Hi Silverfox
I understand that you're a professional baccarat player.
May I know, if there are 2 bacarrat tables, one is a normal table (5% comm on banker bet) and the other one is a no-comm. baccarat table (50% comm. on banker winning on 6), which one will you choose to play? Which one has a lower house advantage?
Thanks in advance!
I am not a 'professional' yet, just semi-pro:p
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In theory, I ever read before that when the comm % is reduced from 5% to 4%, the casino's advantage edge is greatly reduced. But I myself haven't been to a casino that charges less than 5%.
In a shoe, average out about 60-65 hands will be played.
Let's say each hand you bet $100. In 60 hands, let's say there are 30 banker results. And out of this 30, 4 are Banker6.
So instead of winning $100, you win $50, and you make $200 less due to B6.
If it's a 5% comm table, out of 30 banker hands, you make $150 less due to every banker bet only getting $95 in return.
For me, I have no preference. Because trying to keng on this, will not make one rich. Because the most important task is to be able to win on all kinds of tables and conditions. The most common condition is the mini baccarat where Banker6 gets 50%.
Most people prefer to buy PLAYER, because in all conditions, PLAYER pays full if won. AND majority of people lose money in casinos. :o However I am not saying buying Player is bad.
You must be able to read each and every game. Every shoe is different in its way. There is no full proof single system that can win by itself. I myself combine a few systems into 1 thus anykind of table, shoe, hands, I can guess more or less what kind of results will turn up. Of course there will be shoes where I lose, but I know how to cut loss in a single shoe. That is to say if i lose a certain amount of credits, I stop and go for next shoe or next table and start again. Thus in this way, when I win, I continue, when I lose, I cut. Average out, can win a few hands every 1-2 hours. The most important point I will drive across is I bet only at most 50% of bets in a shoe. So that means a shoe has 60 hands, I bet at most 30 hands and this itself is very rare. Normally around 10-20 hands on average.
I have no problems when I see people following what I bet on tables, as they see I am winning. Because by the end of the shoe, they have won the same number of credits as me, but they never understand how to win. So the most important thing for one to win, is to understand how to win at the game.
Imagine you are luckless, how to win at a table, that is the kind of scenario one should be looking at.
Next thing, understand the rules of the game. Many people bet Baccarat without knowing what kind of scenario player take 3rd card, under what condition for player then the banker must take 3rd card. Study the rules of the game carefully and analyse why it is so. Then from there one can know what is the advantage of playing Baccarat. Casinos make money not because of the house edge but because many people gamble without knowing what is the card conditions. It's like a chef, don't know how to cook, just know how to eat, or cook maggi mee means he can become a chef? Even a top chef takes years to reach the top, what about a professional gambler?
Gambling is something which is being portrayed in a very bad form because many people lose money, lose house, lose family, friends. We have seen how people become addicted. But to boil down, gambling is not the root. It's human's greed that kills. Everyone always highlight gambling in its bad form with all the horror stories. But when a fairy tale story is shown, people start to believe and this is bad. It's true, there are fairy tale stories, just that compare to horror ones, its much much less if not casinos would have close down.
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