Baccarat is a really easy online casino game to play

One of the most welcome outcomes of the advent of online casinos is that we are now able to play a much bigger variety of casino games. We are no longer restricted to casino games such as roulette and blackjack which were often the only games available at the real casinos, we now have far more choice. The online casinos now offer us the chance to play casino games such as baccarat for example, a popular game in many European casinos but rarely available in Ireland or indeed the UK. This new access to casino games such as baccarat has also helped to dispel some of the myths associated with the game. Perhaps as a result of baccarat being featured in a James Bond movie baccarat has obtained a reputation for being difficult to play and the preserve of high rollers, the latter being partly encouraged by the fact that baccarat is often played in a separate room away from the main floor of the casino. We now know of course that neither of these opinions represent the facts. Yes the rules of baccarat are a little complicated, but the online casino games players do not actually need to know the rules to play the game because the game of baccarat when played online is totally controlled by the dealer. The game of baccarat is played with just two hands, the player’s hand and the dealer’s hand, and the player simply has to decide which hand will win. We have explained the rules of baccarat on our casino games pages for those who are interested, but for most of us we need only bet on one of three possible outcomes. Either the player’s hand wins, in which case the bet is normally paid at even money, or the dealer’s hand will win which because of a slight edge in favour of the dealer will pay even money less 5%. The third option is a tied hand which is rare and therefore pays something of the order of 8/1 or even 9/1. Baccarat is simple so why not have a go.