Being an explanation of the game, and a warning against its dangers.
Excerpt from the preface:
A good deal of public curiosity has been of late aroused respecting the game of Baccarat. The present work is designed, in the first place, to satisfy such curiosity by giving an explanation of the game and a statement of its laws. But it has also a second object. There is perhaps no game which so lends itself to the arts of the card-sharper as Baccarat, and if it be true that "in vain the net is spread in sight of any bird," an exposition of the frauds to which the honest player is liable should be the most effective warning against indulging in so perilous a pastime.
- PREFACE
- BACCARAT - FAIR PLAY
- BACCARAT BANQUE
- HOW TO PLAY
- FOUL PLAY
- Frauds by the Banker Methods of Card-Sharping Employed at Baccarat
- Frauds on the Part of the Banker
- Arranged Series of Cards
- The Formation of the Portee
- The Application of the Portee
- Arranged Packs of Cards
- Marked Cards
- Sleight of Hand
- Secret Telegraphy
- FRAUDS ON THE PART OF THE PUNTERS
- Arranged Packs or Series of Cards
- Marked Cards
- Sleight of Hand
- Secret Telegraphy
- Adding to or Decreasing the Stake after the Event
- La Poucette
- La Retirette
- L'Envoi
1st edition 1891, 62 pages; PDF 39 pages.
word count: 17541 which is equivalent to 70 standard pages of text