Wide Baccarat World: Jokes, Quotes, Jargon and More

If you read this text then you've become a part of baccarat world already, and we would like to congratulate you with this fact! It means that you accept the card game of baccarat not only as one more casino game to win money, but you also share our opinion concerning the fact baccarat is a real self-sufficient phenomenon which has taken its place not only in casinos but also in culture.

Baccarat world is very rich indeed, and a great amount of baccarat books , movies and artists who had a great influence on baccarat's development may be a rather serious proof of this fact. And do not forget about language: the number of jokes, quotes, jargon's terms of baccarat really impresses! Let us show you at least some of them.

Baccarat in Jokes

Two friends talk about their habit to come back home late at night after spending the whole evening in a casino playing baccarat:

• Can you imagine? I try to be so quiet when come back home after a casino: I turn off my car's engine in advance, go upstairs without shoes in order not to wake my wife up, do not turn on the light.. But anyway she wakes up and we have a big and loud quarrel during the whole night!
• Nope, my friend, you do everything in a wrong way. Look at me! I come back home with the engine turned on and I honk many times, go upstairs, slam and bang my door. I come to my wife and say loudly: "Let's have a little love, wifey!" You know what? She does not even move!

Baccarat in Quotes

A lot of different memorable quotes can be found about the card game of baccarat and it is impossible to write all of them here, so we tried to choose the best ones; they were said by famous casino gamblers and movie characters and we have a pleasure to quote them now.

Baccarat Jargon

The card game of baccarat could not stay without some special terms of course which would describe and name some points of the game, its participants and stuff. You are welcome to read the following small dictionary of baccarat terms in order not to be misunderstood during the game.

• Banco - a person who plays a role of a banker at the moment of a game
• Bankroll - money which a player has in a game
• Coup - one round of baccarat, French word
• Down Card - a card which was dealt faced down
• High Roller - a player whose bets are the highest ones
• Le Grande - Natural (9 points) in French
• Natural - Initial 2 cards which bring you 8 or 9 points
• Punto - a player
• Shoe - a special box (usually wooden) where all cards for a game are placed and kept
• Standoff - a push or a tie
• Up card - a card which was dealt being faced up