I've been reading with interest Don's "Blackjack Attack 3" (p. 496, for example) about composition-dependent basic strategy, total-dependent basic strategy, and effect of removal (EOR).
1) Is composition-dependent basic strategy referred to as "perfect play" or "perfect strategy?"
2) I'm having a hard time understanding the usefulness of these intricate composition-dependent charts. We know a player cannot use the charts (or a computer) in a casino. In what type of scenario would a player consult these charts? Online play? Surely they are not meant to be memorized?
3) Regarding Effect of Removal (EOR): Same question about practicality: how are the very detailed EOR charts (calculated to a ten-thousandth of a percent) useful in a 'brick and mortar' casino?
4) Regarding simming with MODIFIED shoes (shoes that do not contain all of the cards that they normally would), consider the following admittedly unrealistic example:
2 deck game for 1 player. Please temporarily suspend your disbelief in card-clumping.
I run a Real Shuffle (non-random) sim and modified shoe with the following cards removed:
2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Of course, there will be fewer rounds due to 95 cards being in the shoe rather than 104 in the shoe.
My primary question: Will the sim results of using a modified shoe exactly match the results I would get in a casino when only betting after round 1 of those non-modified rare shoes that used up in round 1 those exact same cards that are missing in the simmed, modified shoe ?
Clear as mud?
Stated a different way, using the specifics of the cards mentioned above:
**Will the long-term E.V. for this modified-shoe player mentioned above be similar to the long-term E.V. of a player who plays with full shoes (104 cards) and Wongs in only after Round 1 (and plays the entire rest of the shoe) of only those extremely rare shoes in which, after the first round of play, the same cards (2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4) and no others (except the burn card ) are in the discard rack?**
So, my question involves the effect on E.V. of using a modified shoe that is missing 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 versus calculating E.V. for only and all of those hands after Round 1 of those non-modified shoes that used up only 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 in Round 1 BUT retains those cards (2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4) for the shuffle (and Round 1).
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