Baccarat Strategy

Baccarat and mini-baccarat are games that require almost no skill. There aren’t any complicated strategies to foul up, nor do you have to count cards. All you have to do is pick the player hand or the banker hand to win or bet on a tie. Your decision will mainly be a guess. With the low house advantage of baccarat and mini-baccarat, players can play for hours, winning sometimes and losing sometimes, almost at random.

As a kind of strategy, some people like to track the winner of each hand in baccarat and mini-baccarat. They think that this will help them determine the winner of the next hand. Sometimes the game lends itself to trends. For example, the bank hand might win four in a row, then the player hand wins four in a row. If you’re tracking the winners, you might very well bet on the banker’s hand next because of this pattern.

Tracking the winners shows only who’s won in the past; it doesn’t show who’ll win the next hand. So this strategy is questionable. If you are successful picking the next winning hand by tracking the past winners, by all means continue your tracking.

Sometimes players get sucked into betting large amounts on a hand that hasn’t won in a long time. Don’t let this happen to you. For example, if the player hand has won ten times in a row, a lot of people tend to think the bank hand has to win in the next couple of hands, so they bet large amounts on the bank hand. This is a very bad method of gambling. While the law of probability would be in favor of the bank winning, it doesn’t mean that will happen.

A good strategy is to bet only the amount you can afford to lose on each hand and to have fun while you make these bets. There really is no effective strategy here that will allow you to beat the house. The game is mainly played for fun and with the expectation of not losing or winning too much. Anyone who does win big at this game is just lucky.