blackjack maniac,

I ran the sims described in the "Preliminary Results" post (see that one for details), but this time I used Halves for the wonger. I'm afraid I didn't follow all of your requests, though: I still had only 1 player play all, and still used half-deck resolution for the first half of the shoe, and quarter-deck for the remainder.

Here are the results for no "quitting strategy": 
TC>=	Number		Shoes		Percent 

1	13,669,617	17,772,500	76.91% 

2	7,612,600	12,682,224	60.03% 

3	4,883,190	10,921,851	44.71% 

4	3,333,524	10,147,374	32.85% 

5	2,207,204	9,741,716	22.66% 

6	1,491,372	9,540,979	15.63% 

7	937,929		9,425,069	9.95% 

8	602,514		9,370,232	6.43% 

9	354,471		9,338,209	3.80% 

10	212,294		9,324,153	2.28% 

			 

TC<=	Number		Shoes		Percent 

-1	14,196,363	18,139,262	78.26% 

-2	7,836,108	12,745,172	61.48% 

-3	5,050,921	10,935,855	46.19% 

-4	3,472,044	10,149,431	34.21% 

-5	2,319,561	9,740,767	23.81% 

-6	1,581,159	9,539,766	16.57% 

-7	1,006,622	9,424,419	10.68% 

-8	650,371		9,369,231	6.94% 

-9	388,177		9,337,883	4.16% 

-10	235,129		9,323,814	2.52%
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These results show that nearly one-quarter of the shoes seen never go positive... I seem to get a lot of those :-(

On the other hand, over 20% of the shoes never go negative.

Finally, here are the +TC results when the wonger "gives up" on any shoe where the TC falls to -1 or below. These were found by setting the "Stop Observation" value to -1: 

TC>=	Number		Shoes		Percent 

1	21,229,469	43,440,629	48.87% 

2	9,979,102	29,079,480	34.32% 

3	6,199,852	23,878,381	25.96% 

4	4,270,677	21,477,520	19.88% 

5	2,923,730	20,211,372	14.47% 

6	2,036,943	19,559,458	10.41% 

7	1,331,279	19,188,910	6.94% 

8	877,461		19,004,169	4.62% 

9	533,618		18,902,463	2.82% 

10	326,153		18,845,286	1.73%
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Note that while the "quitting" percentages are smaller than the corresponding "no quitting" percentages, the absolute number of hands played (out of a constant 400-million rounds seen) is quite a bit higher.

Let me know if these are what you want... if so, I'll try to run the 8-deck results.

Hope this helps!

Dog Hand