Baccarat pattern wagering system

An electronic gaming machine comprising a housing, player input control, video display including touchscreen sensitivity, processor, memory, and a value-in-value-out credit creation component selected from the group consisting of a) a ticket-in-ticket-out system having a ticket-reading imager and ticket printer, b) a currency validation system having a motor drive to advance currency past a scanner and c) a near field communication receiver and transmitter responsive to an external near field emitting element, wherein the processor is configured to execute software to execute a process on the electronic gaming machine of:

• a player position committing credit through the player input controls on the side bet wagering event;
• upon the processor recognizing entry of a wager at a player position on the side bet wagering event, allowing the player position to create a pattern identifying at least three expected underlying baccarat game outcomes that include both player winning outcomes and banker winning outcomes in the pattern;
• the processor tracking the actual at least three underlying baccarat game outcomes after the player position has committed credit as a wager in the side bet wagering event;
• the processor resolving the side bet wager by comparing correspondence of the identified at least three expected underlying baccarat game outcomes and actual at least three underlying baccarat game outcomes and then resolving the side bet wager against a pay table identifying the correspondence and crediting winning outcomes and decrementing credit in losing outcomes.

A method of executing a side bet wagering event during a wagering event of baccarat on a gaming table including a playing surface on the gaming table, a processor, bet recognition system for determining presence and amount of wagers at a player position for the side bet, a playing card reading system that identifies at least value of playing cards during execution of play of the wagering event of baccarat, a player control panel including touchscreen functionality that communicates player input data to the processor, and a video display which indicates an ordered history of baccarat outcomes,

• wherein the side bet wagering event is executed against at least three consecutive outcomes occurring in an underlying game of baccarat comprising:
• a player position commits credit to the side bet wager that is recognized by the bet recognition system;
• upon the processor recognizing commitment of a wager at a player position on the side bet wagering event, allowing the player position to create on the player control panel a pattern identifying at least three expected underlying baccarat game outcomes that include both player winning outcomes and banker winning outcomes in the pattern;
• the processor tracking the actual at least three underlying baccarat game outcomes after the player position has committed credit as a wager in the side bet wagering event;
• the processor or a live dealer resolving the side bet wager by comparing correspondence of the identified at least three expected underlying baccarat game outcomes and actual at least three underlying baccarat game outcomes and then resolving the side bet wager against a pay table identifying levels of the correspondence, and crediting winning outcomes and decrementing credit in losing outcomes.