Seotda Baccarat

Seotda Baccarat is Pragmatic Play crossing baccarat with seotda, the Korean card game – and the result is genuinely different from anything else on the baccarat floor.

A Hwatu Deck

Out goes the eight-deck shoe; in comes a 20-card Hwatu deck. It holds two sets of cards numbered 1 to 10, each representing a month from January to October, and among them are three Bright Cards marked with 光, which carry the highest values.

A 20-card deck also means the shoe turns over constantly, so the pattern-tracking habits built at an eight-deck table do not transfer cleanly.

How It Plays

The bet is the familiar one: back Player or Banker to make the higher-value hand. But only two cards go to each side and there is no third-card rule – which removes the one genuinely fiddly part of baccarat and makes each round faster to read.

Hand rankings come from seotda rather than baccarat. The Bright Pairs are the strongest hands – 3/8, 1/8 and 1/3, with 3/8 unbeatable. The Player Bright and Banker Bright side bets pay up to 80:1, and the game tops out at 80x.

Who It Is For

Easier to learn than standard baccarat, oddly enough, because the third-card table is gone.

Worth a look if you play baccarat and want the same rhythm with an unfamiliar deck – and the Hwatu cards themselves, with their flowers and months, are worth seeing at least once.

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