Baccarat Fortune Guide.
Written by Jeffrey Taylor Jr.
Number of pages 26.
Description: How to beat the odds and make thousands in Baccarat card game.
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Baccarat comes closer than most other casino games to offering the customer an
even break, with house edges of just 1.17 percent for a bet on the banker hand
and 1.36 percent for a bet on the player hand. Blackjack players who use basic
strategy do better; as do video poker players with refined skills. But baccarat
is a game with no playing strategies to master. The average baccarat player is
at less of a disadvantage than average blackjack or video poker players.
Nevertheless, the game is familiar to only a relative handful of customers. For
decades it was kept under wraps, played in lavish high-roller pits for the
amusement of millionaires. The lowest minimum bet in the baccarat pit usually
was $20, and at that the customer would feel like a piker near the likes of the
late Akio Kashiwagi, who once accepted a challenge to a $12 million freeze-out
at an Atlantic City casino. With $200,000-maximum bets, Kashiwagi was challenged
to play until he'd either lost the $12 million or won $12 million from the
casino. Six days later, with Kashiwagi having played 12 hours a day, the
challenge was called off, and Kashiwagi left $10 million behind. In casinos that
cater to high rollers, baccarat has long been the game of the "whales" -- the
highest of the high rollers. The full-scale version is played in a separate,
roped-off area at a table for 14 players, run by three dealers -- none of whom
actually deals the cards out of the shoe holding the eight decks. A ceremonial
passing of the shoe allows players in turn to slide out the cards. In the
related game of chemin de fer, the player holding the shoe banks the bets of the
other players, but that's not common in the United States. In the 1980s, casinos
began to reach out to the average customer with mini-baccarat, played on a
seven-player, blackjack-sized table on the casino floor with the rest of the
table games. It moves faster than baccarat, the shoe-passing ceremony has been
eliminated, and the dealer deals all cards, but the rules are the same. Now
anyone with $10 for a minimum bet, even $5 in some casinos, can play the game of
the whales.
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