Card games
Card games
Mini Baccarat
General description
Mini Baccarat is a card game, in which player have to collect nine points or a score as close as possible to nine. The score is obtained adding 2 (two) or 3 (three) cards from each of the two hands at play: the player or the banker.
Each player has the option to bet on one of the hands, THE PLAYER or THE BANKER, or on a tie, if he chooses to do so.
Card dealing duties are performed by the House, and players are limited to placing bets only. The whole game is conducted by the croupier and the players are instructed when to place their bets.
Required items
To play Midi Baccarat six 52-card decks are used, three of each color; it is also allowed to use decks of one color, as long as colors are alternated between tables. The back of the cards must have the same motif (design).
The score depends on the values assigned to each card, mostly equal to its face value, except the 10 and the face cards, which have no numerical value, and the ace, which counts as 1. When adding the values of two cards tens are not considered and, for the purpose of this game, only single digit values are counted.
For example:
7 + 5 = 12 is counted as “2”
9 + 8 = 17 is counted as “7”
6 + 4 = 10 is counted as “0”
A zero score is announced as “baccarat”, which is how this result is called in the game.
Players
To shuffle and begin the game a minimum of one player is required. In every table a maximum of 7 seated players can participate at each box.
