Fan-Tan

Fan Tan or Fan -Tan, Fantan (simplified Chinese :番 摊, Traditional Chinese :番 摊; Pinyin: Fantan, literally " multiple departments " ) is a very simple, chinese gambling with beans, which in China mainly in himself the casinos of Macau enjoys great popularity.

History

Fan Tan used to be widely used outside China, especially among the Chinese population in the United States. Jacob Riis describes in " How the Other Half Lives" (1890), his famous book on the underworld of New York, be entering a Fan -Tan Game salons:

Also, San Francisco 's was sprawling Chinatown home of dozens of fan - tan houses in the 19th century. The then Police Commissioner Jesse B. Cook wrote that there were 50 Fan -Tan venues in Chinatown 1889.

Fan Tan is now increasingly supplanted by other casino games or traditional Chinese games like Mah Jongg and Pai Gow.

Description

The players place their bets before starting on a square panel, which is divided into four smaller squares with the numbers one to four. Characteristic of the Fan Tan playhouses is the way in which this happens: The field of application is on a table, around it a two to three meter high round balcony is built from whose parapet down the players place their bets in little baskets using hoist rappel to the croupiers.

Are the stakes placed, so put it under a croupier a bowl with porcelain knobs (formerly Chinese coins were used ) on the table and pushes with the inverted bowl part of it to the side. Now the stakes are made. Then the dealer lifts the shell up, takes two chopsticks on hand and counts the buttons that are previously located under the shell, from, yet he pushes four beans at once to the side.

If at the end left only one option buttons so win the bets on one number field; remain at the end of two buttons left, so win the stakes on field number two; etc. Stay at the end, however, four beans left, so he no longer pushes it to the side, and win the stakes on field number four.

The payouts for the bets to be a full number 3-1, a set à cheval on two numbers is 1:1 paid. The profit of the casino arises from the fact that the players - vary from casino to casino - must either pay from their use or from their profits a tax; the house edge is about 5%.