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Show so that tbcy can be readily seen by all the players. Many baccarat tables have a line around the table, beyond which all money niust be placed. Any punter has a right to divide hii bet between the right and left band, aud rnust place it in the middlu of the table in order to divide it. Bcttiog on credit is invariably invari-ably prohibited. Any punter may bet the entire amount of the bank upon the first hand. An will be seen, the game U purelv one of chance and when pUred without cheating is limply the chance that may be l'ouud in Zioa at any day. i ' BACCARATjK A GAilEj I , A Local Sport Deicribui tlia Mannar in f ; which Fortnnei An Nightly Won and Lost. J j OPENING OF THE JUNE EACES. A Largs String of Travelers Came Down from Ogdsn and Butte The I 6 porting World. , Baccarat that h:is received 10 much pratuitous advertising in the recent trial in Loadou ia the latest applicant for admission to the realm of chance if not the domain of society in Ziou and , that its devotee, whoever they may be the upper ton or the lower five may understand huv ii is played a Tisiks representative called upon a well known roue last evening and secured the subjoined tips; Hiiccarat, to be played strictly correctly, cor-rectly, needs iiuite a ipiauliiy of special paraphernalia, but a baccarat table can be er.dily improvised which will answer all practical purposes. The game is played on a lare Oval table covered with green baize, uu which are marked ton division, live on each tide of the banker, who site in the center. cen-ter. The bunker has nil assistant or croupier, who sits directly opposite to huu. lu the middle of the table is a circular cavity, about eight inches deep aud a foot w ide. This is called the wusle-ba.kei, and serves the purpose of receiving the curds after each hand. .At ths right hand of the croupier is a little slit in which is placed the bank's percentage, or tho "kitty"' for drinks. In f nun of the banker is a triangular-shaped triangular-shaped piece of wood, against which the deck is placed while it is still too large for the banker to hold in his hand. Viilh a small picco of pablobourd, specially wade fur the purpose, ho slice olT portions of the deck as he needs them, of a size convenient to his i.rr;ir,p. l'Ji is is repeated until the whole deck is exhausted. Tnree ordinary packs of cards are required. re-quired. These are all shullicd together and stacked tip against the wooduu triangle tri-angle and dealt in instalments. in gambling house, the amount of tho bank is luado kuowu or a limit set, but in clubs the bank is put up at auction, the highest bidder becoming banker, and being obliged to accept bets or slakes n liich do uot exceed in amount the anion til in the batik. Iu private play the amount of the bank is olten arranged accord in;; to tho length of the purses of the players. l'ive players, called punter, sit oil each side of tho banker. Any number may stand around aud bet so long as the' banker accepts their bets, whicli is optional willi linn. Sow, suppose a banker has bid $100 for the bunk. That is the limit of any aiuglc bet. The bauker deals one card to the punier immediately to his right, theu to the ono ou his left and lastly to himself. lie thou repeats tho perfoim-ance. perfoim-ance. The players then examine their cards, aud any combination making right or nine must be at once declared and displayed. Kach player has the option of drawing one card more, but no combination made by drawing can beat eight or nine obtained in two caras. ties are oil. TWf TitTifirfc Uii cards is the number of pips, as in vingt-pn, except that aces only count one ami ten-speckers aud court cards count as ciphers. Suppose, now, that tho banker has dealt to tho punter on his right a seven and a deuce, aud to him on his lelt a live and a four, while to himself ho has dealt a jack and a deuce the two punters punt-ers eacn announce "nine" and display their cards. The banker having less, loses, and pays the players tho amount of their stakes. The 'cards aro then taken up by the croupier and thrown into the waste basket. The lowest hand that can be held is called baccarat. It is absolutely nothing, noth-ing, formed of either court cards or any other hand of w hich the sum is U;n. Of course a coup such as is described roust exhaust or almost exhaust the bank. Tho banker mu-t then put up another bank of the original amount or retire. After one player has lull a hand tho cards are dealt tho next time to the player next to him, and so on all down the line until the players furthest from th banker have been reached, when the hand comes again to tho punters nearest him. The places at thu table are drawn for by means c.f the familiar wicker or leather bottle and tho numbered num-bered spheres, tho players taking their positions next to tho banker or further avvtiy from him, accordingly as they have drawn lower or higher numbers. The creucrai rules are very simple. Not more than eleven players may sit at a table, the banker and ten punters ami only they may hold cards. The banker must pay for the privilege of hanking $i wheu the the bank is under $.")() and $2 when it is above. When the bank is broken t.'ie banker has a rij.'ht to reconstitute it twice, but if he wishes to reconstitute it more than twice ho must again pay for the privilege. Tho bank only lasts until the thruo packs of cards have been dealt out. When the sum total of the bets exceeds ex-ceeds the amount in bank, or wheu the bank is broken, tho banker may declare de-clare the bets aro held. In this 3ae he must accept them all, but has the right to refuse any more, and tho players have the right to demand that he cover the bets ho has declared to hold. After ono card has been dealt the banker has tho right to refuse holding any other bet than those already made and may also object to tho withdrawal of any bets already made. All "mistakes or errors in dealing, I whether intentional or through inadvertence, inadver-tence, are carefully provided for in the (Spirit of the Times rules, and may be found in Hoyle. The last hand of a deck only counts when ten cards at least remain, the bottom card included, unless the play-erg play-erg agree to accept the hand with ouly nine cards remaining. No player (luring a bank may take tho hand, "when he has already passed it. If tho banker or the punters have eight or uiiio formed by the first two cards they must announce the poiut. If the banker has less than eight or ninu, ho must, offer a card to each hand. The litiuters may accept or refuse, but in cither case thoy must stand by their first declaration. The cards must always al-ways be held in sight of the other players, play-ers, both bv tli" banker nud by the punters. Whether losing or wiuning, the punters holding the hand must announce an-nounce their point and spread their cards separately oil the table so that tliev ni'iv be 8eeu by the banker and the'nther plavcrs. The holder of cards having refused a card upon the offer of the yan!',;r cannot announce eight or nine, atiifliie bunker wins it by draw-inir. draw-inir. if he for. ns a superior point. Hotting must bo made in cash, or in counters, ot which the value has previously pre-viously been deposited with the cashier. ' All buis must be spread out on tho tablo |