The Sept-et-le-va was the first great chance that
showed the advantages of the game, namely, if the player had won the
couch, and then made a paroli by crooking the corner of his card, and
going on to a SECOND chance, if his winning card turned up again it
became a sept-et-le-va, which was seven times as much as he had laid
upon his card. 11. Quinze-et-le-va, was attending the player's humour,
who, perhaps, was resolved to follow his fancy, and still lay his money
upon the SAME card, which was done by crooking the third corner of his
card: if this card came up by the dealing of the talliere, it made him
win fifteen times as much money as he staked. 12. Trent-et-le-va was
marked by the lucky player by crooking the end of the fourth corner
of his card, which, coming up, made him win thirty-three times as much
money as he staked. 13. Soissante-et-le-va was the highest chance that
could happen in the game, for it paid sixty-seven times as much money as
was staked. It was seldom won except by some player who resolved to push
his good fortune to the utmost.

The players sat round a table, the talliere in the midst of them, with
the bank of gold before him, and the punters or players each having a
book of 13 cards, laying down one, two, three, or more, as they pleased,
with money upon them, as stakes; then the talliere took the pack in
his hand and turned them up--the bottom card appearing being called
the fasse; he then paid half the value of the stakes laid down by the
punters upon any card of THAT SORT.

After the fasse was turned up, and the talliere and croupiere had looked
round the cards on the table, and taken advantage of the money laid on
them, the former proceeded with his deal; and the next card appearing,
whether the king, queen, ace, or whatever it might be, won for the
player, the latter might receive it, or making paroli, as before said,
go on to sept-et-le-va. The card after that won for the talliere, who
took money from each player's card of that sort, and brought it into his
bank--obviously a prodigious advantage in the talliere over the players.

The talliere, if the winning card was a king, and the next after it
was a ten, said (showing the cards all round), 'King wins, ten loses,'
paying the money to such cards as are of the winning sort, and taking
the money from those who lost, added it to his bank. This done, he went
on with the deal, it might be after this fashion--'Ace wins, five loses;'
'Knave win