Baccarat Basics
Online Baccarat game is perhaps the simplest type of all the baccarat games. Indeed, how easy it can be: you place a bet and the casino does everything for you - counts hand total, decides on whether to take a third card or not and pays out the wins.
The game is played between a player (or up to 14 players in offline casinos) and a dealer (who represents the casino) and the aim of the game is to predict which hand would win the game - the player hand or the dealer hand or will there be a tie, by placing a bet in a corresponding circle. The hand with a value closest to 9 wins.
However, let's take a closer look at how the game is played in order to make sure we know everything a player should know before he decides to play even free baccarat online.
Basic Baccarat Information
The Value of Cards
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All small cards 2-9 are valued as numbered. 3 stands for three points,
9 - nine etc. |
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All face cards and tens have the value of 0 (zero). |
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Aces are counted as 1. |
Baccarat Hands
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Natural
A hand of two cards that totals 8 or 9. This hand is an automatic win and no cards are dealt more. The highest Natural (9) can be reached with hands 4+5; 10+9; A+8. |
How to Count Hands
The sum of the hand is calculated by adding up the value of the cards, the tens digit being ignored as the total cannot be higher than 9. This means that if a hand's total is 13, the ten is dropped making the total = 3.
No one can bust in Baccarat as the highest possible hand is 9 and all the hands above nine drop tens.
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= 8 |
Such hands are the easiest to calculate as they do not exceed 9. |
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= 4 |
As Queens, 10's, Jacks and Kings equal 0, this hand totals 4. |
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= 7 |
Ace counts as 1, therefore this hand totals 7. |
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= 1 |
Ace counts as 1, therefore this hand totals 1. |
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= 4 |
As 8+6=14, which is higher than 9, the ten is dropped, making the hand total 4. |
Baccarat Table
Take a close look at the baccarat table and learn how to play the game both online and in land casinos.
How is Baccarat Played?
Our detailed rules and visual instructions will help you learn all the baccarat rules and play without any hesitation.
