(draft)
Oh deuce! no gifts of freedom
Neither Phoebe, nor Olga, nor feasts
Onegin in the past years
Would not distract from the game.
Pensive, all night until light
He was ready for this summer
Interrogate the fate of the covenant:
Will the jack lie to the left?
Already rang the sound of lunch
Among the torn decks
Dozing tired banker,
And he, frowning, vigorous and pale,
Hope full, eyes closed,
He let the third ace.
I'm not the indiscreet player
Miserly disbelieving dream
No longer put a dark card,
Noticing the secret root.
Crayon I left alone
“Ataande”, the word fatal [1] ,
I do not come to the language ...
And the hour has come, and in the lull
Mind and feelings he falls
And before him the imagination
The motley mosque Pharaoh;
Visions are quick slyly
Glide left and right
And as if not one laugh
He is not given to delight,
And as a desperate player
He gallantly curses rock ...
All the same spilling visions
Before him is a stubborn succession
Behind them with a screech of torment
He is following an avid soul.
There is no consolation ...
All life bet lost.
Pharaohn , bank or stoos [2] is a card game that was very popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Other names: “faro”, “shtoss” [3] , “love - not love”, “cut”. Pharaoh spawned a whole family of banking games .
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Classic Pharaoh (Strose)
In France, the game is known since 1688. In the 18th century, it was the most popular in the higher strata of society, but over time in a number of European countries, including France, fell under the ban, since aristocrats were immediately dumping huge sums at the gambling table. Hoffman in the story "The Happiness of a Player " (1819) calls Pharaoh "the simplest and, consequently, the most fatal game."
The game consisted in the following basic features. One of the two players held (and threw) the bank; he was called cashier. Another player (ponter, pontirovshchik) made a bet ("jackpot"). “Ponteurs choose a card on which they are betting from their decks, and the banker starts to throw his deck to the right and left. If the pontera card lies to the left of the bank, then the ponter won, if to the right, the banker ” [4] .
“In the large hall that occupied the middle of the building, from morning to evening, they played pharaoh and played large games,” the contemporary of Catherine II described his contemporary [5] . A.P. Sumarokov (1717-77) considered this game “stupidly invented”, reasoning: “What do they need for the cards, what are all the works that they use in this game; one can play this game without cards ” [6] . “Better to the bank or the boss: there is no need for skill, but happiness,” they used to say at that time [7] .
In the XIX century, the popularity of the game was very high in Russia, which is reflected in many classic works of literature. It is played by Hermann from the “ Queen of Spades ” by A. S. Pushkin [5] , Arbenin from the “ Masquerade ” by M. Yu. Lermontov , Nikolai Rostov from the “ War and Peace ” by L. N. Tolstoy . “He loved left and right. He’s to squander in the winter evening, cross out the Fourth Jackpot, use Rutherk to glory with glory, And use a nasty sometimes with a waist to wash down Tsimlyansky with a jet,” - he glorified the game of Lermontov, whose last prose work is called “ Shoss ”.
Bank Games
Modern Pharaoh
Over the years, the game has acquired variations. Changed the number of players and the appointment of cards. One of these variations combines the features of a “classic” pharaoh and the equally popular game “Eight”, where you need to lay out 6 cards for each player.
Play 2 people. The game requires one deck of 36 cards. Before the distribution of opponents make their bets. The deck is shuffled, and each player is dealt 4 cards. The rest of the deck is placed in the middle of the table. Players place bets on their cards. The first is the ponter (opponent). He puts his card, and the deliverer must cover the card. If there is no desired card, he must take the card from the deck. If the card does not fit, the move goes to the opponent.
If one of the players puts a lady on the table, the opponent of that player must either beat the card or order the suit, and also, if there is no necessary card, he can skip the turn. If a player has finished the game with a lady, then 30 points are deducted from him. And if only the lady remained in his arms, then he gets 30 penalty points. The game goes on until one of the players scores 100 points. Whoever scores 100 points loses, and the winner takes all the money.
Modern Stoos
In the stack, adapted for modern casinos , six or eight decks of 52 cards are used, which are shuffled by the dealer and put into shoes. The player bets on any cards from deuce to ace, as well as on his chosen suit. Winning depends on the case.
On the playing field there are 13 cards without suit (from two to ace), designed for betting on cards, as well as four suit cards ( peak , club , diamonds and hearts ). Suit cards can be used to suit the suit, but this bet is not mandatory. There are two boxes in front of the dealer for the distribution of cards that fall out of the shoes even or odd in a row. These boxes are usually signed odd / even or win / loss, respectively.
Players make bets. After that, the dealer puts the first card from the shoes on the "loss" (odd), and the second card - on the "win" (even). Subsequent cards are laid out in the same order. This continues until the card on which the player has placed appears on the table. A player wins if the card on which he made a bet turns out to be a “win” on the box. Payment winnings - 1: 1. If the card that the player has bet on turns out to be a “loss” box, the bet goes to the casino income. If a player has made an additional bet on the suit, then if the suit coincides, his bet either wins or loses. If the suit color coincides in the event of a win, the player's bet increases by half, in the case of loss, it decreases by half. If the suits do not match in color, the bet remains unchanged.
If the same cards fall on both dealer's boxes, then this situation is called Plié (plié) in the hundred. Since the odd card appears on the table first, the player loses the bet to the card. This is the rule that determines the mathematical advantage of the casino.
Notes
- ↑ “Wait!” Means the requirement to stop the game for counting.
- ↑ Russian speech. Jan.-Feb. 2005. pp. 78
- ↑ “The game of the Pharaoh, who enjoyed extraordinary glory in the Russian aristocratic environment of the XVIII century, in the 20s-40s. XIX century. more often called by other names (shtoss, bank, bank), ”writes V.V. Vinogradov .
- ↑ V.V. Shevtsov. Card game in Russia: the end of the XVI - the beginning of the XX century. : the history of the game and the history of society. Tomsk State University, 2005. Pp. 9.
- ↑ 1 2 V. Vinogradov. Style of the Queen of Spades // Pushkin: Vremennik Pushkin Commission / USSR Academy of Sciences. In-t literature. - M .; L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1936. - [Issue] 2. - p. 74-147.
- ↑ Yu. M. Lotman . Pushkin. Art-SPB, 1995. Pp. 812.
- ↑ D.N. Begichev. Family Kholm. M., 1833, Part IV, pp. 70-71.