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History Faro (Pharaoh, or Farobank) is a late 17th century French gambling card game descendant of the Italian basset, and belongs to the lansquenet and Monte Bank family of games, in that it is played between a banker and several players winning or losing according to the cards turned up matching those already exposed or not. By the way, basset was at that time a gambling card game that was considered one of the most polite. It was intended for persons of the highest rank, because of the great losses or gains that might accrue by players. The earliest references […]

Let It Ride is a casino variation of poker, played against the casino rather than against the other players. The game’s relatively slow pace and the chance to pull back two of the three bets has made Let It Ride popular with older players and table game neophytes. At the same time, the game’s slow pace has resulted in some casino dealers nicknaming the game Let It Die. (A slow-paced game results in fewer tips for the dealer, hence the derogatory nickname.) Basic rules Let It Ride is a variation of five-card stud invented by Michael Parisi & Karen Elder […]

Big six, initially known under the name of “Wheel of fortune” or “Money Wheel” is included within the offer of the casinos around the entire world. Its origin can be found hundreds of years ago, when the soldiers would play the things confiscated from the defeated enemies. In order to avoid the conflicts between the inferiors, the commanders would encourage them to use this game for solving the disputes. Later, the wheel became one of the most popular attractions of the old carnivals. One of the variants of this game led to the roulette today. The tradition has been kept […]

 This traditional Asian game is played with tiles that look like dominos. To make it easier to understand, an American version was introduced using standard playing cards and the ranking of hands were fashioned after poker hands.  The game of Pai Gow Poker combines the ancient Chinese game of Pai Gow and Poker. Pai Gow literally means, “Make nine”. In ancient China, the word p’ai stood for both the cards and the dominoes. The same word represented both the objects, as there is no significant difference between cards and dominoes in China. Chinese people started playing it thousands of years […]

Radical changes for the gambling legislation, caused by the financial crisis. Higher fees and taxes, harsher conditions for gambling licenses or a limit imposed for the number of gaming machines. These are only part of the obstacles the game operators in Western Europe have to face with. The low volume of bets on a background of tougher legislative norms, make the representatives of the gambling industry to hardly face the situation. The summer of 2009 was to melt many businesses of the local gambling industry. The Emergency Ordinance no.77 from 26th of June 2009 (O.U.G. NO.77/2009) has radically changed the […]