El Cortez

[Bodarc]

I know ZenMaster_Flash was pointing out how sweaty they were but his comment should not be misread.

It is my understanding that even with perfect computer play, you do not have an advantage over the house unless the cards are dealt almost to or to the end of the deck. If someone flat bet for 10 days and won playing today's games, it was luck.

And as has been pointed out here many many times, the result of 10 days of play means absolutely nothing.

[Three]

It is my understanding that even with perfect computer play, you do not have an advantage over the house unless the cards are dealt almost to or to the end of the deck. If someone flat bet for 10 days and won playing today's games, it was luck.

This generalization is wrong. It depends on how far you need to move the HE to gain an advantage and how many decks you start with. hat most people don't realize is really strange interactions occur when ranks are totally depleted. Playing EoR's for matchups get extreme changes.

[Three]

Everything I've read is about PE being king for the single deck game. But most of it was written in the 70's before shallow pen and preferential shuffles.

PE is king because you can't spread much at all so the gains from BC are limited. You act like it is preferential shuffling to shuffle at fewer rounds in a plus count but it is closer to shuffling at the same pen like you have a cut card. If T's are coming out fewer cards are used per round. If small cards are coming out more cards are used per round. It is not preferential shuffling to look at the remaining cards and decide there isn't enough to want to deal another round. If the RC is negative there will be more rounds to use the same number of cards than the same RC that is positive. Just look at these hands that both add to a RC of magnitude 6:

High cards: TT, TA, TT for 6 cards but 3 hands played
Low cards: 2,3,6,4,5 for 5 cards but 1 hand played

I am sure preferential shuffling exists but much of what you describe is not preferential shuffling. It is just how many rounds played to get the equal magnitude TC's of opposite signs and the number of cards it takes.

[Bodarc]

It depends on how far you need to move the HE to gain an advantage and how many decks you start with. hat most people don't realize is really strange interactions occur when ranks are totally depleted. Playing EoR's for matchups get extreme changes.

Tthree, you keep posting all of these comments about moving the house edge with your specialized counts but with no back up or documentation. Would you please post the sims of 1 billion rounds before making anymore comments about it. Otherwise, it is just chit chat with no meaning.