Baccarat can be considered a very elaborate coin toss game. This oversimplified impression of game lures many players to using Martingale based system of betting which entails doubling up on ones' bet each time a hand is lost. The Logic being that you eventually have to win, and doubling will allow you to recoup all losses made from all preceding hands!  A perfect system indeed and one that actually can't be beaten in games like baccarat or roulette, and it is because of this that casinos issued new rules.  The new rules limit how much a player can bet in 1 hand. 

A "Shoot-the-Chute" is great fun and one should be built in every camp visit and "Swimming Hole." The one described below has stood test of several years in many different camp sites.

The plan drawn is for a chute 40 feet long, 3 feet wide and 18 feet high. These dimensions can be changed in length and height, but not in width.

The chute is built of 7/8-inch matched pine boards, to same width as sheet zinc, usually 3 feet; boards being firmly cleated together on under side by 2 x 6-inch cleats 5 feet apart, throughout length of chute.

Boards should be screwed to cleats from face of chute with 1-1/2-inch screws, heads being counter sunk.

The several lengths of zinc are soldered into one piece, joints being on under side (as shingles on a roof) fastened to boards with 8-oz. tacks; set in from edge about 1 inch and about 6 inches apart.