Thread: Comparison of Online Legal Baccarat and Traditional Baccarat

Since we're all baccarat fans here on the baccarat forum, when you visit a plush casino in Las Vegas or in any other state, your casino gaming experience will not be complete without engaging in a round of Baccarat. Over the years, this card game has developed into several variations, including:

• Punto Banco (North American Baccarat)
• Baccarat Chemin de Fer
• Baccarat Banque
• Mini-Baccarat
• Midi-Baccarat
• Makccarat
• Double Fortune Baccarat
• 3 Card Baccarat

With the sudden boom of the Internet, the face of playing baccarat and other casino games has completely changed. Instead of traveling to brick-and-mortar casinos, players now can engage in a round of baccarat right in the comfort of their own homes - through online legal baccarat.

If you are a baccarat aficionado, do you prefer to bask in the excitement of playing a round of baccarat in a live casino - or would you rather play online legal baccarat right in the privacy of your own home?

It's hard to decide which of these two is a much better option. I guess the best I can do is make a quick comparison of the pros and cons of online legal baccarat versus the traditional baccarat.

What really comes to me is the way that players interact with each other.

Obviously, in the traditional casino setting, players are sitting right across each other. This adds a certain element of excitement in the game in the sense that players can gauge each other's reactions whenever the cards are dealt. With online legal baccarat, you do not have the luxury of gauging the reaction of other players since you are on an online instead of a live setting. I guess it's just fun seeing reactions of other players when they have a winning hand or losing hand.

For me the deciding factor in going fully online when I play baccarat is the way that the hands are dealt.

Say that you have one hour to spare. In a live casino, the maximum number of hands that can be dealt is 30. This is due to the delays in shuffling, collecting and dealing the cards. With online legal baccarat, there no delays, the shuffling and collecting is instantaneous - so the maximum number of hands which can be dealt in an hour is about 90.

I love the rate of earnings and cash bonuses at online baccarat casinos.

Traditional casinos cannot easily offer cash bonuses. With online legal baccarat, a lot of cash bonuses can be offered as a way to attract online players. The rate of earnings in online legal baccarat is also much higher than the conventional way of playing this popular card game.

For example, Zodiac Casino has the loyalty program:

When you play at Zodiac Casino you'll be awarded VIP loyalty points. Every 100 points is worth a dollar in chips. There are also numerous promotions which earn you VIP points. Just like frequent flyer points, the VIP loyalty program rewards players for their loyalty. The more you play the more rewards you get and since they're your points we put you in control of them. You can go to the CasinoRewards site and check your account at any time. Other casinos make you wait until they're ready to give you credit. We let you do it at any time. As long as you've got 1000 points in your account you can withdraw when you want to. And even better yet all transactions are done in Real Time!

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Originally Posted by DiMenosCor

Personally I prefer playing in a casino since well I think I am old school. As there are many good points of expanding it online, for me personally the negatives outweigh the positives with online baccarat. For one don't think it would be a good idea for me since I can be in front of the computer for too long of a time. I traded Forex once and that 24 hour market drove me nuts and a few sleepless nights. Sometimes you just need to totally STOP and focus and have other interests like ..... DATING! Ha ha.

Dating vs Forex... hmm, I'll go with dating! Although I have heard some good things about Forex.

Any good results you got from Forex? How did you learn about it?

The one real negative with playing in a casino is when you have these crazy schmucks who play for excitement and having loads of cash coming in with huge egos.

Yeah, that's always a negative about playing in-person. I've usually found baccarat players to be more classy than players in other games (poker especially) - what casino were you playing at?

Don't know if you agree with me on this but in a long streak or trend whether Banker or Player, once a Tie comes up there is a very high probability that the trend will reverse.

I've been trying to learn strategies like that myself - maybe we can start discussing systems like this on the board - baccarat pattern spotting. I found this table online on 4 common baccarat patterns, what do you think:

-P-P-B-P-P-B-P-P-B-T-P-P-B-B-P-P-B-T-P-P-B

-P-P-P-B-T-P-P-P-P-P-B-B-P-P-P-P-B

-P-P-B-B-P-P-B-B-B-P-P-B-P-T-P-B-B-B-P-P

-B-P-B-P-B-P-B-P-B-P-B-B-P-P-B-B-P-P

G'day,

You have to be joking, that's not how trends are supposed to be read, after a T it could evenly be asumed that it will be a B or P! the only thing about trends for sure is that they will occur. PPPP..... or BBBB.... or BPBPBP....!
So learn when they start & how much to bet on them while their running!