Wanna gamble like it's 1899?

It's a sad commentary on America that the most popular card game of the nineteenth century, and the most popular game of chance by far, is now no longer available for play at any Nevada casino, and the only decent tutorial is some low-budget video of a guy relegated to a makeshift set-up in front of his cheap-ass hallway coat closet.

If you want to play faro for real, you'll need an authentic shoe (which will set you back $1000),
an authentic circa 1875 52-card deck (which will set you back another $1000),
an authentic casekeep (ditto on the $1000 setback, is this starting to sound familiar?),
and an authentic faro table (which will drive you into bankruptcy before you get a chance to burn off the soda, so check out reproductions (get the folding variety) available online for a few hundred bucks).
Plus you'll need checks (chips) and coppers and I was so excited when I started playing this game but then realized because house odds were so low it was the subject of rampant dealer cheating and the only way to play straight up fair is like the skeptical gamblers back then did, by driving a nail through the deck and tearing off the cards one at a time.  So you win more often, but have to plow most of that winning back into new decks of cards.

In any event, every Thursday evening between 7:00 and 8:00 at the Wheel I teach faro and go through the shoe one time, but because it's just pretend gambling no one is interested and everyone goes home disappointed and so they canceled it before we ever got around to hosting the first installment.

Instead, you can lose real money internetically by clicking on this link, which is not "far olive" but "faro live".  Tables are always available.
https://farolive.com/home.php

(Disclaimer:  I'm one of the silent partners in this website, so when you lose money, you are losing it to me.)

Disclaimer #2:  Okay, that last disclaimer was a joke, because that website is a joke.  If you want to play online Faro and you don't have Flash Player enabled, go to this site: http://www.fupa.com/game/Casino-flash-games/wichita-faro.html It's not real money, you don't have to register, the payoffs are fair (e.g., odds don't favor the house on the turn bet if a pair remains among the last three cards), and the player-piano music will drive you nuts after a few hands, so locate the mute button on your keyboard before you begin.

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