The Famous Baccarat Players Who Had an Influence on the Game

According to baccarat history , this card game was always played by aristocratic gentlemen, and common people of middle class did not even have an idea about such a game's existence. Today, though being a popular card game, baccarat stays a prerogative of exclusive circles of players whose names are well-known only in the world of gambling. A baccarat player is usually a wealthy and noble gentleman - a famous actor or some celebrity for example.

Such personalities as Jackie Chan, Sean Connery and Michael Jordan are well-known baccarat players, and Jackie Chan even used baccarat in some of his films. And who does not know James Bond, the most famous baccarat player amongst all fiction characters? But let's speak about real people, not fiction ones: some baccarat players can be found, who had a great influence on this game and really deserved the right to be called absolute baccarat artists. Their names should be known and remembered by all people who consider themselves to be baccarat gamblers and admirers.

Akio Kashiwagi

This man is the most famous baccarat player who had a chance to get both the biggest winning and the biggest loss at the game of baccarat. Akio Kashiwagi was the Japanese investor who won $6 million at once by placing a bet of $200.000 on one baccarat hand. This case took place at Atlantic City in 1990, February. But Akio returned in May to the same baccarat table where had lost $10 million!!! Yeap, the luck had left Kashiwagi that evening….

Today, everybody remembers him to be the person of both enormous winnings and losses at the card game of baccarat.

Frank Scoblette

This person is also known by his pen name, King of Scobe, and he was not only a baccarat gambler and author but devoted his works to the world of gambling in general. Frank is known as the author of many gambling books, including his bestseller The Baccarat Battle Book . Being a philosopher and historian by education, Frank Scoblete had written more than 15 books about such casino games as blackjack, roulette, craps and baccarat!

Frank Scoblete is considered to be the number 1 American best-selling author today.

Henry Tamburin

Baccarat world knows this person as the author of a bestselling book Winning Baccarat Strategies, though he is not only an author but also a popular casino gambler and expert. He's got the degree in Chemistry but become well-known as a gambling author who wrote many books on the topic of blackjack, baccarat, craps and casino in general. He is also the author of about 700 articles and he is often invited to give lectures.

Henry Tamburin never considered himself to be a professional gambler. He had been working as a manager of one chemical company for 30 years.