Thrust (gambling)

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Thrust , also my aunt, your aunt , Schnitt or Naschi-Waschi , (from Czech: naši - vaši , German: our - yours) is a variant of the Bassette or the Landsknecht , sometimes equated with them ", something similar to the Pharo Card game that is played with 32 sheets of double German or French cards . It is a game of chance that used to be very popular, especially in the Viennese red light district , albeit forbidden (see list of prohibited games by the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Justice ). In contrast to the elegant Pharo, which is a preferred pastime the aristocracy in the 18th and 19th centuries, the push game has a very bad reputation.

The game

A player, the so-called " banker ", holds the bank; Any number of players, the so-called " gallery ", bets against him.

Note : Gallery is a term for the Viennese underworld; this name is possibly derived from the photo album of the police, also called the gallery ; the people depicted in it are called gallery owners (cf. Bukidomino ).

Two square beer mats serve as a tableau , which are labeled as follows at the corners: 

 A----K    O----U
 |    |    |    |
 7----8    9---10

A player, the " tailor ", " cuts " (i.e. shuffles) the cards and piles them into a pile.

The player who makes the highest bet, the " looker ", takes the bottom card of the pile , the " look ", shows it to the other players and cuts it into the pile. At this point it is lifted : the cards above come down, the peek is no longer used.

Now the banker draws two cards one after the other. The first card of a deduction is called " Schuss " (also: " Stuss "), the second is the " Objector ".

For example, if a king is drawn as the first card and an eight is drawn as the second, all bets on "K" lose and all bets on "8" win in a ratio of 1: 1; the stakes on the other values ​​remain unchanged - they may at best be increased, but never decreased.

If two cards of the same rank fall in a deduction - this case is called Viennese " Blia " by franz. Plié (see Landsknecht ) - for example two waiter, the bank wins the bets on this value.

If a player has won, he has "made a cut ".

After 14 deductions, there are still three cards left, the so-called " stick ", they are no longer used; the cards are shuffled and a new game begins.

The personnel of a joint section also include

  • the " suckler " who lends the players money at exorbitant interest, and
  • the " smearer ", the watchdog in front of the police.

additions

Bank advantage

The rules of the stroke game are very similar to the Pharo, the differences - stroke is played with 32 hands, Pharo with 52 hands; in the face game the bank wins the full stake if two cards of the same rank are withdrawn, in the case of the Pharo only half - but these are essential: the bank advantage in the case of the stroke is 6.56% but only 1.98% with the Pharo.

Stuss or Jewish Faro

In the US in 1885 by gangsters of New York's Lower East Side advanced Faro -Variation Stuss (from Yiddish shtos, stos ) or Jewish Faro , however, the rules after nearly identical to the shock game is played with 52 cards of a French sheet played .

Stuss knows fewer subtleties than Faro and is therefore easier to learn and faster. The bank's profit is of course greater than that of the Faro (Faro: half loss at Plié , bank advantage 1.98%; Jewish Stuss: complete loss, bank advantage 3.96%), which is why Jewish Stuss works with the operators of the gambling dens ( Gambling dens , Stuss parlors , Stuss houses ) was much more popular than the original game.

Quote

Travnicek : “Heeren S 'I can play“ pushing games ”in every coffee house. I don't have to go to the ' Baccarat table ... ”
from Der Travnicek (Travnicek on the Mediterranean) by Carl Merz and Helmut Qualtinger

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Zollinger, History of Gambling Vienna 1997, p. 144
  2. ↑ Zollinger, p. 309
  3. ↑ Alex Garel-Frantzen: Gangsters & Organized Crime in Jewish Chicago ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , The History Press, Charleston, SC 2013, p. 86, ISBN 978-1-62619-193-8 . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / books.google.at
  4. ↑ Merriam-Webster
  5. ^ Scarne: Scarne on Card Games. How to Play and Win at Poker, Pinochle, Blackjack, Gin and Other Popular Card Games , 2nd edition, Courier Dover Publications, Mineola, NY 2004, p. 173 ISBN 0-486-43603-9 . Reprinted from Scarne on Cards , Crown Publishers, New York 1965 (1st edition 1949 udT: "Cardsharping"), pp. 173-175.
  6. ↑ Helmut Qualtinger, Gerhard Bronner, Carl Merz: Qualtinger's best satires: from Travnicek to Mr. Karl , Langen-Müller, Munich 1973, p. 105

literature

  • Robert Geher : Wiener Blut or The Honor of the Strizzis . A history of the Viennese underworld after 1945. Verlag der Österreichische Staatsdruckerei (Edition S), Vienna 1993.
  • Roland Girtler : marginal cultures: theory of indecency. Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-20598-559-1 .
  • Roland Girtler: Rotwelsch : The old language of thieves, prostitutes and crooks . Böhlau, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-205-98902-3 .
  • Peter Wehle : Do you speak Viennese? From Adaxl to Zwutschkerl , Vienna 1980
  • Manfred Zollinger: History of Gambling , Böhlau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-205-98518-4 .

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