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    Quote Originally Posted by PinkChip View Post
    Yes, I was also wondering why you should double in this situation and had in mind that the optimal play for 10 and 11 versus 17-20 is to hit. As a general rule, these optimal hole card strategy tables (e.g. from WizardOfOdds) say that doubling is never favorable against a dealer pat hand. The only situation which might be different is when the dealer has soft 17 and the H17 rule applies. I have not seen any HC strategy table addressing the S17 versus H17 issue, so I am not sure if there are any differences. Also, the surrender rule is often not addressed but I read that surrendering stiff hands versus 10,11 and 19,20 is favorable.
    I think correct hole card strategy is:

    Double hard 10-11 vs. soft 17 if dealer hits soft 17
    Hit hard 10-11 vs. soft 17 if dealer stands on soft 17

    Surrender hard 15-18 vs. dealer 19
    Surrender hard 12-19 vs. dealer 20
    Surrender anything except player BJ vs. dealer BJ

    k_c

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    Quote Originally Posted by miroslav View Post
    I am trying to calculate if there is a player advantage when it is possible to tell when a certain hole card is present at the dealer.
    I have noticed a certain online casino studio that has imperfect cards/scanner combination that makes it possible to recognize exactly two type of ten cards.two out of the 52 cards have a imperfection, lets say 10 of hearts and 10 of diamonds.
    So whenever one of these two 10's is the holecard there is a tell and it is possible to say with 95% accuracy that it is indeed a ten in the holecard.
    Would this information give enough player advantage to make it profitable to play flat betting with no additional card counting.


    rules:
    dealer has hole card
    only checks for blackjack on upcard Ace,
    soft 17 dealer stands
    double allowed on every two cards
    max 1 split
    aces max 1 split
    double after split allowed
    no surrender option




    I have tried using the CVData programme to simulate this scenario but I have not been successful to get the holecards scenario correctly into the simulation.
    I would appreciate the input of experts in here.
    What would your intuition say is the approx player advantage?
    Is anyone capable of running a simulation and getting estimates of player advantage/house edge.
    For single deck if dealer up card is ten and nothing else is known, player's EV = ~-17.15% if no surrender allowed.

    If it is known that one of dealer's initial 2 cards is ten and the other is also known player's EV = ~-.08% for single deck if that is the extent of what is known.

    So it seems there is value of knowing one of dealer's 2 cards is a ten and also the 2nd card, but this alone cannot result in +EV, if no surrender.

    If surrender is allowed maybe +EV may be possible:

    Player's EV for single deck, up card of ten, LS, nothing else known = ~-17.10%
    Player's EV if 2nd card also known, LS = ~+3.04%

    Player's EV for single deck, up card of ten, ES, nothing else known = ~-16.55%
    Player's EV if 2nd card also known, ES = ~+6.68%

    For these values to apply the up card must be ten so that wouldn't help you because you still don't know the hole card. However, if you knew the hole card was ten and also the up card you probably could gain enough to attain +EV for single deck if you are allowed to surrender.

    k_c
    Last edited by k_c; 12-08-2022 at 03:53 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by k_c View Post
    I think correct hole card strategy is:

    Double hard 10-11 vs. soft 17 if dealer hits soft 17
    Hit hard 10-11 vs. soft 17 if dealer stands on soft 17

    Surrender hard 15-18 vs. dealer 19
    Surrender hard 12-19 vs. dealer 20
    Surrender anything except player BJ vs. dealer BJ

    k_c
    Due to my simulations done with CVData, your suggestions regarding Double/Hit hard 10-11 vs. soft 17 seem correct,
    but the difference in EV is very tiny (just about 0.02 percent, for both S17 and H17 cases). I have not taken a look
    at the variance but would suggest that hitting is better due to lower variance, even in the H17 case.

    Furthermore, the sim runs indicate that versus dealer 19, not only 15 and above should be surrendered,
    but also 13 and 14 at least. Even for 12 the difference is again so small that I would do it, because surrender lowers variance.
    On the other hand, I assume that surrendering 17 and above, whilst mathematically advantageous, would look quite suspicious.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PinkChip View Post
    Due to my simulations done with CVData, your suggestions regarding Double/Hit hard 10-11 vs. soft 17 seem correct,
    but the difference in EV is very tiny (just about 0.02 percent, for both S17 and H17 cases). I have not taken a look
    at the variance but would suggest that hitting is better due to lower variance, even in the H17 case.

    Furthermore, the sim runs indicate that versus dealer 19, not only 15 and above should be surrendered,
    but also 13 and 14 at least. Even for 12 the difference is again so small that I would do it, because surrender lowers variance.

    These are values I get dealt for 14 vs. 19 from top of full single deck:
    Code:
    T-4 vs. T-9
    hit: -44.78%, surrender: -50.00%
    
    9-5 vs. T-9
    hit: -45.73%, surrender: -50.00%
    
    8-6 vs. T-9
    hit: -47.44%, surrender: -50.00%
    
    7-7 vs. T-9
    hit: -51.25%, surrender: -50.00%
    
    T-4 vs. 8-A
    hit: -46.19%, surrender: -50.00%
    
    9-5 vs. 8-A
    hit: -47.16%, surrender: -50.00%
    
    8-6 vs. 8-A
    hit: -48.88%, surrender: -50.00%
    
    7-7 vs. 8-A
    hit: -52.78%, surrender: -50.00%
    These are values I get dealt for 15 vs. 19 from top of full single deck:
    Code:
    T-5 vs. T-9
    hit: -51.98%, surrender: -50.00%
    
    9-6 vs. T-9
    hit: -51.63%, surrender: -50.00%
    
    8-7 vs. T-9
    hit: -47.46%, surrender: -50.00%
    
    T-5 vs. 8-A
    hit: -53.24%, surrender: -50.00%
    
    9-6 vs. 8-A
    hit: -52.97%, surrender: -50.00%
    
    8-7 vs. 8-A
    hit: -48.80%, surrender: -50.00%
    On the other hand, I assume that surrendering 17 and above, whilst mathematically advantageous, would look quite suspicious.
    I'm sick of losing to your pat hands?

    k_c

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    Maybe one reason for the difference is that I also included (7,7) for the surrender decision,
    which is favorable also in your sim results. Also, I simmed for 6 decks, not Single Deck. Very interesting.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PinkChip View Post
    Maybe one reason for the difference is that I also included (7,7) for the surrender decision,
    which is favorable also in your sim results. Also, I simmed for 6 decks, not Single Deck. Very interesting.
    I think 6 decks is even more definitve. I am using hit strategy where hard total < 19 is hit versus 19.

    Code:
    T-4 vs. T-9
    hit: -47.71%, surrender: -50.00%
    
    9-5 vs. T-9
    hit: -47.88%, surrender: -50.00%
    
    8-6 vs. T-9
    hit: -48.15%, surrender: -50.00%
    
    7-7 vs. T-9
    hit: -48.75%, surrender: -50.00%
    
    T-4 vs. 8-A
    hit: -47.93%, surrender: -50.00%
    
    9-5 vs. 8-A
    hit: -48.10%, surrender: -50.00%
    
    8-6 vs. 8-A
    hit: -48.37%, surrender: -50.00%
    
    7-7 vs. 8-A
    hit: -48.97%, surrender: -50.00%
    Code:
    T-5 vs. T-9
    hit: -51.97%, surrender: -50.00%
    
    9-6 vs. T-9
    hit: -51.92%, surrender: -50.00%
    
    8-7 vs. T-9
    hit: -51.27%, surrender: -50.00%
    
    T-5 vs. 8-A
    hit: -52.16%, surrender: -50.00%
    
    9-6 vs. 8-A
    hit: -52.11%, surrender: -50.00%
    
    8-7 vs. 8-A
    hit: -51.46%, surrender: -50.00%
    k_c

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    Yes, but I forgot to mention that my EV percentages are related to the overall EV, not only to the surrender cases. That is, the probability of the occurrence of the situation is taken into account. I just compared the IBA (Initial Bet Advantage) results produced by the CVData sims of the hc strategy with and without surrendering in those cases.

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