Baccarat Banque Regulations and Strategy
Baccarat Banque Codes
Punto banco is played with eight decks in a shoe. Cards valued less than ten are counted at their printed value while at the same time 10, J, Q, K are zero, and A is 1. Bets are made on the ‘bank’, the ‘player’, or on a tie (these are not really people; they simply represent the 2 hands that are dealt).
Two hands of two cards are then dealt to the ‘bank’ and ‘player’. The value for each hand is the total of the 2 cards, although the beginning number is ignored. For instance, a hand of five and six has a total of 1 (five plus 6 = 11; drop the first ‘1′).
A 3rd card could be dealt using the following rules:
- If the player or bank gets a score of eight or nine, both players stay.
- If the gambler has less than five, he takes a card. Players otherwise stay.
- If the player stays, the house hits on a total lower than 5. If the gambler takes a card, a chart is used to see if the bank stays or hits.
Baccarat Banque Odds
The larger of the 2 totals wins. Winning wagers on the bank pay out 19 to 20 (equal cash minus a 5% rake. The Rake is kept track of and paid off once you leave the game so make sure you still have money around just before you depart). Winning wagers on the player pay 1 to 1. Winning wagers for a tie normally pays out at 8 to 1 but sometimes 9:1. (This is a bad bet as a tie occurs less than 1 in every 10 rounds. Be cautious of putting money on a tie. However odds are substantially better for 9:1 versus 8 to 1)
Gambled on correctly baccarat chemin de fer offers pretty decent odds, aside from the tie bet of course.
Punto Banco Course of Action
As with all games punto banco has some familiar myths. One of which is the same as a misunderstanding in roulette. The past is not a fore-teller of future actions. Keeping track of past outcomes at a table is a poor use of paper and an insult to the tree that surrendered its life for our paper needs.
The most familiar and almost certainly the most successful strategy is the one, three, two, six technique. This tactic is employed to pump up earnings and limit losses.
Start by betting 1 dollar. If you succeed, add another to the 2 on the table for a sum total of 3 chips on the second bet. Should you win you will have six on the game table, pull off 4 so you keep 2 on the third round. Should you succeed on the third wager, put down two to the four on the table for a sum total of 6 on the fourth bet.
If you do not win on the first round, you take a hit of one. A win on the 1st bet followed by a hit on the 2nd causes a loss of two. Wins on the first 2 with a hit on the 3rd gives you with a take of two. And wins on the 1st 3 with a defeat on the fourth means you are even. Winning all 4 rounds gives you with 12, a take of 10. This means you will be able to not win on the second round 5 times for every successful streak of 4 rounds and in the end, are even.