Baccarat Banque Rules
Baccarat is played with eight decks of cards in a shoe. Cards under ten are worth face value while at the same time Ten, Jack, Queen, King are zero, and A is 1. Wagers are placed on the ‘banker’, the ‘player’, or on a tie (these are not actual people; they simply represent the two hands that are dealt).
Two cards are dealt to both the ‘bank’ and ‘gambler’. The score for each hand is the total of the 2 cards, although the beginning digit is dumped. e.g., a hand of five and 6 has a value of one (5 plus 6 = 11; drop the initial ‘1′).
A third card might be given based on the following rules:
- If the player or banker has a value of 8 or 9, both players stay.
- If the player has less than five, she hits. Players otherwise stand.
- If the gambler holds, the house hits on 5 or lower. If the player hits, a table is employed to determine if the banker stays or hits.
Punto Banco Odds
The better of the 2 scores wins. Winning bets on the bank payout 19 to 20 (even money minus a 5% commission. The Rake is tracked and paid off once you leave the game so ensure you still have cash left over before you leave). Winning wagers on the player pays out at 1 to 1. Winning wagers for a tie normally pay eight to one but sometimes 9 to 1. (This is a awful wager as a tie occurs less than one in every ten hands. Be wary of betting on a tie. Although odds are substantially greater for 9 to 1 versus 8 to 1)
Wagered on correctly punto banco provides pretty good odds, apart from the tie bet of course.
Baccarat Chemin de Fer Method
As with all games punto banco has quite a few established misconceptions. One of which is similar to a myth in roulette. The past is not a harbinger of events yet to happen. Keeping score of past results on a sheet of paper is a poor use of paper and a snub to the tree that was cut down for our stationary desires.
The most accepted and probably the most successful strategy is the one, three, two, six method. This method is employed to build up profits and limit losses.
Start by wagering one dollar. If you win, add another to the two on the table for a sum of 3 units on the second bet. If you succeed you will retain six on the table, pull off 4 so you keep two on the third bet. If you win the 3rd bet, put down two to the four on the game table for a sum total of six on the 4th round.
Should you don’t win on the first wager, you take a hit of one. A profit on the first bet followed by a hit on the 2nd causes a hit of two. Wins on the first 2 with a defeat on the third provides you with a gain of 2. And wins on the 1st three with a defeat on the 4th means you are even. Succeeding at all four rounds gives you with 12, a gain of 10. This means you will be able to squander the second wager 5 times for each successful streak of four bets and still balance the books.