Basic Baccarat Strategy
Ryan D.

Card Counting is one of those phony ideas published in baccarat
strategy books. Card counting is most often associated with the
game of blackjack - and is very effected, used correctly in the
right casino. It could also seem to be of real worth in baccarat
as the game does work off a comparable shoe. The issue that
causes the problem is that of used cards be reintroduced into
the shoe before very many have been taken out, thereby
flummoxing any count made up to that point!

Baccarat also, unlike Blackjack, does not allow the player the
right to change his bet mid-hand in play. Blackjack allows this
practice in a number of specific cases, and the player can
increase his bet if his count changes during play. In baccarat,
card counting presents very few situations with an advantage
against the house that the actual overall labors are of no
value to the player at all.

Baccarat can be considered a very elaborate coin toss game.
This oversimplified impression of the game lures many players
to using the Martingale based system of betting which entails
doubling up on ones' bet each time a hand is lost. The Logic
being that you eventually have to win, and the doubling will
allow you to recoup all losses made from all the preceding
hands! A perfect system indeed and one that actually can't be
beaten in games like baccarat or roulette, and it is because of
this that casinos issued new rules. The new rules limit how much
a player can bet in 1 hand.

Casinos effectively got rid of the threat of the Martingale
System gambler or player by setting Table maximums (and
minimums). i.e. A player bets $5 on the banker and lost. Next
bet, $10 on the banker, next bet $20, etc, and he continues to
lose. Before long, his bet will have doubled up to a point that
it will exceed the table maximum. In this case the player can't
bet any higher and his system has failed, he must quit.

The Martingale System is a horrific betting system that follows
a human beings panic thinking - their natural thought pattern
that somehow believes that if a coin lands heads up 9x in a
row, there is a greater chance than 50% that it will land tails
on the 10th flip! IT DOES NOT WORK!

So - if all these strategies and systems - card counting,
pattern spotting, streak spotting etc are worthless strategies
for baccarat - is there any good one? Well...practically and
mathematically speaking... when you analyze the numbers, the
odds do seem to always be in favor when a player bets on the
banker, though this is a very boring tactic to play. Perhaps
throw in some pattern chasing to break the tedium, or count the
scorecards!

Ryan D. has been involved in the online
casino and online gambling industries for over 6 years as an
operator, marketer and consultant. He can be contacted via his
website at http://www.online-gambling-insider.com.

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