Baccarat Glossary

If you are getting confused between Baccarat terminologies it is important that you inter-relate the terms and understand their comparative meanings. Correlated study of terms in Baccarat glossary helps better!

Two terms in Baccarat glossary which are unique to Baccarat are Punto and Bunco.  “Punto” refers to the Players Hand and the “Bunco” refers to the Bankers hand.  Baccarat is also denoted by the term “Punto-Bunco.”

The process of placing bets in the baccarat game is also denoted by the term “Fading.”

Unlike in regular card games, “Muck” in Baccarat refers to shuffling the 416 cards from the 8 deck of cards prior to the beginning of the game; however, in online casinos the random number generator is pre-programmed in a mathematical way and the need for muck never arises.

“Pass” in Baccarat denotes a win.

“Push” is used to denote a bet, which does not have a winner or a loser, which means the bet, is in a tie. A push is normally left aside until the next round. “Stand off” is used to denote a tied game. “Tie Bet” is a bit different from push, a “tie bet” is a third kind of bet placed on a tie where the player bets that neither the player nor the banker will win the game, where the game will end in a tie between them both.  The tie bet gathers the maximum pay off in Baccarat with a pay off of 8:1 with a house edge of 15%.

“Player hand” is the first of the two hands dealt in Baccarat.  “Banker hand” is the second of the two hands dealt in Baccarat. “Shooter” is an alternate terminology used to refer to the “Banker.” The “Player Bet” is used to denote a bet, which states the player will win.  The “Banker Bet” is used to denote a bet which states the Banker will win.  “Coup” is used to denote a single round in the game which consists of the players hand and the banker hand.

“Loss Bet” denotes a bet which is not as good and this kind of betting is followed by bad players who tend to place wrong bets and loose their money most of the time.

Natural in Baccarat is a game where the sum of the first two cards of either the banker or the player is 9; 9 with the first two cards are known as the natural win.