Te Rūreti i ngā Tuhinga
Te whakamahi a ngā kaituhi pukapuka paki i te rūreti hei tuhi mō te moni, mō te hiahia pōrangi me te tūpono.

Mai i The Gambler a Dostoevsky ki te Klondike a Jack London me Casino Royale a Fleming, ko te rūreti i ngā kōrero paki e pā ana ki te kaitākaro, kaua ki te wīra. Ko ngā mea pai rawa ka whakaahua i te pōhēhē, i te waranga me te pūnaha mai i roto, me te tika kāore rawa i tutuki i ngā puka rautaki.
Lablée, 1801
He pukapuka paki a La Roulette, ou le Jour kei roto nei te whakaahuatanga katoa tuatahi o te kēmu: ngā rūma o Palais-Royal, ngā korewīraKoreTe kōhao kākāriki kotahi kāore e kapia e tētahi peti utu ōrite, tatini, tīwae rānei; te pūtake o te painga o te whare. Arā anō: kore kotahi, 0.Pānuitia katoatia → e rua, te mahere petitaputapuMahere petiTe tukutuku peti kua tāia ki te tēpu. Arā anō: tēpu, kākahu tēpu, felt.Pānuitia katoatia →, ngā karanga a ngā kaitiritiritāngataKurupiēTe kaitiritiri i te tēpu rūreti.Pānuitia katoatia →. Ko ia te puna taketake mō te takenga mai o te rūreti, ā, tata kore he tangata kua pānui i a ia hei pukapuka paki, ā, he tika pea tērā.
Dostoevsky, 1866
I whakahuatia a The Gambler i roto i ngā rā 26 kia ea ai tētahi kirimana, kia utua ai ngā nama petipeti i puta i Wiesbaden me Homburg. Ko tōna kaikōrero, ko Alexei, he kaiako i tētahi whare Rūhia i “Roulettenburg”, ka toa i tētahi taonga nui i ngā tēpu, ā, ka ngaro i a ia, me ia anō, i te roanga o te pukapuka. Ko ngā whakaahuatanga o ngā tēpu, o ngā pūnaha e whakamahia ana e ngā kaitākaro, o te tino whakapono me mutu tētahi raupapa, me te rongo i tētahi toa he māramatanga, te kōrero pai rawa mō te pōhēhē a te kaipetipeti i tētahi reo, i tuhia tata ki te rima tekau tau i mua i ngā pangopetiPangoHe peti utu ōrite ki ngā tau pango e 18. Wīwī: noir.Pānuitia katoatia → e 26, ā, he rautau i mua i te ōhanga whanonga.
Bad Homburg me ngā Whare Petipeti o ngā Tāone WaiarikiTe Roulettenburg a Dostoevsky
Thackeray me ngā tāone wai ora
Ka mutu a Vanity Fair ki a Becky Sharp i ngā tēpu o tētahi tāone wai ora o Tiamana, ā, ko taua upoko he whakaahua koi o te hunga i noho ki te taha o tētahi wīra rūreti i ngā tau 1840: te hunga kua mōtiti, te hunga e tūmanako ana, te hunga hōhā me te hunga ngaio. I kite a Thackeray; kei te huarahi o ia kaihaere Ingarihi a Baden-Baden. Kei aua rūma anō te kōrero o Smoke (1867) a Turgenev.

Jack London, 1912
Ko “Shorty Dreams”, he kōrero i roto i Smoke Bellew, te kōrero paki kotahi e tika ana mō tētahi kaitākaro rūreti e toa ana, nā te mea kāore te kaitākaro e whakamahi ana i tētahi pūnaha. Ko Smoke Bellew, he tangata nō San Francisco kua huri hei kaikeri kōura i Klondike, ka noho ki tētahi tēpu rūreti i te pāpara Elkhorn i Dawson, ā, ka tīmata ki te toa, i ia pō, i ia pō, ngā tāra 3,500 i ia wā. Ka whakatau tana hoa, a Shorty, kei te moemoeā ia. Ko ngā kaipetipeti o Dawson, e mōhio ana mai i “the mathematic sharps in the colleges” (ngā tohunga pāngarau o ngā whare wānanga) ko te rūreti anō te pūnaha anake, ka whakakīia e rātou ngā pukapuka tuhi i a rātou e ngana ana ki te wetewete i āna peti, ā, kāore he mea i kitea, nā te mea ka whakarerekē a Smoke i tāna tākaro mā te whakaaro, ā, i tētahi wā ka hinga i ngā peti tepe e whā tekau ki te raupapa hei whakapōrearea i te āhua.
Ka kohia e ngā rangatira kēmu tekau o te tāone he pēke 10,000 tāra ki tētahi rūma o muri, ā, ka pōwhiritia ia kia whawhai ki taua pēke. Ka whatiia e ia i roto i te hāora me te hāwhe. I te aroaro o te whakaheke i ō rātou tepe ki te hēneti kotahi, o te kati rānei i ngā tēpu, ka pātai rātou he aha te utu hei hoko i te pūnaha. E toru tekau mano tāra, tāna kī, e toru mano mā ia tangata, me utu ki te puehu kōura, ā, ka kī taurangi ia e kore rawa ia e tākaro anō i Dawson. Ka utu rātou. Kātahi ia ka whakaatu: ina panaia te pōrotaputapuPōroTe pōro iti ka panga ki te ara, ki te ahunga kōaro ki te rōta. Ko ngā pōro o nāianei he ivorine, he Teflon rānei, 18–21 mm.Pānuitia katoatia → i te wā e anga ana te 9 ki te kaitiaki, ka toa te 26; mēnā ko te 11 e anga ana, ka puta te kore-ruamomoKore-ruaTe kōhao 00 o te wīra Amerika. Nā tōna noho ka piki te painga o te whare mai i te 2.70% ki te 5.26%.Pānuitia katoatia →; mēnā ko te kore-rua e anga ana, ka puta te 32. “It doesn’t always happen, but it usually happens.” (Kāore e puta i ngā wā katoa, engari i te nuinga o te wā ka puta.) Ka whakamutu a Big Burke i te wīra, ka titiro ki a ia, ka titiro ki te umu ahi i te taha o te tēpu, ā, ka kanga. Kua pikopiko te wīra i te wera. Ehara rawa i te pūnaha; he wīra tītahataiwhangaWīra tītahaHe wīra e nui ake ai te tūponotanga o ētahi kōhao i te 1/37 nā ōna hē ā-tinana. He onge, ka kitea anake i ngā mano hurihanga kua tuhia.Pānuitia katoatia → me tētahi tangata i kite.
I noho a London ki Klondike i te takurua o 1897–98, ā, i mōhio ia ki ngā pāpara. He akoranga katoa te kōrero mō te tākaro whai painga, tata ki te rima tekau tau i mua i a Thorp: tirohia, tuhia, petihia te wāhangawīraWāhangaHe pewa kōhao honohono i te wīra, he rerekē i tētahi rōpū i te mahere peti.Pānuitia katoatia →, whakarerekētia te tauira kia kore ai te whare e kite i tāu e kite ana, ā, hokona i mua i tā rātou neke i te tēpu. Nā Joseph Jagger i mahi te mea tūturu i Monte Carlo i te tau 1880 pea; he kata ake tā London, ā, ko te kauhau a ngā kaipetipeti mō te take e kore ai ngā pūnaha e whai hua he tika pērā i ngā mea katoa o tēnei pae.

Te Rūreti o Monte CarloPakiwaitara: He Rautaki Rūreti e Toa Ana i ngā Wā Katoa
Fleming, 1953
Ko te nuinga o Casino Royale he baccarat. I te rūreti ka peti a Bond ki ngā tatinipetiTatini1–12, 13–24, 25–36 rānei, ko te utunga 2:1.Pānuitia katoatia → tuatahi e rua i te tepe nui o te tēpu, e hipoki ana i ngā hautoru e rua o te mahere peti, ā, i taua whakaaturanga ka toa i ngā hurihanga e ono i ngā hurihanga e whitu; ka meinga ia e Fleming kia kite kāore he hononga o ia hurihanga ki te hurihanga i mua. Ko te “rautaki James Bond” e hokona ana ā-ipurangi, he horanga ki te 19–36, ki te rārangi onopetiRārangi onoNgā tau e ono i ngā rārangi e rua e tata ana, ko te utunga 5:1. Wīwī: sixain.Pānuitia katoatia → 13–18 me te kore, kāore i roto i te pukapuka, kāore hoki i ētahi o ngā pukapuka a Fleming i tirohia e mātou; kāore e mōhiotia nā wai i tapa tuatahi ki te ingoa o Bond. E 2.70% te utu o ngā peti e rua i tētahi wīra kore kotahi. Kei te wāhanga Rautaki te tātai.

Ngā tuhinga pono
Ka kōrero a The Eudaemonic Pie (1985) a Thomas Bass i te kōrero o ngā rorohiko hū, ā, koinei te pukapuka pai rawa mō te ahupūngao o te rūreti mō te kaipānui whānui. Nā Richard Epstein rāua ko Stewart Ethier i tuhi te pāngarau hōhonu. Ka kohia e Beating the Wheel (1992) a Russell Barnhart te hītori o te tākaro wīra tītaha. Kāore anō tētahi kia tuhi i tētahi pukapuka māmā te pānui mō te take e rahua ai ngā pūnaha, nā te mea ka ūru ki tētahi whārangi kotahi, ā, kei tēnei pae taua whārangi.
Lablée. Ka whakaahuatia te kēmu.
Pushkin. Te pūnaha hei pōrangi (i te faro).
Thackeray. Te mano o ngā whare petipeti o ngā tāone wai ora.
Dostoevsky. Te kaipetipeti tūturu rawa.
Te waiata: “The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo”.
London. Ka hinga i a Smoke tētahi wīra piko i Dawson, ā, ka hokona te “pūnaha”.
Fleming. Ka peti a Bond ki ngā tatini e rua.
Bass; Barnhart. Ngā tuhinga pono mō te hinga i te wīra.
Ethier. Te pāngarau, kua oti katoa.
Ngā mea e mōhiotia ana e ngā kōrero paki
He huarahi te pūnaha e rongo ai koe kei a koe te mana whakahaere. Ka rite te rongo o te toa ki te mōhiotanga. Ka haere tonu te raupapa e kore e taea te haere tonu. Ko te kaitākaro anake e tino toa ana ko te mea i kite i tētahi hē i te wīra, ā, me hoko wawe ia. Ko te tēpu te wāhi e whakaatu ai tētahi tangata o te kōrero ko wai ia, ina kāore te hua i a ia. E kī ana te pāngarau i aua mea anō ki ngā tau; nā ngā kaituhi pukapuka paki i kī tuatahi.
Ngā pātai
Ko The Gambler. He poto, ā, kei roto te kaupapa katoa.
He tata tonu. Kei reira katoa ngā ngaronga ake a Dostoevsky, tana kaituhi poto (i mārena ai ia) me te tāone wai ora.
Kāore. I Casino Royale ka peti a Bond ki ngā tatini e rua. Ko te horanga ki te 19–36, te 13–18 me te kore, i tapaina ki tōna ingoa i muri mai, e tētahi atu.
Āe. Ko te wīra piko, te wīra tītaha rānei te mea tonu i whakamahia e Jagger i Monte Carlo, ā, ka whakamārama te wāhanga Taiwhanga me pēhea te kite i tētahi. Ko ngā tāra e toru tekau mano te wāhanga paki.
He katakata iti

I mōhio ngā kaituhi pukapuka paki. Kāore anō hoki i āwhina i a rātou.
Ngā Puna
- Lablée, J. La Roulette, ou le Jour.
- London, J. Smoke Bellew.
- Bass, T. A. The Eudaemonic Pie.
- Barnhart, R. T. Beating the Wheel.
- Kavanagh, T. M. Dice, Cards, Wheels: A Different History of French Culture.