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    CVIndex telling me to never split (8, 8) vs. X or (X, X) vs. 5/6

    I'm having an issue generating indexes, where even though in the full report it shows that splitting (8,8) has a better expected value than not splitting, it still tells me not to split. These are not risk averse indexes, so they should be maxing expected value. While I do want to use risk-averse indexes, I want to figure out the issue here first so that I know I can trust what I get when I compute them.

    I also find it weird that there's no index for splitting (X, X) against 5 or 6. The full report for this one though doesn't go to a high enough count to show whether splitting will eventually have a higher expected value. It looks like if it just tracked 1 or 2 counts higher, then splitting would be better.

    Here are the rules of the game:

    single-deck
    dealer hits on soft 17
    double only on 9, 10, 11
    no double after split
    re-split aces
    no surrender
    Fixed rounds: rounds+players = 6

    The counting system is unbalanced zen 2, and I use an initial running count of -1.

    I attached the indexes I generated, which were the big 63 plus (8, 8) against X, but without the ones that didn't make sense for this game. I also attached the full report where you can see how the expected value changes at different counts.

    Has anyone else had a similar issue?

    Indexes:

    Indexes.png

    Full Report: Full Report-compressed.pdf

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    Last edited by Starchild; 05-30-2021 at 02:13 PM. Reason: Redacted export. Will respond

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