Definition of "baccarat" [baccarat]

• A card game in which the winner is the player who holds two or three cards totaling closest to nine. (noun)

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• "Some of these may sound familiar to people who have seen or known problem gamblers of any background: a “lack of probabilistic thinking,” a belief that a player’s skill can surmount the odds (even in baccarat and roulette, which involve no skill beyond laying down a bet), the “delusion that one can foresee results by intuition and control results by ritual.”"
• "New Year's Eve has always been a big event for baccarat, which is favored by wealthy Chinese whose net worth is growing even as the economies of the United States and other parts of the world are hurting."
• "The exception is baccarat, which is usually dealt from an eight-deck shoe."