I wouldn't expect much gain. But I've been wrong before.

> Norm, Thanks for the reply.

> After reviewing my post I see that my examples are not
> balanced, one is TC=-0.08 (SCORE=5) and the other is
> TC=0.09 (SCORE=85)(seems unusally high)

> My next step is to set it up correctly and balance the
> count out to exactly zero so I can compare the
> difference in SCORE when the make up of the shoe is
> high in tens and low in aces vs high in aces and low
> in tens.

> Then try a few sims where the make up of the low cards
> vary but still have a zero TC.

> My reasons for dwelling into this is to see if the Ace
> side count really is a useless tool in shoe games with
> balanced counts.

> Any predictions to what I may find?

> BJC