Baccarat card counting

Baccarat is a card game in which cards are dealt from a shoe and not replaced. As always when sampling from a finite population without replacement, the odds of subsequent trials depend on each other. However, these changes are neglectible, given that the shoe often contains 6 to 8 decks of cards, which is a good approximation of infinity as far as card counting is concerned.

It has been proven by Edward Thorpe amongst others, that no baccarat card counting strategy can overcome the house edge in the long run. Compared to Blackjack, baccarat card counting is about 9 times less effective. Note that card counting makes no sense in the first place in online casinos, as the shoe is reshuffled every turn (sampling *with* replacement).

Tip: The best Baccarat bets (with the lowest house edge) are offered Micrograming casinos and Boss Media casinos, because they offer single-deck Baccarat.