Monte Carlo - Casino - Serious Gambling Taking Place in the Trente et Quarante Salon

            The Stereo Card

A stereo view card that was published by Underwood & Underwood, Publishers, of New York, London, Toronto - Canada and Ottawa - Kansas. Works and Studios in Arlington, N.J. and Westwood, N.J.

The image is unusual in that early interior photographs of Monte Carlo Casino usually show empty rooms devoid of gamblers.

Note how part of the idyllic pastoral scene on the wall has had to make way for a large door.

On the back of the card the publishers have printed:

"The game to which this room is devoted is played
with six packs of cards in the hands of the banker.
There are four categories of chance called: rouge
(red), noir (black), couleur and inverse.
The players make even bets with the bank on these
various results of the bankers dealing.
He deals first for noir and places cards in a row until
the number of pips is more than 30 (face-cards 
counting as 10).
Then he deals in the same manner a separate row
for rouge. The row that counts up nearest to 31 wins.
If the first card dealt turns out to be of the color
whose row wins, couleur (color) also wins. If the first
card dealt is of the color whose row lost, then inverse 
(opposite) wins.
If the rows for rouge and noir come out alike, a new
deal is made, unless each row should count up 
exactly 31, in which case, according to the rules of the
game, the betting players lose half their stakes to the
bank.
They say that at least 400,000 people visit Monte 
Carlo yearly in the course of the season; many are 
only sight-seers and do not take up gaming.
Ingenious mathematicians have attempted to figure
out infallible systems for recalculating the chances
of bets and reducing the wager to a condition of
exact science, but as a matter of fact, the rsults of the
play bring in to the stock company owning the Casino
such enormous profits that the business can in one
year pay the sovereign of Monaco a quarter of a
million dollars for the privilege of conducting the
business, pay all the bills of Casino and Theatre, pay
in addition all the chief government expenses of the
whole principality, and then declare a dividend of
about 45% for its shareholders."

A Remarkable Run at the Roulette Table

On the 18th. August 1913, at the roulette wheel of the Casino in Monte Carlo, the colour black came up 26 times in a row. The likelihood of this happening is 136,823,184 to 1.

After the wheel stopped at black 10 straight times, casino patrons began to bet large sums of money on red, believing that black could not possibly come up again. The sums increased even more as the run of black continued.

However the odds of red or black coming up on any individual spin are always 18 out of 37. The casino made several million francs on that night.
   

Taken on: June 9, 2024

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