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Baccarat – (A Game Worth Playing)

Baccarat Betting: Before the cards are dealt, you can place the bet on either the player, banker or tie. The payoff for player and banker bet is 1 to 1, however, if you win a banker bet the casino keeps a 5% commission from your bet. Because banker bets have a lower casino advantage, the payoff tie is usually 9:1 or 8:1 depending on house rules.

Whether you're a baccarat beginner trying to understand the basics or an experienced master of the game trying to test out your latest strategy

We invite you to play for fun on my baccarat trainer before risking real money in a casino or on your mobile. This is one of our proudest games where at the Wizard of Odds. We strived to make it as realistic as possible.

Here are some of the features we hope you enjoy:

• With the menu bar at the top, the player can choose to play mini baccarat style where all the cards are dealt quickly by the dealer or 'big table' style where the player turns over the cards one at a time. There is also a hybrid where the player only turns over any third cards to be dealt himself. To turn over a card, just click 'deal'.
• View a realistic history board. Have you ever wondered what all those red and blue circles and lines mean on a baccarat scoreboard? We did too before creating this game. Whether you care about the Bead Plate, Big Road, Small Road, Big Eye Boy, or the Cockroach Pig, our scoreboard has it all. For a written explanation of how each work, please see my page on Baccarat Score Boards.
• View out statistics board for a summary of the last shoe. Here you'll find the percentage of Banker, Player, and Tie bets. You'll also get something no casino will give you, the house edge of the same three bets based on the exact composition of the remaining cards. Sometimes the player will have the edge late in the shoe. Finally, for you card counters out there, we make it easy by showing you how many of each rank are left in the shoe.

Your bankroll is generously started with $10,000. The minimum bet is only $5 and the sky is the limit in terms of a maximum.

We challenge you to get your bankroll to the point where you're betting $25,000 chips. Are you up for it!

We feel our game plays almost like the real thing. However, here you won't have to suffer second-hand smoke or players pounding the table yelling 'monkey!'

Maybe it is better than playing for real money -- decide for yourself.

With the introductions out of the way, the only thing left to do is….get down to business play.

Here at the Wizard of Odds we don't believe in luck so we wish your results to fall on the right side of the bell curve.

Baccarat Boards

Acknowledgments

• JB, our brilliant programmer, for the code behind the game.
• Tic Tabs, for providing the playing card images.
• The Venetian, for their patience in explaining how the scoreboards work.

Baccarat Chess Board

Online Baccarat Bonuses

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Baccarat Rules and Strategy

Baccarat is not an exceedingly complex game, but it does have certain idiosyncrasies that take some getting used to.

Banker vs. Player

In full-scale baccarat, the bettor holding the shoe slides one card out and passes it facedown to the stand-up dealer, who passes it to the customer with the largest player bet.

Bets on Ties

Baccarat Board Results

Bettors also may wager that the two hands will finish with an equal number of points. Winning bets on ties pay off at 8-1. That sounds tempting, but this wager carries a hefty 9.5 percent house edge. Avoid it.

Baccarat Chopping Board Set

Strategy

This is a pure guessing game. Which hand will win? The banker hand will win slightly more often -- 50.68 percent of all decisions, not including ties -- giving the house its 1.36 percent edge on player bets.