Baccarat any thoughts?

[spyu]

Is each hand truly independent as in the spin of the roulette wheel? For example if the player just came up 5 times in the row and since the beginning of the shoe there have been a total of 15 players and 4 bankers. Since the rules slightly favor the banker, wouldn't future hands be heavily weighted towards the banker? Or is this just an illusion? Since I haven't seen any books on it from reputable people I'm guessing it's not beatable, but just wanted to see some opinions. It also seems to have less streaks then roulette. I was wondering if using a strategy like a martingale progression when you only start betting in situations similar to those described above. From the few tables I've seen they let you spread pretty big. $10-$5k and $25-$15k. Thanks.

[AceOfClubs]

Since the rules slightly favor the banker, wouldn't future hands be heavily weighted towards the banker?
No.If you want to read some books I would suggest you "Baccarat for the Clueless" by John May.

[silvermark]

Every hand is independant, you can't count cards at Baccarat.

[bpb]

As baccarat is dealt out of a shoe, it isn't true that every hand is independent. Card imbalances change the immediate odds just as in blackjack. However, the magnitude of these changes isn't as severe, and a very complicated count would be necessary to find a very small number of profitable situations, compared to blackjack. As such, counting is not practical.