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That is a poor use of CBS. CBS is the best basic strategy for your count. This makes the most important indices change. Some are only important because ploppy BS gets it so wrong. The deviation may be worthless if you use CBS and wong away from negative counts.Originally Posted by Wave
Hi, Wave
CBS is a good way for a novice to get started playing for real quicker than learning the strategy deviations before playing. As the new player gets more experience, he will see that he can start adding the more-obvious and most-helpful deviations from the Ill18. If you do it this way, you can decide whether using a certain deviation is wise or not at the moment, depending on your perception of heat. It's kind of like whether you split 10's or not; many people don't do it even though it's called for at times because of heat.
Assuming your 'act' is good, I think your spread is the most obvious give away and there's not a lot I'm aware of that can be done about that. Switching between 1 and 2 (or even 3) hands is a bit obvious, too. After that, insurance can be an issue for heat but I haven't gotten any guff on that for years...
See Table 5.1 on p.62 of BJA3 for a table of how much value each of the Ill18 deviations provide. The top 3 offer almost 60% of the overall 18 with insurance as the greatest contribution (but it's really just a side bet so even a CBS player should typically take insurance at +3 or greater). So, if you just learn insurance and 2 deviations, you have the lion's share of the advantage. Over time, you can learn the rest of them and apply them as heat allows.
Just my 2 cents worth...
Best of luck to you!
SiMi
You are obviously a naive red-chipper.
The Eye in the Sky has NO ability to hear you.
Some of them 'work' at BJ full-time. You don't.
You are seriously "Underrating the opposition."
That is the prelude to "rule #1"
"Wake up and smell the roses."
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Wave,
No disrespectful "swipe" taken. Not at all. I am a veteran full-time peripatetic Professional Gambler
who has trained many of my nascent fellow travelers over the last 26 years; though I'm recently quasi-retired.
Counter Basic Strategy is irrational at low stakes with a weak count like K.O. "Three" knows of what he speaks.
When you wong in, I hope you also wong out and change tables/pits once in a while, also sit out some hands. The less negative EV hands that you play, the less spread you will need to make up that EV difference for using smaller spreads.
Marcus was actually referring to good games with a VERY LOW House Edge.
In such a game a conservative bet spread easily overcomes the House Edge.
Not so, as a rule, including the game that you have referenced.
Using an advanced count accurately, an excellent game needs a small spread.
C B S basically plays important hand matchups AS IF the True Count is one (1)
higher than reality. That is very costly with a weak count and a common BJ game.
The COST of playing C B S is simply too high in the 21st Century.
Caveat: The book is seriously dated.
It harkens back to the golden era of BJ when you could
bribe Pit Bosses and surveillance was a joke and SD with
an advantage off the top was to be found, and as long as
you toked properly you could earn a reasonable living at BJ.
Of greater interest is I. A.'s first book. Naturally I have hard copies of both.
Who wants to be the first player to identify that dreadful piece of crapola?
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