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Baccarat Instructions

The squeeze

In high-limit rooms the cards are not flipped; they are bent back, a corner at a time, while the table holds its breath. Here you can do the same, with virtual coins and without the crumpled cards.

Watercolour of two face-down cards on green baize under a brass lamp, one with its corner slightly peeled back

How to play

  1. Choose Player or Banker and a stake of 10, 25, 50 or 100.
  2. Press Deal face down. Four cards arrive with their backs up.
  3. Drag a card's bottom-right corner up and to the left to peel it back. Or select the card and press Enter or Space to turn it over.
  4. Once all four are showing, any third cards arrive face down. Reveal those too, and the hand is settled.

The squeeze table

Your coins 0

Your bet none

Shoe 416 cards

Player

 

Banker

 

Back a hand
Stake

Choose a hand to back and a stake, then deal.

How it pays

Payouts and house edge for the squeeze (eight-deck shoe)
BetPays on a winOn a tieHouse edge
Player1 to 1stake returned1.24%
Banker0.95 to 1 (5% commission)stake returned1.06%

The tie bet (8 to 1, house edge 14.36%) is not offered at this table; you can try it at the practice table. Squeezing is pure theatre. The cards were fixed the moment they left the shoe, so peeling slowly changes nothing about the outcome.

Coins here are virtual. They have no cash value, cannot be bought or withdrawn, and are for adults aged 18 and over who want to learn the game.

Before you read on

This site teaches a casino card game and lets you practise it with virtual coins. It is written for adults only.

Are you 18 or over?

No real money is used anywhere on this site and nothing can be won.

Choose a nickname

That is all we ask. Your nickname and coin balance stay in this browser; nothing is sent to us and there is no password.

2 to 16 characters. Letters, numbers, spaces, hyphens and underscores are fine.

You start with 1,000 virtual coins. They are for practice only: no cash value, no purchases, no withdrawals.

Your practice purse

Nickname
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Coins
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Practising since
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Best drill streak
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Daily top-up: 500 virtual coins once every 24 hours.

Coins are virtual and have no cash value. They cannot be bought, sold or withdrawn.