Originally Posted by Eliot View Post
Originally Posted by JSTAT View Post
Originally Posted by Eliot View Post
My response:

Nice presentation Eliot, but using a linear count computer simulation (no side counts involved) can fall short of the real value. The use of Quantum Strategy (side counting) can drop the house edge even more. The EZ Baccarat Dragon 7 side bet article you wrote in 2011 on how it can be beaten by card counting should have been noted in the video, https://wizardofodds.com/games/baccarat/dragon-bet/. It inspired me to win at Dragon 7 consistently these days. The feeling is similar to winning at single deck blackjack in the 90's.
It doesn't matter what count you use, how many side bets you use, if you're using hundredth-digit decimal tags or if you use a Quantum computer. You can't do better than perfect play. Repeat that do yourself and learn a little. No card counting system can perform better than computer-perfect play.

In baccarat, computer-perfect play amounts to winning pennies per hour in the long run with a $1000 wager every day or two. If you're doing that, I pity you.
Computer simulation of perfect play can be wrong. Depends on the programmer. Never trusted them after Braun fumbled the computer analysis of the High-Low count for "Beat the Dealer" in 1966. If your computer simulator sims are correct, print out every hand indicating every card played. I'll pay for the paper, expenses, etc. Love to see you use your math skills instead of relying on a machine that can be faulty. Math>Computer simulation