Baccarat is a very famous game played at many casinos all over the world. It is essentially a card game which originates from Italy and later on got a lot of popularity in France in the early days. It is fun to play baccarat since the simplest form of this card game involves no gaming skill or knowledge of calculation of probability. Most of you who are Ian Fleming fan and have seen or read his movies on James Bond 007 must know that this game compares cards between the player and the banker and the valuation of the cards are done as pre decided rule of Baccarat. The cards 2-9 have their value equivalent to the face value that is the number of the card itself. The cards J, K and Q have no value or zero value and the Ace card is given 1 point. After the show of cards is over the person with the higher number of value wins the game. As we can easily calculate the highest value a player can get in a dealt of cards is 9. This game is so simple anyone can try their luck on it.
Every player, which includes player dealing, can bet on Punto and Banco however it is very customary for dealer betting at Banco. The players cannot opt to deal, passing ‘Shoe’ to next player. Shoe stays with one player providing the Bank wins. In case, Punto wins, shoe passes onto next player. And 2 hands are dealt & you are betting which can win, and they can tie. This is like betting at Black and Red at roulette, and payoff is money. An only difference between Banco & Punto betting is the win at Banco can cost you over 5 per cent commission and tax levied by casino – in built benefit.
