Baccarat is a popular casino card game that originated in Europe and is known for its simplicity and elegance. It is a comparing card game played between a “player” and a “banker”, with players betting on which hand will have a value closest to 9.
Game Features:
- The game is played with a standard 52-card deck. Cards 2-9 are worth face value, 10s and face cards are worth 0, and aces are worth 1 point.
- Two hands are dealt – the “player” hand and the “banker” hand. Each hand is initially dealt two cards.
- The goal is to get a hand value as close to 9 as possible. Suits are irrelevant, and only the last digit of the total score is used.
- Based on the initial two-card values, a third card may be dealt to either the player or banker hand according to a set of fixed rules..
