Originally Posted by
Sargonian12
Are there more complete indexes available to study? I'm waiting on katarina's book and kinda made up my own basic counting system for now. It's probably rubbish. I'm getting the impression that in order to master sp21, I will have to create my own legitimate counting system and index? You say to not neglect researching them but also that everything available is inadequate...so by research you mean crunching raw numbers and amending/adding to the available indexes?
I appreciate your insight on juggling BR and EV, though I don't fully understand it yet, it really opened my eyes to the error in my approach, thought process and strategy. I have been enjoying the h17 tables where u can double down twice. But it's super volatile while my index play is basically guess work and I'm just working on my counting and betting along with basic strategy so far.
On the EoR topic, what are some examples pf the wacky deck compositions you could target?
The rest of this rant is just a display of my curiosity and ignorance in the underlying fundamentals of card counting. Feel free to read no further.
Personally, I see how a higher count is good for raising bets, hitting player bj's and all that, but I don't see how an index can be accurate with aces clumped in value with face cards and such. Like, what if the count is negative from mostly facecards being shown thus far and little to no aces? The dealer could have a very different probability of busting on a 13v5 in certain scenarios with the same true count. Maybe I'm just touting my ignorance here and should just do more research, but nothing I've come across so far has addressed this or dug deep into the math of it all. In regular BJ, which I've barely practiced (though one dealer told me he'd never seen some1 follow the chart so perfectly, lol) the 7-9's are counted as 0. So what if you're hitting those 15's according to the index but you're just working through a shoe with a big clump of 7-9's in the 2nd half? I know counting is said to be an imperfect art. But do you try and take mental note of these discrepancies on top of everything else, or are there other systems that address it?
Those researchers you mentioned assigning their own tag values based on deck comps they wanted to exploit, well, if the shoe didn't form such a composition wouldn't it all just be null and void? So they only really have an edge during the shoes that fit their liking? And if the EoR differs so much based on deck comp, wouldn't that effect PE as well as BC? I mean, if their assigned values don't accurately reflect your likelihood of winning bets and when to raise, wouldn't they almost certainly fall short in guiding your plays? Like, if you came up with a counting system that expressed the value of the 678 bonuses, it would represent that particular BC more accurately while also making relevant parts of the index more accurate? When you addressed EV and volatility, was that only in regards to betting or also index plays? I'd love to be handed more spanish21 counting systems and indexes on a silver platter, I suck at internetting and research, obviously.
Basically, email me your life's work please ????
Hopefully no reads this random dumb rant on a 2 year old post. And by that I mean answers all of my 27 questions ????????????
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