In 1902, faro and other games of chance were outlawed in New York. Arizona, once a hotbed of faro activity with more than a thousand gaming establishments, banned the game in 1907.

A faro game today would probably give casino owners many sleepless nights, wondering if they had a casino to come back to in the morning. It's probably best that faro be kept to the history books and, ...

The most primitive of all versions of faro, which occasionally makes a comeback in the casinos, is a sucker game called Red Dog. It was played by World War II soldiers and, alas, by newspapermen.

Faro and Chinese Fan-tan were the most popular saloon games of the 19th century, to such an extent that Nevada Gov. Henry Blasdel, knowing his veto of the 1869 wide-open gambling bill was about to ...