Traditionally Greeks spend the days during Christmas and New Year gambling. New
Year's Eve is THE main gambling time - after seeing in the New Year many will try out
their luck until well into the early hours. Even houses and cars have been lost over
a card game or the throw of the zaria (dice)! In all the cafeneons across the land
around Christmas you will find the men sitting around card tables. It is actually illegal
to gamble in unlicensed places but this doesn't stop the owners or the customers!
The cafeneon owners actually charge for the tables by the hour and will go around
collecting a few Euros off each player every hour. The most popular card games are
21 (similar to black jack, but with a kitty in the middle), 31 (similar to black jack but
each player tries to get 31 instead of 21, and 'thanasi' (rummy).
'Zaria' or dice is played with two dice by 2 players in turn and there are set winning
and losing combinations (win 6 and 6, 6 and 5, lose 1 and 1, 1 and 3 etc.). Betting
takes place before the throw of the dice and there is also side betting around the
table .
Traditionally Greeks spend the days during Christmas and New Year gambling. New Year's Eve is THE main gambling time - after seeing in the New Year many will try out their luck until well into the early hours. Even houses and cars have been lost over a card game or the throw of the zaria (dice)! In all the cafeneons across the land around Christmas you will find the men sitting around card tables. It is actually illegal to gamble in unlicensed places but this doesn't stop the owners or the customers! The cafeneon owners actually charge for the tables by the hour and will go around collecting a few Euros off each player every hour. The most popular card games are 21 (similar to black jack, but with a kitty in the middle), 31 (similar to black jack but each player tries to get 31 instead of 21, and 'thanasi' (rummy).'Zaria' or dice is played with two dice by 2 players in turn and there are set winning and losing combinations (win 6 and 6, 6 and 5, lose 1 and 1, 1 and 3 etc.). Betting takes place before the throw of the dice and there is also side betting around the table .
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