Baccarat Rules
Baccarat is an exciting card game that was a featured plot
device in the James Bond novel Casino Royale by Ian Fleming. It
originated in Italy during the middle ages and derives its name
from the Italian word for "zero", because the face cards and
Tens – which normally are high value cards in most games – are
counted as zero in Baccarat. At some point it migrated to France
where it was embraced by the aristocracy. Today, Baccarat is a
favorite game of high rollers and famous gamers around the
world.
The object is to bet on which of two hands (the "Player" or the
"Banker") will have a score closest to 9. You can bet on either
hand – or you can bet on a tie.
Caribbean Stud® Poker Rules
Caribbean Stud® Poker is an online version of the five-card stud
poker game popularized on cruise ships plying the sparkling blue
Caribbean waters. Stud Poker is a fast paced game, easy to learn
and fun to play. You play the hand you're dealt – there is no
draw in Stud – so you don't have to decide which cards to hold.
All player hands are pitted against the dealer's hand, not
against each other. You "ante up", receive your hand and get a
look at one of the dealer's cards. You then have the opportunity
to fold or increase your bet to see if you beat the dealer's
hand.
Pai Gow Poker Rules
Pai Gow Poker is a fascinating game that combines familiar poker
cards with some of the strategy of the centuries-old Chinese
domino game Pai Gow. It is played with a 53-card deck (including
one Joker), and each participant is dealt 7 cards.
The object is to arrange the seven cards into the best 5-card
and 2-card hands possible, with the stipulation that the 5-card
hand has to be of higher value than the 2-card hand. To win,
your 5-card hand has to beat the dealer's 5-card hand and your
2-card hand has to beat the dealer's 2-card hand. A winning
combination pays 1-to-1, less a 5% commission to the house.
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Blackjack Rules - History
Blackjack is by far the most popular card game in modern casinos
across Europe and North America. Like many well-established
games, its origins are not well documented. Most scholars
consider Blackjack to have some roots in a popular card game
found at casino tables in 17th Century France, called Vingt-et-Un
(20 and 1), hence its other common name: "21". There are
candidates predating Vingt-et-Un, but most are poorly
documented.
The pre-revolutionary French taught the game to English sailors,
soldiers and merchants, who christened it "Blackjack" because of
a special rule regarding what was considered the ideal hand in
Vingt-et-Un: A player who held the Ace of Spades (i.e. a Black
spade) and the Jack of Spades as the first two cards of his hand
would be paid out extra. The English gambler's penchant for easy
rhymes took over (think "chuck-a-luck", "acey-duecy"), and Black
Jack was hard to resist.
Soon, Blackjack migrated to North America, where it gained a
wide audience in the 18th Century among the colonists and then
spread west through the 19th Century with the migration of
pioneers. When Nevada legalized gambling in the early 20th
Century, Blackjack was a mainstay of Las Vegas casinos. Since
then it has evolved into many variations, as different casinos
and different geographic regions adopted their own particular
sets of rules.
As you would expect from a global online casino, we offer a
number of Blackjack variations from all over the world,
including:
European Blackjack
Vegas Blackjack
Classic Blackjack
6-Deck Blackjack
Double-Deck Blackjack
Single-Deck Blackjack
Surrender Blackjack
Live-Aces Blackjack
Anything-Goes Blackjack
Blackjack Swap
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Keno Rules
The word "Keno" has French or Latin roots (Fr. quine five
winning numbers, L. quini five each), but by all accounts the
game originated in China over 2000 years ago. Legend has it that
the invention of the game saved an ancient city in time of war,
and its widespread popularity helped raise funds to build the
Great Wall. According to one source, results of Keno games in
great cities were sent to outlying villages and hamlets by
carrier pigeon. Eventually, Chinese immigrants introduced Keno
to the West when they sailed across the Pacific to help build
the American trans-continental railroad in the 19th century.
Keno is similar to lotto games, in that players have a card or
ticket with numbers that are selected in hopes of matching the
numbered balls that are drawn during play. Early Keno games
looked for a match of five numbers to win. Some Keno dealers
used a large jar with a long, thin neck to tumble the balls. The
neck was just wide enough to permit only one ball at time to
flow, thus eliminating any argument about which number was
drawn. For obvious reasons, this jar was called the "Keno
goose".
Slots Rules — History
A man named Charles Fey developed the first commercially
successful slot machine in his San Francisco machine shop around
1896. Made of cast iron with three internal reels, a slot for
taking in coins and an external lever for activating the
machine, it quickly became a staple of saloons, gambling houses
and even many retail stores (where patrons would trade their
winnings for goods from the store – hence the term "trade
goods").
Today, no casino would be complete without the gleaming rows of
the one-armed bandits. Slot Machines have expanded from the
original design to today's multiple offerings – multi-line
slots, video slots, and poker slots have become the new
favorites, making the Slot Machine one of the most popular
casino games today.
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