Suicide Table Delta Saloon

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VICIDE TABLE 2422 SUICIDE TABLE alled because three previous Owners are reported to have committed Suicide of heavy losses over this Table. Originally a Faro Bank Table brought to City in the early 1860s. The Owner Supposed to be me Rack Jake on 70000 vening and shot himself. econd owner, whose name is lost in history ran the Table for one nights a was pay off his losses. One report has if that he committed suite and another as it that he was saved the trouble. able was then stored for some nears because no me wild Deal on it was finally d into a 21 Table sometime in the late 90s and its black reputation seemed to have been until one stormy night. er, who had been cleared out in some cher aambling house stumbled in half drunk. As the s, he gambled a ald ring aqst a te dollar acid piece and won. He placed all night and bu morning had won over 86000 in cash, a team of horses and esta Everything the owner of table ad the world. That caused the third sucide famous men have gambled in high stakes leaning the green dieth, watching the turn i. Fortunes have been won and lost on it e Table is truly a relic that is replete with memories at of the old timers are still waning on the elbows, watching for the turn of a card. did toe and lows pets Virginia City is a low of relics womens ghosts of the past FARO THE GAME OF THE WEST FARO sometimes spelled PHARO, was the west's most played casino card table could be found in almost every saloon in almost every boom town we Mississippi in the 1800's. The DELTA was famous for its FARO tables and the infamous gambled and drank here. The rules of FARO were simple and the game was played as follows: The player would aying his chips on a picture of that card fixed to top of the table. He could also at one time by placing his chips between fuc cards. Suites were unimportant. After placed the dealer dealt two cards from a dealing box. Bets resting on card mat card delt, LOST the bet. Bets resting on a card matching second card delt, The player had the option of reversing this order by placing a six-sided token,c on top of his bet. This in effect was to bet a card to lose instead of wi on table were either left for the next game or withdrawn. If a pair was d half the money resting on the paired card. The ABACUS, better known as the CASEKEEPER, located on the front c used to keep track of the cards delt. The gamblers could see instar cards of any rank had been played. FARO was discontinued as a casino game when it become known that the odds didn't sufficiently favor the house and many cheated by occasionally stacking the deck wit

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TRAVEL TM V-27 Sulcide Table Delta Saloon Virginia City, Nevada 1987 Reno-Tahoe Specialty, Inc. Box 451,Tahoe City, Ca. 95730