Baccarat by Stakester Originals

How to play

Bet on the Player hand, the Banker hand or a Tie, in any combination, then deal. Each side gets two cards and, where the standard third-card rule calls for it, a third. The hand closest to nine wins; tens and face cards count as zero, and only the last digit of a total counts.

Rules at a glance

• Player pays 1:1, Banker pays 0.95:1 (a 5 percent commission), Tie pays 8:1.
• On a tie the Player and Banker bets are returned.
• The standard third-card rule decides when each side draws.
• All six cards are drawn before the stake, so nothing changes after you bet.

Odds and payouts

At these payouts the Banker bet returns 98.9 percent, the Player bet 98.8 percent and the Tie 85.9 percent. Banker is the best bet on the table even after commission, because the drawing rules favour it.

Provably fair

Six draws fix the round: the Player's cards are draws one to three and the Banker's draws four to six, each a card from a full 52-card deck computed from the server seed, your client seed and the draw's nonce. The server seed is committed by its hash before you stake and revealed when the round closes, so you can recompute the result and check that the hash matches. The Fairness panel inside the game shows the seeds and the formula. In the free demo the server seed is generated in your own browser, so the check is a demonstration rather than independent proof; at a casino the game service holds the seed.

Playing it well

Bet Banker. The Tie's 8:1 looks tempting but gives up 14 percent per hand. Baccarat is a low-decision game, so the discipline is in stake size and session length, not in the betting.