Actually, it is I that play shoe games exclusively, and play around 150 hours per year..... :-)
Until around four years ago, I used Hi-Lo (35 index numbers) exclusively. At that time, I switched to Halves. So that I could keep the same index numbers (in most cases), I used the "half" amount, via saying "K" in my head to mean "and a half"- If I was at +6, and the next four cards were 2, 7, 5, A, I would think "6K, 7, 8K, 7K". But it really didn't take very long to switch. I changed my insurance index from 3 to 3.5, but don't recall changing any others- though I recall that one (or two?) other index numbers, of the 35 I use, could have used a change of 1 also. Is it worth it? For me, definitely. It really wasn't hard for me to do at all. For you, maybe- I guess if counting by half values isn't easy, it may be more difficult to do.
Far harder was what I did a couple of years ago, changing to using a second (balanced) count, and side-counting aces, for a blackjack variant in which doing so is worth it (simulation proven). That is far tougher- keeping one count in numbers, one (a level three) count in letters....
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