in an effort to wrest the big money from deauville and le touquet , the soci , t , des bains de mers de royale have leased the baccarat and the two top chemin-de-fer tables to the mahomet ali syndicate , a group of , migr , egyptian bankers and business-men with , it is said , a call on certain royal funds , who have for years been trying to cut in on the profits of zographos and his greek associates resulting from their monopoly of the highest french baccarat banks .