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Baccarat Rules
Player's Hand
Having
0-1-2-3-4-5 Must draw a third card
6-7 Must stand
8-9 Natural. Banker cannot draw.
Banker's Hand
Having Draws Does Not Draw
When giving player When giving Player
3rd card of 3rd card of
3 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10 8
4 2-3-4-5-6-7 1-8-9-10
5 4-5-6-7 1-2-3-8-9-10
6 6-7 1-2-3-4-5-8-9-10
7
Must stand.
8-9 Natural. Player cannot draw.
Note: If the player takes no third card, the banker must stand on 6. No
one draws against a
natural 8 or 9.
BIG SIX
Big Six is basically roulette meets Wheel of Fortune. There's a wheel with 56 posi-
tions, 54 of which are marked $1 through $20, and the other two are jokers,
which pay 40 to 1. You pick a number and if it lands on that denomination, those
are the odds it pays. So if you picked $20, it pays 20 to 1. If you picked $12, it
pays 12 to 1, and so on.
BINGO
The skills you learned in elementary school classrooms and parish halls can now
be put to use in exchange for cold, hard cash. The basic concept is as simple today
as it was when you learned it, but with the bonuses the different rooms throw in
and the different types of shapes that can qualify as “Bingo,” this is a new world
for those who have never played in a casino setting. And in Las Vegas, the game
is taken very, very seriously (there's even a monthly newsletter devoted to Bingo
called the
Bingo Bugle
).
Buy as many Bingo cards as you want to play. You'll find that most rooms have
a minimum and a maximum, and you'll usually have to play between three and six
