That
said, personally I'm not willing to expend my
already depleted
brain cells and count down eight decks of randomly
shuffled cards for a
hypothetical, minuscule off-balance in my favor,
especially when
playing baccarat either drunk or stupid the house
only holds a 1.17 or
1.36 percent house advantage on the bank or player
bet.
Even
two leading authorities on counting systems, Peter
Griffin and
Edward Thorp, believe baccarat is not a countable
game. As a matter of
fact, Griffin's analysis showed that a card-counter
could earn less
than ten cents per day by using the strongest
possible count system.
Talk about minimum wage!
Likewise,
I'll band with Thorp and Griffin, even though
I once learned
a supposedly simple counting method that an old-time
pit boss named
Dennis taught me when I first learned to deal
mini-baccarat. I'm sure
it was for my amusement and not to protect the
casino's war chest,
since we seldom saw a wager over five bucks, but
he told me to count
the 4s and 6s as they left the shoe. He said when
4s exit the deck,
statistically the player should be betting on
the banker, and when 6s
come out, the player wager is the smarter bet.
Is
this count method practical? Hell if I know, but
one thing Denny was
always good for was free after shift drinks at
the casino bar.
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