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When in doubt, win the trick.
Edmond Hoyle, card-game expert
A Regency Primer on How to Play Faro
A Regency Primer on How to Play Faro
Many historical romance novels feature card rooms at balls, clubs or dinner parties and gaming hells where rakes wager over the turn of a card or toss of a dice. Many games that are no longer familiar to us are rattled off: hazard, piquet, faro, and whist. Often, the games chosen have meaning for the characters playing. A man who plays hazard is a great risk taker, where a whist player is a…
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