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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 319 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BANK ,2 known also as " See also:

POLISH

POLISH BANK " and " See also:

RUSSIAN

RussIAN BANK " a card-See also:

GAME

game. An See also:

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary See also:

pack is used. Five or six players is a convenient number. Each contributes an arranged stake to the See also:

POOL

pool. The dealer gives three See also:

CARDS, PLAYING

cards to each player and turns up another; if this is not See also:

LOWER

lower than an eight (See also:

ACE (derived through the Lat. as, from the Tarentine form of the Gr. etc)

ace is lowest) he goes on till such a card is exposed. The player on the dealer's See also:

LEFT

left, without touching or looking at his cards, can See also:

bet the amount of the pool, or any See also:

PART

part of it, that among his cards is one that is higher (of the same suit) than the turn-up. If he wins, he takes the amount from the pool; if he loses, he pays it to the pool. Each player does the same in turn, the dealer last. Whenever the pool is exhausted, a fresh stake is put into the pool. After a See also:

ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round is over the See also:

DEAL

deal passes. No player may See also:

TOUCH (derived through Fr. toucher from a common Teutonic and Indo-Germanic root, cf. " tug," " tuck," O. H. Ger. zucchen, to twitch or draw)

touch his cards until he has made his bet; the See also:

PENALTY (Lat. poena, punishment)

penalty is a See also:

FINE

fine to the pool of twice the stake, and the loss of his right to bet during that round.

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