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Baccarat Winners

The Game

When you first watch a game of casino Baccarat played it can be intimidating. The players and crowd are all exquisitely dressed, the table is very large and plush and the chips are usually colors that indicate high-rollers. Now however, with online Baccarat becoming popular some of the There are many famous baccarat players around the world however and it their influence that has dramatically mainly because of the popularity of certain players. When Ian Fleming decided to make Baccarat James Bond´s favorite card game and due to the popularity of the character the game has been vaulted into global popularity.

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While the famous secret agent is the most well know baccarat player he is far from the only very well know person to enjoy the game. When Fleming used the game as a hook in Casino Royale he had no idea the effect he would have on the popularity of the game. Several years ago Jackie Chan made a movie with Luke Wilson in which the characters had to wind their way through the baccarat pits of the 19th century. Basketball sensation Michael Jordan also enjoys the game and plays regularly and has been known to drop huge bets. Beside those luminaries there are plenty of lesser known, but still famous, players who enjoy the game.

The Luminaries

In the mid 1950´s Tommy Renzoni,the father of American Baccarat, was working as a casino manager in Cuba before the take over and spent a great deal of time watching the game being played and learning Baccarat strategies. When Havana fell to Castro and the casinos were all shut down, Renzoni moved to Las Vegas and introduced the game at the Sands Casino on the Vegas Strip. The game quickly became wildly popular in Americas and has steadily grown in popularity ever since.

World Champion Baccarat player Lyle Stuart is considered one of the world's most knowledgeable players and has written several very popular strategy books on the game. Stuart was part owner of Aladdin, in Las Vegas, for years and was consultant to numerous other casinos on how to detect cheats. Quite a player himself he once claimed to have won $166,000 in just ten visits to Las Vegas casinos.

Seemingly the person who knows Baccarat probabilities is Akio Kashiwagi. This famous Japanese investor has scored the records for both the largest single win in the game and also the largest single loss. In 1990 he spent the game betting $200,000 on each hand and made more than $6 million. A few months later he played at the same table and lost a record breaking $10 in a single game.