Jean Jacques Robert: Optimal Betting ramp

[Jean Jacques Robert]

Can anyone help me how to find the optimal betting ramp for 5 deck shoes (DAS, ENHC rules)? CVCX calculates betting ramps for 4 and 6 decks (can I use the sims mean for the two above decks)? I also own CV data which works for 5 decks but this program is not devised to calculate OBRs.

With CV Data however, I can obtain the advantage, frequency and variance of each true count for 5 decks. There must surely be a formula enabling the calculation of OBR with the above data.

Help from anyone will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

JJ.

[Don Schlesinger]

> Can anyone help me how to find the optimal
> betting ramp for 5 deck shoes (DAS, ENHC
> rules)? CVCX calculates betting ramps for 4
> and 6 decks (can I use the sims mean for the
> two above decks)? I also own CV data which
> works for 5 decks but this program is not
> devised to calculate OBRs.

Use the average. You're rounding bets anyway. You won't be off by enough to matter.

> With CV Data however, I can obtain the
> advantage, frequency and variance of each
> true count for 5 decks. There must surely be
> a formula enabling the calculation of OBR
> with the above data.

There is. It's very messy, and it consists of several "passes" to force convergence. Norm and John have programmed the algorithm into their software, so we don't have to wrestle with the math.

Don