The Basics 9 • We use six decks of in a card shoe to enable easy, 8 controlled dealing.
• The suits of the cards are irrelevant. 7
• Face cards and 10’s count as zero (’Baccarat’ pro- 6 D D
nounced ‘Bak-Ar-Ah’). 5 D D D D D • Aces always count as one.
• When two cards are dealt and the total of the cards 4 D D D D D D D equals more than nine, remove the first number of the total. For example, if the Player's hand is a 9 and 3 D D D D D D D D D D a 6, the total is 15, which means your Baccarat hand is 5. 2 D D D D D D D D D D D • To even out the odds, the casino charges up to five 1 D D D D D D D D D D D percent commission when a bet is placed on the Banker and the Banker's hand wins. No commission 0 D D D D D D D D D D D is charged on bets placed on the Players hand. • In the event of a tie and no one bet on tie, the hand whether the banker draws is determined by the is considered a ‘push’— all wagers are returned. whether the player drew, and if so the value of the player's draw card, as shown by the table below. Game Play N = Player took no card • After shuffling the cards, the dealer asks a player to cut the cards using the cut-card. The Cards are then D = DRAW placed in the show. The dealer draws and shows the first card. Further cards are drawn and burned ac- Odds Summary cording to the value of the first card drawn (e.g. draw Player win — All player bets: 1:1 evens ‘3’, burn three further cards). Banker win — All bank bets 1:1 evens • Place your bet on either the section labelled Player, bank stores 5% of players win the section labelled Banker (Dealer) or the section Tie — All tie bets 8:1 labelled Tie. • The game is started by dealing two cards for the player hand and two cards for the bank hand. An initial hand with a value of 8 or 9 is called a "natural." • If either hand is a natural, its holder must expose it and the game ends. Otherwise play continues, first with the player hand and then with the banker hand. • The winning hand is the one with a total of 9 or as close to 9 as possible. • Rules for the player hand: If the player's first two cards total 6 or more, then the player must stand without drawing a card. If the player's first two cards total 5 or less, the player must draw one additional card. • Rules for the banker hand: If the banker's first two cards total 7 or more, then the banker must stand without drawing a card. If the banker's first two cards total 0,
