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Faro is one of the oldest gambling games played with cards. References to the game are found in France during the reign of Louis XIV (late 1600s early 1700s). It was a favourite of highborn gamblers throughout Europe well into the 19th century.
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Baccarat is a casino card game that is played for some of the highest stakes around the world. When you start playing Baccarat you must place a bet on the banker, the player or a tie. After placing your bet all of the rest of the action is completed based on very strict rules, making this one of the easiest casino card games to play. Wichita Faro is the first and only free online faro game on the Web. But it is more than that. It is a piece of American history, and a work of art. In designing the game, every effort was made to recapture the authentic excitement and atmosphere of the game as it was played in that bygone era.
Faro was introduced to the United States in the mid 1800s. It was common in American gaming rooms, especially in the West, until 1915, the game had all but vanished by 1925, except in a few Nevada casinos. There were only five games in Nevada by the mid 1950s and the last game closed down in 1985. Today it has all but vanished from the gambling scene, mostly due to the low house percentages that the game offers, and few gamblers today are even aware of the game.
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But during its heyday in the late 1800s it was so popular that all other forms of gambling combined didn't suppass it. And it also had rampant cheating associated with it, probably due to the low house percentage, but this didn't affect its popularity. The house edge in a straight game of Faro is only 0.23 percent on a straight winning/losing card bet. Cheating was so prevalent that the English magician John Maskelyne devoted an entire chapter to the game and the methods of cheating employed in his 1894 book 'Sharps and Flats: A Complete Revelation of the Secrets of Cheating at Games of Chance and Skill.'
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Other historical notables that played or dealt Faro include Wild Bill Hickok, Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and Doc Holliday.