Monte Bank
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Monte Bank, Mountebank, Spanish Monte and Mexican Monte, sometimes just Monte, is a Spanish gambling card game and was known in the 19th century as the national card game of Mexico. It ultimately derives from basset, where the banker (dealer) pays on matching cards. The term "monte" has also been used for a variety of other gambling games, especially varieties of three-card poker, and for the swindle three-card monte.
John David Borthwick, a Scottish artist portrayed the gambling element of Monte in this lithograph.
Three-card monte
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Three-card monte – also known as find the lady and three-card trick – is a confidence game in which the victims, or "marks", are tricked into betting a sum of money, on the assumption that they can find the "money card" among three face-down playing cards. It is very similar to the shell game except that cards are used instead of shells.
A game in Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel (2005). It has all the hallmarks of the con; the cards are slightly curved, the corners have been bent and the dealer has the cash in hand to conceal any sleight-of-hand.
A three-card monte stand in Warsaw, July 1944
Con artists enticing people on Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, to play, and lose money in the game in 2018.
The Game of Monte in the Streets of Mexico by Claudio Linati (1828)