Word: baccarat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admiring friends have agreed with Frank J. Gould. It cost him 100,000,000 francs ($6,200,000 at current exchange), was insured for 47,000,000 francs. He called it the Palais de la Mediterranee, looked upon it as a sumptuous temple to opera, drama, gastronomie and baccarat. Nobody could deny that it was at least the largest gambling casino in Europe, equipped with one of the best theatres and finest restaurants in France. The Palais never paid, but Mr. Gould, who has hotel properties in Nice, used to say, "Never mind, the casino makes the resort." It also...
...London Daily Mail's Publisher Harold Sidney Harmsworth, Baron Rothermere of Hemsted. Banker Kahn's 800-acre estate at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. is also for sale. Frank Jay Gould, famed expatriate, youngest son of the late Jay Gould, leased his depression-starved $5,000,000 baccarat casino in Nice to a French syndicate for 2,500,000 francs ($150,000). Because the French Government has decided to legalize roulette, long forbidden in France, he did not lease his smaller casino at Juan-les-Pins, will run it himself. In Brooklyn Federal Court, Columbia University...
...year before. This year's deficit, wailed the managers, will be over 50%. To illustrate the parlous state of affairs the managers pointed to Nicholas Zographos, "Nicky the Greek." greatest gambler in Europe. M. Zographos is head of the Greek gambling syndicate which operates the casinos' baccarat banks. Last week as was his custom Nicky the Greek sat behind the shoe at Deauville. Normally the baccarat banker at Deauville is playing against $10,000 to $20,000 on each card. Last week the great M. Zographos sat at a table where the total stakes amounted to just...
...Touquet. We sat next to each other playing baccarat. I won and won. He lost and lost. He couldn't figure it out. Finally he asked me to show...
...Poincare) who have applied their minds to games of chance know, the typical gambler plays a "system" which is either quite nonsensical or so involved that its basic worthlessness is well concealed by complexities which have an air of being profound. There are three sure ways to win at baccarat: 1) deliberate cheating by sleight of hand in drawing a card; 2) marked cards; and 3) a prepared deck introduced by a confederate croupier into the "shoe" from which cards are drawn. Before the War an Italian gang made a big haul at Monte Carlo with a prepared deck...