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Bank, also known also as Polish Bank or Russian Bank, is a comparing card game. The game requires a standard 52-card deck and five or six players. Rules At the start of the game, each player contributes an arranged stake to the pool. The dealer gives three cards to each player and turns up another; if this is not lower than an eight (ace is lowest), the dealer continues turning up cards until such a card is exposed. The player on the dealer's left, without touching or looking at the three cards received, can bet the amount of the pool, or any part of it, that among those cards is one that is higher (of the same suit) than the turn-up. If the player wins, the player takes the amount from the pool; if the player loses, the player pays that amount to the pool. Each player does the same in turn, the dealer last. Whenever the pool is exhausted, a fresh stake is put into the pool. After a round is over the deal passes. No player may touch any cards received until making a bet; the penalty is a fine to the pool of twice the stake, and the loss of the right to bet during that round. References Attribution

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Notable quotes

“The best way to rob a bank is to own one.”
— William K. Black, The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry (2005)
“The 12 regional reserve banks aren't government institutions, but corporations nominally 'owned' by member commercial banks.”
— Federal Reserve Bank of New York, I Bet You Thought... (1977), p. 27.
“The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it.”
— John Kenneth Galbraith, Money: Whence it came, where it went (1975), p. 15.
“But please do not think that I am not fond of banks, Because I think they deserve our appreciation and thanks.”
— Ogden Nash. ‘Bankers are Just Like Everybody Else, Except Richer’, The Face is Familiar (1954).
“In the epoch of imperialism, the bankers became the aristocrats of the capitalist world.”
— Walter Rodney,
“Big banks treat government fines as the cost of doing business. This settlement lets bad bank executives off the hook for allowing TD Bank to be used as a criminal slush fund. The Department of Justice and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency need to do better in enforcing our anti-money laundering laws.””
— Elizabeth Warren accordding to TD Bank hit with record US$3 billion fine over drug cartel money laundering (October 10, 2024)

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Not who you're looking for? Others named bank: family name · city in Kangan County, Bushehr Province, Iran · hamlet in Hampshire, England, UK · artists’ group active in London during the 1990s

Notable quotes

“The best way to rob a bank is to own one.”
— William K. Black, The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry (2005)
“The 12 regional reserve banks aren't government institutions, but corporations nominally 'owned' by member commercial banks.”
— Federal Reserve Bank of New York, I Bet You Thought... (1977), p. 27.
“The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it.”
— John Kenneth Galbraith, Money: Whence it came, where it went (1975), p. 15.
“But please do not think that I am not fond of banks, Because I think they deserve our appreciation and thanks.”
— Ogden Nash. ‘Bankers are Just Like Everybody Else, Except Richer’, The Face is Familiar (1954).
“In the epoch of imperialism, the bankers became the aristocrats of the capitalist world.”
— Walter Rodney,
“Big banks treat government fines as the cost of doing business. This settlement lets bad bank executives off the hook for allowing TD Bank to be used as a criminal slush fund. The Department of Justice and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency need to do better in enforcing our anti-money laundering laws.””
— Elizabeth Warren accordding to TD Bank hit with record US$3 billion fine over drug cartel money laundering (October 10, 2024)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

Bank, also known also as Polish Bank or Russian Bank, is a comparing card game. The game requires a standard 52-card deck and five or six players. Rules At the start of the game, each player contributes an arranged stake to the pool. The dealer gives three cards to each player and turns up another; if this is not lower than an eight (ace is lowest), the dealer continues turning up cards until such a card is exposed. The player on the dealer's left, without touching or looking at the three cards received, can bet the amount of the pool, or any part of it, that among those cards is one that is higher (of the same suit) than the turn-up. If the player wins, the player takes the amount from the pool; if the player loses, the player pays that amount to the pool. Each player does the same in turn, the dealer last. Whenever the pool is exhausted, a fresh stake is put into the pool. After a round is over the deal passes. No player may touch any cards received until making a bet; the penalty is a fine to the pool of twice the stake, and the loss of the right to bet during that round. References Attribution

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).