Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A card game in which the winner is the player who holds two or three cards totaling closest to nine.
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- noun card games A
card game with some similarities toblackjack .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker; the player wins who holds 2 or 3 cards that total closest to nine
Etymologies
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Examples
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Some of these may sound familiar to people who have seen or known problem gamblers of any background: a “lack of probabilistic thinking,” a belief that a player’s skill can surmount the odds (even in baccarat and roulette, which involve no skill beyond laying down a bet), the “delusion that one can foresee results by intuition and control results by ritual.”
Macau’s Big Gamble 2007
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Some of these may sound familiar to people who have seen or known problem gamblers of any background: a “lack of probabilistic thinking,” a belief that a player’s skill can surmount the odds (even in baccarat and roulette, which involve no skill beyond laying down a bet), the “delusion that one can foresee results by intuition and control results by ritual.”
Macau’s Big Gamble 2007
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New Year's Eve has always been a big event for baccarat, which is favored by wealthy Chinese whose net worth is growing even as the economies of the United States and other parts of the world are hurting.
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The exception is baccarat, which is usually dealt from an eight-deck shoe.
CasinoCityTimes.com 2009
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It would allow Class III gaming on Seminole Tribe reservation lands, including games such as baccarat, chemin de fer and blackjack at its gambling facilities.
Pop Goes The Weasel Patterson, James, 1947- 1999
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It would allow Class III gaming on Seminole Tribe reservation lands, including games such as baccarat, chemin de fer and blackjack at its gambling facilities.
San Antonio Business News - Local San Antonio News | The San Antonio Business Journal 2010
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It would allow Class III gaming on Seminole Tribe reservation lands, including games such as baccarat, chemin de fer and blackjack at its gambling facilities.
South Florida Business News - Local South Florida News | The South Florida Business Journal 2010
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It would allow Class III gaming on Seminole Tribe reservation lands, including games such as baccarat, chemin de fer and blackjack at its gambling facilities.
Los Angeles Business News - Local Los Angeles News | Los Angeles Business from bizjournals 2010
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It would allow Class III gaming on Seminole Tribe reservation lands, including games such as baccarat, chemin de fer and blackjack at its gambling facilities.
South Florida Business News - Local South Florida News | The South Florida Business Journal 2010
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It would allow Class III gaming on Seminole Tribe reservation lands, including games such as baccarat, chemin de fer and blackjack at its gambling facilities.
Philadelphia Business News - Local Philadelphia News | The Philadelphia Business Journal 2010
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