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BACCARAT
HISTORY
Baccarat
Name
The Italian word "baccarat" means "zero"
in English. Since the French "baccarat" means
the same, even today there are many debates pertaining to
the origin of the game and each country wants to claim it
as theirs.
Origin
of Baccarat game
The following is one of these baccarat history stories: the game was first
invented by an Italian gambler Felix Falguierein in the middle ages and
first was played with a deck of Tarot cards.
As
rumours go they say the game " ...was based on an old
Etruscan ritual of the nine gods, who prayed to a blonde
virgin on their tiptoes waiting for her to throw a nine-sided
die. The result of the die decided her fate. If an eight
or a nine was thrown, she would become the priestess; if
she threw a six or seven, she would be banned from any further
religious activities; if she threw any number less than
six, she would walk into the sea."
Around
1490 A.D, baccarat was introduced in France and was played
solely by the nobility for centuries.
Evolution
of Baccarat rules
Whether the game was invented by the french or italians,
all we really know is that it dates back for centuries which
is why different rules were formed in different countries.
Today
we can find the game in every part of the world. The French
version of baccarat was known as "Chemin de fer".
It became extremely popular in England and they decided
to change the name of it to "European Baccarat".
Finally,
Tommy Renzoni brought this fancy game to the United States
in the late 1950s as a combination of European baccarat
and "Chemin de fer". It was first introduced to
the US in the late 1950's in Las Vegas at the Dunes Casino
after the Cuban government decided to shut down their Havana
based casinos.
