When does the edge turn towards the player...

[apkevy]

BS advantage is the top-of-the-deck advantage assuming the player uses basic strategy. TC 0 advantage is the advantage held by a card counter in a range of counts near 0, at the start of a round, and allows the player to make playing deviations as cards are dealt and the count changes.

In the long run, the range of counts near 0 will be canceled because it is as likely to go +0 than -0 assuming you are flooring correctly. Therefore, the only variable left to be considered when comparing tc=0 to BS advantage would be playing deviations, right ?

By the way I like the way you define and explain things as they are easily understandable, even for me ( I have a poor English )

Thank you Norm

-apkevy

[Norm]

If you are flooring, the range of counts at a TC of 0 is: 0 through .99.

[apkevy]

If you are flooring, the range of counts at a TC of 0 is: 0 through .99.

My mistake I think the correct word for what I meant is rounding up ( so the range for tc 0 would be [-0.5;0.5.[

But wait a second, is it best to floor or to round up ? Playing deviations are based upon flooring or rounding ? I'm still learning hehe

[Norm]

See https://www.qfit.com/CalculatingTrueCounts.htm

[apkevy]

See https://www.qfit.com/CalculatingTrueCounts.htm

Thanks Norm ! I will switch to flooring as it mentions that it is nearly equal in performance compared to rouding. I find flooring much easier than rounding. Although I am not sure whether the Ill18 was based on flooring or rounding, maybe you can help me with that as I couldn't find it myself ????

[Norm]

Different sets of indices were based on different assumptions -- and most books don't tell you those assumptions.

[DSchles]

The I18 indices on p. 213 of BJA3 are floored. This was not the case for those generated by Wong that I used for the original (now chapter 5) article.

Don