You’ll place your chips on the cards when you want to make a bet. If you’re playing at a casino, the card ranks will be printed on the table.
If you want a more secure way to prevent people from peeking at the cards, load the deck into a dealing shoe. A shoe is a container you can draw the cards from while still keeping the deck hidden.
Variation: Keep the soda card face-down and hidden from other players. That way, they won’t be able to count cards and their bets will be more of a gamble.
You only need to bet on the rank of the card. The suit doesn’t matter for your bet. Multiple players can bet on the same card rank.
If you placed your bet on the losing rank, then you lose them to the banker. If the winning and losing cards are the same rank, then you win back half of your bet. If no one wins the bet, all of the bets stay on the table and you continue playing.
As the game goes on, you’ll see what cards have already been drawn, so you can make a better guess on which cards will come out of the deck next.
You can place a bet on multiple ranks on the same turn. There’s no limit to how many chips you can have on a card rank.
If you placed bets on multiple cards and one is the winner and another is the loser, then it’s considered a “wash” and your chips stay on the ranks.
You can bet on the losing rank and the winning rank in the same turn.
Faro boards at casinos will have an area marked “High Card” for you to place your bets.
Keep an eye on your own chips as well so you don’t lose any of your bets.
For example, if you bet 1 chip on the order and got it right, you would win 5 chips and your original bet back.
