What is The Art of Baccarat?

The fact is, I understand it because I have the experience, the brick and mortar play with over four decades of solid play starting with those big beautiful 14 seat BAC tables, two sided with seven seats on each side, three dealers with two floor people, one at each end, the entire shoe, each and every shoe.  The shoe was held by each player in a counterclockwise rotation and each player dealt the cards until that player dealt out a winning Players hand, no matter what side the person was wagering on.  It truly was an 'art' because of the way it was played, the majority understanding the complexity of the game and the extreme respect for it that surpasses anything seen these days.

No scoreboards, no side bets, just simple and pure, respectful BAC. The game was played by the majority of its players that really did understand what was happening and how to approach it. Of course that developed into the mini and midi BAC tables with the scoreboards the players adore, watching and pointing to, believing they can transport the statistics that they read about on the Internet into real life with guaranteed triggers.

However, you have to understand the true Art of BAC. There is a distinct definition of not just what it is, but the how and the reasoning of why. Not, and I emphasize the "should" or the "statistics" that do not consistently and never will apply to the 1-2-3 or 4 shoes anyone sits down to play in a session.

The Art of BAC is definitely the ability, the execution, using profits to comfort oneself, avoiding grinding down the buy-ins that sit in front of the players because the players that understand the Art of BAC, are different than the highest of the highest majority of all players these days.

The Art of BAC. There is one, seriously there is. If you get it right most of the time, you got it. If not, sit down and think hard and long, change your ways. Once you do, you're on your way to understanding the Art of BAC.

You have to be a receiver of your actions and not a defensive wall the highest majority of the time. The game of BAC is not just about watching the presentation of hands produced +/- 80 times from a shoe. The Art of BAC is about you and your ability to understand it and merge your conscious with a skillful application of imagination and creativity that develops into intellectual responses entitled, 'wagering'. That my friend is the art of BAC.

Can't make this stuff up.  Pull tabs, huh?  Yeah, gambling I guess.

Federal charges accuse a payroll manager of embezzling more than a million dollars from a Minnesota company "to fund her gambling and pull-tab addiction."

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/payroll-manager-embezzles-1m-for-pull-tab-addiction-charges-say/#

REALITY BACCARAT

PLEASE NOTE:  This will be a new thread of shorts, tidbits and similar baccarat reality.  Real life, non statistical and leaving the, 'should have' out.

Just to help me focus a bit at the table.  I consolidated down my betting and Pos Progressions on a score card.  These are for a $2,000/$2,500 max bet table.  It really does help me in numerous ways.

They are read from Left to Right.

There is a distinct definition of not just what you desire o wager on and how you manage your win or loss, subsequent to a wager.  We all have our unique and exclusive styles of doing such.  However, I personally look for stability in my play and positive progressions such as those on my sheet below, giving me a constant reminder of what I should be doing when I win wagers. 

EXAMPLE:  If I can do a $450-$900-$1,800 and profit net $3,150 on my short 1 + 2, I can then divide up the $3,150 for the ammunition, stress free, buy-in free, to attack something sizable within the shoe. 

It works for me as I constantly am looking at my sheet.  Easier than attempting to implement it all into my subconscious.

Wynn Casinos and Resorts and their weak security systems falls prey to hackers.

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Like my man Ron White says, "you cannot fix stupid!". This guy has to be the ultra stupidity of all idiotic F***ing people.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xe-bQ2qwjsM


And like my man says:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UQv7Tr8HbGE&pp=ygUecm9uIHdoaXRlIHlvdSBjYW4ndCBmaXggc3R1cGlk

The other night, a show following our fantastic and off the wall, abundance of winning side bets.

Equalization.
Heavy 3rd Card Increases and Reductions.
Naturals Cut.
Sections Following.

35 Bankers
36 Players
4 Ties
75 Total Hands

Sides:
2 P8s
2 F7s
1–3 Card 9-9 Heavenly 9s
1 Blazen 7s 2 Card 7-7 Tie
11–3 Card 9s Heavenly 9s
45–Dragon Bonues 4:1 to 30:1 Payouts


Will post later how we played it and some reasoning as to why.

7 iar P
1 B
7 iar P
1 Tie
2 B
1 P
1 B
2 P
1 B
2 P
3 B
1 P
1 Tie
2 B
2 P
2 B
2 P
1 B
1 P
1 B
1 P
1 B
1 P
3 B
5 P
4 B
2 Ties iar (1 3 card 9-9 & 1 Nat 8-8)
1 P
1 B
1 P
1 B
1 P
6 B
1 P
5 B

My friend keeps notes on most all shoes as to the card values. I will call him and see if he has these.  Especially to figure out what the Dragon Bonuses paid out.

The other night we had an absolutely great session with two shoes as explained in post number 1510 in AsymBacGuy's thread.  Click on link to read it.

https://betselection.cc/index.php?topic=10695.msg73464;topicseen#msg73464

The three of us desiring to wind down the extreme hype we all had, discuss the events and eat some great food went to an off-property fantastic steakhouse.   

What we had:  20 ounce T-bone. Prime rib with a great horseradish cream sauce. Huge porterhouse steak. Our plan was for each of us to split those. Sautéed mushrooms and garlic grilled Parm lemon asparagus. For dessert we ordered banana cream pie and chocolate mousse pie and a cheesecake with fresh raspberries with extra raspberries on the side. They are known for huge desserts which we knew we could split them amongst ourselves.

Summation of what we talked about: Great BAC players do not convince themselves they have a rock solid winning guarantee.  Anything and everything can quickly fail and likewise anything and everything can quickly turn into great profitability.

A great BAC player knows when to quit, so they do not go broke and you have enough money for the next session.

A great BAC player will not take away his next chance, by refusing to walk away from the session that is not working. An extremely difficult decision to make and always unknown if it can change, because we tend to hold the past in our inner resistance as I have described in other writings on the board here.

But it involves admitting failure if we walk away while losing money. That is almost too hard to do for most all of us. Most of us can't even imagine walking away while we're losing unless we bust our entire buy-in amount without re-buying in and attempting to recoup. And that my friends is what, at least our group now recognizes and pledged not to fall prey to as a protocol.

Countless fantastic BAC players talk a good game, a good plan as well as having excellent triggers, but if you cannot execute them for whatever reasons, you are going to lose each and every time.

We talked about it and discussed in detail the absolute necessity of being totally in conscious and that is fully 100% conscious while playing; being resilient as well as recognizing and being conscious of our inner habits that we all have. I've written about those on the forum here as I have mentioned in other writings on the forum.

The last thing that we discussed was not taking a view of 'in totality' when playing a shoe.  We all agreed on recognizing  'Sections' and having some sort of blinders on to the left and right sides of each 'Section' of the shoe. 

What we did after dinner and desserts:  We shared a fantastic bottle of Hennessy XO Cognac, along with side dishes of fresh grapes, sliced pears and beautifully smoked and sea salted herring.  We then recalled the comical events and situations of our side bets that most all of us continued to hit including in detail the back-to-back Fortune 7s and the back-to-back Panda 8s.  My two BAC buddies mimicked me with the details of the back-to-back F7 $1,900 dealer tip I had the lady fall prey to, as well as the waitress sprinkling her magical dust on the cards for the back-to-back P8 and the players side dragon bonus 8-0.

Our bill came to just under $1,100 but it was well worth the $450.00 each we tossed in! 

The laughter, the camaraderie and the experience of live table 'anything goes' baccarat, priceless to the hundredth degree!

Good article about the Trump casinos back a few years.  Explains in brief reference their money activities. 

The Trump Taj Mahal casino broke anti-money laundering rules 106 times in its first year and a half of operation in the early 1990s, according to the IRS in a 1998 settlement agreement.

It's a bit of forgotten history that's buried in federal records held by an investigative unit of the Treasury Department, records that congressional committees investigating Trump's ties to Russia have obtained access to, CNN has learned.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/22/politics/trump-taj-mahal

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BAC is a game where we all receive a unique set of unexpected limitations with variables in a shoe of approximately 80 hands, eight decks of cards, making up 4-6 card presentments.  The question is, how will you decide which hands to respond to that are about to be dealt? You can either totally focus on your three bad habits which we all have, or you can empower yourself to play the game of BAC resourcefully and profitably making the very best of each group of limitations you wager correctly upon.

The bottom line is, while you cannot totally control what is happening, or about to happen in front of you, you must control yourself by the way you respond to what is happening or just happened. And you do exactly that by managing your habits of mind. Yes, much easier said than done.  However, because it is hard to change the thinking habits we all have developed as they are mostly at a subconscious level. We, you, everyone can get better by bringing the awareness as to what each of us are doing when we are in that seat at the BAC table with our hands placing those wagers. Bad habits of drain us. Plain and simple. Bad energy removes good things from each of us, you cannot change that. And if you let it happen you are doomed.

1). The Habit of Expecting Things to be a Certain Way

All of us have it to some degree. Some all the time, others at certain times. Without realizing it and being conscious of it, expecting things in BAC to be presented a certain way will definitely kill you.

Leave the expectations at the door before you buy-in at the table. Realize you do not know and at the same time, you do not expect to know what is going to happen and how it will be presented. (Oh, that will be ultra hard for the egotistical player, buy hey-it's your money my friends). Be totally impartial with total openness and that will in most cases, keep you away from expecting things to be a certain way. Because if you fall into the latter as I said in the first paragraph above, you will kill your buy-in, each and every time.

Have no habit of expectations. Period. Recognize the habit with your consciousness and awareness as you play by saying repeatedly to yourself, "I have no expectation of any certain way".

Try what I laid out, probably a new experience for yourself but all you are doing is setting your mind free of expectations that probably would not have occurred anyways. 

Here is the bottom line of your habit of expecting things to be a certain way. If you approach the BAC table with expectations of how it should be, or how it has to be in order to meet your expectations, they will almost every single time fail to come together and match you. And you will be stuck in a habitual cycle and probably will not even notice the damage you are doing to your gaming results most every time you play.

2). The Habit of Your Inner Resistance

In so many words, your fear and procrastination rolled up into one. Causes hesitation and avoidance of most things you desire. What is better at the BAC table, fear and procrastination or desires? One thing for sure and I welcome challenge, is when the group of clumping of any type is present, only unadulterated desire will allow you the guts and balls to wager on it for some handsome wins! And after all isn't that what gambling is all about getting some decent return on the money that we risk?

The aspect of your inner resistance is, that it is an invisible and negative force that will govern you because we all have common tendency to submit to our vulnerability and fear of failure. You generally feed into it with anxiety and distraction over the loss of your buy-in funds.

You must find what it is you fear that causes your inner resistance. Start by complete acknowledgment of your wagering fears, once you discover, you can then begin moving towards some type of insight to overcome the fears that hold you down in gaming. Most all of us will say, I don't have any fears or inner resistance. And those classifying all losses as uncaptured variables and unplayable shoes have some type of negative inner resistance.

No matter what happens, post each wager, you must face every wager with no tension and with more conscious presence.  That is an ABSOLUTE MUST.  The PRESENCE put you in neutrality and focus that are huge advantages. You will then be able to change your mode from struggling with harmful inner resistance to a beautiful one of flow and acceptance no matter what happens with the hand.

3). The Habit of Focusing Only on What Is/Was Wrong

The greatest thing about BAC is that almost every situation one can imagine has hidden beauty in it, if we are only willing to focus on what is actually happening. Of course that is much easier said than accomplished. Try putting aside the term, "difficult" at the table. Try the best you can to forget all the "wrong" that was or is at the table in past hands or in the current hand.

BAC is playable. And it's very playable and it's winnable. The biggest problem is we are all attempting a rocksolid approach to a "most likely win guaranteed" to be in our favor situation. Like I said in the first sentence of this section, every situation usually happens.  Those are or can be, chop, doubles, triples, ones and twos, ones and threes, streaks long and short, naturals cut, ties cut, ties stick, naturals stick, etc., etc., etc.  Problem being, you cannot follow only one because if you do, then you lose when the 'cut' happens and you become frustrated and emotional.  Because the biggest problem being, when you bet, it changes up. Simple. So simple it is so overlooked by people, because they just don't understand how simple it really is.

So, that is why I say we are in the habit of focusing on what is/was wrong with our decisions. I am not going to sit here and write, our wagers are all controllable and in perfect sync with the presentments that we are betting on. However, if you can always remind yourself that your wager is more powerful than the perfect present circumstance finding some type of inner peace, controlling the situation as it unfolds without any frustration whatsoever.  You will have to be in total consciousness of not allowing yourself to fall back into old habits of 'mind supply', that focus on what you have done wrong. Because you cannot move forward if you keep going back.  (Mind Supply: A person's attention. A person's memory. A person identified with their intellectual faculties. A desire or inclination that occupies one's thoughts.)

Summation

It's totally up to you and you alone. I know at the BAC table, I have won a great deal of wagers 'easier' when I was in a total oblivious state to my past bad habits as well as being in my current win state with total consciousness of neutrality. Likewise, I know I have lost a lot of wagers in sessions because I was stuck consciously within my bad habits. I admit it here, unlike many forums with countless members that write about how they all have their "unpublished——secret and never to be disclosed" protocols for winning all their hands for fear of casinos learning.  In so many words, their precious and golden Holy Grails.  ROMAFL! 

Myself, I found that writing, expressing and discovering my thoughts, play and related have led me to a much better understanding of the game, the people playing it and how psychologically our brain functions play a much larger part of wagering and interpreting the baccarat shoe and its presentments than most can ever imagine.

I am well aware how most all of us will go to a casino, walk up to a BAC table and our mind goes basically blank. We will remember our last couple of losses and possibly our wins easily, but as far as the things I brought out here, confusion surrounds us how to remember them as we play. All you have to do is write some small reminders on the BAC card, as you were allowed to have scorecards in front of you at all the properties I have ever been to in the USA. They are as follows.

"Do not expect things a certain way"

"No inner resistance at all"

"Ignore everything wrong, what Was/Is'

As the old saying goes, the balls in your court.

Full baccarat table with the following 9 players:

Tim Walz.  Says out loud, "This casino is depriving us of our rights!"

Jacob Frey.  Says out loud, "We have rights! This is targeted operations!"

Letita James.  Says out loud, "This shoe inconsistency is totally unacceptable."

Gavin Newsom.  Says out loud, "Can someone pass me some hair gel and a comb."  Then he says, "This game is total redderict to the absolute maximum."

Bernie Sanders.  Says out loud, "You guys should all donate part of your bank roll to me before you lose it all.  We will just call it a political donation (While he is winking his eye) and I will document it for you."

Kamala Harris. As the shoe first opens, she stands and screams out while raising both of her arms, "I am the first African American woman to play baccarat."  She is wearing a 1970s style blue Jean jacket with a large embroidered back graphic of a fist and the words, "Muslim Power Rules!"

Elon Musk.  Says out loud, "With all of your wagering decisions I clearly understand the need for Artificial Intelligence and satellites to support the delivery of smart info, there are just so many considerably low IQ people."

Andrew Dice Clay.  Says out loud as he placed a table max wager, "Go ahead, marry her. Don't marry her, man. How do you know where she's been? Huh! How do you know she's not the biggest tocking whore to ever walk this tocking town, man? I went with this one girl, she was such a tocking tramp, I had to double park my dick on her behind and wait an hour to get in. It's unfuckingbelievable, I'm telling ya."

AsymBacGuy.  He has been winning about 9 out of 10 hands he wagered.  Most all others have exhausted their buy-ins and additional buy-ins multiple times.  AsymBacGuy finally gets up and says out loud, "What a bunch of friggen Jerks, now I understand the need for insane asylums and human lethal injections."

Pro Basketball Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups, former NBA guard Damon Jones and nearly three dozen co-defendants will stand trial beginning Nov. 2, a federal judge said Wednesday.

https://www.espn.com/NBA/story/_/id/48103259/trial-date-set-chauncey-billups-others-rigged-poker-case

There are a few saying and phrases that are commonly used at the table, that I read on other internet locations that are usually mistaken.

"Checks Play". Normally used to alert pit that a larger unusual variance in bet amount was just placed.

"Bilking".  Used in joking around about cheating. Usually casino taking players money or sometimes the opposite.

"Player Takes".  Dealers knowingly can tell player has more than table maximum and generally asked for or dealer doesn't want to break down the wagered amount. But the person will only get paid the table max if wager was won and will be returned excess chips if that wager was lost.

"In Play Betting". Meaning placing an additional bet while an event is actually happening, during a hand. At bac never allowed.

"Cold Table". Very subjective term. The highest majority of people are repetitively losing. Of course it won't always stay like that and you will hear that depending on how many people were playing and how many people lost over a certain amount of time. Never anything set as to any amount of time that determines when a table is or was cold.

"Hot Table". Very subjective term. The highest majority of people are repetitively winning.  Of course it won't always stay like that and you will hear that depending on how many people were playing and how many people won over a certain amount of time. Never anything set as to any amount of time that determines when a table is or was hot.

You can Google just about anything now. It's been that way for a number of years, but not really during the good old days of infamous big table bac.

You know, sit down and think about it. You cannot download
bac experience. You cannot download bac failure. You cannot download bac struggling. You will get opinions and twisted definitions or explanations from either inexperienced and possibly a few experienced players.  Most people will not be able the decipher between wrong and right, disadvantage and advantages.  But you cannot download them and be able to absorb them into your body.

The real learning my friends is called, Blood, Sweat and Tears!

Yes, you can't learn from the Internet, Googling, Wiki, etc. But the real experience, gut feelings, knowing what how and why certain events almost always occur, and so much more, you can only build up from once again, actual experience.

What a total scum bucket!  Should have a uniform when he goes to jail with the embroidered words, "Police Chief who lied and stole".

Attorneys should have a field day with countless cases being prosecuted by his department.


https://www.newhavenindependent.org/2026/02/20/arrest-warrant-chief-bet-4-4m-online/


Click below to read the actual affidavit with tons of detailed info in it, including money bet, wins and losses from online gaming concerns:

https://www.newhavenindependent.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/2600005814_Redacted.pdf

Take them to heart, ignore them, call me silly, recognize them and explore, whatever floats your boat as the saying goes.

But, I will tell you one thing.  My years of playing bac have ultra reinforced me to believe in and abide by the following:

* A shoe in time.  Is relatively short.

* Nothing is guaranteed.

* Everything will change again. The good or bad situation is here now, it changes. There are basically 14 presentment trends, most of all appear in most all shoes. Picking one, two or even three of those will be suicide.

* Change your responses. The presentments will not change your wagers. Your wagering must change and conform to the presentments. Huge difference.

* You will NEVER have all the answers.

* There is NO HOLY GRAIL.  Period!

* Be super careful of bringing today's societal aura of 'Instant Everything' to the bac table.  It will bite you the highest majority of the times. 

California cardrooms anticipate thousands of layoffs as gambling rules change.  Operators may be forced to drop blackjack and other table games due to new state rules that they say favor tribal casinos

"A banked card game is a type of gambling game in which players place bets against a central dealer, known as the banker or house, rather than directly against each other.

Cardrooms — like the Gardens Casino — are state-licensed venues that, under state law, may only offer player-banked or peer-to-peer games — or tables where players play against each other, not the house.

Bonta is now saying California laws on banked games must adhere to the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 and California Proposition 1A passed in 2000, according to the California National Indian Gaming Association. However, the cardroom industry disputes the tribal gaming industry's legal interpretation of these laws, saying that Bonta's rules could disrupt its business model.

Pai gow was the first card game using a player-dealer position in the cardroom industry in 1983.

Outsourced player-dealer services— or third party proposition players as they are known in casino parlance — came in 1990. An outsourced player-dealer service is a licensed independent company, not the casino itself, whose employees play in cardroom table games to ensure they remain active and filled, acting as a neutral party like any other player in the game."


https://www.presstelegram.com/2026/02/15/california-cardrooms-anticipate-thousands-of-layoffs-as-gambling-rules-change/

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/two-indian-american-men-indicted-for-allegedly-using-3000-stolen-identities-to-defraud-online-gambling-sites-of-3-million/articleshow/128077490.cms#

As Kungfubac wrote in another post, I will quote:

"Tried-and-True Money Casino Gambling Management Techniques

I agree with most of the authors' suggestions.
re: Stop Loss and Stop Win.

Stop Loss:
Personally, I do not rebuy into the same shoe after busting a buyin. I do go get another buyin but will select a different shoe, go to different casino, maybe take a restroom break/walk around 15-20mins,...etc.

What is interesting is when I bust a buyin it seems I will bust another within a few shoes or days and often that second bust in close proximity will have a Net-(i.e., meaning it had not earned itself once).

Recently I had gone about 9 weeks without busting my buyin(very long for me). It busted and a short time later( a couple days later) it busted again with only a 19% win of itself. Most busts that are Net- I seem to at least have profits of 60%--80% prior to bust.

Stop Win: Personally I do not think we should have a Stop Win. Simply implement a trailing loss (similar to investing in a stock or precious metals,..etc). One never knows how long the current winning trend will last(shoes, days, weeks, months,..etc)."

https://www.888casino.com/blog/gambling-management-tchniques

VERY IMPORTANT SUBJECT TO ME AND I BELIEVE OTHERS.  I SPENT THE TIME TO OUTLINE AND CONDENSE MY LONG DRAWN OUT THOUGHTS INTO THE FOLLOWING:

*Stop Loss. It is an easy definitive stopping event for myself. If I lose my buy-in, I am done for the session. Not to restart after a break, not to go get additional funds or restart once again. I know my limits and I know my risk limits. If I lost, I lost. My reasoning is, if I lost the buy-in, I would be stuck in a recovery mode to recoup the lost funds and for myself, that only favors the casino 95 times or so out of 100. I've learned this from the past four (4) decades of play I have participated in.

*Stop Win. Lots of opinions written on lots of forums and broadcast on countless videos on the Internet. Believe what you want, but I know one thing for certain, most wins are shown or written about and losses are not.

I have a few different items I use to determine how much of a win I should walk with. I am pretty strict with my ultimate decision when a session turns winning and when to enter my 'Stop Win' event mode.

If I wound up into a winning session which I determine by at least doubling my buy-in risk capital, at that point I generally enter my 1/3rd-1/3rd-1/3rd status of play. I have talked about this extensively on the forum here. It is a critical part of my M.M.M.  (I and numerous others within my circle of player friends have become better players because of this alone).

My buy-in capital will be removed and locked up as well as either 1/3rd or 2/3rds of my 1/3rd-1/3rd-1/3rd division of winning funds. I will continue my play with at least 1/3 rd of those, or perhaps 2/3rds. This will depend on several factors of how easy or difficult it was to get to that point, which I'm not going to discuss here because those are specific to each session.

If I continue to win wagers while staying within 1/3rd to 1/2 of the win as my wagering capital, I will then enter 'set-asides', which I value and respect  differently than the 1/3rd-1/3rd-1/3rds.  (Set-Asides are another topic and I have also written about them elsewhere on the forum).  Bottom line is, my protocols on a stop win will be dependent upon how much and how quick I continue winning, and/or the opposite.

*So, am I just going to hit my trigger, which is doubling my buy-in and then employing a stop win?  No, of course not! However, I found a very comfortable, satisfying and proven implementation of strategies that allow me to continue playing/winning or walk away and end the session with complete satisfaction that I did the best I could have done and not have that feeling or desire to walk back after I cashed out.

Those are my Stop Win and Stop Loss thoughts and rules. 


NOTE:  I only play Brick & Mortar casinos.  My buy-in is a smaller % of my bankroll in the neighborhood of 1/20th-1/25th.  I am not a fan of consistently building a bankroll larger as it tends to add fallacy and chasing to the gambler.  Any previous losses are immediately replaced when a win happens.  FYI, I can bust numerous buy-ins but it would be very very difficult (almost impossible) for me to bust my bankroll. 

(I have received inquiries reference the California (non-Indian Tribe casinos) gaming rules, where the gamblers themselves are the 'player-dealers' and if no one desires to act as a 'player-dealer' than there are corporation bankers at each table.  That is why in all the new YouTube videos popping up, you will see the casino dealer collecting or paying the wins out of stacks of Chips either always on first base or last base.  Those are where the corporation bankers sit.  All the casino does is collect a collection fee from each hand.  And unless it has been changed since I last been out there a few years ago, each wager pays a $1.00 per hundred ($100.00) wager to the house, the casino.  That is no matter the out come, win or lose.)

Rules & How to Play
Type of Game

The game of EZ Baccarat Panda 8 utilizes a player-dealer position and is a California game. The position shall be offered systematically and continuously in a clockwise manner around the table after every two hands. The player-dealer shall collect all losing wagers, pay all winning wagers, and may not win or lose more than the original amount wagered. Once the player-dealer's wager has been exhausted, the wagers not covered by the player-dealer shall be returned to the respective players. The gambling enterprise does not participate in the actual play of the game and has no interest in the outcome of the play.

Object of the Game

The object of the game is to assemble two hands of two or three cards with an accumulated point value as close to nine as possible.

Description of Deck & Number of Decks Used

The game is played using a standard 52-card deck and no jokers. Cards will be dealt using a multiple deck shoe. A minimum of three decks and a maximum of eight decks shall be used during the play of the game.

Card Values & Hand Rankings

The value of each card used in EZ Baccarat Panda 8, shall be as follows: picture cards (king, queen, jack) and 10's have a value of zero, an ace has a value of one, and all other cards have their face value. When the total numerical value of the cards equals ten or more, only the right-hand digit (numeric count) is considered. The ranking of hands for EZ Baccarat Panda 8, in order from highest to lowest rank, shall be:

HAND DEALT    HAND REQUIREMENTS
Natural 9    A two card hand that has a value of nine. A Natural 9 shall only be achieved when the first two cards dealt to a hand is valued at nine, according to the rules above.
Natural 8    A two card hand that has a value of eight. A Natural 8 shall only be achieved when the first two cards dealt to a hand is valued at eight.
Nine or Eight    A three card hand that has a value of nine or eight.
Seven through Zero    A two or three card hand that has a value of seven, six, five, four, three, two, one or zero.
Description of Table Used & Total Number of Seated Positions

The game shall be played on either a standard blackjack table that accommodates up to seven players and a player-dealer position for a total of eight seated positions or a standard baccarat table that accommodates up to thirteen players and a player-dealer position for a total of fourteen seated positions. Within each betting area for each seated player, there shall be five separate betting spaces specifically designated for five separate wagers; the player line, the banker line, the Tie Bet, the Panda 8 wager, and the Dragon 7 Bonus Bet. Each betting space at the table has a fixed amount for wagering limits defining the minimum and maximum amounts that may be wagered. Players must bet at least the table minimum. Back-line betting is permitted.

Method Used to Determine Action & Distribution of Cards

The game utilizes an action button to determine which player receives first action on their wager. The second card dealt to the banker line determines the position of the action button. The player-dealer position is not counted when determining where the action button shall be placed. The other seats, in clockwise rotation, starting with the player to the left of the house dealer and continuing left to right, respectively represent the other number. When determining where the action button will be placed, cards will hold the following values: Ace is one, 2 through 9 have their face value, jack is eleven, queen is twelve, and king is thirteen.

Dealing Procedures & Round of Play

At the start of a game a player is offered the player-dealer position. Once accomplished, the house dealer shall wait for each player to make their wager in accordance with the table limits.

Each player has the following options when placing their wager(s):
The player line which pays 1 to 1;
The banker line which pays 1 to 1;
The Tie Bet, which pays 8 to 1;

If a player placed a wager on either the player line or the banker line, that player may place a wager on the Dragon 7 Bonus Bet, which pays 40 to 1.

If a player placed a wager on either the player line or the banker line, that player may place a wager on the Panda 8, which pays 25 to 1.

Once all wagers are placed, the house dealer deals one card to the right and one card to the left, one by one in rotation, until each hand has a total of two cards each. All cards are dealt face-up. The hand to the left of the house dealer is a community hand that belongs to those that placed a bet on the banker line. The hand to the right of the house dealer is a community hand that belongs to those that placed a bet on the player line. The player's hand is resolved first and then the banker's hand is resolved. The hand that is closest to nine wins. After the house dealer delivers the first two cards to both the Player line and Banker line, the following Baccarat rules are followed.

The player's hand must stand when the hand is valued at 6 through 9, and must hit when the hand is valued at 5 or less.
If the player's hand stands, then the dealer hand hits on a total of 5 or less.

If the player's hand hits for a complete hand then the banker's hand hits using the following rules:
If the banker's hand total is 3, then the banker's hand is dealt a third card unless the third card dealt to the player's hand was an 8.

If the banker's hand total is 4, then the banker's hand is dealt a third card unless the third card dealt to the player's hand was a 0, 1, 8, or 9.

If the banker's hand total is 5, then the banker's hand is dealt a third card if the third card dealt to the player's hand was 4, 5, 6, or 7.

If the banker's hand total is 6, then the banker's hand is dealt a third card if the third card dealt to the player's hand was a 6 or 7.

The following chart shows when the banker hits (H) or stands (S) according to the rules above:

Player's Third Card
0    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9
7    S    S    S    S    S    S    S    S    S    S
6    S    S    S    S    S    S    H    H    S    S
5    S    S    S    S    H    H    H    H    S    S
4    S    S    H    H    H    H    H    H    S    S
3    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    S    H
2    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H
1    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H
0    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H


The house dealer must use the "house way" when a player requests the house dealer to play an additional wager. House way hands shall be set as follows: player hand hits on five or below and stands on six or more.

How Each Wager Wins, Loses or Pushes

Once both hands have been completed, according to the guidelines above, the player's wagers are settled. The following shall apply for each possible outcome when determining the winner. The player- dealer shall pay and collect all wagers accordingly:
The player-dealer shall pay all winning player line wagers made by players when the player hand is closer to nine than the banker hand.

The player-dealer shall pay all winning banker line wagers made by players when the banker hand is closer to nine than the player hand.

The player-dealer shall collect all losing player line wagers made by players when the banker hand is closer to nine than the player hand.

The player player-dealer shall collect all losing banker line wagers made by players when the player hand is closer to nine than the banker hand.

Tie Bet

For each seated position, there shall be one separate and specifically designated area for the placement of a Tie Bet wager. A player may place a Tie Bet wager even if he/she has not also placed either a Player line wager or a Banker line wager prior to the initial deal.

The player-dealer shall pay all winning Tie Bet wagers when the total of the player's hand and the total of the banker's hand are equal.

The player-dealer shall collect all losing Tie Bet wagers when the total of the player's hand and the total of the banker's hand are not equal.

Backline betting is not permitted on the Tie Bet wager.
See the collection rate schedule for restrictions on the amount that may be wagered on the Tie Bet and any collection fees that may be taken.

The Tie Bet takes into account the total value of the player's hand and the total value of the banker's hand, regardless of the number of cards each hand has, at the completion of the round. Each hand must be played according to the guidelines above. In the event that the player's hand and the banker's hand are of the same value (tie), the tie bet wager shall win. In the event that the player's hand and the banker's hand are not of the same value, the player-dealer shall win the tie bet wager.

All winning Tie Bet wagers shall be paid 8 to 1.

Wagers are collected or paid, to the extent that the player-dealer's wager covers. Once the player- dealer's wager has been exhausted, the wagers not covered by the player-dealer shall be returned to the players.

Dragon 7 Bonus Bet

For each seated position, there shall be one separate and specifically designated area for the placement of a Dragon 7 Bonus Bet wager. A player may only place a Dragon 7 Bonus Bet wager if they have also placed a wager on either the player line or on the banker line prior to the initial deal.

Back-line betting is permitted on the Dragon 7 Bonus Bet.

See the collection rate schedule for restrictions on the amount that may be wagered on the Dragon 7 Bonus Bet and any collection fees that may be taken.

If the banker hand has a point value of seven using three cards and the player's hand has a value of six or less, regardless of the number of cards, the Dragon 7 Bonus Bet wins. The Dragon 7 Bonus Bet shall lose on all other outcomes.

All winning Dragon 7 Bonus Bet wagers shall be paid 40 to 1.
The player-dealer shall pay all winning Dragon 7 Bonus Bet wagers and shall collect all losing Dragon 7 Bonus Bet wagers. Once the player-dealer's wager has been exhausted, the wagers not covered by the player-dealer shall be returned to the players.

Panda 8 Bet

For each seated position, there shall be one separate and specifically designated area for the placement of a Panda 8 Bet wager. A player may only place a Panda 8 Bet wager if they have also placed a wager on either the player line or on the banker line prior to the initial deal.

Back-line betting is permitted on the Panda 8 Bet.

See the collection rate schedule for restrictions on the amount that may be wagered on the Panda 8 Bet and any collection fees that may be taken.

If the player hand has a point value of eight using three cards and the banker's hand has a value of seven or less, regardless of the number of cards, the Panda 8 Bet wins. The Panda 8 Bet shall lose on all other outcomes.

All winning Panda 8 Bet wagers shall be paid 25 to 1.

The player-dealer shall pay all winning Panda 8 Bet wagers and shall collect all losing Panda 8 Bet wagers. Once the player-dealer's wager has been exhausted, the wagers not covered by the player- dealer shall be returned to the players.

Equipment Used

Rules & How to Play EZ Baccarat Panda 8

EQUIPMENT USED

EZTRAK™: Baccarat Edition is an LCD-based hand tracking system that provides players with valuable statistical data, enabling them to calculate trends and percentages for any type of Baccarat table games including the very popular EZ Baccarat™.

Key Features

Table game min and max amounts

Numbers and percentages for Player, Banker, Tie Bets, Dragon 7 and Panda 8 bets
The occurrence of Naturals
The number of hands per shoe
Previous shoe statistics
A timer (optional) that automatically closes all bets for the hand, speeding up hands per hour.
Collection Rates

For table limits and collection rate schedules for the game of EZ Baccarat Panda 8 please refer to the approval of all California Games Collection rates (BGC ID: GEGR-001174).

Table Layout

(Pic of standard EZ Bac table felt)

Without a doubt, BAC is the greatest casino game that cannot be touched by all the others. The game is elite and easily transcends countless times throughout each shoe into superstations, individual beliefs and unmatched gambling depths  few can even grasp unless they are experienced Bac Players.

The game is interpreted widely different but most all players, admittedly or not. The situational aspect of playing BAC puts the highest majority of wagering decisions on a specific set of circumstances rather than being universal, such as in blackjack and a lot of other table games.

BAC players are most of the times joyfully brought together by winning hands and as well, brought down together by losing hands. Hands that were wagered on by both bankers and players bets, are visually divided with joy and sadness when the winning side is revealed.  Simultaneously, both visually and even physically. 

There are numerous types of BAC players, those that are outgoing as well as totally submissive. Those that are loud as well as perfectly quiet. Those that play long hours as well as those that play a fast hit and run style. Those that believe in flat betting and as well, those that parlay without a second thought. There are those that relentlessly continue session after session attempting previous loss recouping without really ever winning as well as, those that use a small portion of their bank rolls with a strong parlay schedule experiencing a much higher cash out profitability rate overall. There are those that play with complete frustration and emotional distraction as well as, those that play with pure passion and clear frame-of-mind.

BAC is a game of wonder in so many ways. I guarantee you that. Many claim it is pure luck and yet many claim it's strictly skill. Many claim it is random while others claim it is not random. BAC is a game of extreme beliefs without any doubt whatsoever. BAC has quick wins for many and quick losses for others.  And those that do not win or lose quickly, have a habit of getting grinded down more often than not.  And, so many continuously wonder why they cannot repeat their wins they have experienced previously in their upcoming wagering attempts just completed. As well, so many also wonder why they lost after they did not (wagering opposite) wager the way they played during their previous losing sessions. Like I said, a game of wondering in the ultimate definition of the word lived out so many times throughout each shoe played.

One can win with the highest point value hand in BAC as well as a zero point value hand.  One can win when all others lose the hand and as well, one can win the hand while losing a certain portion of it, because of the various side wagers available at most tables.

The highest majority of players these days have no idea about the history of BAC prior to the EZ BAC and mini BAC tables from 2000 and up. What I am referring to was the big tables where there were three dealers, two were sitting acting as the table's Bankers with separate chip racks each, side-by-side, each one for their seven seats of players on each end of the table. One dealer known as a Coupier, standing whom the cards were passed to after pulled from the shoe, exposed or unexposed by each gambler themselves. The shoe traveled from player to player and remained with each player as long as a winning bankers hand was made, no matter which side they were wagering on. The big table also had one floor person on each end of the table as well. It was a totally different game, different attitudes, different personalities, different set of patience, a much different level of play and much stronger sense of camaraderie amongst the players overall.  Shoes normally were in the 3 hour range to complete and a shuffle was easily 20 minutes. 

Talking about camaraderie, there was normally unwritten camaraderie amongst players on each side of the table to wager the same side. Unlike today's atmosphere so commonly brought forth, how others can influence losing hands.  Back at the big tables that wasn't a general thought at all. The thought as to a gambler themselves causing a hand to be lost was kinda far fetched if I recall.  It was blamed on the shoe not producing what we thought, or we were just out of sync, or we just simply chose the wrong side. 

BAC even more so than other table games host a wide variety of its players. From restaurant and nail shop workers to the owners themselves. From competing casino Bac Dealers and Floor Personnel or an occasional host from other properties. To a high school dropout working at a McDonald's who out-plays an accomplished college graduate structural engineer most every time. Young and elderly, white, Asian, Latino and black all can be found at the BAC tables, anytime anywhere.

BAC the game were bystanders are in amazement when a two card 18 beats two face cards on the opposite side.  And those same bystanders comment on how the heck a blackjack loses to two cards on the opposite side comprised of just a seven and a two.
Additionally the same bystanders witness a 10 and a five on the players side and a 10 and a six on the bankers side. They see a six drawn for the players side and then a six drawn for the bankers side. Right about that time they shrug their shoulders and walk away.

Priceless, IMO.

The game of BAC.

Taking a break the other night and talking with a few BAC friends at the casino, we wound up discussing new dealers placed on the BAC tables. And we simply do not prefer them in most any way over the regular dealers that we have built a rapport with.

There are just simply no connections, or understanding(s) and certainly no harmony between dealer/player with the new dealers. Most all regular dealers we know, there is a special kind of dealer/player camaraderie. I don't know about you guys but after years of playing BAC, that camaraderie has grown into a bond with players like myself and many others I know personally. In fact, it has helped us countless times with either leaving the table or continuing to great wins.

New dealers do not know what I prefer in chip denominations when I buy-in.  I have to explain it and at times I get a bit of resistance until the floor person is called over.  The regular dealers know and automatically cut it out.

When it's slow or one on one the small talk starts. The regular Dealers, pick up the conversations where they generally last left off and are heads and tails over the new dealers in every way. 

A lot of the new dealers have that fast losing chip sweep that absolutely sucks and so many people detest. Yes the money is going to go away, however that fast sweep is absolutely insulting and ultra negative in my opinion.

Regular dealers have that gentle losing hand chip sweep. Not much more to say about it, but they know how to handle losing hands a lot better than the new dealers do.

Tips.  At least myself, I have a certain strange rapport with all my regular dealers, whereupon my tips are paid and rather than the dealer quickly snatching them up, I stack them and slide them up to the dealer, kinda skirting then across the table somewhat.  The new dealers will quickly pay them and snatch them up without any class whatsoever, IMO.

When I buy-in the new dealers will repetitively ask for my players card when every regular dealer already knows the routine and will just say it is Glen's and point to me and nothing else is said. I have to explain to the new dealer I don't have a card in my pocket and the floor person already knows who I am and sometimes that new dealer even rolls their eyes. Again another uncomfortable feeling.

The ending, so important when a player loses. The new dealer will have that standardized, "thanks for playing, better luck next time". Yeah the regular dealers just don't say anything, they are quiet, give me a quick nod of their head, which means will see you next time and you'll get everything back, type of secret code talk, LOL. But personally I detest and so does everyone else that standardized, "thanks for playing and better luck next time" pure made up trash!

And one final one is a few of my hand gestures that I use throughout the game.  Either for a very brief waiting period before dealing the hand, or I'm not gonna play this hand, or I'm gonna get up and go use my phone and many other ones. The new dealers have no clue and I'm not gonna explain it to them, when the regular dealers make it so comfortable.

Gambling Science: Why the house will always win in the long run

Undoubtedly you have heard the phrase "the house always wins" when it comes to casino gambling. But what does that actually mean?  And why is that said?

After all, people do hit jackpots, people have great runs at table games, people win repeatedly in the sport books, people win at the other games.  And casino games are supposed to be fair – so what guarantees the casino still comes out ahead?

The answer lies in a simple but powerful mathematical idea called "the house edge": a small, systematic statistical advantage built into every single casino game. It's the invisible force that ensures the numbers will always tilt toward the house in the long run.

So, let's unpack and quickly take apart the science behind that edge: how it's constructed, and how it plays out over repeated bets.

Roulette: the clearest place to see the house edge at work

Roulette looks like one of the fairest games in the casino. A spinning wheel with numbered pockets, half colored red and half colored black, and a single ball sent spinning around the outside to eventually land in one pocket at random. If you bet the ball will land in a red pocket (or a black one), it feels like a 50–50 gamble.

But the real odds are a little bit different. In most Australian casinos you'll find 38 pockets on the roulette wheel: 18 red, 18 black, and two "zero" pockets marked 0 and 00. (In Europe roulette wheels have 37 pockets, with only a single 0.)

The zero pockets are what creates the house edge. The casino pays out as if the odds were 50–50, however if you get the color right, you get back the same amount you bet. Which most believe that is a 50-50 chance, but in reality, on a wheel with two zero pockets your chance of winning is 47.37%.

When you bet on a color, the house has a 5.26% edge – meaning gamblers lose about five cents per dollar on average. A single-zero wheel is slightly kinder to the gambler at 2.7%.

You don't see the house edge in the course of a few spins, one-two or three shoes of cards, a few hours at a slot machine, etc. But casinos don't rely on a few spins, a few shoes or a few hours at a machine. Over thousands of bets, the law of large numbers takes over. This is a fundamental idea in probability that implies the more times you repeat a game with fixed odds, the closer your results get to the true mathematical average. The short-term ups and downs flatten out, and the house edge asserts itself with near certainty.

The law of large numbers is why casinos aren't bothered by who wins this spin or that shoe of cards, or even tonight, or win for several nights or even more. They care about what happens over the next million bets. They don't care about the winners (unless they are obviously cheating), they only care that there are enough losers.  Please read the Wiki for a great detailed run down of 'the law of large numbers', that will help you understand this super important info as to what I just mentioned. 

CLICK ON THE WIKI:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers

Simply a great detailed explanation.  OPENING:  "In probability theory, the law of large numbers is a mathematical law that states that the average of the results obtained from a large number of independent random samples converges to the true value, if it exists. More formally, the law of large numbers states that given a sample of independent and identically distributed values, the sample mean converges to the true mean."

And once you understand that, you will be able to adjust your play, gain advantages and use a Money Management Method that benefits you whether you are winning or losing. 

The Gamblers' Ruin problem

Another way to see why the house always wins is through the so-called Gambler's Ruin problem.

The problem asks what happens if a player with a limited bankroll keeps betting against an opponent with effectively unlimited money (even in a fair game).  Say baccarat with 50-50 banker-player wagering with no commission or side bets. 

The mathematical answer is blunt: the gambler will eventually go broke if he continually wagers every hand or a large number of hands per shoe, plays everyday or nearly everyday.  Period, with absolute certainty. 

In other words, even if the odds are perfectly even, the side with finite resources loses in the long run simply because random fluctuations will push them to zero at some point. Once you hit zero, the game stops, while the house is still standing.

You have to fully understand the following without any doubts, "In statistics, gambler's ruin is the fact that a gambler playing a game with non-positive expected value will eventually go bankrupt, regardless of their betting system.  The concept was initially stated: A persistent gambler who raises his bet to a fixed fraction of the gambler's bankroll after a win, but does not reduce it after a loss, will eventually and inevitably go broke, even if each bet has a positive expected value."

Casinos, of course, stack the odds even further by giving themselves a small edge on every bet. That tiny disadvantage, combined with the fact the house never runs out of money, makes ruin mathematically inevitable.

The more bets you make, the worse your chances

Say you walk into a casino with a simple goal. You want to win $100, and you plan to quit as soon as you hit that target.

Your approach is to play roulette, betting $1 at a time on either red or black.

How much money do you need to bring to have a decent chance of reaching your $100 goal? A thousand dollars? A million? A billion?

Here's the surprising truth: no amount of money is enough.

If you keep making $1 bets in a game with a house edge, you are practically certain to go broke before getting $100 ahead of where you started, even if you arrive with a fortune.

In fact, the probability of gaining $100 before losing $100 million with this strategy is less than 1 in 37,000.

You could walk in with life-changing wealth and still almost certainly never hit your modest $100 goal. (The full mathematical explanation is spelled out in, 'the law of large numbers', I referred to above.

Betting bigger may give you a fighting chance

So how do you create a real chance of success? You must either lower your target or change your strategy entirely.

If your target were only $10, you'd suddenly have over a 50% chance of going home happy, even if you started with just $25. A smaller goal means fewer bets, which means less opportunity for the house edge to grind you down.

Or you can flip the logic of Gambler's Ruin: instead of making hundreds of small, disadvantageous bets, you can make one big bet.  Or several depending on your knowledge and bankroll in regards to what you are attempting. 

If you put $100 on red all at once, your chance of success jumps to roughly 47%. This is far higher than the near-zero chance of trying to grind your way up with $1 bets.

The long-run strategy is mathematically doomed, while the short-run strategy at least gives you a fighting chance.

A small house edge adds up

Roulette is the clearest place to see the house edge, but the same structure runs through every casino game. Each one builds in a varying degree of statistical tilt or bias.

Some games, like roulette, have fixed, rule-based house edges that don't change from one player to the next. But others, like blackjack, have a variable house edge that depends on how the game is played. But no game is exempt from the underlying structure.

Small edges don't stay small when you expose yourself to hundreds or thousands of bets. In the long run, the variance fades, and the outcome converges to the house's advantage with almost certainty.  Again, maybe not in a session or two or three or even five.  But the house's advantage will always outweigh yours, always.

That's why the house always wins. Because mathematics never takes a night off.  Never ever.

When you win, there is no charge to color up and leave.  By the way, you can opt-out anytime and remain a winner.

Dedicated to ADulay

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8zgD7UovI6U&list=RDk2fN36wq-zc&index=13&pp=8AUB

Ref the below video in the comments:  "I was a waitress at Waffle House while going to college.  This is the best thing I have ever seen.  It's pretty accurate for a Friday night."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KYNFqmu2toI&pp=ygUQd2FmZmxlIGhvdXNlIHNubA%3D%3D

THE BEST RIGHT HERE!  OMG!  I clicked on this one and just took a sip of coffee when Steve Harvey started about the waitresses screaming when going inside.  Coffee came out my nose and mouth, seriously.  Went to Ameristar casino year in Kansas City and left about 3:30 am, we got to the Waffle House down the road next the interstate and got a table.  The part about the menus in the table were spot on!!! Waffle House loud, waitresses screaming the orders, "sliced, diced and double covered", etc., etc.  A complete zoo inside, everyone screaming and yelling to be heard.  But what great food!  Winning cash at the casino, then the Waffle House afterwards. 

"Waffle House is one of the best places to eat, but eating it at Midnight to before 5am hits absolutely different."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GQtr35B8M4k&pp=ygUMV2FmZmxlIGhveXNl

And on the serious side of things, for those who have no idea what a Waffle House is all about:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tl2hnyXIdlc&pp=ygUMV2FmZmxlIGhveXNl

One last one.  From the comments:  "as a former WaHo overnight server, yes. this is true except the actual dojo and training it implies. i have seen people shot in the parking lot, coworkers OD and get revived, coworkers throw hands then keep on working, drug dealers keep the peace, dealers make change for us, idiots try throwing things, customers arrested, fist fought a lunatic trying to threaten us, crack head call the cops on his self, prostitutes try turning tricks in the bathroom, and much more. i only did it for about 2 years."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nVrFzg4xWps&pp=ygUMV2FmZmxlIGhvdXNl

And one very last one.  GO BACK TO CALIFORNIA BEACH BOY KIDDIE.  ROMAL LAUGHING!

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/XJ3SGI5p4iY