Baccarat (baccara) is a gambling or banking game of French origin, played by any number of players, or rather bettors, and a banker, and available in casinos worldwide. The aim of the player is to form a hand whose point value is nearer to nine than the hand of the banker. Pip cards count as face value, pictures and tens as zero, and only the last digit of the total counts (so that for example seven plus six is worth three, not thirteen). The banker deals two cards to each player and two to himself, and covers the stakes of each with an equal sum. The cards are then examined, and according to the scores made the players take their own stake and the banker's, or the latter takes all or a certain number of the stakes. Research Baccarat