Double Down on Soft 12

[Midwest Player]

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Okay, did what you said. I will try again.

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[Midwest Player]

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[Cacarulo]

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Now I see it well, but as Don says, there is a line in the drawing that is a mistake. Crossing out that line the rest is correct.

Sincerely,
Cac

[DSchles]

OK, so they get an A for effort, but having a line for doubling soft 12 is an obvious mistake.

Don

[Zabut]

Took me a while to realize that only way to have "Soft 12" is "A-A" ...

I would say that if you are genius and can do perfect counting all cards or maybe some bizzare counting system, there would be situations, where is acutaly better to HIT on AA Than SPLIT, especialy with rule that you cannot hit splitted Aces, but definitelly its better to split Aces than DD on them(Ofc if you 100% know that 9 is coming.... )

There could be rule, than you can DD on Splited Aces, but I doubt that, the Edge casino would loose would be enormous...

[DSchles]

I would say that if you are genius and can do perfect counting all cards or maybe some bizzare counting system, there would be situations, where is acutaly better to HIT on AA Than SPLIT,

You don't need a bizarre system to do this. All point count systems will tell you not to split aces vs. 8, 9, T, and Ace, with reasonably attainable negative true counts. For Hi-Lo, for example, those values are -9, -8, -9, and -4, respectively. As often discussed, note that Wong's indices are all one higher, as he truncated, and I floored.

Don

[Midwest Player]

There could be rule, than you can DD on Splited Aces, but I doubt that, the Edge casino would loose would be enormous...

Some casinos allow you to double down on split aces. I can think of a couple in MI. Kewadin Casino and Turtle Creek casino. I'm assuming they still have this rule. In fact they allowed double down for less as long as it met the table min.

[hwjman]

i have a similar question too. one of the online bj i play here in asia, they allow you to hit or double down after split aces but not re-split them. should i double down when the dealer has 4, 5, 6?

[k_c]

i have a similar question too. one of the online bj i play here in asia, they allow you to hit or double down after split aces but not re-split them. should i double down when the dealer has 4, 5, 6?

When resplitting is not allowed, Double A-A vs 6 (if allowed) if:
(s17) number of decks <= 12
(h17) always
otherwise hit

When resplitting is not allowed, Double A-A vs 5 (if allowed) if:
(s17) decks <= 2
(h17) decks <= 2
otherwise hit

hit A-A vs 4 if resplit is not allowed, do not double

k_c

[Zenfighter]

When resplitting is not allowed, Double A-A vs 6 (if allowed) if:
(s17) number of decks <= 12
(h17) always
otherwise hit

Correct. By example for 6 decks, I got:

s (17)
A, A vs 6

db = 0.190709
hit = 0.187974

h (17)
db = = 0.206312
hit = 0.189536

Here the dealer is somehow penalized for the “greed” of hitting soft seventeen, with the player increasing the expectations of both actions.

When resplitting is not allowed, Double A-A vs 5 (if allowed) if:
(s17) decks <= 2
(h17) decks <= 2
otherwise hit

Agree. Very close but correct.

For 2 decks and s (17):

db =0.170637
hit = 0,169241

hit A-A vs 4 if resplit is not allowed, do not double

Again, for 6 decks and s (17):

db = 0.071156
hit = 0.129004

Here doubling looks but foolish (with BS only).

My two cents.

Zenfighter

[Gronbog]

have a similar question too. one of the online bj i play here in asia, they allow you to hit or double down after split aces but not re-split them. should i double down when the dealer has 4, 5, 6?

You don't state the rules, but for using 6D S17 I get the following indices to double A,A when you can't split:

A,A vs 3: +9
A,A vs 4: +4
A,A vs 5: +1
A,A vs 6: 0

For 6D H17, I get

A,A vs 3: +8
A,A vs 4: +4
A,A vs 5: +1
A,A vs 6: 0

These data were extracted from the sims I ran to generate indices for the upcoming book from Don and I. Too be fair, though, these specific plays are not discussed.

[Midwest Player]

These data were extracted from the sims I ran to generate indices for the upcoming book from Don and I. Too be fair, though, these specific plays are not discussed.

Gronbog and Don, when do you expect your new book to be available? Will there be a kindle version of the book?

[DSchles]

Your answer doesn't seem to correspond to the question. Read it again.

Don