RULES

The game is about a bet between the bank and an unlimited number of players.

Around a green table, smaller than roulette one, we can find a chief-table (whose aim is to make sure everything is done in the correct way) and two croupiers. One of them (the one called tailleur) lays cards down on the green baize, and the second croupier takes back losing fiches and pays the winning ones, using some special rakes.

During the game they use 6 french card packs (52 cards per pack), in all 312 cards. Thay use to "burn" the five starting cards, in a way they can avoid the player, who can remember cards which have been already came out, to calculate the distribution of points on remaining cards. Every card has got its specific value, while court-cards (J, K, Q) are valued at 10.

The table has got four areas on it, representing chances players can bet. Red and Black (exact opposite) and Colour and Inverse (exact opposite). Contrary to roulette, in 30 et 40 we can only talk about simple chances. The tailleur mixes cards (at present time in Casinos they use a special mixer-dispenser, to escape any doubt on lawfulness).

Once this first part has come to an end, the croupier says the famous sentence: "Les jeux sont faites, rien ne va plus". The tailleur starts distributing cards making them falling on the table, one after the other, creating a line (from leftside to the right).

Once the sum of dealt cards values is over 30 (the sum should never be over 40) the tailleur stops the distribution and gives notice of the final result, by announcing only the units of the sum: for example if the result is 33 he announces just 3 (in French). Then he starts creating a new line, under the previous one following the same method. In this case too, he will give notice of units only.

The Red or Black player has to stake on one of these two lines. By convention the first line is Black, while the second conforms with the Red. The winning line is the one whose sum (which should always go over 30 but never exceed 40) is minor. Therefore, if a player stakes Red he wins only if the second line has got a sum which is minor than the first black line.

Considering "COLOUR" and "INVERSE" bets, the croupier considers just the first card of the winning line. If this card has got the same colour of the winning line, the "COLOUR" is winning (GAGNE) otherwise the winner is the "INVERSE" (colour PERDE). If, for instance, the first line (black) is winning, and the first card of this line is black., the Colour is winning. Once the croupier has finished the distribution, the other croupier , who has to announce who's winner and who's loser, will always talk about Red (ROUGE) and Colour (COULEUR) specifing if one of these two chances is losing or winning. Everything happens by speaking French.

If the sum of two lines is equal, the games is null and players can take back their stakes.

If two sums are equal but amount to 31 (31 après), players can not take back their stakes (here is the little advantage of the bank). The player can take back his own stake only if in the following blow cames out the chance he staked before. As it happens in Roulette game, the player can ask the Bank for the partager, that means the return of half-part of the stake. If the 31 après comes out two times on end, the stake (as it happens when 0 cames out at roulette on simple chances) is blocked till the following blow. The stake will set free only if the chance the player staked comes out in the following two blows. In this case too the player can ask for the partager, but he will have back just a quarter of the sum he have staked.

When a player wins, on any of two chances, the bank pays the total sum of the stake. Leaving out of consideratoion complicated mathematical calculation, we'd like to inform you that the mathematical advantage of the Bank is 1.096% (a value which is minor than the one of the roulette).

Peculiarity of 30 et 40: We can insure ourselves against the 31 après. The player can do this by using the 1% of his own stake. In this case once he runs into the 31 après in both lines, he can take back his fiches (null blow). In many cases this operation is allowed only to players whose stakes amount to great sums (Insurance sums can vary considering different casinos).