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If you like gambling and card games, you have probably seen “21”, a 2008 movie directed by Robert Luketic and based on the true story about a MIT Students Team, that between 1980 and 1990 broke the bank at several Las Vegas casinos by card counting in blackjack. Card counting in live blackjack tables not using any automatic shuffle machine is definitely a possibility regardless of the number of decks used and it is profitable. But probably not everyone knows that the card counting technique can be adopted in other popular casino card games, including Baccarat. Even if apparently a bit more complicated, the system behind card counting in baccarat is indeed quite simple to apply.
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Not As Straightforward As It Seems
It sounds a bit too obvious that you play to win baccarat but some people may not be particularly bothered about winning. This is not to claim that they are stupid people without objectives. It just means that they have different hopes and ambitions when they play baccarat. You cannot impose your own value system on people who may not be interested in making as much money as you yourself would like to make. There is a whole spectrum of people in the community with different aspirations. This diversity is also reflected in the clientele at a game of baccarat. Even within the same family, brothers and sisters can have wholly different objects despite having identical upbringings.
If you are playing to win, you will need to have this fact at the back of your mind and set your strategy in such a way that it will be full proof against the obstacles that could possibly derail you from you objective of winning at the game. There has to be a difference in organizing for a mere pastime and actually playing to win baccarat.
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.