(1) Baccarat-punto banco shall be played with at least 8 decks of cards and 2 additional solid yellow or green cutting cards.
(2) The value of the cards in each deck of cards for the game of baccarat-punto banco shall be as follows—
(a) any card from 2 to 9 shall have its face value;
(b) any 10, jack, queen or king shall have a value of zero;
(c) 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.
(4) If the total of the cards in a hand is a 2-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.