Baccarat Tips & Strategies

The goal of this page is to provide a simple one-page tip sheet with some strategies and advice for new baccarat players who are just learning how to play. It's not a long article, and it's not a detailed article-it's just a summary of some of the most important and salient points someone needs to know about baccarat and/or mini-baccarat before they start playing.

Baccarat is a guessing game.
There is no real strategy, because it's just a guessing game.
The only decision in baccarat is whether to bet on the player or the banker.

The house edge is 1.06% for bets on the banker, and 1.24% for player bets.
Don't bet on the tie. The house edge on this bet is over 14%.
Don't bother trying to spot a pattern. Patterns will appear and disappear because of standard deviation, but you will not be able to predict future occurrences based on past occurrences in baccarat.
You can't count cards in baccarat. Not realistically anyway.
Some baccarat games offer a 4% commission on the banker bet. This reduces the house edge to 0.6%, making it one of the best bets in the casino, or at least one of the bets with the lowest house edge.
Baccarat and mini-baccarat have the same rules. The difference is just the limits you're playing for.
Mini-baccarat tables are a good place to get started.

If you understand that baccarat is more or less a coin toss guessing game, then it's an excellent casino game to play. There's a certain panache involved at the baccarat table that makes it very entertaining, and the house edge is very low compared to a lot of casino games.

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Baccarat and Mini-baccarat Tips, Strategies, & Advice