Playing Baccarat

Baccarat is a fairly simple game to enjoy in that all aspects of the casino game are governed by a firm set of rules. All events in the game are based upon a predetermined set of game rules, with no judgements to be made by the player or house.

Players may bet on a tie, the dealers hand to win or the players hand to win, the winning hand is the one closest to a total of 9 as possible.
There isn’t any busting in Baccarat. The game is played “modulo 10″, if your total goes higher than ten you subtract 10 from the total so the total is between 0 and 9.

To begin, the participant chooses where to bet, next both the player and the banker get two cards.

Whenever the players hand or bankers hand total is 8 or 9, they have a “Natural” and neither gets any extra cards. Whenever both the player and banker receive a ‘natural’, then the result is a tie.

If there isn’t a Natural dealt with the first 2 cards, the subsequent game rules decide what will happen:

First the players hand is dealt with.

Players Hand:	Players Required Action:
0, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5	Draw a third card
6, 7	Stays

After the players turn is complete, what happens next depends on the players hand.

The Bankers Required Action:
0, 1, 2	Any hand	Draw a card
3	0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7	Draws a card
	8	No further cards
	9	Stay
4	2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7	Takes a card
	0, 1, 8 or 9	Stays
5	5, 6 or 7	Draws a card
	0, 1, 2, 3, 8 or 9	Stay
	4	Takes a card
6	6 or 7	Draws a card
	0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 or 9	No further cards
7	Anything	Stays

After the deal is complete, the hand with a value closer to 9 wins.