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In My Mailbox20 October 2000
Here are some interesting questions from my mailbox: On page 13 of your excellent book (the out-of-print Baccarat for the Clueless), you mention that a combined banker and tie bet "has a 55.4% chance of winning". I'm sure my lack of arithmetic ability has caused me to read more into this than I should and no doubt you cover elsewhere information that throws this point into a clear perspective. I probably should have emphasized this point a bit more. The chance of winning is not the same as "positive expectation," which I think you are confusing it with. "Chance of winning" in this case means that either banker or tie will win 55.4% of the time. However, your average winnings will be less than your average loss, meaning that you still have the hefty house edge against you and this is not a long-term winning strategy. If you are not an advantage player, betting bank continuously is always the best (i.e., loses least) strategy. I will rewrite this section in any second edition to make it clearer. How many ties in a baccarat shoe, and how many in an infinite shoe? A quite accurate estimation of the average number of ties in a shoe is to simply take into consideration the number of decks dealt out. If they deal out almost all of six decks, you would have about six ties. Easy, eh? With an infinite-deck shoe, there would be an infinite number of ties. I'm not being silly here, that really is the answer. Basically a tie will happen every ten hands. Are there any ways to get an advantage against an internet casino? There are three basic methods I know of that have been used in practice to beat netcasinos.
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