Patent ID: 7621533

Claim:
A method of playing a baccarat game, comprising: a dealing step, wherein a hand of physical playing cards is dealt face down from at least one standard deck of playing cards comprising 52 cards, to form at least one player hand and a banker hand, each of at least two cards; a player hand turning step, wherein the at least two cards of said at least one player hand are turned face up whereby customers at the game may view the player hand cards; a banker hand turning step, wherein the at least two cards of said at least one banker hand are turned face up whereby customers at the game may view the banker hand cards; an insurance offering step, wherein said customers are provided an opportunity to take insurance on the hand first turned face up if the sum of the value of said at least two cards of said hand is within a predefined range of hand total values that is based on whether the hand first turned up is the banker hand or is the player hand; and continuing play of said hand.