It is descended from Basset, and belongs to the Lansquenet and Monte Bank family of games due to the use of a banker and several players. About Faroįaro, Pharaoh, Pharao, or Farobank is a late 17th-century French gambling card game.
Wildly popular in North America during the 1800s, Faro was eventually overtaken by poker as the preferred card game of gamblers in the early 1900s. I knew it was tied into the Wild West though. But never looked closely at the game, or how it’s played. I have often heard about the card game Faro.
