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“Baccarat” is a term that basically means ZERO. Old Roman legends are speaking of young virgins that were involved in rolling a dice of nine sides. The legends that feature them appeared before the first Century. When the virgin rolled Nine or Eight her destiny was to soon become a highly revered high priestess. If a 7 or a 6 would come then she was not allowed to perform any religious service in the future.

Unfortunately for the girl, if the number was lower she was going to be sacrificed. All was done in the name of gods that decided the woman’s fate thanks to a dice of nine sides. Now this is the legend that depicts the first ever description of one game that is similar to a certain degree to Baccarat.

Most of the evidence we see today points out the fact that Baccarat basically evolved from the Chinese tile game Pai Gow. In this game you had to get a “Pai Gow”. The name actually means “make a nine”.

There is a strong possibility that this game migrated towards Italy thanks to merchants coming from Far East countries. In Italy the game was played with the use of tarot cards and it quickly become highly popular among pilgrims and merchants.

Although baccarat history is not 100% accurate we are pretty sure now that the biggest chance is that it evolved from the Tarot based game. It was really popular in Italy and this is considered to be the birthplace of modern Baccarat History. After Italy the game reached France, where the aristocrat class accepted it. French Baccarat evolved into two specific variations: “Chemin de Fer”, mostly popular in France, and European Baccarat.

European Baccarat continued to constantly develop in UK and eventually reached Nevada at the start of the twentieth century. This is how the game got to USA. Nowadays we see that 3 main types of Baccarat are played: Chemin de Fer, Punto Banco and Banque.

Do you like playing craps? Then why don’t you read our article regarding craps history: it is really interesting and you will also get to learn the origins of your favorite game.