| Baccarat - Online Baccarat - How to Play Baccarat |
How to play Baccarat : The object of the game is to acquire a hand of cards with a sum having the largest ones digit (if the sum exceeds 10 only the rightmost digit is considered).
The cards from ace to nine count each according to the number of its pips. Face cards and tens are baccarat, a synonym for zero.
Thus a player holding a three and a ten has three only; a player holding two face cards, a two and a five counts seven only.
A player holding a five and a six count, not as eleven, but as one only. In mathematical terms, Baccarat scores are reckoned modulo 10 . |
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| Online Baccarat - Card Counting |
In blackjack, it is possible to count cards and bet more when it is favourable to the player. Application of methods used at blackjack to calculate the change in advantage at baccarat due to card removal do not yield an advantage to the players as a practical matter on the main wagers. Certain end-deck subsets of cards can prove enormously advantageous to highly-skilled card counter, for example, an end-deck subset of eight ten-valued cards must be a win for the tie wager with its 8-1 payoff, though opportunities are extremely rare. |
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| Play Baccarat System Based Upon "Units per Shoe" Won |
Many baccarat systems seem to glamorize their results by looking at one of the most overrated statistics - units won per shoe. This statistic is oftentimes misleading. To begin with, it does not take into consideration the amount of units bet per hand to arrive at that unit per shoe win rate. For example, as we observed with a highly volatile or up-as-you-lose/up-as-you-win system, it took many units (and correlatively, it took a risk of many units) to win a relatively small amount of units. So, it is important to look at the average units bet per hand divided into the units won per shoe. Another factor overlooked is the units won per hour, not the units won per shoe. And, don't forget about commissions. It is usually wise to measure a system against the commission outlay.
Some Baccarat systems get you out of the game usually before the shoe ends (in the case of a losing shoe or a winning shoe that starts to lose) and in most cases well before the mid-point of the shoe. This means (i) you will come out of the game with much lower commissions and this has the additional benefit of significantly lowering your commissions per shoe ratio and (ii) you are able to start a new game and get two or more shoes in within the hour. Therefore, your units won per hour may be higher. Remember, since time is your most precious commodity, you need to measure your winnings against the time it took to get it. It should be noted, however, that if a system is truly successful, in the long run you will fare better by playing out the shoe rather than cutting it short.
Take the following example. Let's say that system developer A states that his baccarat system averages “4 units a shoe” and it is a flat 1 unit bet system. The 4 units per shoe might seem inferior to the 7 or 8 units that system developer B proclaims. However, when you consider that system B's average bet is 3 units or more, and the units won to average shoe win per bet ratio is far below 4.0, you soon realize that units won per shoe is essentially a meaningless statistic.
If you want to compare “apples to apples” determine the average bet size of system B (which is 3 units) and determine the average unit win rate (which in our example we will assume is 7.5 units). This system takes an investment of 3 units per hand to generate 7.5 units per shoe. System A only invests 1 unit per hand to win 4 units per shoe. That is a ratio of a 4 unit win for each 1 unit per hand bet. Then take system A and compare by multiplying 4 times the average bet size of the system you are comparing. In other words, let's bet 3 units in system A instead of 1 unit per hand. This will give you 3 times 4, which is the average units won per shoe, or 12 units. Clearly, system A is better. So, don't be lured by those deceptive ads about the greatness of average shoe win rate. |
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