If you want to Ace Side Count Hilo go to a Balanced Ace Side Count of A-1 and 2 +1 and Hiopt1 as your main count. Your playing decisions will have Hiopt1 PE of .61 rather than Hilo's 0.51 and you use Hilo (The Combined Count from adding the 2 counts' RC's to determine a Hilo Betting TC) for betting decisions. For playing decisions where the Ace acts as a strong high card, like doubling hard 8, 9 or 10, or splitting 9,9 or T,T, use Hilo but for all other playing decisions use Hiopt1. This is a very effective strategy for level 1 counting and suffers far less than Hilo alone in pitch games and is a nice improvement in shoe games.