiet assurance.
She laid this heap of gold down on the table before the man with the faro box and cards.
She took all this back to the man, whom she found seated at the green table at the Howling Wilderness, behind a silver faro box; for to mining the man also attached the profession of gambler.
Would the presence of the sprightly Faro Nell give a touch of piquancy to the occasion or lower its tone?
A remittance man from Devonshire whose ancestral halls had sheltered an hundred knights danced with Faro Nell, who gambled for a living, while the station agent's attenuated daughter palpitated in the arms of a husky stage-driver.
Faro and Macao were indulged in to an extent which enabled a man to win, or to lose a considerable fortune in one night.
I went past the big doorkeeper, and I found a lot of men in there, playing keno and faro bank and roulette and stud and draw poker.
One night a fellow came to me and told me that the man was playing faro bank down on Clark Street.
One night he opened a $1,000 snap at faro and I was to loan him my tools.
He invited me to come over and keep him company; and as I thought I could turn an honest penny as well as have a little recreation, I packed up my faro tools and went into the dark and bloody ground back of Covington.
I told him to get up and look out for me, and I would open faro bank for the gamblers, which he did.
He was dealing faro bank, and was such a square fellow that all the boys would play against him.
After breaking up the faro man, I said, "Gentlemen, I have a game here in which I only need three cards.
We thought best not to try our old games in Buffalo for fear the police would be looking for Bill, so we played the faro banks, bet on horses, and quit big losers at the end of the week.
I had a partner in the faro bank by the name of Pettypan.
Still, in spite of all this, I had rather deposit my money in faro banks than the Fidelity, of Cincinnati, and I guess all honest citizens feel the same way.
It was not long until I had a faro bank in full blast in the city, and a rouge-et-noir and wheel game at a resort on the shell road, about seven miles out from the city.
I then settled down at dealing faro in St. Joseph, Mo.
The Meader boys (Jesse and Aud) had fitted up very fine faro rooms but a short time before our visit, and they were very glad to see us.
I will say that I hadn't sense enough to keep it; but if I had never seen a faro bank, I would be a wealthy man to-day.
I took in the faro banks the first night, and the next day did not have a dollar.
It is often said that faro banks are never broke, but I recall one incident that will prove the contrary.
He looked like a casual cow-puncher riding into town with the laudable purpose of tying the faro outfit hoof and horn, and, incidentally, showing what could be done to a bar when a man was in earnest and had the mazuma.
Snaggle Tooth took up his position behind a faro table and called out: "The pool is open, with Clatawa, Horned Toad, and Pat in the box.
Iron Jaw was banker in this game; while Snaggle Tooth ran the wheel and faro lay-out in the Del Monte saloon.
As he reviewed his disastrous play at faro many small details came to him and now he found them interesting.
When he thought of the gun, he reviewed the arrangement of the room and estimated the weight of the rough, deal table on which rested the faro layout.
After some rummaging the taciturn dispenser of liquid forget-it produced the articles in question and Hopalong, drawing some hurried lines, paid his bill, treated, kept the pencil and headed for the faro game across the street.
He hed walloped Sullivan and Heenan; he hed owned the fastest horses, and won more money at faro than any man in Amerika.
His Peruvian friend he could not find, but he looked up the Chinese trader that he'd first seen him with and who had a shop on the corner between Martin Jackson's and the faro joint.
Likewise, my two specimens from Faro agree with the type insofar as it has been described.
It seems to me that the specimens from Faro should be referred provisionally to Proechimys guyannensis hyleae; the specimens from Boim are "more brightly rufous" (Thomas, loc.
M]), actually has five laminae in M3, but the specimens in the American Museum from Faro agree absolutely with Thomas' original description of goeldii.
At the faro table, a group from his club called to him to join them, but he kept on, saluting the dealer, costumed according to Bret Harte, with an approving wave of the hand.
The battered Thompson was driven back, to fall against a faro layout.
Three faro layouts stretched themselves in line as if watching for newcomers, and in the rear a man was lighting the coal-oil lamps of the dance hall.
In the rear were the faro and poker tables, the roulette wheels, and the other conveniences for separating hurried patrons from their money.
In faro it is customary for the case-keeper to sit on the opposite side of the table from the dealer, with a device before him resembling an abacus, or Chinese adding-machine.
I’d have quit faro years back only I wouldn’t leave this country as long as you were a part of it, and up here I’m only a gambler, fit for nothing else.
If he lasts long enough to reach the faro lay-out, I’ll get mine.
Strange to say, the fickle goddess had really shifted her banner at last, and the Bronco Kid was dealing straight faro now.
Faro is a closed book to most people, for its intricacies are confusing.
When honestly dealt, faro is the fairest of all gambling games, but it is intricate, and may hide much knavery.
When I met him at Florence he had just come from Madrid, where he had made a lot of money by holding a bank at faro in the house of the Venetian ambassador, Marco Zen.
His theory was that I had held a bank at faro with sharpers' cards, and had dealt with both hands the arm in the sling being a mere pretence.
There were also small parties where faro was played for small stakes.
Faro and biribi were the only pillars of his house; but they must have been strong ones, for he lived in great style.
If the Captain, when he went down to Bon Repos, had any expectation of replenishing his pockets by means of faro and unlimited loo, he was wretchedly mistaken.
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