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Many of you may not be familiar with Baccarat. It is a gambling game that can be seen at casinos and it is growing in popularity. This game uses a table similar to the one used for craps. It is a fairly simple game, so next time you happen to visit a casino, why not have a go!
Baccarat involves two hands - one played by the banker and the other by the player, and you can bet on either hand. If you happen to bet on the hand that wins, you get an even money pay off (1:1). There is another bet you can make called the "tie bet". This bet gives you an 8:1 payoff. Like the name suggest when you take the tie bet and it's a tie, you win. It is reasonably rare to get a tie, and the statistics, show that it occurs once in every ten hands.
Each hand receives two cards; the hand closest to 9 is the winning hand. If required you can draw more cards. The 10 and all the picture cards have a "0" value. Ace has the value "1" while the rest of the cards from 2-9 have their same face value. To find out if the value of your hand adds up to 9 or close to 9, keep adding the value of the cards that you posses in your hand. In case your hand adds up to more than 10, then the first digit is done away with, for instance if your hand adds up to 16, then the first digit is ignored and hence the value of your hand is considered as 6.
If you get lucky and your hand adds up to 9 with just your first two cards, your hand is called a "natural" and you win. Even if your two cards add up to 8, it is called a natural and you win unless the other hand playing also has a natural. If both hands playing have a natural, the higher natural wins (9 will beat the 8).
If nobody has a natural hand, after the dealing of the first two cards, the players draw cards. If the sum of the first two cards dealt is 6, 7, 8 or 9, a player cannot draw more cards, he or she has to "stand" and if they have values lower than 6, they have to draw at least one more card.
Sounds easy doesn't it!? The bankers hand is a bit more complex but the whole game is based on who gets the closest to nine!
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