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Originally Posted by NewOldGuy
It's fairly well known that the Dragon Bonus is countable if the house gives favorable penetration on a shoe, for those willing to sit through most of the shoe and place a few bets per hour. It's also glaringly obvious one is doing it if the casino cares, and they simply cut the penetration back. But I'm pretty sure the guy who said the game is beatable wasn't thinking of this side bet at all.
Exactly.
Along with Dragon Bonus there are additional countable side bets as Fortune 7, Panda, pairs bonus and some others.
In some very very rare circumstances also the tie bet will provide an astounding return, a thing already mentioned here by another member.
There is no point to publicly tell the world how exactly the job could be done, most of the time serious side bettors form a sort of an "invisible" team.
The deck penetration is the best countermeasure made by casinos to prevent such strategies but 99% of the times they won't cut more than 25-30 cards from the play. And any player can see how many cards are burnt just at the start of the shoe.
Not surprisingly and almost with no exception, online sites regularly offer shallow penetration baccarat shoes.