Folks,
Dr. Richard Reid wrote an ebook in the 1990's era titled "Dynamic Blackjack". Apparently originals have been lost and are not available. I am trying to locate a copy. PM me if you have one or know where I can get one.
Regards
Stealth
Folks,
Dr. Richard Reid wrote an ebook in the 1990's era titled "Dynamic Blackjack". Apparently originals have been lost and are not available. I am trying to locate a copy. PM me if you have one or know where I can get one.
Regards
Stealth
Last edited by Stealth; 06-19-2013 at 10:48 AM.
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At one time I asked Richard's son if he could get me a copy and he couldn't. The book had a chapter about analyzing player results for shared bankroll teams. This chapter is reproduced in Norm's Modern Blackjack . It is fascinating:
http://www.qfit.com/book/ModernBlackjackPage501.htm
Richard lost the original doc when he retired and moved. He told me that I can make any use of the work that I wish. But, I haven't felt comfortable with this. I will look back at our conversation. The chapter Shark mentioned is interesting, and his unique cover idea of alternating bankrolls is a brilliant stroke.
"I don't think outside the box; I think of what I can do with the box." - Henri Matisse
Norm sent me his program for analyzing player results. I plugged in my first 50 sessions where I won 300+ units over a 30 hour time-frame. Big swings on my way up and the program told me I was afraid to put the money out. Huh? Then I plugged in my last 80 or so sessions where I lost all 300+ units and then some. Again big swings and I get the same msg. afraid to put the money out. Lastly I plugged in all my sessions up-to-date where I recovered up to 65% of my expectation. Some 150 total sessions again swinging all over the place. Again the msg. afraid to put the money out. I'm puzzled by this since I absolutely shove it out when I should. Otherwise why play. Norm any ideas?
Been years since I looked at this and I just copied Richard's logic. If you send me the data, and I can find the old code, I can try to find out what's triggering the warning.
"I don't think outside the box; I think of what I can do with the box." - Henri Matisse
I noticed something interesting. In my DB I didn't keep track of hours so I simply gave each session the same number of hours. This may be the problem. I'm going to start a new DB keeping track of my hours then see what the program spits out. Some years back I was accused of not putting out the dough on a team. Now that I have a little more insight into this, here was my mistake. I assumed the team capt. used RRs methodology. Some examples. One trip to Foxwoods I lost around $18K over 14 hours. Then I won almost $19K a day later at the Borgota playing 4 hours. I should have reported it this way but instead I combined it into a trip of 18 hours with just under a $1K win. One more example: I lost $23K in one hour and after dinner won back $23.5K in 4 hours. I reported this as a $500 win playing 5 hours. I have many more examples of this on the DB I sent to the team capt. Wish I could go back in time but I suppose it's water over the bridge.
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