-
Baccarat
was
invented
in
Italy
by
gambler
Felix
Falguiere
in
the
middle-ages.
-
The
house
edge
on
baccarat's
'banker'
bet
for
a
6
or
8
deck
shoe
is
1.06%,
making
it
a
great
value
bet.
-
Upward
of
70%
of
visiting
high
rollers
to
the
Vegas
gaming
tables
are
Asian,
mostly
industrialists
or
bankers.
-
High
rollers'
game
of
choice
in
Vegas
is
baccarat,
where
limits
can
hit
$100,000
a
hand.
-
On
the
first
night
Baccarat
was
played
in
Las
Vegas,
the
Sands
lost
$250,000
on
their
Baccarat
tables.
-
The
term
baccarat
is
supposed
to
mean
“nothing”
and
is
applied
to
hands
whose
point
total
ends
with
a
cipher.
-
As
Gina,
Hope
from
the
soap
opera
"Days
of
Our
Lives",
was
an
expert
at
playing
Baccarat.
-
Between
October
and
November
1997,
Melbourne's
Crown
Casino
lost
$55
million
to
high-roller
baccarat
players
-
Multi-player
baccarat
was
the
best
returning
game
for
2002
at
The Sands
online
casino
(98.5%).
-
Chemin
de
fer
was
first
played
in
America
at
the
racetrack
at
Saratoga
and
the
ritzy
Palm
Beach
resort
in
1911.
