Aug 19 2026
Card Counting the Lucky 8 Baccarat Side Bet
Lucky 8 (L8) is a baccarat side bet I first heard about on the Wizard of Vegas website in this thread. As the name implies, a Player/Banker final total of 8 is key to winning this bet. It should therefore come as little surprise that L8 is highly vulnerable to card counting, with 8's being the key-card for a counting system.
Edge Sorting Casino War
And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose
My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.-- Dylan Thomas
Computer-Perfect Play against the Baccarat Tie Bet
In this post I am going to give the win-rate statistics against the Tie bet using computer-perfect play. In this analysis, I assume the AP is keeping track of the cards that have been played from the shoe. Before the start of each round, the AP uses a computer to give him the exact edge on the Tie bet based on the knowing the composition of the cards left in the shoe.
My Single-Deck Blackjack Skilled-Cutter Fantasy
In this post, I wrote about exploiting advanced knowledge of the specific location of a Ten or Ace in the shoe.
