Shoe (cards) must be dealt from a shoe (Scarne's invention). While no such ruling was ever passed, most Nevada casinos now deal from a multi-deck shoe. As gaming advisor to the Havana Hilton, Scarne also introduced the shoe to Puerto Rico and Cuba. The device is so named because the earliest versions of it resembled a woman's high-heel shoe, and were often painted red or black in color. Dealing shoes come in many colors and sizes, depending on the number of decks they are capable of holding (2, 4, 6, or 8 decks). When the cards are placed in the shoe, the
House in the Woods of La Belle Lucie. But the two things that make this game also similar to Shamrocks is the building the cards up or down and the fact that there are no redeals. House in the Woods House in the Woods (a.k.a. House in the Wood) is a Patience game which uses two decks of 52 playing cards each. The game is basically a two-deck version of La Belle Lucie, but it borrows two things from its cousin Shamrocks. The object of the game is to place all the cards into eight foundations. The cards are dealt in sets of three,