The leading online casino software provider Microgaming offers a Gold Series of table games that include roulette and blackjack. The tables and other casino equipment are elegantly crafted so as to create an environment of wagering in an exclusive luxury casino. Now Microgaming has added baccarat to its list of Gold Series games. Microgaming Baccarat Gold targets Asian customers in particular because it displays the roadmaps. These are tools used by players in Asian casinos to try and predict the outcome of the next hand.

Microgaming Baccarat Gold is played with a stack of eight decks. However unlike in land casinos, each new online hand is dealt from a complete stack of eight decks. The minimum table wager is 5 credits and the maximum wager is 500 credits. Some new gaming features have been introduced in Microgaming Baccarat Gold. The Banker and Player Pair bets win if the Banker or Player is dealt a pair as the first two cards. The bets pay out at 11 to 1.

Land casino baccarat is filled with rituals. There are special ways in which players peek at the cards before turning them over. These can be simulated in Microgaming Baccarat Gold using the animations provided. The hand that the player has bet on is moved to the player. The player can then peek at the card using the cursor to lift the corner of the card. After he has seen the card he can turn it over by moving the cursor further or by clicking on the Squeeze button. The cards are then exposed and the face-up cards are then returned to the playing area.

In baccarat games in land casinos some players rotate the cards before peeking at them. This ritual can also be simulated in Microgaming Baccarat Gold. The player moves the cursor over the cards to reveals arrows. He can then click the arrow of the direction in which he wants to rotate the card. After the cards are rotated the player can peek at the cards and turn them over.

The highlight of Microgaming Baccarat Gold is the set of Roadmaps. The roadmaps are derived from the basic History display of the outcomes of the hands in sequence. A Player win is marked with a blue button with a P. A Banker win is marked with a red button with a B. A Tie is marked with a green button with a T. The Roadmap set consists of four different charts that are used in more advanced baccarat analysis. The charts are named Big Road, Big Eye Road, Small Road and Cockroach Road. The Big Road is the simplest of the Roadmaps. It uses the same color scheme as the History chart but the indicators are hollow circles. The first outcome of a session is marked in the first row of the first column. If the outcome of the next hand is the same then the same indicator will be added below in the same column. This continues till a different outcome is obtained. Then a new column is started with the indicator for that outcome. The Big Road helps to identify larger cyclic patterns in the outcomes. The other three Roadmaps are used for even more sophisticated analysis.

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