Baccarat lessons

The lessons in this track

1. 6.1Counting a baccarat hand, and where you betA baccarat hand is worth only the last digit of its cards, and the rules, not the players, decide every third card. Here is how to count a hand, where the bet goes and how the deal runs.About 17 minutes
2. 6.2The baccarat chart: when the Banker drawsOnce the Player hand has drawn a third card, the Banker hand’s draw comes off a chart of six rows. Here is the chart, row by row, and how to read the chart before the dealer acts.About 16 minutes
3. 6.3At the baccarat table: bets, commission, paceWhat the Player, Banker and tie bets pay, how the commission on the Banker bet is collected, who deals, where you can sit, and what an hour of hands costs.About 18 minutes
4. 6.4Commission and no-commission tablesThe commission makes the Banker bet look dear, and it is still the cheapest of the three bets. Here is what each bet costs, how the commission is worked out, and where a no-commission table puts the price back.About 19 minutes
5. 6.5Dragon 7, Panda 8 and pairsThe small circles beside the main bets pay many times the bet, on hands that come seldom. Here is the hand each one is paid on, what a paid bet hands back, and what an hour of each costs.About 20 minutes
6. 6.6The squeeze: who may touch the cardsAt a mini-baccarat table the dealer handles every card; at a squeeze table the largest bets on Player and Banker hold the cards. Here is who gets the cards, what the holders may do, and what a slower table changes.About 17 minutes
7. 6.7Roads, patterns and what they recordThe board beside a baccarat table records hands that have already been played. Here is how the Bead Plate and the Big Road are drawn, and why a run on them leaves the next hand where it was.About 21 minutes

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