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The teaser campaign has provided fascinating glimpses into the most-anticipated game of 2010 and has created a buzz around internet casino forums as eager players count down to the game’s official launch. The Microgaming designed 243-payline epic will follow Frodo Baggins on his journey to defeat the Dark Lord Sauron with film-favourites Aragorn, Saruman and the deadly Black Riders also involved as the adventure progresses.

The Lord of the Rings will be able to display movie clips as moving backgrounds behind the reels during a spin, while win sequences will feature cinematic clips as opposed to more traditional animated graphic sequences as players are treated to new levels of immersion and excitement during their casino experience.
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Betting
As with the betting, you have the option of either betting on the player, banker, or for tie. If you placed the bet on the player, which is you, there is a house advantage of about 1.24%, while if you placed the bet on the banker side, the house advantage is of about 1.06%. The commission for the house when you bet on the banker is about 5%. If you placed your bet on the tie, it has a higher house advantage of about 14.44%.

Rules of the game
There is nothing complicated about the rules of the game either. Each card of the deck has the value of the number of the card except for the cards 10, J, Q, K, and A. The card 10, J, Q, and K have the value of 0 while the card A has the value of 1. The total of the two cards drawn represents only a single digit value. Let’s say that you as the player have the card of 8 and 9. The value of your hand would be 7 instead of 17 as the ten is dropped from it. This means that you will not have a bust card.

When you, the player, or the banker have a total of either 8 or 9 at your hands, you will automatically stand and no card will be further drawn. If you have a total of either 6 or 7 at your hand, you stand. If your card is of 0 to 5, then, you will draw a third card. When a player stand, which means that he or she has a total of 6 to 9, the banker would has to hit if the total is 5 or below.

For the banker, if the player drew the third card and the total at banker’s hand is of 0 to 2, then, the banker will draw a third card. If the banker’s total is 3, banker will draw if the third card of the player is of all but 8. If the banker’s total is 4, banker will craw if the third card of the player is of 2 to 7. If the banker’s total is 5, banker will draw if the third card of the player is of 4 to 7. If the banker’s total is 6, banker will draw if the third card of the player is either 6 or 7. If the total of the banker’s hand is 7, then, banker can stand.

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The Basic Rules:
Held usually in a separate area of the Casino, a Baccarat game will include a table roughly the size of a crap table, three dealers and anywhere from 12-14 players. In the game there are only three results; Banker, Player and Tie.

The Baccarat cards are also different than that of other games. In Baccarat value an Ace is 1, the cards 2 to 9 are counted at face value and the 10’s, Jacks, Queens and Kings are valued at Baccarat, or in other words, zero.

Betting
Bets are placed by the players, including the players that choose to deal on the Player, Banker or the Tie. The player that deals hold what is called Shoe, and so long as the bank keeps winning, the player keeps holding the Shoe, as soon as the bank losses, this Shoe pass onto the next player. A dealer can also choose not to deal at by default the Shoe falls onto the next player.

Two hands will be dealt and a player will choose and bet on which he or she thinks will be the winning hand or a tie. Each hand consists of a minimum of 2 cards and a maximum of 5 cards.

The Card Values
The combined value of the cards must never exceed the number 9, therefore is a player gets an 8 and a 3, the combined value of this number, in this case 11 will have 10 subtracted from it leaving the score at 1. The highest score obtainable is a 9, and the next best hand is an 8.

If a player so happens to land a hand of 8 or 9 then no other cards are issued. If the end score is the same total on both ends, then it’s a tie.

The Game

At this point the dealer places 2 cards face down in front of the players, under the shoe and the largest bet on Player gets another two cards, also facedown. The player looks at the cards and then hands them back to the dealer.
After this, all the cards are opened and the casino announces the winner.

Additional Information
Whenever a player bets on the Bank a tax is charged, and that tax amounts to 5% of the bet. This is because the chances of the Bank winning are a good 2 to 3 times higher than that of a Player winning. So to even things out, the tax is placed on the player betting Bank.

There are several different types of Baccarat or variants of the game; baccarat chemin de fer, baccarat banque and punto banco and each game comes with slight differences in ruling.

Improving Your Game
There are some basic guidelines you can follow to improve your game of Baccarat. One of these is the highest chance you have of winning a game is by placing your bet on the Bank, if you are holding an 8 deck shoe your advantage will be great. The tie is the least promising, even with its 8:1 payoff.
For the highest odds at Baccarat play at tables with only 1 Baccarat (zero), at tables with doubles zeros (00) the chances of your winning fall quite drastically.
The French have a term, Avant Dernier, meaning ‘before last’. That’s exactly what you do; place your bet always on the hand that won before the last hand. This means that if the winning hands so far were Player, Banker, Player, you would place your bet on Banker.

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