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Originally Posted by
DSchles
"Basic Strategy never assumes a count of 0."
BS strategy often is for situations when the count is zero, though. A better way to state this is that BS assumes the removal of the player's original two cards and the dealer's upcard. If that makes the RC (and, therefore, the true count) zero, so be it. If it makes the RC something else, then, for that play, BS is NOT for the count of zero. So, to me, a more accurate way to state it is that BS maximizes the expectation of the hand, given the removal of the aforementioned three cards, regardless of what that makes the true count at that moment.
I know you know all this, but it has been the source of great confusion for many players over the years.
Don
Perhaps more accurately "Basic Strategy never AUTOMATICALLY assumes a count of 0"
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Of course, that doesn't tell you what it does assume.
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