Baccarat Engine
The baccarat engine project is meant as a library in order to ease the calculation of baccarat game results, roadmaps generated from a collection of games, and other various statistics connected to games of baccarat. The module is also intended to be expandable and pluggable to offer simple calculation of new side bets.
Installation
Installation from source to your development machine is quite easy and should only consist of a call to:
* npm installAn explanation of punto banco baccarat
_Credit to Wikipedia.*
In baccarat, cards have a point value: cards two through nine are worth face value (in points); tens, jacks, queens and kings have no point value (i.e. are worth zero); aces are worth 1 point; jokers are not used. Hands are valued according to the rightmost digit of the sum of their constituent cards. For example, a hand consisting of 2 and 3 is worth 5, but a hand consisting of 6 and 7 is worth 3 (i.e., the 3 being the rightmost digit in the combined points total of 13). The highest possible hand value in baccarat is therefore nine.
Punto banco is dealt from a shoe containing 6 or 8 decks of cards shuffled together with 8 decks being most commonly used. A cut-card—a coloured (often yellow) piece of plastic, the same size as a regular card, and which is used in shuffling—is placed in front of the seventh-last card, and the drawing of the cut-card indicates the last coup of the shoe. For each coup, two cards are dealt face up (or equivalent) to each hand, starting from "player" and alternating between the hands. The croupier may call the total (e.g. "Five Player, three Banker"). If either Player or Banker or both achieve a total of 8 or 9 at this stage, the coup is finished and the result is announced: Player win, a Banker win, or tie. If neither hand has eight or nine, the drawing rules are applied to determine whether Player should receive a third card. Then, based on the value of any card drawn to the player, the drawing rules are applied to determine whether the Banker should receive a third card. The coup is then finished, the outcome is announced, and winning bets are paid out.
Tableau of drawing rules
If neither the Player nor Banker is dealt a total of 8 or 9 in the first two cards (known as a "natural"), the tableau is consulted, first for Player's rule, then Banker's.
Player's rule
If Player has an initial total of 0–5, he draws a third card. If Player has an initial total of 6 or 7, he stands.
Banker's rule
- If Player stood pat (i.e., has only two cards), the banker regards only his own hand and acts according to the same rule as Player. That means Banker draws a third card with hands 0–5 and stands with 6 or 7.
- If Player drew a third card, the Banker acts according to the following more complex rules:
- If Player drew a 2 or 3, Banker draws with 0–4 and stands with 5–7.
- If Player drew a 4 or 5, Banker draws with 0–5 and stands with 6–7.
- If Player drew a 6 or 7, Banker draws with 0–6 and stands with 7.
- If Player drew an 8, Banker draws with 0–2 and stands with 3–7.
- If Player drew an ace, 9, 10, or face-card, the Banker draws with 0–3 and stands with 4–7.
The croupier will deal the cards according to the tableau and the croupier will announce the winning hand: either Player or Banker. Losing bets will be collected and the winning bets will be paid according to the rules of the house. Usually, even money or 1–to-1 will be paid on Player bets and 95% or 19-to-20 on Banker bets (even money with "5% commission to the house on the win").
Should both Banker and Player have the same value at the end of the deal the croupier shall announce "égalité — tie bets win." All tie bets will be paid at 8-to-1 odds and all bets on Player or Banker remain in place and active for the next game (the customer may or may not be able to retract these bets depending on casino rules).
Cut Cards & Burning Cards
Cut cards are part of the shoe implementation. Currently set to 16 cards before the end of the shoe, the Baccarat Game Engine will show when a burn is required.
// Create game engine (8 decks default)
gameEngine = new BaccaratGameEngine();
gameEngine.shoe.createDecks();
gameEngine.shoe.shuffle();
if (gameEngine.isBurnNeeded) {
// Burn card is the first card drawn that determined the burn cards to use.
var burnCard = gameEngine.burnCards();
}