The method of entertainment "Stos" is an adaptation for casinos, videogame machines
and computers of the most popular game of chance in the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries. It is also known as Bank Table, Shtoss and Pharaon. In a casino, the
game takes place on a table on which there is a game field with suit-less cards
and four suit cards: spades (), diamonds () and hearts (). The
game generally uses one or several standard 52-card decks. The players bet that
the card they select will be dealt out of the deck on an even interval. To do so,
they place their chips on a suit-less card that they pick on the game field. They
may also predict the suit of their card by placing a bet on one of the suit cards.
After the cards are shuffled and cut, the dealer places the cards face down on
the table and draws the cards in order, two at a time. All bets on a card are considered
played as soon as the first matching card is dealt from the deck. The player loses
if the card upon which he bet turns up in the odd column and he wins if it falls
in the even one.
