Assuming that cards are dealt with replacement from a single deck and that each of Player and Banker sees the total of his own two-card hand but not its composition, baccara is a 2 . 288 matrix game, which was solved by Kemeny and Snell in 1957. Assuming that cards are dealt without replacement...

In a previous paper, we considered several models of the parlor game baccara chemin de fer, including Model B2 (a 2×2484 matrix game) and Model B3 (a 25×2484 matrix game), both of which depend on a positive-integer parameter d, the number of decks. The key to solving the game under Model B2...