Free Online Baccarat Glossary

Go ahead and print this free online baccarat glossary. This baccarat glossary should always accompany you in all your online baccarat journeys. This will teach you a lot of essential lessons.

To learn how to play baccarat, you need to know about the terms used in the game. This free online baccarat glossary will provide you the most commonly used baccarat terms and their definitions.

A natural
If the sum total of the first two cards is 8 or 9. It is a natural.

Baccarat
This Italian word means, ‘zero’. The term baccarat also refers to any hand that has a total value of zero.

Baccarat en banque
A variant of baccarat game.

Banker bet

A bet placed on banker’s hand, one of the three bets a player can make in baccarat. The house edge is slightly above 1%. Pays off 1 to 1, and deduct just the banker's commission at 5%.

Suppose you bet $5 on banker’s hand and win. You’ll be paid $5(your money), plus, $4.75 (after deducting 5% banker’s commission)

Bankroll
Bankroll is the money you bring to the table

Best baccarat bet
The bet on banker’s hand is best baccarat bet. Chances of winning are 45.84%

Burning top cards
After shuffling the cards, top 3-6 cards are discarded before dealing the cards.

Chemin-de-fer
A variant of baccarat, popular in Europe, especially France.

Caller
The croupier at a baccarat table.

Carte
When you request a card from the dealer, you use the French word, Carte.

Coup
A single round in baccarat that comprises of a player’s hand, and a banker’s hand.

Commission
Casino takes 5% commission of the amount you win on banker’s bet.

Croupier
The dealer in the baccarat game is also called croupier.

Dealer
A casino employee who draws card, handles bet and manages the table.

Down card
Facedown card dealt to the player

Draw
To take a card from the deck

Face cards
Kings, queens and jacks of all suits.

Fading
Fading is the term used for placing bets in baccarat.

House edge
House edge is the percentage that goes to the casinos on each bet that the player wins.

La grande
Grand is a French word meaning big. La grand means a natural hand with the value 9. This is the best possible hand in baccarat.

La petite
La petite stands for a natural hand of 8.

Loss bet
This is not a good bet. Here, the player more often than not loses the wagered money. It’s the bet against house.

Mini baccarat
This is another variant of baccarat. It has lower bet limit. It was developed with the intention of popularizing baccarat and it succeeded in doing so. Mini baccarat is the most popular variant of online baccarat.

Muck
The complete 8 decks of cards (total 416 cards) shuffled together before the game begins.

Palette
It’s a wooden paddle that the dealer uses to conduct baccarat game.

Pass
A win

Punto
A Player

Punto banko
Another name of baccarat

Push
Push is a bet that has neither a winner nor a looser. This bet is kept aside till the next round.

Players bet
This is another kind of bet in baccarat. This is a bet that is placed on the dealer’s hand.

Player hand
The first of the two hands dealt in baccarat.

Shoe
Shoe, sometimes called dealing shoe, is a card-dealing machine.

Standoff
A tied game

Shooter
Another term used to denote the bank.

Tie Bet
This is the third kind of bet in baccarat. The bet is placed on a tie, a situation where neither the player nor the dealer wins. It has the highest pay offs (8 to 1) and house advantage (just under 15%).