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faro (card game)  

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  • Part of the popular mythology of the Old West includes the image of cowboys playing Poker around a table in a saloon. In the mid-19th century, these Old West denizens would more likely be crowded around a rectangular table and playing a far more common gambling game called Faro. [Source: Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society; Faro]

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