Punto Banco, or simply Baccarat, is a classic card game played between two competing hands, the Punto and the Banco. The game aims to place bets on the outcome of the Punto and Banco hands, with the player trying to predict which one will have a higher card value. The game is played with eight decks of standard playing cards, and each hand is dealt two cards, which can either be a face up or face down card. In Peru, the game is often referred to as "Bacara" or "BacarĆ”".