Play baccarat online and hone your poker skills at the same time. The rules of this popular casino game are pretty easy for anybody to learn. Basically, the baccarat game consists of two players that confront each other in a virtual poker game. It s usually played in rounds called “coups” where the players alternate who goes first or second.

One player starts by placing a blind bet of one dollar on the table. The other player goes to the board and deals out four cards, called “card faces” for a total of nine cards. These nine cards have a face value of one to ten with a “queen” facing either one or the other side of the table. The player that has the best combination of card values, i.e., the highest total wins the game. If there is a tie between players, then whoever has the higher total wins.

The betting rounds go as follows: First, the banker will place three bets, one for a face value, two for a hand value and one for a value between a king and a queen. Then, the dealer will place two bets of the same value against one player. This bet involves a second round of betting, followed by a final bet of the same value against the dealer’s final bet. The player that wins the first round of betting needs to win in the second round in order to win the game. In addition, a winning player in the first round has an edge in subsequent betting rounds, meaning that if they lose in the first round and win in the second, they only lose the amount of betting money in the first place and not the entire amount of money in the bank.