Casino games are games played in a casino for cash and entertainment. These games are also played online, where the jurisdiction of the state allows it.
Baccarat
This is a card game of comparing hands played in a casino. Two hands are usually compared, the player and the banker. There are three variations to the game.
- Punto banco/ North American baccarat.The name is derived from two words which suggest the game’s play, punto meaning player & banco meaning banker.The game is dealt from a shoe consisting shuffled cards of 6 or 8 decks. If the player and the banker aren’t dealt a total of 8 or 9 in the first two cards, the tableau is consulted. The player is however given preference over the banker. If the player has a sum of 0-5 initially, they draw a third card. If the player has an initial sum of 6 or 7, they stand. If the player stands, the banker follows the same rule as the player. The punto banco is played in three variations.
- Mini baccarat
- Punto 2000
- EZ baccarat
The game has one of the lowest and highest house edges among table games played in the casino.
- Chemin de fer/ chemmy. This version involves the use of 6 shuffled decks of cards. The game is normally played around an oval table with the players sited around it. Useless cards are dismissed to the centre of the table. The position of the banker is passed in an anticlockwise way amongst the players. The banker makes as stake and the players decide if they’ll go up against the wager. The player with the highest wager is placed against the banker. They both show their cards and the one with a sum of 8 or 9 wins the coup.
- Baccarat banque. This game is dealt from a shoe containing 3 shuffled decks of cards. The position of the banker is more stable.
Chemin de fer and baccarat banque both allows the player to make choices while in the punto banco, the player is forced to make moves based on the cards dealt.
The game has three possible outcomes
- Player with the higher score
- Banker
- Tie
The cards do have a value measured in points in baccarat. The 10, jack, queen and king cards have no value while the 2 to 9 cards maintain their number as their value in points. Aces are 1 point cards while the joker is not used. The sum of cards making up a hand is done while dismissing the first figure. 1 and 3 is equal to 4; however, the sum of 8 and 9 is 7. The first figure 1 is dismissed. Due to this principle, the highest possible value of a hand is 9.
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