GAME PLAY
Baccarat Live
Experience the real thrill of Baccarat live from our casino—anytime, anywhere!
VistaBet offers live Baccarat through a web video stream and interactive interface. A friendly, professional dealer
filmed in our first-class casino production studio, greets our players and wishes them good luck. The live action and
ability to chat enhance the excitement.
Baccarat is one of the oldest and most popular casino games. It elicits an air of affluence and mystique, but its rules
are quite simple. Our live Baccarat game is played with eight 52-card decks that are shuffled by the dealers at regular
intervals.
Place Your Bets, Please
Before each hand, the player must place his/her bet(s) within
the allotted time. A timer on the left side of the game screen
indicates the number of betting seconds that remain. The
minimum and maximum bets permitted in the game for each
betting alternative are also listed in the left-hand margin.
(These betting limits are configurable from casino to casino
and table to table.)
The Deal
The live dealer is responsible for dealing the cards in every
hand. The dealer will initially deal two face-up cards to each the
Player and the Banker. The values of these two hands will be
compared, after which a third card may be dealt to the Player,
the Banker or both.
Hand Values in Baccarat
In Baccarat, an ace is worth 1, all face cards and tens are worth
0, and other cards (2-9) are worth their face values. If the cards
in a hand add up to 10 or more, 10 is subtracted from the hand
to give its final Baccarat point value. This means that 9 is the
highest achievable value in Baccarat, and the hand closest to
9 wins. The best hand is thus a two card hand worth 9, called a
natural. The second-best hand is a natural 8.
Third Card Rules
The dealer will sometimes deal a third card to the Player, the
Banker or both depending on their respective two-card hands.
If either the Player or the Banker has a natural 8 or 9, neither
receives a third card. This rule overrides any other third card
rule
Other Third Card Rules
• If the Player’s hand is 5 or less, the Player receives a third
card (i.e. hits). Otherwise, the Player stands.
• If the Player stands and the Banker’s hand is 5 or less, the
Banker hits.
• If the Player hits, the value of the Player’s third card and the
value of the Banker’s two-card hand determines if the Banker
hits as indicated in the chart below (H=hits, S=stands):
Player’s Third Card
Banker’s
Score
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
7
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
6
S
S
S
S
S
S
H
H
S
S
5
S
S
S
S
H
H
H
H
S
S
4
S
S
H
H
H
H
H
H
S
S
3
H
H
H
H
H
H
H
H
S
H
2
H
H
H
H
H
H
H
H
H
H
1
H
H
H
H
H
H
H
H
H
H
0
H
H
H
H
H
H
H
H
H
H
The player wins the round if his bet was placed on the hand
closest to 9. In the event of a tie, all bets placed on the Player
and Banker are returned in a “push”.
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GAME PLAY
Baccarat Live
Choose Your View of the Game
When the player opens the game in the “Virtual View”, the
designated betting area appears directly on the live stream
video image of the game table. Alternatively, the player can
switch to “Action View” if he prefers to interact with a larger,
more defined graphical depiction of the game table that
displays all bets.
It is possible to give the Baccarat player additional betting
opportunities in each round:
• A bet on the Player getting a pair
• A bet on the Banker getting a pair
• A bet on both the Player and Banker getting a pair (2-way)
• A bet on both the Player and Banker getting a pair plus a bet
on a tie game (3-way)
Many players find the potential payout of 11 to 1 on pair bets
irresistibly inviting.
Scorecards
Many players appreciate the ability to view the results of past
Baccarat rounds to look for patterns in an effort to devise a
personal strategy of making better predictions in future rounds.
For this purpose, it is possible to give the player access to
traditional Macau-style scorecards that systematically display
the results of previous rounds.
Scorecards have traditional names such as the “Big Eye Boy
Road”, the “Small Road” and the “Cockroach Road”. The player
simply clicks on the appropriate tab to open the desired scorecard.
GAME FACTS
Payout Odds
• A winning bet on the Banker pays 1 to 1 minus a 5% commission
to the House.
• A winning bet on the Player pays 1 to 1.
• A winning bet on a Tie pays 8 to 1.
Optional Bets:
• A winning bet on a Player pair pays 11 to 1.
• A winning bet on a Banker pair pays 11 to 1.
Payout Percentage
98.94%
Special Features
• A professional dealer deals each round and interacts with players
live.
• Players can send real-time messages to the dealer (or pit boss)
through the chat box and receive verbal replies.
• Balance, table limits, remaining betting time and other important
information is displayed on screen.
• The player can choose between two alternate views of the game
and can be given the ability to view various scorecards. The player
can also be given the option to place a potentially lucrative bet on
a Player pair and/or a Banker pair in each round.
• The player can control the quality of the video and enlarge the
game window to full screen with the help of the handy buttons
along the top of the game screen.
• A convenient “Repeat” button allows the player to automatically
place the same bet as in the preceding round.
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