Baccarat Rules
Baccarat Protocols
Baccarat is played with eight decks of cards in a shoe. Cards of a value less than ten are of their printed number whereas 10, J, Q, K are 0, and A are each equal to 1. Wagers are placed on the ‘banker,’ the ‘player’ or for a tie (these aren’t actual players; they only appear as the 2 hands to be given out).
2 hands of 2 cards are then given to the ‘banker’ as well as ‘player’. The total for every hand is the sum total of the 2 cards, but the 1st digit is discarded. For eg, a hand of seven and 5 has a value of two (sevenplusfive=twelve; drop the ‘1′).
A 3rd card might be given depending on the foll. practices:
- If the player or banker has a total score of eight or nine, each players stand.
- If the gambler has five or lower, he hits. bettors stand otherwise.
- If gambler stands, the banker hits of 5 or lower. If the gambler hits, a chart is used to decide if the banker stands or hits.
Baccarat Odds
The greater of the two scores will be the winner. Winning stakes on the banker payout 19 to twenty (even money less a 5% commission. Commission is tracked and moved out when you leave the table so be sure to have dollars remaining before you leave). Winning bets on the player pay one to 1. Winner bets for tie normally pay 8 to 1 and sometimes nine to one. (This is not a good gamble as ties occur less than one every 10 hands. Avoid laying money on a tie. Still, odds are vastly better – nine to 1 vs. eight to one)
When done smartly, baccarat offers fairly decent odds, away from the tie wager obviously.
Baccarat Strategy
As with every games, Baccarat has some well-known misconceptions. One of which is quite similar to a roulette misconception. The past is never actually an indicator of future events. Tracking of past outcomes on a chart is simply a waste of paper … an insult to the tree that gave its life to be used as our stationary.
The most commonly used and probably most successful strategy is the 1-three-2-6 technique. This schema is deployed to boost profits and minimizing risk.
start by wagering one unit. If you win, add 1 more to the two on the table for a total of 3 on the 2nd bet. If you win you will have six on the table, take away 4 so you have 2 on the 3rd bet. If you win the 3rd wager, add two to the four on the table for a total of six on the fourth gamble.
If you don’t win on the 1st wager, you suck up a loss of one. A win on the first bet followed by loss on the 2nd causes a loss of two. Wins on the first 2 with a loss on the third gives you a profit of 2. And wins on the first three with a loss on the fourth mean you break even. A win on all four bets leaves you with twelve, a profit of ten. In other words you can lose the 2nd bet 5 times for every successful streak of four bets and still break even.