Baccarat Standards
Baccarat chemin de fer is bet on with eight decks of cards in a dealer’s shoe. Cards under 10 are counted at face value while 10, J, Q, K are zero, and A is 1. Bets are made on the ‘bank’, the ‘player’, or on a tie (these aren’t really people; they just represent the 2 hands that are dealt).
Two cards are dealt to both the ‘house’ and ‘player’. The score for every hand is the sum of the cards, although the 1st digit is discarded. For example, a hand of five and six has a score of 1 (5 plus 6 equals 11; drop the 1st ‘one’).
A additional card will be given out based on the rules below:
- If the player or bank gets a score of 8 or nine, the two players stay.
- If the player has 5 or lower, she hits. Players holds otherwise.
- If the player stays, the banker takes a card on a total lower than five. If the gambler hits, a chart is used to see if the house holds or takes a card.
Baccarat Odds
The greater of the two hands wins. Winning bets on the banker pay out 19:20 (equal money less a 5% rake. The Rake is recorded and paid off when you depart the game so ensure you have funds left before you quit). Winning bets on the gambler pays out at one to one. Winning bets for a tie typically pays eight to one but sometimes nine to one. (This is a poor bet as ties happen less than one in every 10 hands. Be cautious of putting money on a tie. However odds are astonishingly greater for 9 to 1 vs. 8:1)
Wagered on properly baccarat provides pretty decent odds, apart from the tie bet of course.
Baccarat Strategy
As with all games baccarat chemin de fer has a few accepted misunderstandings. One of which is close to a absurdity in roulette. The past isn’t an indicator of future events. Keeping score of previous results at a table is a poor use of paper and an insult to the tree that was cut down for our stationary needs.
The most familiar and almost certainly the most acknowledged method is the 1-3-2-6 technique. This technique is used to maximize profits and minimizing losses.
Start by placing one chip. If you succeed, add another to the two on the table for a total of three chips on the second bet. If you win you will retain 6 on the table, subtract 4 so you are left with 2 on the 3rd wager. If you succeed on the third wager, add 2 on the 4 on the table for a total of 6 on the fourth round.
Should you lose on the first bet, you take a loss of 1. A win on the first round followed by a hit on the 2nd brings about a loss of 2. Success on the initial two with a loss on the third gives you with a profit of 2. And wins on the initial three with a defeat on the fourth means you balance the books. Succeeding at all 4 bets gives you with 12, a profit of ten. This means you can squander the second round five times for every favorable streak of four bets and still break even.