Hi Cac, apologies, I think I might have mistunderstood your earlier post. But that being said you raise an important point. In an optimum split caculation that maximizes the EV for the round. There...
Hi Eric,
Your post is making me rethink a lot of things. There are situations I would have never considered, like hitting with 6,6,6 or 6,6,8. I understand that to determine what is truly...
Hi ICT,
I'm not sure where I said that. In fact, I believe I said the opposite—that if I receive a six in Hand 1 and lack enough information to decide whether to resplit, I simply proceed with...
Hi Cac,
A couple of thoughts. The list of Split hands I had posted are for all scenarios where a resplit was possible and where it was computed to determine whether resplitting is the optimal play...
If you are randomly removing high anf low cards but you are not touching the 7 and 8 cards at all then you have completely screwed up your results.
8 has almost no effect of removal for the player...
You've identified a good example scenario here that highlights some important subtleties, and your question above is one of those subtleties. I concur with k_c's table, at least for the most part,...
Hi k_c,
Here is the full table of possible hands that can be generated for this example, covering both SPL1 and SPL2. Whenever the "x2" factor appears, it means the round is repeated twice, so...
Hi,
I do not have an algorithm for optimal splits other than SPL1 but I tried to surmise what may be happening from my CA. This is what I came up with. It seems the key to resplitting is an eight...
Hi ICT,
Thanks for the table! However, some hands are a bit confusing to me. For example, why does one hand have four sixes while another has two sixes and two eights?
In the first case, I would...
Hi Calc,
Unfortunately I dont have a lot of time to edit my code right now to make same edit as Eric. But I can provide the list of scenarios where resplitting is the optimum playing decision or...
As Don and Gronbog said, I have always stated that representative decks is not an accurate method of creating indices. They simply do not represent real life distributions that occur due to the rules...
Unfortunately, the fact that you're deliberately removing cards from the shoe to match a specified true count introduces a bias to the true count that doesn't align with how the true count fluctuates...
Norm, of course, can speak for himself, but he and I have also always avoided creating studies by using representative decks. As Gronbog and Sidecount have pointed out, you don't get the kind of...
This is called "representative decks" which I've never been a fan of. It's extremely difficult to engineer representative deck compositions without introducing some sort of bias. I've always been a...
Every hand is randomized, the true count remains the same. Each hand a random amount of high or low cards will be removed based off my true count input
If all you're doing is removing cards to try to match the count then are you achieving randomization somehow? 13 vs. 2 has some strong effect of removal with neutral cards. 7, 8 and, 9 are all...
For blackjack H17, six-deck, standard rules, many deviations tend to follow a general pattern of when to hit or stand. For instance, it's recommended to hit 12 vs. 4 at a true count of -1. I'm...
Hi ICT,
In each round, my algorithm splits and resplits up to the maximum allowed (SPL1, SPL2, or SPL3) whenever possible. For instance, if I split a pair of eights and receive a six on both...
The confusion comes with the concept of "deviating" at or above the index number which is not quite correct. You "apply the index action" at or above the index. In the case of 13 vs 2, it is a...
