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  2. Shoe (cards) - Wikipedia

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    A shoe holding four decks of cards with card cut (red) A dealing shoe or dealer's shoe is a gaming device, mainly used in casinos, to hold multiple decks of playing cards. The shoe allows for more games to be played by reducing the time between shuffles and less chance of dealer cheating. [1] In some games, such as blackjack (where card ...

  3. Baccarat - Wikipedia

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    Baccarat pallet and cards. Baccarat or baccara (/ ˈ b æ k ə r æ t, b ɑː k ə ˈ r ɑː /; French:) is a card game played at casinos. It is a comparing card game played between two hands, the "player" and the "banker". Each baccarat coup (round of play) has three possible outcomes: "player" (player has the higher score), "banker", and "tie".

  4. Bezique - Wikipedia

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    Bezique (/ b ə ˈ z iː k /) or bésigue (French:) is a 19th-century French melding and trick-taking card game for two players that came to Britain and is still played today. The game is derived from piquet, [1] possibly via marriage (sixty-six) and briscan, with additional scoring features, notably the peculiar liaison of the Q ♠ and J ♦ that is also a feature of pinochle, Binokel, and ...

  5. Glossary of blackjack terms - Wikipedia

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    Cards are dealt one at a time from the shoe. shoe game A blackjack game dealt from a shoe. Shoe games typically use more than 2 decks. soft A soft hand is a hand that includes an ace valued as 11, as opposed to 1. split If a player is dealt two cards of the same rank, they can choose to play each of them separately, putting up a bet for each ...

  6. Blackjack - Wikipedia

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    Blackjack (formerly black jack and vingt-un) is a casino banking game. [ 1]: 342 It is the most widely played casino banking game in the world. It uses decks of 52 cards and descends from a global family of casino banking games known as "twenty-one".

  7. Euchre variants - Wikipedia

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    It is played with a full 52-card pack plus a joker, which is the top trump, the rest of the cards ranking as in other forms of the game. A white counter is used to indicate the next dealer and the red counters are placed in front of the trump maker and maker's partners. Score is kept on paper, ideally by a non-player. [6]

  8. Quoits - Wikipedia

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    Quoits. Quoits ( / ˈkɔɪts / or / ˈkwɔɪts /) is a traditional game which involves the throwing of metal, rope or rubber rings over a set distance, usually to land over or near a spike (sometimes called a hob, mott or pin). The game of quoits encompasses several distinct variations.

  9. Card game - Wikipedia

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    A card game is any game that uses playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, whether the cards are of a traditional design or specifically created for the game (proprietary). Countless card games exist, including families of related games (such as poker ). A small number of card games played with traditional decks have ...