Stuss

Stuss or Jewish Faro is a card game, a variant of faro. In this version (played in house games, back rooms, and saloons) the cards are dealt from the dealer's hand, not from a shoe. Also, the house won all the money when drawing two equal cards, as opposed to half in traditional faro. This greatly increased the house advantage over its patrons.

It was particularly popular in the late 19th century in New York City and Chicago until the time of World War I.

References

• The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Card Games, Sterling Publishing, New York 1995 p. 335-337 ISBN 0-806-91330-4
• Scarne: Scarne on Card Games. How to Play and Win at Poker, Pinochle, Blackjack, Gin and Other Popular Card Games, 2nd ed., Courier Dover Publications, Mineola, N.Y. 2004, pp 173 –175, ISBN 0-486-43603-9
• Luc Sante: Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, New York 2003 ISBN 0-37452-8993,
• Alex Garel-Frantzen: Gangsters & Organized Crime in Jewish Chicago. The History Press, Charleston, S.C. 2013, p. 86 f, 2013 ISBN 978-1-62619-193-8
• G. R. Williamson: Frontier Gambling. The Games, the Gamblers & the Great Gambling Halls of the Old West. Indian Head Publications, E-Pub edition, 2012, ISBN 978-0-9852780-1-4