Baccarat History User comments

  • Osman

    It seems baccarat has a long history. The info is good, but I miss more details about the mini-baccarat game. Can you help with that?

  • Depp

    Well, baccarat can give you some easy money, but be careful to use the proper gambling engines. I think that with the internet available now, this is the best way to play the game. It went a long way, huh? From the middle ages till now, it is strange.

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Baccarat is a word that means 'zero' in both Italian and French. There are many unsettled questions concerning its origins. While they may never be settled, one thing that's for sure is that Baccarat is one of the oldest games to be played in casinos. There's one school of thought that holds that the game was invented by an Italian gambler by the name of Felix Falguierein, and that he employed Tarot cards to play the game. There's also an esoteric tradition that speaks of an Etruscan ritual in which a virgin was to roll a nine-sided die. If the die showed 8 or 9, then the virgin was made a priestess, if it showed 6 or 7 then she was allowed to live, but she would never be permitted to roll the die again.

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