Cards: number of decks, value, point count of hand

(1) Baccarat-Punto Banco shall be played with at least eight (8) decks of cards and two additional solid yellow or green cutting cards. hand. (2) The “value” of the cards in each deck shall be as follows– (i) any card from 2 to 9 shall have its face (ii) any ten, Jack, Queen or King shall have a value of zero; (iii) any Ace shall have a value of one. (3) The “Point Count” of a hand shall be a single digit number from 0 to 9 inclusive and shall be determined by totalling the value of the cards in the hand. Where the total of the cards in a hand is a two-digit number, the left digit of such number shall be discarded having no value and the right digit shall constitute the Point Count of the hand. Examples of this rule are where– (i) a hand composed of an Ace, a 2 and a 4 has a Point Count of 7; (ii) a hand composed of an Ace, a 2 and a 9 has a total of 12 but only a Point Count of 2 since the digit 1 in the number 12 is discarded.