Chemin de Fer is a French free online gambling card game played mainly in European and Latin American's casino web sites. It is considered a baccarat variant, but the truth is, Baccarat is actually a variant of Chemin de Fer, or "railroad" in French. Chemin de Fer was developed generations before Baccarat, in France. The name comes from the custom of players passing the role of banker from one to the other.
The game most in common with Chemin de Fer it is Baccarat en Banque. The rules are quite different than standard Baccarat as it is played in most online casino baccarat games. The Chemin de Fer Baccarat rules are highly complex.
The game is played by up to 12 players, on a kidney-shaped table; the object is to total 9 with a hand of two or three cards. When the cards total a two-digit number, the first digit is ignored, so that 14 would count as 4. Ace counts as 1, number cards at face value, and picture cards as 10 (which counts 0). Chemin de fer derives from the Italian game baccarat, differing from it in that players bet one at a time against each other instead of against the house. As a casino game in the United States, chemin de fer was displaced by baccarat in the late 1950s.
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1 comments:
June 17, 2009 at 10:43 PM
As parents you must not allow your little children to play casino games at such a young age because they might end up becoming slaves of the game.
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