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THE GAME
The goal of Baccarat is to draw a two or three card hand with a
value closer to 9 than the bankers hand.
The Value of the Cards
Numbered cards have their face value.
10, Jack, Queen and King count as 0.
Ace counts as 1.
If the value of your cards is more than ten, you subtract 10.
So a 8-9 hand totals 7 (after subtracting 10 from 17)
Two hands are dealt one for the Banker and one for the Player.
Before the deal, the player wagers on whether the Player's hand
or the Banker's hand is closest to the total of 9. The player
also has the option to wager on a tie i.e. both hands are of the
same value
Baccarat is a card game that is dealt from a shoe that holds 6
or 8 decks. Before the hands are dealt, bets may be placed.
Once bets have been placed, the banker hand and the player hand
are dealt according to fixed rules, giving final hands of either
two or three cards for each.
The value of a hand is determined by adding the values of its
cards to get a total. Tens and face cards are counted as zero,
while all other cards are counted by the number of "pips" on the
card face. Only the last digit of the total is used, so all baccarat
hands have values in the range 0 to 9 inclusive. The hand with
the higher value wins; if the hands have the same value, the result
is of course a tie.
A 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 is over. If this does not occur play
continues, first with the player hand and then with the banker
hand, according to the following rules.
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, 1, or 2, then the banker
must draw one card. If the banker's first two cards total 3, 4,
5, or 6, then whether the banker draws is determined by the whether
the player drew, and if so the value of the player's draw card,
as shown by the table below.
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