Fortune8 Baccarat

Thought I'd share this side option which is offered in some UK casinos and replaces the weekly longest Bank streak promotion in Gentings.

9 boxes on the table, if you have the button which moves left to right each time there is a Player outcome (you have to place a valid B or P bet).

8 banks in a row = £50 bonus.
9 banks in a row = £100 bonus.
10 banks in a row = £200 bonus.
11 banks in a row = £500 bonus.

If you get 12 banks in a row the minimum payout is £2k.

This is a progressive pot, as it hasn't been won for at least a month it currently stands at £32,000 (over $40k for doing nothing other than being very lucky). Usually 4/5 tables open (4am ~ noon grave shift, usually a single table operating).

Never got a sniff for first few nights, barely managing to get 6 in a row. On 3rd night 9 banks in a row, 10th hand gave the bank to 4 side cards, no 9 card [damn]. Other than a few streaks of 11, I'm amazed it hasn't been won yet, because the prior weekly longest banker option always produced at least a 12 Banker streak, I find it strange there has been any in close to a month.

A woman was very unlucky last night, she pulled 15 bankers in a row, unfortunately a Tie hand interrupted the streak.

This sounds like the house funds this? At some jackpot level, depending on minbet and players, it becomes profitable to play though if you're in the wrong seat or full table that sucks. If you have the button at 11 bankers, then 12 bankers happens next hand for a different player, do you still get 500?

Are the prizes cumulative? In other words, if the player on the button gets 9 Banks, does he win 100 or 150 pounds?

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Are the prizes cumulative? In other words, if the player on the button gets 9 Banks, does he win 50 or 150 pounds?

Nope, you only get the one prize, if the streak ended at 9 banks, you get paid £100.

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This sounds like the house funds this? At some jackpot level, depending on minbet and players, it becomes profitable to play though if you're in the wrong seat or full table that sucks. If you have the button at 11 bankers, then 12 bankers happens next hand for a different player, do you still get 500?

The button won't move until the Banker streak ends, or if the punter decided not to place a bet, in which case everything resets from scratch.


One of the managers was saying every time the dealer inserts a B or P decision into the computer/score board the pot increments, hence the £31k, he also said they paid out £38k a while back. It used to be, whoever got the longest banker streak for the week took it all, now they have those smaller payouts for 8 banks and any 12 banker streak takes all, no more waiting until midnight Sunday.

Just wanted to add, if you ever get to 11 Bankers, with the current payout, ensure you have a spare £2350 on you, or able to borrow it from other players. Because sitting on 11 bankers is like a free bet, you would load up on all opposing bets, table max £2000 on the Player, table max £250 on the Tie (paying 9-1) and table max £100 on UR way Tie.

UR Way Egalite outlined here; https://wizardofodds.com/games/baccarat/side-bets/egalite/

Seems like a good promo for the player. If you were playing at a £25 table using 8 decks always betting minimum on banker, this is what you need for breakeven meters:

Players	Breakeven Meter
1	£3,367
2	£9,012
3	£14,657
4	£20,303
5	£25,948
6	£31,593
7	£37,239
8	£42,884
9	£48,529

You need roughly £5,645 extra in the meter per player to break even.

lol I posted extra trying to format tables

Actually could be better than this...above is when button moves at end of streak.

"Banker" or "Bank"? "Banker Streak" or "Bank Streak"?

As of last night still not won, it was standing at £37,700. Was speaking to staff, it turns out for every Bank or Player decision, .25p is added to the jackpot, basically £1 per four decisions. It highlights that casino's are not interested in the 5% Banker tax in order to make a profit, as they are returning that (as well as 5% of non-commissioned Player payouts) into the prize pool, yet Baccarat still remains their biggest earner.

Few runs of 11, yet 12 Banks in a row continues to remain elusive. As tempting as it seems to park one-self 24/7, there is no guarantee you are going to be in possession of the button and it becomes a drag after 12 hours and you're up against the regular local ethnic husband and wife teams.

Yeah that's a good point. This is a dream for teams...just occupy every seat until it hits.

It was hovering just under £40000 few days ago. Last couple of shoes I played both produced a 10 Player streak consisting of Players and Tie hands, with the Banker producing (in one shoe) nothing but singles and doubles. It is not like shoes are producing Banker streaks of 7, 8, 9 or 10's. in the main they don't even come close, something doesn't smell right.

Prior to this Fortune8, the casino use to run a weekly longest banker streak. Whomever produced the longest streak of Bankers come midnight Sunday, took a prize pool of usually £10k. Strangely the longest Banker streak was never less than 12. Yet now after 5+ weeks, a streak of 12 Bankers has not occurred.

A dealer was saying some regulars are losing £4k daily playing for this. When questioned 'why', when all you have to do is only bet the table minimum of £5 when you have the button, sitting out all other hands. His response 'lack of control'.

As a rough guesstimate, there approx 45 shoes played per 24 hrs period, 3,600 decisions daily, over a 5 week period, that's about 126,000 decisions. out of which there hasn't been a single uninterrupted streak of 12 Bankers.

...Husband and wife teams at Baccarat:

What do they do... place equal and opposite bets or something? What sort of teamwork? Many Baccarat players like to play follow the chip leader and not hedge anything at all.

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...Husband and wife teams at Baccarat:

What do they do... place equal and opposite bets or something? What sort of teamwork? Many Baccarat players like to play follow the chip leader and not hedge anything at all.

Nobody wants to be there 24/7, so they stagger their time at the tables, doing shifts, betting only when the button comes around to them. .

Bump - does anyone know what happened to this? I assume it was won by someone at some point, but is this promotion still running in general?

It is continuous in all Genting casino's that offer Baccarat, somebody picked up 20k local to me a few Sunday's ago. In the image above yes it went up to 40k and was won, last time I was in there it was 11.5k.

If your thinking about parking yourself 24/7, that really won't help much IMO. 12 straight banks will happen when they want, could be another table, maybe the person next to you has the button.

A elderly Chinese woman has won the Fortune bonus 5 times this year already, she nearly won it for a 6th last Friday, she hit 12 Banks in a row, unfortunately there was a zero tie in the middle, basically that 6th picture card cost her 10.5k. I hit 8 banks in a row for 50 in the same shoe prior to this, after which countless shoes later, multiple tables, not a sniff, with most Bank runs ending around 6.

IMO it is related to the shuffle, shimmy and countless shuffles are producing flat / choppy shoes (worst than the angel shuffling rigs).

On another note rumour has it the supposedly same casino chain got spanked in Scotland on the Super Pay Egalite side bet, to the extent instead of burning 15 cards after the cut card, they now burn at a minimum an entire deck, I often wonder if John May took a vacation??

Another from the rumour mill, another casino called "235", a dealer let it slip that somebody playing in their Icon VIP room was up 1.4M, resulting with the casino cutting off 3 decks of the shoe to try and stop him winning, they are in a kind of melt down trying to figure out how and what he is doing.

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