Editing Faro (banking game) (section)

==In culture==

===Etymology===
* The old phrase "from soda to hock", meaning "from beginning to end" derives from the first and last cards dealt in a round of faro.<ref>{{Cite book |title= Soda to hock: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable |publisher=Oxford Reference|doi= 10.1093/acref/9780198609810.001.0001 |year=2005|isbn=9780198609810}}</ref> The phrase evolved from the better known "[[wikt:from soup to nuts|from soup to nuts]]". In turn, "soda" and "hock" are probably themselves derived from "hock and soda", a popular nineteenth-century drink consisting of [[Hock (wine)|hock]] (a sweet German wine) combined with [[Carbonated water|soda water]].

===Geography===
* The town of [[Faro, Yukon]], Canada was named after the game.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://faro.ca/p/history-of-faro |title=History of Faro |publisher=Town of Faro |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240715030754/https://faro.ca/p/history-of-faro |archive-date=2024-07-15}}</ref>

===History===
* The 18th-century adventurer and author [[Casanova]] was known to be a great player of faro. He mentions the game frequently in his autobiography.
* The 18th-century Prussian officer, adventurer, and author [[Friedrich Freiherr von der Trenck]] makes mention of playing faro in his memoirs (February 1726 – 25 July 1794).
* The 18th-century Dutch cavalry commander Casimir Abraham von Schlippenbach (1682–1755) also mentions the game (as Pharaon) in his memoirs. Apparently, he was able to win considerable sums of money with the game.
* The 18th century [[Whigs (British political party)|Whig]] radical [[Charles James Fox]] preferred faro to any other game.
* The 19th-century American con man [[Soapy Smith]] was a faro dealer. It was said that every faro table in Soapy's Tivoli Club in [[Denver, Colorado]], in 1889 was gaffed (made to cheat).
* The 19th-century scam artist [[Canada Bill Jones]] loved the game so much that, when he was asked why he played at one game that was known to be rigged, he replied, "It's the only game in town."
* The 19th-century lawman [[Wyatt Earp]] dealt faro for a short time after arriving in [[Tombstone, Arizona]], having acquired controlling interest in a game out of the Oriental Saloon.<ref>William M. Breakenridge, Richard Maxwell Brown [https://books.google.com/books?id=O-LPR9U64ngC&dq=Wyatt+Earp+dealt+faro+in+Oriental+saloon+Tombstone&pg=PA171 Helldorado: bringing the law to the mesquite] p. 171. University of Nebraska Press (1992) {{ISBN|0-8032-6100-4}}</ref>
* The 19th-century dentist and gambler [[Doc Holliday|John "Doc" Holliday]] dealt faro in the [[Bird Cage Theatre|Bird Cage Theater]] as an additional source of income while living in [[Tombstone, Arizona]].<ref>Wesley Treat, Mark Moran, Mark Sceurman [https://books.google.com/books?id=pW4oYv_REfQC&dq=Doc+Holliday+dealt+faro+in+Bird+Cage+theater&pg=PA190 ''Weird Arizona: Your Travel Guide to Arizona's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets''] p. 190. Sterling (2007), {{ISBN|1-4027-3938-9}}.</ref>

===In popular culture===
[[File:Bucking the Tiger (1921) - 1.jpg|thumb|The silent film ''[[Bucking the Tiger (film)|Bucking the Tiger]]'' (1921) took its name from an alternate name for Faro]]
;Literature and its adaptations

* The well-known author of [[Regency romance|Regency romances]] [[Georgette Heyer]] wrote a novel entitled ''[[Faro's Daughter]]''; it tells of a young lady forced to deal faro to support her family and her ensuing romance with one of the gaming hall's patrons.

* In [[Edna Ferber]]'s novel ''[[Show Boat (novel)|Show Boat]]'', the gambler Gaylord Ravenal specializes in the game of faro.
* Faro is mentioned extensively in [[John D. Fitzgerald]]'s semi-autobiographical Silverlode/Adenville trilogy, which consists of the books ''Papa Married a Mormon'', ''Mama's Boarding House'', and ''Uncle Will and the Fitzgerald Curse''. It is one of the primary games played at the Whitehorse Saloon, owned by the character Uncle Will. In ''Mama's Boarding House'' the character Floyd Thompson, one of the tenants in the boarding house, is a faro dealer. Faro is also occasionally mentioned in Fitzgerald's corresponding Great Brain series, which focuses on the children of Adenville.
* In [[Oliver La Farge]]'s story "Spud and Cochise" (1935), the cowboy Spud plays faro when he is in a very good mood. Aware of the widespread dishonesty of American faro dealers in his time, he nevertheless bets heavily, viewing his gambling losses as a form of charity.
* In [[Jack London]]'s novel ''[[White Fang]]'', the owner of the bulldog, Tim Keenan, is a faro dealer.
* In the Giulietta act of [[Jacques Offenbach]]'s opera ''[[The Tales of Hoffmann]]'' (based on three short stories by [[E. T. A. Hoffmann]]), Giulietta invites Schlemil to take his place at the table of Pharaoh.
* In [[Jules Massenet]]'s opera ''[[Manon]]'', the game at the Hotel Transylvania is faro, and Guillot accuses des Grieux and Manon of cheating at it.
* [[Lord Ruthven (vampire)|Lord Ruthven]] in [[John William Polidori]]'s "[[The Vampyre]]" plays faro in Brussels.
* The miners in [[Puccini]]'s opera ''[[La fanciulla del West]]'' (''The Girl of the Golden West''), based on [[David Belasco]]'s play ''[[The Girl of the Golden West (play)|The Girl of the Golden West]]'',  play a contentious game of faro in Act One.
* Faro is central to the plot of [[Alexander Pushkin]]'s story "[[The Queen of Spades (story)|The Queen of Spades]]" and Tchaikovsky's opera adaptation, ''[[The Queen of Spades (opera)|The Queen of Spades]]''.
* In [[Wesley Stace]]'s ''Misfortune'', the character "Pharaoh" is named after his father's profession, a faro dealer.
* In [[Thackeray]]'s novel ''[[The Luck of Barry Lyndon]]'', the main character runs a crooked faro bank, alternatively to his great fortune or ruin. In its film adaptation, ''[[Barry Lyndon]]'', one of the famous candlelit scenes shows Barry and his employer cheating at faro. In the background a [[Moors|Moorish]] servant holds a casekeep showing which cards have been played.
* In a famous scene from [[Leo Tolstoy]]'s book ''[[War and Peace]]'', Nicholas Rostov loses 43,000 rubles to Dolokhov playing faro.
*In [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]'s novel "[[The Brothers Karamazov]]", Dmitri Karamazov is cheated out of 200 rubles by two Polish officers in a game of faro when they switch an unopened deck of cards for a marked set.
;Games
* In the video game ''[[Assassin's Creed Unity]]'' (2014), the main character [[Arno Dorian]], in the early stages of the game, plays a game of Faro with a blacksmith but loses after the blacksmith cheats. Arno loses his deceased father's pocket watch and breaks into the blacksmith's house to steal it back.
;Radio and motion pictures
* In the HBO TV series ''[[Deadwood (TV Series)|Deadwood]]'', Al Swearengen mentions Faro, rather than poker, is played in his Gem Saloon, and the game is referred to frequently throughout the series.
* Numerous references to Faro are made in both the [[Western (genre)|Western]] [[radio]] drama ''[[Gunsmoke]]'', starring [[William Conrad]], and the television drama ''Gunsmoke'' starring [[James Arness]].
* The ''[[Murdoch Mysteries]]'' episode "Staircase to Heaven" involves a murder during a game of Faro.
* In the American western ''[[The Shootist]]'' (1976), Jack Pulford ([[Hugh O'Brian]]) is a professional gambler and a Faro dealer at the Metropole Saloon.
* When planning ''[[The Sting]]'' (1973) on New York gangster Doyle Lonnegan ([[Robert Shaw (British actor)|Robert Shaw]]), one of the conmen researching their mark mentions that he "only goes out to play Faro", making him a hard target for the big con.
* In the film ''[[Tombstone (film)|Tombstone]]'' (1993), [[Wyatt Earp]], played by [[Kurt Russell]], becomes a Faro dealer after arriving in Tombstone.
* Australian TV series ''[[Harrow (TV series)|Harrow]]'' episode "Alea lacta est", features a murder plot centered around the fictional ''Brisbane Faro Society.''