3 Card Baccaratby The Art of Games

3 Card Baccarat is a game found in Asian casinos that differs from punto banco or regular baccarat in the table layout and way the cards are dealt. Rather than starting with two cards per hand both hands receive 3 cards on the deal. Scoring is the same as all 10 value cards are discounted and the remaining cards are counted at pip value. In this game the top hand is three face cards, other than that they are scored the same way as a baccarat hand by adding all values and dropping the first digit. For example 9/9/7 (25) would be counted as 5. The Tie bet in this game pays 25:1 rather than 8, 9, or 10:1 on different baccarat tables and a bet that the Dealer hand will contain three Face cards pays 95:1. One reason the Tie bet pay so much is that the hands not only have to tie, but also have the same number of face cards.

As the payout for The Art of Games 3 Faces bet is far superior to any we have seen we can't make a recommendation on that bet without deeper analysis, but we can tell you that the Tie bet has a house edge over 15%, and the banker bet is better than the player bet even after paying a 5% commission on that win.