Single-deck studio tables and Macau historical audit benchmarks. In a fresh 1-deck shoe containing 52 cards (16 zero-value cards and 4 of each pip Ace–9), exact six-card enumeration yields 45.9624% Banker wins, 44.6760% Player wins, and 9.3615% Ties, resulting in a 1.0117% Banker house edge and 1.2864% Player house edge.
1-deck sample shoe (52 cards). Derived-road colors reflect Big Road column structure, never 1-deck card depletion.
This bead is at Row 3. Column 1 has a bead at Row 3 too → red (=).
Common table reading watchout: Thinking "no bead at this row" means blue. It is blue only when Column 1 stopped exactly one row above this bead.
This bead is at Row 3. Column 1 has a bead at Row 3 too → red (=).
Common table reading watchout: Thinking "no bead at this row" means blue. It is blue only when Column 1 stopped exactly one row above this bead.
This bead is at Row 3. Column 1 has a bead at Row 3 too → red (=).
Common table reading watchout: Thinking "no bead at this row" means blue. It is blue only when Column 1 stopped exactly one row above this bead.
16 ten/face 0-point cards plus 4 per pip rank A–9.
50.7096% share of non-tie resolved decisions in 1-deck play.
49.2904% share of non-tie resolved decisions in 1-deck play.
Variance 0.8615 per unit staked in 1-deck shoes.
Player natural 19.0045%, Banker natural 19.0045%, both 3.5680%.
[D1-INVENTORY] With only 52 cards (sixteen zero-value tens/faces and four of each pip A through 9), pulling a single card alters remaining rank density by 1.923% immediately. Drawing a first-card 8 or 9 sharply reduces the chance of an opposing natural on the same deal, compressing Tie frequency to its lowest finite-shoe level.
[D1-PAYOUTS] A 1-deck shoe produces a 9.5156% Tie rate and a 15.748% house edge on the 8-to-1 Tie wager, punishing Tie tickets more severely than multi-deck shoes. Single-deck play yields the highest Banker theoretical advantage (1.011% house edge under 5% commission) because third-card asymmetry interacts strongly with card depletion.
| D1 Wager | D1 Win % | D1 Loss % | D1 Push % | D1 House Edge | D1 Variance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D1-Banker (0.95:1) | 45.9624% | 44.6760% | 9.3615% | 1.0117% | 0.86147 |
| D1-Player (1.00:1) | 44.6760% | 45.9624% | 9.3615% | 1.2864% | 0.90622 |
| D1-Tie (8.00:1) | 9.3615% | 90.6385% | 0.0000% | 15.7461% | 6.87298 |
| D1-Naturals (8/9) | 34.4411% | 65.5589% | 3.5680% | P:19.0045% | B:19.0045% |
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