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History of Baccarat

The word baccarat can be traced back to the Italian word for zero, 'baccara'. It was so named because the face cards were valued at zero, although baccarat history has a more romanticised twist to the basis of the game on https://freeslots-online.org/ . It is believed that baccarat was dreamt up by a man named Felix Falguierein who lived in Italy during the 15th century. He was possibly inspired by an ancient Italian fable about a young virgin who was forced to throw a nine-sided dice by nine gods. The lower the number, the worse her fate. An 8 or 9 would see her named a priestess for the gods, while a 6 or 7 would see her outcast, but still alive. Anything below this and she would have been forced to walk into the sea. The game was then communicated across the border to France in the late 15th century, where it became popular with the aristocracy, taking on the name of baccarat, although it was better known in France as Chemin de Fer. It was a few centuries later, when France, Spain and England were colonising the world, notably South America, that baccarat took the shape of the game we know and love today. In the original European versions, the players played against one another, but in South America, Cuba and, later, Las Vegas, gamblers bet against the house. Baccarat did not light up the strip like blackjack or poker, but the Vegas casinos kept it in play, marketing it as an exclusive card game for distinguished guests and high rollers.