Each hand is dealt two cards face down from the shoe. The player with the highest wager turns over the player's hand. The banker does the same for his cards and the banker announces the winner. The scoring is fairly unusual. To get the total, you add the two cards, then subtract 10 if the total is 10 or more.
Face cards count as zero.
So a hand that consists of a 5 and a queen would be just 5. In the event of a tie hand, those who bet on the tie win and the hand is replayed. Mini-baccarat is played much the same way, except that the dealer controls the shoe and there is a maximum of seven or eight players. The hypnotic movement of the ball as it skitters backwards along the lip of the spinning wheel is just part of the package that helps make roulette the most beguiling of casino table games. Legend has it that 17th-Century mathematician Pascal invented the game while he was trying to create a perpetual motion machine.