take is different. When in a past column I advocated
just betting the Banker hand and dismissed scorecards figuring the numbers support
the Banker bet as the statistically better wager, even if the difference is ever
so slight,
many readers wrote in describing
that form of gaming action as just
plain BORING, enough of them for me to
take note to what they're
saying. Does anybody really want to sit down at
a Baccarat table and
bet the Banker hand all night long, trading the fun of
gambling for a
minuscule statistical gain? Probably not. There is a "fun
factor" to
guessing, and betting consistently on the Bank hand is akin
to watching
paint dry.
So, with both wagers having such a low casino
advantage, you really
can't go wrong betting either way.
As
for scorecard use, most casinos do offer Baccarat players a
scorecard for
tracking the Player and Banker wins. Many Baccarat
players believe various
methods of tracking Player-Banker patterns
predict future outcomes. Unfortunately,
there is no statistical basis
for the notion of finding predictable patterns
in a shoe of well-shuffled cards.
Nevertheless,
even if there is no advantage to doing so, keeping score
does add some excitement
(once again, that fun factor) to the game of
Baccarat, and lately even I started
the practice of jotting B-B-B-P-B-P-P-B's on a Baccarat scorecard, wearing my
patented omniscience grin and pretending that scribbling P's and B's makes me
all the more clairvoyant.
Good
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