Card counting at baccart

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Can you win at baccarat?

Baccarat is a simple game. It is a card game that is dealt from a shoe that holds 6 or 8 decks of cards. Two hands are dealt by the house dealer, the "banker" hand and the "player" hand. Before the hands are dealt, bets may be placed on the banker hand, on the player hand, or on a tie. Winning bets on banker or player are paid 1:1, but a commission of 5% is charged on bank bets making the net odds on such bets 0.95 to 1. If there is a tie, bets on the banker or player are returned. Once a bet has been placed, there are no opportunities for further decisions -- both the banker hand and the player hand are dealt according to fixed rules, resulting in final hands of either two or three cards for each.

It is a card game with one striking similarity to blackjack. The cards are dealt out and placed in a discard tray. They will not reenter play until the shuffle. In theory, knowledge of the undealt cards could be used to create practical winning strategies. Card-counting systems can be designed, much as they have been for blackjack. Is this practical?