Strategy versus Brawn

Baccarat is one of those rare gambling phenomena which requires a bit of intelligence before you can make anything of it. Gambling is traditionally associated with lady luck and strategy rarely, if ever comes into play. You place your bets and hope that the day is yours and you will not face the ignominy of losing all your money. That is why many objectors to the practice of gambling noted its addictive nature as stemming from the fact that the players had no incentive to use their brains. In essence the gambling phenomenon required that people forget some of their intellectual faculties in favor of vacuous lady luck.
Baccarat challenges this system by requiring that players put a bit more thought into their bets. The intelligence is not so much academic as in requiring that people come up with great theories about the nature of the human body and the diseases that affect it. This type of intelligence is based on the common factors that make human beings what we are. I will try to look at some of the intelligence skills that would make a good baccarat player.

The Classification of Skills

This leads us to the controversial issue of whether people who are allegedly classified as conventionally stupid are able to play this game. There are those who argue that a lack of intelligence is equivalent to stupidity. That if someone can not demonstrate the required level of acumen in trying to play a gambling game such as baccarat, they have no business trying to gamble at all because their relative mental difficulties mean that they will never really succeed.

Others may argue that in fact the intelligence that one gets from baccarat is nothing more than experience. That it does not take too much thought to put in a few simple mathematical calculations and hope then the luck of the day will turn into your favor. Real intelligence for these people is then classified as the ability to earn academic merit and to undertake set disciplines that are prescribed in the various pieces of training materials that form an educational system.

A Pragmatic Conclusion

The pragmatic among us see baccarat as merely a game that requires certain skills that may imitate real intelligence. Thus the successful player will exhibit a combination of experience and innate intelligence. None of these two factors is then taken to be more important than the other or taken to outweigh the importance of the other factors. It is then defined as a dual role of being clever and being wise.
Many of the baccarat players are unable to define what makes them successful and what makes them failures. Those who take a fatalistic approach will continue to believe that it is their fate the ultimately determines how they perform in the game. Those who take a more practical approach will believe that they are indeed masters of their destinies such that if they do certain things and do them well, then the likelihood of them succeeding at baccarat is enhanced. They will also know the things that will not assist them in winning.