Baccarat is the most famous card game that is actually found in the casinos all over the world, with own playing area in casinos. The baccarat as the casino game online is also famous at many online casinos sites. Game is actually played similarly both online & brick n mortar casinos. It is generally played by 2 persons, and the casino customers will bet on 3 options: "Banker", "Player", and "Tie" that is checked by the croupier.

Objective of Baccarat

Winner of the single deal is been determined by values of two players' hands. And to win, hand value should be close to nine. In case, you have value of nine, then only option is to win or else tie. The hand value is obtained just by adding values of all cards in the hand modulo ten (used operator for modulo is %). It means that after adding values, result is been divided by ten and then remainder is the result. For instance, 8+ 6=14, & 14 % 10=4 (we divide 14 by ten, answer is 1 with the remainder of four). This means that tens digit is been dropped, leaving just ones digit. Thus, highest value that is obtained is nine, and lowest is 0 that is termed as the "baccarat". Oddly enough, casino baccarat game is actually named after worst value of the hand.

Playing Baccarat

Here is most common method on how you can play this game. Cards two to nine have the values according to the numbers. The cards ten and face cards are all worth 0, whereas the Ace card is totally equivalent to one. Hand will just have 2 or 3 cards. For instance, hand consisting of six and Ace is equivalent to seven. The hand with three, nine, and five has value of 7.