Quote Originally Posted by aceside View Post
I tried very hard to respond to Norm because I did not quite understand his reasoning of my approach as only a 12-card penetration. That is not fair. Let me just give you an example of how I played a 8-deck shoe, to clear up some confusions. For example, one deck of a 8-deck shoe has just been dealt, and the running count jumped from zero to ten in the very last round. I immediately bet two times of my base unit; I got a hard hand of 16 but the dealer had an ace up card. I alway took insurance decisively in this situation even when the true count was only 10/7=1.4, because locally in the nearby of the group of cards, ten valued cards were more likely to come out in the next round. I hope this makes sense.
It makes zero sense.

Don