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    The upper-bound of playing efficiency

    I have read griffin's chapter on multi-parameter systems and am aware that he put the upper-bound at .922 for a fully recognized gordon count.

    Given this book was written decades ago, are there more effective strategies for achieving such a high playing efficiency without such intensive methods?

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    The only way you could get a higher PE than a fully realized Gordon Count is if you knew your hit card, or you knew the exact composition of the next 13-20 cards to come out a shoe.

    Griffin exhausted the mathematics of counting systems so I cant imagine there would be much to add, although it would be exciting if there were!

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    Thanks for the quick reply, yes his study was very thought provoking ! Here's the passage for reference:

    The Gordon count, fortified with a proper valuation of aces, sixes, sevens, eights, and nines, scores .922 in playing efficiency and the same .98 in betting correlation. This may reasonably be supposed to define a possibly realizable upper bound to the ultimate capability of a human being playing an honest game of blackjack from a single deck.
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    Without using a multidimensional approach (linear counting that boils an index play to a number on a number line) this is the limit.

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