Learn Baccarat Rules to Play and Win

According to baccarat history, this game should be the choice of only aristocrats and authorities; and modern casinos try to support this baccarat image though all people have a chance to play it of course. Rules of this game are very simple to learn and remember, and this fact can be one of its crazy popularity's reasons; baccarat is the game of luck, no skills, and this fact can be actually the second reason of this game's popularity: you should not learn difficult strategies and systems in order to win baccarat.

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Where to play

Baccarat is usually played in a separate casino room behind the curtains; only some of its variants (Mini-Baccarat for example) can be found in a big casino hall.

A special baccarat table had been designed for this game where 14 players and 3 dealers maximum can sit at: such a table is 'divided' into two semi-circles and each of 2 dealers observes his/her part of the table; the 3rd dealer is the main one and s/he leads the game.

The places of players are numbered 1-15: 13 is missed because of bad superstitions; it is also possible to find special places for making bets on the surface of baccarat table. The place itself is not important: it does not matter how close to a dealer you sit when play baccarat.

How to play

Baccarat is played with a deck of 52 cards. The object of the baccarat casino game is to guess which of two hands will have more points and win: two cards are dealt faced down both to a dealer and a player and the bets are made.

You have 3 options to bet on: Player, Banker, Tie (according baccarat tips, Tie is not profitable bet to make and it happens very seldom). The maximum number of points a hand can get is 9 and it is called to be Natural: 8 and 9 determine the winning hand automatically, 0 is the worst result a hand can get and it means an automatic loss.

How to count

All points of baccaratcrack.com are counted in such a way the maximum number is nine:

• An Ace is counted as 1
• 10's - Kings are counted as 0 (you do not get any points for them)
• 2's - 9's are counted according to their numbers

Even if your 2 cards give you more than 9 points, they will be counted in a way your hand will not exceed this number. For example:

7's + 6's = 13 = 1 + 3 = 4

King + Ace = 1

10's + 9's = 9

Both a player and a dealer has a right to take one more card under certain circumstances: a player takes the 3rd card when s/he has less than 5 points; a dealer's 3rd card depends on the 3rd card of a player and s/he stands only when has 7-9 points.

Players also like baccarat game for its small house edge:

• House edge for Banker - 1,17%
• House edge for Player - 1,36%
• House edge for Tie - 14,42%