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El crupier descubrió su farol y se lo explicó.

El crupier descubrió su farol y se lo explicó.
The dealer discovered his bluff and explained it to him.
From Lesson 405:Evaluative suffixes (-azo, -ón, -ucho)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about El crupier descubrió su farol y se lo explicó.

The lesson is about suffixes like '-azo' and '-ón'. How would I say the dealer discovered his 'huge bluff'?
You can add the suffix -azo or -ón to farol to emphasize its size or impact. You could say descubrió su farolazo or su farolón to mean a massive or spectacular bluff. These suffixes are great for adding emotional weight or intensity to standard nouns.
Why is it se lo explicó instead of le lo explicó?
In Spanish, when both an indirect object pronoun (le or les, meaning 'to him/her/them') and a direct object pronoun (lo, la, los, las) start with 'l' and are used together, the first one changes to se. This happens simply because le lo is awkward to pronounce. Here, se means 'to him' and lo means 'it' (the bluff).
Does farol always mean 'bluff'? I thought it meant 'lantern'.
You are right, the literal meaning of farol is 'lantern' or 'streetlamp'. In games like poker, or in daily life when someone is pretending to have more resources or courage than they actually do, it translates to 'bluff'. The common phrase for 'to bluff' is tirarse un farol.
Is crupier a native Spanish word? How do I make it plural if there are multiple dealers?
Crupier is a loanword adopted directly from French. Because it ends in a consonant in Spanish, you follow the standard rule for pluralization and add -es, making it crupieres.

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