Well, not exactly FREE … but AAP is being sold at the minimum price that Amazon will allow me to sell it so that people can by multiple copies, for example $18 per copy in the U.S., essentially meaning I am giving up nearly all the royaltees Amazon allows.
I plan on leaving the book at the minimum allowable price for the near future. So, buy lots of copies — for friends, for relatives, for co-workers, for someone who annoys you, or if you work at a casino, for everyone who works in your casino.
Here’s the big news, maybe the biggest news in my casino-life since my retirement in 2017. I will be attending the 2022 World Game Protection Conference, held February 15-17 at the Tropicana in Las Vegas.
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I decided to create a very simple calculator to focus on the one thing players and casino surveillance care about the most — what is the edge when a player makes a wager. And so I give you, the Baccarat Edge Calculator:
This is an Excel spreadsheet that uses macros. You can use this spreadsheet for real-time analysis of a shoe in progress, or you can use it to analyze a shoe after-the-fact. It covers all the most popular baccarat variations as well as the most common side bets. Full instructions and information is available in the spreadsheet to make it easy to understand and easy to use.
A full-featured spreadsheet that allows player analysis is also available, see the previously shared Baccarat Risk Analyzer .
Enjoy!
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[The original article is at 888casino.com. Many thanks to 888 for permission to repost this article here.]
I have recently been obsessing over computer-perfect play against the baccarat Tie bet and Pairs bet. The current post takes computer-perfect baccarat to the next level. I am going to give the computer-perfect win-rates and other statistics for each of the Player, Banker and Tie bets for a variety of cut card placements. This will allow me to give an overall win-rate for a patron using a computer to play baccarat perfectly.
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[This article appears at 888casino.com, but folks in some countries can’t access it. Due to the popularity of this article, I am reposting it here. Gratitude to 888 for permission to re-post.]
From time to time the question of card counting in baccarat comes up. Because baccarat is dealt from a shoe, it follows that the odds for the banker/player/tie bets change as cards are dealt. As more and more cards are dealt, a counter will get an ever more precise estimation of the composition of the cards that remain. Continue reading
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Tagged baccarat, baccarat card counting
I am announcing the release of a new statistical blackjack side bet analysis VBA Excel spreadsheet. You can find it in the downloads section of this blog, or just CLICK HERE.
This spreadsheet allows the user to compute the house edge for any pay table, any number of decks for a number of popular blackjack side bets. In addition, this spreadsheet allows the user to input a custom shoe composition or to follow the play of a shoe in real-time and get updated edges after each hand. This facilitates computation of EORs to develop counting systems, assists online play and also allows surveillance to assess if a player is using a system to get an edge.
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Tagged 21+3, Blackjack side bet, insurance, King's Bounty, Lucky Ladies, Lucky Lucky, Pair Square, Perfect Pairs, Royal 20's, Royal Match
If you’re looking for me after my retirement from the casino world, here I am.
I am available for expert witness services for gaming and casino related legal cases. I am also available for selective free consulting, interviews and public speaking.
In this blog, I will be sharing some of the odd tidbits in my archive from my days in the casino industry. I may create some new stuff along the way, so stay tuned!
If you’ve got a question or comment about something I’ve posted, please feel free to email me directly at:
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