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The Baccarat Battle Book

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Scoblete shows clearly the complexities of baccarat. He discusses card counting systems, advantage play methods, and ways to reduce the casino commission on the bank bets. The book is great reading and never dull. If you play baccarat you should seriously consider getting this book.

I had never been interested in baccarat before but I am a Frank Scoblete fan so I bought this book. It was worth it. First of all, like all Scoblete's books that I have read, it is first rate. It is fun to read and just analyzes the game thoroughly. Scoblete shows why the traditional game of baccarat is much better than the mini version. He also explains how to really reduce what the house wins by maximizing comps and by using an ingenious strategy for reducing the commission on the Bank bet from 5 percent to 4 percent. I hve tried this strategy in five casinos and had success in two of them. Scoblete also analyzes over 40,000 decisions at baccarat and explains why these are very lose to the probability of what happens in the math. I wish I had better powers of writing because I know I am not doing this book justice. It turned me on to baccarat and I am loving every minute of it!

Frank Scoblete is (IMHO) one of the best gambling authors around, but this book of his falls short of the mark compared to his others. There's a lot of basic information but nothing really new for someone who is experienced at the game of baccarat already.

In Scoblete's books on blackjack and craps, you get a feel for his passion and love for the games as well his vast knowledge drawn from years of experience as a player. In this book, however, I felt that he was writing about a game that he just plain didn't care about quite as much. There wasn't as much joy or thrill in his writing. I suspect that he isn't really all that enthusiastic a baccarat player, but that he wanted to crunch out a book on the game to help round out his coverage of all casino games. Note, for example, that he mentions in one place that he went out and played sessions of baccarat specifically as research for this book. In other words, the game isn't one he plays in the normal course of things.

Overall, it's not a bad book for beginners, and if you like the style of his other books, you'll laos like this one. I guess that I've come to expect so much from his books, and this one fell just a bit short of my expectations.

This is the best book on baccarat I've ever read and I've read just about all of them, including John May's excellent book. But May is too esoteric, while Scoblete can teach the average player to really exploit this game for comps. He also has the most remarkable way to reduce the casino edge on the Bank bet by 20 percent! Get this book for its research and revelations. Like all of Scoblete's books it is well written and enjoyable.

Do not buy this book looking for how to walk out of Bellagio with more than you walked in with. Scoblete is straight forward about the odds in Baccarat and more interested in teaching you how to get the most out of playing the game with the lowest house edge.

Brief descriptions of well known betting strategies are included. Greater detail is given however to the rituals of the game and how to use them to slow down play; thus gaining more comps for longer playing time at high dollar tables while risking no more money than you would playing mini-bac.

An interesting easy read, but certainly not the final word.

What I got from this book on Baccarat was that even though Baccarat is a low percentage game, the fast pace of the mini-baccarat can "eat you up." Basically, the message is "do not bet every hand of Baccarat." In this way you'll stay in action longer should a good streak show up. This was no news for me.

Scoblete does a very interesting experiment in this book. He copmpares 40,000 hands of baccarat betting bank or player on each and shows how the casino edge manifests iself in this run. He explains how to reduce the edge by betting select amounts on bank hands that the casino will pay off at a 4 percent commission instead of 5. Very ingenious. As with all Scoblete's books, it is excellently written and shows why he is the top gambling writer in the world. I learned many important things from this book and one was to stay away from mini-baccarat! I highly recommend this to casino players.

after reading the many positive reviews from others, I decided to give this book a try. Being an intermediate baccarat player, this book had nothing insightful to offer someone like myself, I kept anticipating that the author would offer more in the ways of different money management systems that I could implement, along with different angles and strategies. This book did no such thing, it only included novice MM systems, 4/5 of the book seemed like fillers. Scoblete talked about the 'feeling' and 'enjoyment' you should get from playing baccarat and how to get the most of these feelings. Learning how to get comped and the seven deadly sins of gambling. This is a instruction manual for rookies and should be considered as such.

There is no "ingenius" method revealed for lowering the bank commission, just a common sense way to keep from getting overcharged which anyone should normally know to do. This book is mostly fluff-- lots of psycho-babble on gambling psychology and how to "act" like a gambler. Mr Scoblete seems more interested in "acting" than gambling. There is nothing in this book that will help you win money at Baccarat, in my opinion.

Frank Scoblete has written another great book on a casino game. This time it's baccarat and he shows you very clearly why baccarat is a great game and why mini-baccarat can be one of the most dangerous games. His level-headed approach to casino games and his awesome writing talents have made Scoblete the top writer in the field of gaming. BBB is a great book and will prepare you to play a very tight game against the casino. I loved it!