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Baccarat is a card game played at casinos. It is a comparing card game played between two hands, the "player" and the "banker".
Each baccarat coup (round of play) has three possible outcomes: "player" (player has the higher score), "banker", and "tie". There are
three popular variants of the game: punto banco ("North American baccarat"), baccarat chemin de fer, and baccarat banque. In punto
banco, each player's moves are forced by the cards the player is dealt. In baccarat chemin de fer and baccarat banque, both players
can make choices. The winning odds are in favor of the bank, with a house edge of at least 1 percent.
A Hard Day's Night
In the 1964 Richard Lester comedy A Hard Day's Night, Paul McCartney's "grandfather" John (played by Wilfrid Brambell) steals an invite
to a posh casino intended for the band, and has a run of luck at a baccarat table despite appearing not to know how to play the game; at
one point, upon winning a bet, he yells "Bingo," to which the croupier corrects him, thinking he meant to proclaim "Banco."
James Bond
Baccarat chemin-de-fer is the favored game of James Bond, the fictional secret agent created by Ian Fleming. Bond plays the game in
numerous novels, most notably his 1953 debut, Casino Royale, in which the entire plot revolves around a game between Bond and SMERSH
operative Le Chiffre; the unabridged version of the novel includes a primer to the game for readers who are unfamiliar with it. It is also
featured in several filmed versions of the novels; Dr. No, where Bond is first introduced while playing the game in film; Thunderball; the
1967 version of Casino Royale, which is the most detailed treatment of a baccarat game in any Bond film; On Her Majesty's Secret Service;
For Your Eyes Only; and GoldenEye.
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