Atlassino Academy · Baccarat · Lesson 5 of 7
Dragon 7, Panda 8 and pairs
The 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.
An example $5 goes into the Dragon 7 circle at every hand for an hour. What does that hour cost?
The short answer
About $27.40 on average, on eight decks and at 72 hands an hour. The same $5 on the Banker bet costs about $3.81 over the same hour. Dragon 7 is paid 40 to 1 when the Banker hand finishes ahead with three cards totalling 7, and that hand comes too seldom for 40 to 1 to cover it; Panda 8 and the pair bet cost more still. The $5 is only an example bet: not a table minimum, and not a suggested bet.
The Banker bet is there for scale: it is a main bet, and lesson 6.3 works its hour out.
Mayaformer floor supervisor · manners, money and breaks
Some baccarat tables carry small circles beside the three main ones, with names like Dragon 7 and Panda 8. Each small circle pays many times the bet, on a hand that comes seldom, and each small circle is a second bet on every hand you put a chip in it.
Before a chip goes into one, know three things about the circle: the hand it is paid on, what a paid bet hands back, and what the circle costs you over an hour.
Dragon 7 and Panda 8: a three-card 7 or 8 that finishes ahead
A side circle is a bet of its own, settled beside the main bets on the same hand. Dragon 7 and Panda 8 are two such circles, and both are bets on how a hand finishes.
One seat, drawn as a plan of our own; a real table carries only the side circles its rules offer.
Dragon 7 is paid when the Banker hand finishes ahead of the Player hand with three cards totalling 7. Panda 8 is paid when the Player hand finishes ahead of the Banker hand with three cards totalling 8. On every other hand both bets are lost.
Each half of the condition does work. A 7 made of two cards, a three-card 7 that only ties, a three-card 7 in the wrong hand and an 8 made of two cards all leave the side bets lost.
Under the rules for B.C. casinos the same two bets are called Gold 7 and Jade 8, offered at Ruyi tables at the same rates.
| Rules | The Banker hand ahead with three cards totalling 7 | The Player hand ahead with three cards totalling 8 |
|---|---|---|
| Quebec’s rule book | Dragon 7, paid 40 to 1 | Panda 8, paid 25 to 1 |
| The rules for B.C. casinos, at a Ruyi table | Gold 7, paid 40 to 1 | Jade 8, paid 25 to 1 |
Two names for each of the two hands, and one payout for each hand. At a Ruyi table the same three-card 7 also turns a Banker bet into a push; that rule belongs to the main bet, and it is lesson 6.4.
One room’s page agrees that the hand has to finish ahead; one player guide leaves that condition out, and this page goes by the rule books. One of Quebec’s casino pages prints no payout.
What a paid side bet hands back
Every payout of the three side circles is written “to 1”. A payout written “to 1” is paid in addition to the bet: Dragon 7 at 40 to 1 pays 40 times the whole bet, and the bet itself comes back beside the payout.
| Side bet | Paid at | The payout | Back to you, the bet included |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dragon 7 | 40 to 1 | $200 | $205 |
| Panda 8 | 25 to 1 | $125 | $130 |
| The pair bet | 11 to 1 | $55 | $60 |
Amounts are in Canadian dollars.
Leoformer dealer · rules and maths
If a sign ever writes a payout “for 1” instead, the bet is inside the figure, and the same number hands back one bet less. Read the small word in front of the 1.
One figure, two readings: lesson 1.8 sets them side by side.
The pair bet: the first two cards of one hand
The pair bet is paid 11 to 1 when the first two cards of a hand make a pair. Only the first two cards count: a third card that matches one of them comes too late.
A pair means two cards of the same rank. The word rank is printed on the card for electronic baccarat (IGT) in B.C. casinos; the guides for live tables give two jacks as their example. So a ten and a queen are not a pair, even though both count 0, and suit decides nothing: two jacks of different suits are a pair.
A pair bet names one hand, the Player hand or the Banker hand, and only that hand’s first two cards count. One guide says so in as many words, the bet is on “the side you have wagered on”; two other guides say “the Player or Banker” without saying more. Read as one bet on both hands at once, 11 to 1 would pay back more than the bet takes in; read as a bet on the one hand it names, the pair bet has a price like every other side circle.
What the table and the rules say about side bets
Side bets are paid at rates of their own, from even money up to 40 to 1 and more. Whether a side circle is on the table at all, and what the side circle needs beside it, depends on the table and on the rules the table plays by.
- The rules for B.C. casinosGold 7 and Jade 8 without a main betA Gold 7 or Jade 8 bet does not need a main bet beside it. Without a main bet, the side bet needs the table minimum; beside a main bet, the side bet has a minimum of its own.
- Quebec’s rule bookDragon 7 beside a main bet, or alone where the table allows itWhere the table says so, a Dragon 7 bet goes down with one or more main bets, or on its own if the table allows that too.
- One room’s guideMarked on the tableThe side bets a table offers are marked on the table, and the casino may ask for a standard baccarat bet as well.
- A player guideNot at every casinoNot every casino offers side bets at all, so the house rules come first.
Under the rules for B.C. casinos, a Ruyi table carries three side bets, and what they pay out in any one round is capped, for all players together. The caps are written bet by bet: one for the Gold 7 and Jade 8 bets, and one for Ruby 9.
| Side bet | Paid when | Paid at | Most paid out in one round, all players together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold 7 | the Banker hand finishes ahead with three cards totalling 7 | 40 to 1 | $50,000, for the Gold 7 and Jade 8 bets |
| Jade 8 | the Player hand finishes ahead with three cards totalling 8 | 25 to 1 | |
| Ruby 9 | one hand makes 9 with three cards; or both hands do | 10 to 1; 75 to 1 for both | $50,000, for the Ruby 9 bet |
Some circles carry a name, sometimes a condition, and no payout that we could read, so they have no price here.
- One room’s Ruyi tableGold and JadeBoth circles are named, with a note sending you to a paytable for the odds.
- The same room’s Stadium Gaming tables, electronicKoi 7, Frog 6 and Any PairEach player sits at a station of their own and bets by pressing the field marked BET HERE.
- Electronic baccarat (IGT) in B.C. casinosKirin, Phoenix and Lucky 6The conditions are printed; the payouts are not.
Koi 7 and Phoenix are paid on a Banker hand that finishes ahead with three cards totalling 7, and Kirin on a Player hand ahead with a three-card 8. A condition that reads like Dragon 7’s or Panda 8’s does not make the bet the same bet: the price lives in the payout, and the payout is the part that is missing.
What each side circle costs
A side circle pays many times the bet, and the hand it is paid on comes even more seldom than the payout allows for. A payout of 40 to 1 would cover the bet only if its hand came once in every 41 hands; the Dragon 7 hand comes about once in every 44.
| Side bet | Paid at | Paid about once in | To cover its payout, it would have to come once in | What the bet costs, as a share of every bet |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dragon 7 | 40 to 1 | 44 hands | 41 hands | 7.61% |
| Panda 8 | 25 to 1 | 29 hands | 26 hands | 10.19% |
| The pair bet, on one hand | 11 to 1 | 13 hands | 12 hands | 10.36% |
The gap between the two middle columns is the price; the last column says how much, as a share of every bet.
No Canadian document we could read prints how many hands an hour a baccarat table deals. The figure used here is the one in the Las Vegas Strip rating table: 72 hands an hour.
- One hand$0.38the average price of an example $5 on Dragon 7
- Hands in an hour72the figure in the Las Vegas Strip rating table
- One hour$27.40on average, on eight decks
Mayaformer floor supervisor · manners, money and breaks
Decide before the shoe starts whether the side circles are part of your evening at all, and how much money they get.
If you catch yourself reaching for a side circle after a hand that would have paid it, take that as the moment for a break. The next hand does not know what the last hand did, and a payout you missed is not money you are owed.
If it stops being fun
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Practice: settle the side circles
Level 1 deals a hand with an example $5 in the Dragon 7 circle and an example $5 in the Panda 8 circle, and asks which side circle is paid and what comes back. Level 2 puts an example $5 on the pair bet for one hand and asks what happens to that bet on the deal. Level 3 is not scored: it reads out what an hour of the side circles costs, at 72 hands an hour.
Nothing is bet here. Each hand is a set of cards chosen to show one thing, and the answer comes from settling the bets by the rules above. Whether the Banker hand draws a third card is the chart of lesson 6.2; here the cards are already on the felt.
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Level 1 · Dragon 7 and Panda 8
PLAYER
BANKER
- DRAGON 7$5
- PANDA 8$5
An example $5 sits in the Dragon 7 circle and an example $5 in the Panda 8 circle. What do the two side circles get on this hand?
- Dragon 7 is paid $200 and its $5 comes back; the $5 on Panda 8 is lost The Banker hand finishes ahead, 7 to 3, with three cards totalling 7: the Dragon 7 hand. At 40 to 1 the $5 on Dragon 7 is paid $200 and comes back beside the payout. The Player hand finishes behind, 3 to 7, and Panda 8 needs the Player hand ahead. So the $5 on Panda 8 is lost.
- Panda 8 is paid $125 and its $5 comes back; the $5 on Dragon 7 is lost The Player hand finishes behind, 3 to 7, and Panda 8 needs the Player hand ahead. The side circle paid on this hand is Dragon 7.
- Neither side circle is paid: both $5 bets are lost The Banker hand finishes ahead, 7 to 3, with three cards totalling 7: the Dragon 7 hand. That is exactly the hand Dragon 7 is paid on.
- Dragon 7 hands back $200 in all, its $5 included; the $5 on Panda 8 is lost That reads 40 to 1 as 40 for 1. At 40 to 1 the dealer pays $200 and the $5 comes back beside the payout; read as 40 for 1, the same figure would be $200 in all, the $5 included, only $195 over the bet.
Dragon 7 is paid 40 to 1 when the Banker hand finishes ahead with three cards totalling 7. Panda 8 is paid 25 to 1 when the Player hand finishes ahead with three cards totalling 8. On every other hand both side bets are lost, and a side bet that is paid comes back beside its payout.
Level 2 · The pair bet
PLAYER
BANKER
- PAIR ON PLAYER$5
An example $5 sits on the pair bet for the Player hand. What happens to the $5 on the pair bet?
- Paid $55, and the $5 comes back That takes two cards that count the same for a pair. The pair bet looks at the rank of the two cards, not at what the two cards count towards the hand.
- $55 back in all, the $5 included Nothing is paid on this hand, at 11 to 1 or at any other rate: the Player hand’s first two cards are not a pair.
- Lost: the dealer takes the $5 The Player hand’s first two cards are a ten and a king. Both count 0 towards the hand, but a pair is two cards of the same rank, and a ten and a king are two different ranks.
The pair bet is a bet on one hand. The bet is paid 11 to 1 when that hand’s first two cards are the same rank, whatever their suits and whatever the hand finishes on, and the bet is lost otherwise.
Level 3 · The hour
72 HANDS IN AN HOUR
- BANKER$5
- DRAGON 7$5
- PANDA 8$5
- PAIR ON PLAYER$5
An example $5 on the Banker bet, and an example $5 in each of the three side circles, at every hand for an hour of 72 hands. What do the three side circles add to that hour, on average?
- About $27.40 That is Dragon 7 alone. Panda 8 and the pair bet are two more bets on every hand, each with a price of its own.
- About $101.38 The hours of Dragon 7, Panda 8 and the pair bet added together. The Banker bet’s own hour, about $3.81, comes in addition to that.
- Nothing on average: now and then one of the side circles is paid The payouts are already counted inside the price. Each side circle is paid on few enough hands that the circle costs its price on average, on every hand.
- About $3.81 That is the Banker bet’s own hour. The three side circles add three hours of their own to the Banker bet’s hour.
The price of one bet is an average over every way the cards can fall, and an hour is that price times the hands in it. The payouts are already inside the price.
Every hand in the practice run is worked out the same way: the cards on the felt are played out by the drawing rules, the side bets are settled by the rules above, and the answer comes out of that, not out of anybody’s memory.
How the practice run works
Where the hands come from. Every hand is four to six cards dealt in the order Player, Banker, Player, Banker and played out by our baccarat engine by the drawing rules, and every side bet on the felt is settled by the engine’s settling rules: the answer is worked out when the page is built, never written in by hand. The wrong answers are named mistakes: a 7 or an 8 made of two cards, a three-card total in the other hand, a hand that ties or finishes behind, a payout read “for 1” instead of “to 1”, a tie taken for a return of the side bets, two cards that count the same taken for a pair, a third card taken into the pair, and a pair in the other hand.
One strip, and no rounds. Every square on the strip is one hand of levels 1 and 2, and all of the squares are there from the start. Your first answer fills the square it belongs to; when the squares of one level are full, the next level begins by itself, with no button in between. Level 3 has no squares: it is read through once, in order. Practising a hand you got wrong turns its cross into “fixed in practice” and does not change the count, because only first answers count.
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Check yourself
Mayaformer floor supervisor · manners, money and breaks
Five quick ones. Pick an answer, then check it. No timer, no points: just whether it stuck.
Back to the question we opened with. An example $5 in the Dragon 7 circle at every hand for an hour costs about $27.40 on average: the price of one bet times 72 hands, with every payout already counted inside that price.
Where to go next, and further reading
19+ (18+ in AB, MB, QC) · Play responsibly · the helplines are further up this page
Further reading
- How to play baccarat · BCLCB.C.’s plain-words page: who deals at a mini table, how the commission is taken, and the no-commission and squeeze tables.
- Game rules: Baccarat and EZ Baccarat · Loto-QuébecQuébec’s rules for both games on three pages, with the whole drawing chart written out as text.
- Baccarat variations and side wagers · OLG PlaySmartBig, midi and mini tables, the squeeze, and how no-commission games and side bets work.
- Baccarat · GameSense by AGLCAlberta’s page with the Banker drawing table and what happens when the Player hand stands.
- How to play baccarat (electronic baccarat (IGT) in B.C. casinos) · BCLCThe card for the electronic tables in B.C. casinos: the five roads and what each one records.
How it’s worked out
Rules, numbers, pace, sources and hosts
Where this happens. Every table on this page is a live baccarat table in a room you can walk into, except the tables named as electronic: one room’s Stadium Gaming tables, and electronic baccarat (IGT) in B.C. casinos.
Rules. Dragon 7 and Panda 8, their hands and their payouts, come from Quebec’s rule book. Gold 7, Jade 8, Ruby 9, the side-bet minimums and the payout caps come from the rules published for B.C. casinos: a set of rules for a province’s casinos rather than a report of what any one room does. Where the documents differ or leave something out, the difference is named. One player guide pays Dragon 7 and Panda 8 on the three-card total without saying the hand has to finish ahead; the rule books say it must, and this page goes by the rule books. One of Quebec’s casino pages gives the two hands without payouts, so the payouts come from the rule book. For the pair bet, one guide says the bet is on the side you have wagered on, and two others say the Player or Banker hand without saying which. The word rank is printed only on the card for electronic baccarat (IGT) in B.C. casinos, and the guides for live tables give two jacks as their example.
Our readings. Two readings on this page are ours. The pair bet is read as a bet on one hand: paid 11 to 1 whenever either hand made a pair, the bet would pay back more than it takes in. And two cards of different ranks are read as no pair, even when both count the same, because a pair is two cards of the same rank.
Numbers. Every price and every “once in” figure on this page is worked out by our baccarat engine over every way the cards can fall from a shoe of eight decks, and every payout comes from the sentence of the rules that prints it. The rules for B.C. casinos allow six to eight decks, and the prices here use eight. With six decks the pair bet costs 11.25% of every bet; Dragon 7 and Panda 8 barely move. Our checks recompute each figure from the engine rather than reading it back from this page. The felt plan is our own drawing, not a copy of any one table’s layout.
Pace. No Canadian document we could read prints how many hands an hour a baccarat table deals. The figure here is the one our Price of an hour tool uses and names: 72 hands an hour in the Las Vegas Strip rating table. It carries no source button on this page. Your table may be faster or slower, and an hour costs whatever the hands you actually play cost.
What is deliberately absent. Counting a hand and the Player hand’s rule are lesson 6.1, and the chart the Banker hand draws by is lesson 6.2, so whether a hand reaches a three-card 7 is taken here as dealt. What the main bets pay, the commission and the hour of a main bet are lesson 6.3; the price of each main bet, the push a Banker bet takes on a three-card 7 at a no-commission table, and the no-commission tables themselves are lesson 6.4; the squeeze is lesson 6.6; the scoreboard and its roads are lesson 6.7. Ruby 9 appears with its payouts only: this page does not work out its price. The circles without a payout we could read have no price here.
Sources. Every rule and every claim on this page carries a button with the sentence it rests on, the publisher who wrote that sentence and the date we read it.
Hosts. Maya and Leo are illustrated characters. Their backstories, a former floor supervisor and a former dealer, are written for the course: neither is a real person, and neither speaks for any casino. The rules and numbers on this page come from the sources it cites, not from their experience.
No promise. Baccarat is played against the house, and Dragon 7, Panda 8 and the pair bet each cost more for every bet than the Banker bet or the Player bet does. Knowing the hand a circle is paid on and what the circle costs lets you decide before the shoe starts; nothing on this page makes a side bet cheaper, and nothing here says how an evening at the table would end.
Dragon 7 and Panda 8 in Quebec’s rule book
A Dragon 7™ side bet wins if the banker’s hand is higher than the player’s hand and totals seven (7) with three cards. Otherwise, it loses. A winning Dragon 7™ side bet is paid 40 to 1.
A Panda 8™ side bet wins if the player’s hand is higher than the banker’s hand and totals eight (8) with three cards. Otherwise, it loses. A winning Panda 8™ side bet is paid 25 to 1.
Gold 7 and Jade 8 under the rules for B.C. casinos
Players may place a wager on the Gold 7 bet, which pays 40 to 1 when the three card winning total of 7 occurs in the Banker hand
Players may place a wager on the Jade 8 bet, which pays 25 to 1 when the three card winning total of 8 occurs in the Player hand
Section 7.0 Ruyi Baccarat, 1.1.1 to 3.2.1 and 7.2 to 7.2.2
A Gold 7 side bet pays out at 40 to 1.
Winning Jade 8 side bets pay out at 25 to 1.
Side bets without a main bet under the rules for B.C. casinos
Players are not required to place a regular Baccarat wager in order to play the Gold 7 or the Jade 8 wager.
If the basic game is not wagered on, the table minimum bet is required for either of the Gold 7 or Jade 8 wagers;
If the Player is also wagering on the basic game, the minimum bet for the Gold 7 or Jade 8 wager is $1.
Section 7.0 Ruyi Baccarat, 1.1.1 to 3.2.1 and 7.2 to 7.2.2
Dragon 7 with or without a main bet in Quebec’s rule book
If indicated at the table, players may place a Dragon 7™ side bet in addition to one or more initial bets or, if allowed at the table, without making an initial bet.
Side bets marked on the table
Side wagers offered on Baccarat will be identified on the table.
The casino may require you to also make a standard Baccarat Wager.
Not every casino offers side bets
Not all casinos offer side wagers. Be sure to check the house rules before you play.
OLG PlaySmart · Baccarat — variations and side wagers · read
Ruby 9 under the rules for B.C. casinos
Ruby 9 is a side bet offered on Ruyi Baccarat.
Players may place a wager on the Ruby 9 bet which wins if the Banker and/or Player hand is a three-card total of 9.
A Banker hand or Player hand consisting of a three-card total of 9 pays 10 – 1
A Banker hand and Player hand both consisting of a three-card total of 9 pays 75 – 1.
Section 8.0 Ruyi Baccarat — Ruby 9 Side Bet, 1.1 to 7.2.1
Gold and Jade at one room’s Ruyi table
Gold* - bonus wager wins if the Banker’s hand wins with a three-card total of 7 points
Jade* - bonus wager wins if the Player’s hand wins with a three-card total of 8 points
* See paytable for odds
Club Regent Casino · Gaming · read
Side bets at one room’s electronic Stadium Gaming tables
Electronic Table Games
Stadium Gaming is the evolution of electronic table games, offering players the security and comfort of their own station.
A player can place bets by choosing the chip with the desired value and then press the field on the Baccarat table (marked “BET HERE”) or by dragging the chip to the table.
A Koi 7 bet wins if the Banker hand wins with a three-card total of 7.
A Frog 6 bet wins if the Player hand wins with a three-card total of 6.
If both hands draw a natural and the result is a Tie, the bonus bet is pushed.
The Any Pair side bet can be placed in the Player, Banker, or both positions.
Club Regent Casino · Gaming · read
Side bets on electronic baccarat (IGT) in B.C. casinos
Kirin Bet: Awarded when the player wins with a three-card 8.
Phoenix Bet: Awarded when the Banker wins with a three-card 7.
Lucky 6 Bet: Awarded if the Banker hand wins with a 6.
Payouts increase if Banker hand wins with a three-card 6.
BCLC · Casinos BC — How to play baccarat (electronic baccarat (IGT) in B.C. casinos) · read
Dragon 7 and Panda 8 in Quebec’s rule book
A Dragon 7™ side bet wins if the banker’s hand is higher than the player’s hand and totals seven (7) with three cards. Otherwise, it loses. A winning Dragon 7™ side bet is paid 40 to 1.
A Panda 8™ side bet wins if the player’s hand is higher than the banker’s hand and totals eight (8) with three cards. Otherwise, it loses. A winning Panda 8™ side bet is paid 25 to 1.
The same rank, on the card for electronic baccarat (IGT) in B.C. casinos
Player Pair/Banker Pair: Awarded when the first two player or banker cards are of the same rank.
BCLC · Casinos BC — How to play baccarat (electronic baccarat (IGT) in B.C. casinos) · read
Dragon 7 and Panda 8 in Quebec’s rule book
A Dragon 7™ side bet wins if the banker’s hand is higher than the player’s hand and totals seven (7) with three cards. Otherwise, it loses. A winning Dragon 7™ side bet is paid 40 to 1.
A Panda 8™ side bet wins if the player’s hand is higher than the banker’s hand and totals eight (8) with three cards. Otherwise, it loses. A winning Panda 8™ side bet is paid 25 to 1.
The pair bet on the side you have wagered on
The wager wins 11 to 1 if the first 2 cards for the side you have wagered on are identical pairs (e.g. Jack/Jack).
Dragon 7 and Panda 8 in Quebec’s rule book
A Dragon 7™ side bet wins if the banker’s hand is higher than the player’s hand and totals seven (7) with three cards. Otherwise, it loses. A winning Dragon 7™ side bet is paid 40 to 1.
A Panda 8™ side bet wins if the player’s hand is higher than the banker’s hand and totals eight (8) with three cards. Otherwise, it loses. A winning Panda 8™ side bet is paid 25 to 1.
Dragon 7 and Panda 8 on one room’s page
DRAGON 7 bonus – Pays 40 to 1 if the BANKER wins with a three-card total of 7 that beats the PLAYER hand.
PANDA 8 bonus – Pays 25 to 1 if the PLAYER wins with a three-card total of 8 that beats the BANKER hand.
Dragon 7 and Panda 8 in one player guide
if the banker’s hand ends up being a three-card hand totaling 7 (as per Baccarat’s standard rules), then the Dragon 7 side bet wins, paying 40 to 1.
if the player’s hand ends up being a three-card hand totaling 8 (as per Baccarat’s standard rules), then the Panda 8 side bet wins, paying 25 to 1.
OLG PlaySmart · Baccarat — variations and side wagers · read
Dragon 7 and Panda 8 on a casino page in Quebec
A Dragon 7™ side bet wins if the Banker hand wins with a total of seven obtained with three cards.
A Panda 8™ side bet wins if the Player hand wins with a total of eight obtained with three cards.
The pair bet and its payout
Plus, you can make a Pairs side bet on the possibility that the first two cards dealt to either the Player or Banker hands are a pair. If you win, the payout is 11 to 1.
The wager wins 11 to 1 if the first 2 cards for the side you have wagered on are identical pairs (e.g. Jack/Jack).
This wager wins 11 to 1 if the first two cards for the Player or Banker are an identical pair, for example, two Jacks.
OLG PlaySmart · Baccarat — variations and side wagers · read
The same rank, on the card for electronic baccarat (IGT) in B.C. casinos
Player Pair/Banker Pair: Awarded when the first two player or banker cards are of the same rank.
BCLC · Casinos BC — How to play baccarat (electronic baccarat (IGT) in B.C. casinos) · read
Two jacks as the example
The wager wins 11 to 1 if the first 2 cards for the side you have wagered on are identical pairs (e.g. Jack/Jack).
This wager wins 11 to 1 if the first two cards for the Player or Banker are an identical pair, for example, two Jacks.
OLG PlaySmart · Baccarat — variations and side wagers · read
The pair bet on the side you have wagered on
The wager wins 11 to 1 if the first 2 cards for the side you have wagered on are identical pairs (e.g. Jack/Jack).
The pair bet on the Player or Banker hand
Plus, you can make a Pairs side bet on the possibility that the first two cards dealt to either the Player or Banker hands are a pair. If you win, the payout is 11 to 1.
This wager wins 11 to 1 if the first two cards for the Player or Banker are an identical pair, for example, two Jacks.
OLG PlaySmart · Baccarat — variations and side wagers · read
The range of side-bet payouts
Side wagers offer payouts from 1 to 1, 25 to 1, 40 to 1 or greater.
GameSense by AGLC · Baccarat · read
The payout caps under the rules for B.C. casinos
The combined maximum total payout on the Gold 7 or Jade 8 wagers during any one round of play shall be an aggregate amount of $50,000.
Each Player’s “real win” divided by the total “real win” determines the portion of the maximum aggregate amount that the Player is entitled to.
The basic game is not affected by the aggregate rule.
Section 7.0 Ruyi Baccarat, 1.1.1 to 3.2.1 and 7.2 to 7.2.2
The combined maximum total payout on the Ruby 9 wager during any one round of play shall be an aggregate amount of $50,000.
Each Player’s “real win” divided by the total “real win” determines the portion of the maximum aggregate amount to which the Player is entitled.
Section 8.0 Ruyi Baccarat — Ruby 9 Side Bet, 1.1 to 7.2.1
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