Monte Bank
Monte Bank or shortly Monte is the name of one of Mexico originating cards - gambling , in addition to Faro the most popular game in the saloons of the Wild West was before these games by Poker were displaced.
The term mountebank used in English (something like barker, quack, charlatan) is derived from this game.
Monte Bank was originally played with Spanish playing cards , later with a French hand without the values 8, 9, 10, i.e. with 40 cards.
Two Card Monte
Two Card Monte or Mexican Monte : After shuffling and removing the cards, the players place their bets and the banker puts two cards face up on the table - taking the top and bottom cards of the talon (unless he draws the Cards from a card slide, which makes fraud on the part of the banker more difficult if not excluded); these two cards are called Bottom layout and Top layout .
Then he removes the top card of the talon and places this card ( The gate ) in the middle. If this third card matches one of the two outer cards in terms of color , e.g. B. Heart and heart, the players win in a ratio of 1: 1.
Generous bankers pay, if all three cards - bottom layout , top layout and gate - are of the same suit, even a 3: 1 win.
Like all banker games, this game is only apparently fair. If, for example, the first two cards are hearts and diamonds, only 18 red cards remain in the pile, which promise the players a profit, while the 20 black cards win for the bank. If the first two cards are of the same suit, the 8 winning cards face 30 losing cards.
The bank advantage is 7.7%; if only a 1: 1 profit is paid out, the banker's advantage is 17.4%.
Three Card Monte
Three Card Monte or Find the Lady is in the USA common name of Bauernfänger game Gimelblättchen (also: Three-Card Monte ). This is not a game of chance, but a cheat trick.
Four Card Monte
Four Card Monte or Spanish Monte is an extension of the Two Card Monte . A square scheme serves as the layout here; the players bet on a horizontal or vertical row of two or a diagonal. The banker places four cards in this scheme; then the banker draws a fifth card ( The gate ) and the accounting is exactly the same as with the Two Card Monte : If a player has placed a bet on a certain row, column or diagonal, he wins if the fifth card in its color with a of the two cards in the occupied group of two matches.
literature
John Scarne : Scarne on Card Games , New York 1949/65, Courier Dover Publications Reprint 2004