Baccarat - as described by Seymour in 1897

 

This game is known in England as "Baccarat Basque" or just "Baccarat" and in France as "Baccarat a deluxe tableaux" - Baccarat with two tables. It isn't usually played in the USA. A definitive version of the rules was written in a "Hoyle" by Richard Seymour published in 1897.

Players usually bid to decide who is going to provide the bank and the bank is held for the duration of the cards in the shoe or until the banker chooses to relinquish it (whether due to bankruptcy or otherwise). As in other banking games, for each deal, a player plays head-to-head against the banker. To start, the banker places the amount to be played for on the table and each player in turn has the right to say 'Bacon', and thus challenge the banker to play for everything he has staked in one go. If this happens, the duel happens directly and no other player is involved for that deal.

Otherwise, normal play occurs. The non-banking players are split into two halves - one half being the players to the right of the banker and the others those to the left. For each deal a representative is chosen from each half to play against the banker. To begin with these are the players either side of the banker but when a player loses, the privilege passes to the next player along and so on until all on that side of the table have played and the representative duties return to the player next to the banker again. So in effect, for each deal the banker plays two head-to-head games against the two half-table representatives.

The banker puts down the initial stake and then players take turns to place down a stake of any amount until the total for their half of the table equals the banker's stake. The banker then deals two cards to himself, and to the two representatives. If any of the banker or players have a total of 8 or 9, it must be shown at once and the two other hands are also then shown and bets are paid accordingly.카지노사이트