10. THE BANKER NATURAL EIGHT SIDE BET
A treatment, similar to that for The Banker natural nine, could be applied to The Banker natural eight side bet, yielding a strategy for this side bet. However, we will show that the strategy for The Banker natural eight is, for all practical purposes, identical to that for The Banker natural nine. The only difference is that one counts the number of eights rather than the number of nines.
The only formula changed is the one for pn,t. To distinguish, the notations Pntt and Pn,t will be used.
By considering cases as in section 5, we can obtain for The Banker natural eight bet a set of equations corresponding to those already obtained for The Banker natural nine.
The probability of obtaining a total of eight by drawing two cards (from eight well shuffled decks) is