Baccarat

Baccarat is thought of as an elite game favoured only by online casino high-rollers. Perhaps this comes from the land based casinos where the baccarat tables are often in a roped off corner or maybe James Bond regularly playing the bacarat game has something to do with it.

But you should remove this myth from your head. Baccarat has a very low house edge - that is to say odds in favour of the casino when playing the Banker wager - which means you have a better chance of winning more often. In addition, the baccarat game is pretty easy to learn and fairly easy to master. So even if you are not rich, why not give online baccarat a game or two?

If you are new to the game, why not start with a guide to the Baccarat Game (and should you be interested in how such a game came about, take a look at the Baccarat History page) followed by an introduction on How to Play Baccarat?

There are a few differences between online Baccarat and playing the game in a casino, so please also read the guide to Casino Baccarat and the variation of Mini Baccarat.

High Stakes Baccarat

Baccarat is a game that has always been associated with players who like to bet with high stakes (or high rollers as they are more commonly referred to) and there are a few good reasons for that. The first is that Baccarat used to be a game that was only available in the very best offline casinos, so the only people who used to have access to it were those who were in a position to visit such establishments. Indeed, if you had talked about Baccarat forty or fifty years ago, most people would have automatically associated the game with Monte Carlo and the work of Ian Fleming (James Bond played Baccarat in the novel Casino Royale).
High Stakes Baccarat

Online Baccarat Side Bets

Baccaratis a game which tends to be much the same from venue to venue. You won’t find a huge number of Baccarat games at any given casino as you might when playing games such as Blackjack or Roulette. But that doesn’t mean that the game is always identical by any means, and when you play the game of Baccarat at some online casinos you may notice that you have the opportunity to place side bets in addition to the usual bets on the Player, Banker and Tie.
Online Baccarat Side Bets

Online Baccarat Staking Plan

In a previous article on Baccarat Progressions we presented two fairly gentle staking progressions which players could use to try and generate an overall profit from a sequence of bets that ends with a winner. In this article we will give you another online baccarat staking plan, albeit with the usual caveat that staking plans in no way guarantee success and should be viewed merely as interesting ways of betting which could – with a bit of good luck – help you to walk away from the tables with a profit.
Online Baccarat Staking Plan

Online Baccarat Mistakes to Avoid

Online baccarat is quite a simple game that offers players a great alternative to other card games such as blackjack and casino-style poker, but the simplicity of the game doesn’t mean that players can’t make mistakes. In this brief article we will identify three of the most common mistakes that baccarat beginners make and at the same time we will provide whatever advice is necessary to help you avoid them. Making these mistakes will almost always cost you money, so invest a couple of minutes reading about the online baccarat mistakes to avoid and your baccarat bankroll will love you for it…
Online Baccarat Mistakes to Avoid

Casino Baccarat

You may have noticed that Casino baccarat is one of the hardest online casino games to actually spell. Indeed, it is perhaps harder to type than it is to play. The single most common misspelling is casino bacarat, with just the one 'c', followed by bacarrat with the one 'c' but two 't's. In some cases more casino players look for the wrongly spelt game than the correct one.