各国的现代百家乐的起源仍有争议。最常见的说法是，比赛起源于意大利，在法国流传百家乐，然后到美国人将其发展成我们今天所知道的百家乐游戏，最后，在中国发展成世界上最大的赌博游戏。

　　多彩百家乐意味着“零”，在意大利和法国这样的名字并没有真正帮助我们来确定游戏的起源。意大利声称，百家乐是由意大利赌徒发明的，在中世纪，Felix Falguiere打塔罗牌。据说，是基于一个古老的伊特鲁里亚的九个神传说，每次都有一个金发碧眼的处女做祈祷，在仪式上，她进行抛出九个面的骰子的游戏。如果她扔一个八或九，她会成为一个女祭司，如果她扔了六，七，她会被放逐，如果她投掷任何数量低于6的时候，她会走入海。这真的有些与我们今天所知道的百家乐相似，但它仍然是一个有趣的故事！

　　我们肯定是知道，作为世纪前的百家乐游戏在法国贵族中成为赌博窝点。法国人的数百年的比赛，使它成了现代赌场游戏，今天我们都爱玩这种游戏。

　　舍曼DE FER游戏有一个法文版。在这个版本的游戏的赌场经营作为控制器和主持人简单地利用佣金为他们服务。这使得其类似赌场的扑克游戏，因为他们实际上没有设置任何投注。这是有利可图的游戏，而赌注是非常高的。百家乐在英国和南美很快流行，最后在20世纪50年代后期，汤米Renzoni把这种游戏带来美国，大约在同一时间，古巴政府因此关闭了哈瓦那赌场。

　　与原来的游戏相比，它没有复杂的操作规则，你需要在一个组中的所有玩家下注类似数额的资金。游戏在很大的空间进行，赌徒是不能简单地高兴看着玩牌就行，他们要展现在行动上。这时时间久的迷你百家乐和我们今天所享有的游戏诞生了。那些用于百家乐游戏的赌桌比在以往其他形式游戏中使用的巨大的赌桌要小很多。

　　百家乐游戏当时仅仅就代表迷你百家乐这样的品种，虽然仅是迷你百家乐，但是在百家乐大赌场有时也根据描述规则的游戏和赌桌的大小来为各种类型的百家乐命名。所有大的百家乐游戏和一些MIDI百家乐游戏都可成为百家乐游戏，这意味着玩家被允许持有卡，慢慢露出最高价值的牌卡。这是游戏的重要组成部分，在百家乐游戏中有特别高的风险。百家乐游戏遍布世界各地的赌场，但游戏的中心肯定是在澳门，它是一个显著的最流行的桌牌游戏。百家乐占所有在澳门的博彩收入的90％。

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　　The History of Baccarat

　　The origin of modern day baccarat is still debated from country to country. The most common belief is that the game originated in Italy. Then the French embraced baccarat and made it their own with the Americans transforming baccarat into the game we know today. Finally the Chinese made it the biggest table-gambling game in the world.

　　A colourful Baccarat cardThe word baccarat means zero in both Italian and French so the name doesn’t really help us in determining the origin of the game. The Italians claim that baccarat was invented by Italian gambler, Felix Falguiere in the Middle Ages and he played it with tarot cards not with playing cards. The story goes that the game was based on an old Etruscan ritual of nine gods, who prayed on their tip toes to a blonde virgin and waited for her to throw a nine-sided dice. If she threw an eight or a nine she would become a priestess; if she threw a six or a seven she would be banished and if she threw any number less than six she would walk into the sea. This really has nothing to do with baccarat as we know it today, but it is an interesting story nonetheless!

　　What we do know for sure is that a game known as baccarat found its way into the gambling dens of the French aristocracy centuries ago. The French would embrace the game for hundreds of years before it became the modern day casino game that we all love today.

　　There is a French version of the game known as chemin de fer. In this version of the game the casino operates as the controller and moderator and simply takes a commission for their service. This makes the game similar to poker for the casino as they don’t actually lay any bets themselves. For this to be profitable the game was played only by the rich and the stakes were very high. Baccarat became popular in England and in South America and finally Tommy Renzoni brought the game to the US in the late 1950s after the Cuban government closed the Havana Casinos around the same time.

　　The problem with the original game was that it was complicated to run and you needed a group of players all looking to wager a similar amount of money. The game took up a lot of space and casinos were not simply happy to act as controllers; they wanted to be in on the action. This is where the term mini baccarat was coined and the game we enjoy today was born. It was called mini because the table used was a lot smaller than the huge tables that were used in the other previous forms of the game.

　　Baccarat layoutWhat was then called mini baccarat is now known simply as baccarat, although the expressions mini-baccarat, midi-baccarat and big baccarat are sometimes used by casinos to describe the format of the game and size of the table. All big baccarat games and some midi-baccarat games are “squeeze games”， meaning the players are allowed to hold and squeeze the cards, slowly revealing the hand’s value with high drama. This is a big part of the game, especially in high stakes baccarat. The game is played in casinos all over the world but the epicentre of the game is certainly Macau where it is the most popular table game by a significant margin. Baccarat accounts for nearly 90 percent of all gaming revenue in Macau.