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Baccarat Rules

Baccarat is enjoyed with eight decks in a dealing shoe. Cards under ten are worth their printed number while Ten, Jack, Queen, King are zero, and A is one. Wagers are made on the ‘bank’, the ‘player’, or for a tie (these are not really people; they simply represent the 2 hands to be dealt).

Two cards are dealt to both the ‘banker’ and ‘gambler’. The score for every hand is the total of the cards, but the 1st digit is dropped. e.g., a hand of 5 and 6 has a score of one (five plus six = eleven; dump the first ‘one’).

A additional card may be given based on the rules below:

- If the player or banker gets a score of eight or 9, the two players stay.

- If the player has less than five, he takes a card. Players stands otherwise.

- If the gambler holds, the banker takes a card on five or less. If the gambler takes a card, a chart is used to figure out if the bank stays or takes a card.

Baccarat Banque Odds

The better of the two totals wins. Winning wagers on the house pay out 19 to 20 (equal money minus a 5% rake. The Rake is tracked and paid off once you depart the table so make sure you still have funds left just before you leave). Winning bets on the gambler pays one to one. Winning wagers for a tie frequently pays out at 8:1 but occasionally 9 to 1. (This is a awful bet as a tie occurs less than 1 in every ten rounds. Be wary of gambling on a tie. However odds are astonishingly greater for 9 to 1 vs. 8:1)

Gambled on properly baccarat banque offers fairly decent odds, apart from the tie bet of course.

Baccarat Strategy

As with all games baccarat banque has a few accepted false impressions. One of which is close to a false impression in roulette. The past is not an indicator of future actions. Tracking past results on a chart is a bad use of paper and an affront to the tree that gave its life for our stationary needs.

The most accepted and probably the most successful scheme is the one, three, two, six plan. This technique is deployed to pump up profits and limit risk.

Start by placing 1 unit. If you succeed, add 1 more to the two on the game table for a sum total of 3 chips on the second bet. Should you win you will have 6 on the game table, take away 4 so you are left with two on the 3rd bet. If you succeed on the 3rd round, deposit 2 to the 4 on the table for a sum total of six on the fourth round.

If you do not win on the first bet, you take a loss of 1. A profit on the 1st round followed by a hit on the 2nd creates a loss of two. Wins on the 1st two with a hit on the 3rd provides you with a gain of two. And wins on the first three with a defeat on the 4th means you break even. Succeeding at all four rounds gives you with 12, a take of ten. This means you can lose the 2nd bet five instances for every favorable streak of 4 rounds and still experience no loss.