St. Paul daily globe., 1891-06-07

To play baccarat large oval table is
used. Generally. directly in front of
the dealer or banker. line is drawn
across the table dividing it into two
equal portions. Sometimes, from
radial point before the banker, lines are
drawn to the edge of the table. ANY
number of persons can play. They take
places to the right or left of the line,
the banker being in the middle. Ali
who are on his right make their bets OH
two cards, all those on his left on two
other cards. These two cards, to the
right and left players and to the bank
er, may be supplemented by third
card to each, as will be presently ex-
planned. Differing from yingt-et-un,
only one new card can be taken. In
France, baccarat is played with one
pack of fitty-two cards; in the United
States with three full packs. Whether
one or three packs are used, the chances
in the game remain the same. The
only advantage of using three is that
less time is lost in shuffilng.
Dealing.
The cards are shuffied and cut by as many
OF the players as may wish. The dealer may
at his option, say: Il will throw off threee or
four or six cards before opening the deal,''
and can place these face upward on the table
These are dead cards, and do not affect the
game in any way. When the dealer begins,
he gives first one card TO his left to the PLAYER
A. then one card to the player @, both being
the elder hands, then third card to himself
He gives second card to A, a second to Q,
and third TO himself. There are only six
cards given in this preliminary stage OF the
game. Before any cards have been given
bets are made. Ali the players on the left
make their bets on the cards TO be given to
A, as do the players on the right, who make
t,.nT- lrke -Tf- n s-e
this, the first round, it is on the left and P
on the right who get the next two cards: at
the second round, and o, and so on, until
finally the most distant players from the
dealer, and j, get their two cards. Then
the dealer, VINO is the banker, begins with A
ana Q again, next 10 b and p as before OK
planned.
Object of the Game.
Players and the banker try to get the
point of nine. If the right-hand play
ers have made seven. the left-hand
players five and the banker six, the
banker would pay all the wagers made
by the right-hand players, and would
win all the wagerS made by the left
hand players. The bankers six was
one point less than the players on the
right, who had seven, and one point
more than the players on the left, who
had five.
Row the cards Count.
Nine is the highest winning point Cards
count ace, one: deuce, two, aud so on. ac
cording to their spots. The tens and all the
picture cards count ten. But a ten has no
value i'll baccarat 1t neither increases nor
diminishes the value of the cards. For eX-
ample, supposing the first two cards given
are the ace and the trey. Then one and three
make four. If a ten were gwen as the third
card, one and three and ten would be four
teen; Deduct ten from it: the total would
still be four. The holder of the one, three
and ten has four. But the combination
of ten may entirely destroy the value
of the points found in the first two cards.
AS for example, the first two cards civ en- are
the one and the three. The total is four.
Another card is asked for. and a six-any six
say the six OF hearts. is received. This
counts as six; an ace is one, a trey is three
and g six is six-one and three and six make
ten. Ten has no value, and the player has
zero or nothing. This point of ten is called
baccarat.
player may receive two tens as the first
two cars, and get, If he asks for II, third
card, which is a ten. and he Will have thirty,
or three tens. which counts for nothing He
may, however, get nine, or twenty-nine in
all; then, the tens counting nothing, he has
the best point in the game, which is nine.
The leading hands are any combinations
in which two cards make nine, or ten being
deducted from them leaving nine. Thus
five and four are q natural nine, as are one
and eight, or two and seven. or three and six,
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and six, or a ten or picture card and nine.
Two mines being eighteen. deducting the ten
is good point, being eight.
This being understood, suppose the game
has been opened. The left-haud players
have made their bets before taking any cards,
and the right-hand players have done the
same thing; the banker accepting the bets,
cards are dealt, as before explained, one at
time: the left, the right, the banker. each
getting a first card then a second one.
The player A looks at his cards, and he
represents the interests of all the left. The
cards show king and deuce. They point
two. a must draw, for his point is seven
less than nine. He gets an eight. He has
twenty in count which is nothing.
@, on the other side to the right, has an
Ts draws card Il "a nine Ne
has then nineteen. Deducting the ten, he
has nine. which is the winning point. The
banker draws q card or not. as he pleases. He
may have five and two, which is seven.
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