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Baccarat house-edge calculator

Change the two terms players most often see altered at a table—Banker commission and Tie payout—and watch the expected return move.

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Model assumption

This calculator uses the standard eight-deck punto banco outcome probabilities: Banker 45.8597%, Player 44.6247%, Tie 9.5156%. It does not model commission-free variants that change what happens on particular Banker wins.

Banker house edge
Player house edge1.2351%
Tie house edge

Why commission matters

Banker wins slightly more often because it acts after the Player drawing decision is known. Standard baccarat offsets that structural advantage by paying a winning Banker wager less than even money. The common 5% commission produces an eight-deck Banker house edge of about 1.06%.

Zero commission in this slider is a hypothetical payout change

A real no-commission baccarat game normally changes another rule—such as pushing a three-card Banker 7 or paying only half on a winning Banker 6. Use the dedicated commission-vs-no-commission guide for those variants.