Just a seemingly stupid question. I haven't played in a casino yet and I am far from it. I'm all new to this. I still haven't picked a counting system yet. Everybody on the net runs statistics of 1 million hands via some softwares which are probably good. But I couldn't find one and perhaps I am a bit old fashioned and prefer more life-like simulation ( a deck of cards). So at this point I only used SD (I know it is a different game from Multi deck completely) and tried different systems, HiLow (disappointing), JSTAT (not great), Kiss III (not bad at all) and Zen (deck count not the house edge version).
HiLow and JSTAT were a disaster in a single deck game actually ended losing money (note: that I followed perfect basic strategy for a single deck game made exactly for the game I played S17 with a very few exceptions like stand 16 vs 10 on a high count etc). Played exactly the same way with Zen and K3 and both performed well, Zen seemed a bit more wild though (higher loses higher wins) but all in all they were very close I used 1-6 units betting spread for a single deck.
Today I got 6 decks so I could practice (note: I prefer it that way rather than running 10,000 hands in a simulator, I am more likely to go to casino and have a 3-4 hour session, so I do the same at home with 6 decks, having 3-4 hour sessions continuing day after day with the bankroll left from the prvious session). I had to make a choice between K3 and Zen 'cos I ain't putting both systems into my head and master none. Since I didn't find a proper guide for bet spreading for K3 on the net and have one for Zen (basically 1-10 for 6 deck and TC= betting unit,,,,1-6 for a SD and DD). Please experienced players correct me if I've anything wrong in the above so I can mend it, like bad BSpread or inferior system. And a thought crossed my mind as to how do you get your true count from a double deck as in like RC divided by either 1 or 2 (whichever seems closer)? Even in the 6D game when my RC is +11 for example and there seems to be 2.5 decks left so is it OK to settle it with +4 true count? Also is ok or is it inferior to use Zen on SD or DD games?
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