BJ House Edge in various conditions

[G Man]

It's a "disguised" game... Dealer takes a hole card, act as an American dealer would do when an Ace is showing but tweak it in an ENHC game with any other up card.

[James989]

No, in that case, we would be talking about American rules. "Peek" or "no peek" has nothing to do with the house edge.
So let's go back to the previous rules where the player doesn't lose everything against a dealer's blackjack.
Using CVDATA, I get 0.609%, so something must be wrong with the basic strategy or with some setting of the rules.

Sincerely,
Cac

I agree with you that if player doesn't lose everything against a dealer's blackjack, HE = 0.609.

I also ran simulations with CVDATA, Flat Bet, Hi-Opt 2 Counting Strategy (Full Index), HE = -0.588%, which I believe is incorrect.


Can you/anyone here use CVDATA to verify my results? Please note that the rule is Peek on Ace( No Peek on Ten !), so you should modify the playing strategy index of all BJ hand vs T.

[James989]

It's a "disguised" game... Dealer takes a hole card, act as an American dealer would do when an Ace is showing but tweak it in an ENHC game with any other up card.

Exactly

[Cacarulo]

It's a "disguised" game... Dealer takes a hole card, act as an American dealer would do when an Ace is showing but tweak it in an ENHC game with any other up card.

That's strange. Unless the "peek" is done AFTER the entire round has been played.

Sincerely,
Cac

[G Man]

Dealer Ace up, instant peek and then round or no round of play (American game)
Dealer 10 up, every player should switch to ENHC mode.

[James989]

Dealer Ace up, instant peek and then round or no round of play (American game)
Dealer 10 up, every player should switch to ENHC mode.

Peek(American Game), HE = 0.609
Peek on Ace(No Peek on Ten), HE = 0.709
Peek on Ten(No Peek on Ace), HE = 0.617
ENHC(No Peek), HE = 0.718

[aceside]

This discussion is derailed. I guess James is asking, what is the player EV when playing like a computer who counts every cards and adjusts to perfect strategy at every decision points? Right?

[James989]

This discussion is derailed. I guess James is asking, what is the player EV when playing like a computer who counts every cards and adjusts to perfect strategy at every decision points? Right?

Exactly

[aceside]

I've thought about this. On the insurance part, we can exactly calculate it.

[Cacarulo]

Peek(American Game), HE = 0.609
Peek on Ace(No Peek on Ten), HE = 0.709
Peek on Ten(No Peek on Ace), HE = 0.617
ENHC(No Peek), HE = 0.718

TD-HE = 0.6968% (instant peek on Ace but NO on Ten)
TD-HE = 0.6171% (instant peek on Ten but NO on Ace)
TD-HE = 0.7177% (No peek)

Sincerely,
Cac

[James989]

additional rule, heads up playing one hand, penetration = 50%

[James989]

TD-HE = 0.6968% (instant peek on Ace but NO on Ten)
TD-HE = 0.6171% (instant peek on Ten but NO on Ace)
TD-HE = 0.7177% (No peek)

Sincerely,
Cac

10 billions CVDATA sims results(Peek on Ace but NO on Ten) :-

HE(1 round/shoe, no cut card effect) = 0.697%
HE(cut card effect, 50% penetration) = 0.713%
HE(cut card effect, 50% penetration, Hi-Opt 2 full index, Flat Bet) = 0.668%
HE(cut card effect, 50% penetration, Hi-Opt 2 full index, 1-15 spread) = 0.013%.

The cut card effect is about 0.016. I found that no of deck will affect the cut card effect, penetration totally not affect the cut card effect, true ??

BTW, could you please sim this game with your CAC2 Enhanced counting system(50% penetration, Flat Bet) ? Just want to have a comparison.

[Cacarulo]

10 billions CVDATA sims results(Peek on Ace but NO on Ten) :-

HE(1 round/shoe, no cut card effect) = 0.697%
HE(cut card effect, 50% penetration) = 0.713%
HE(cut card effect, 50% penetration, Hi-Opt 2 full index, Flat Bet) = 0.668%
HE(cut card effect, 50% penetration, Hi-Opt 2 full index, 1-15 spread) = 0.013%.

The cut card effect is about 0.016. I found that no of deck will affect the cut card effect, penetration totally not affect the cut card effect, true ??

BTW, could you please sim this game with your CAC2 Enhanced counting system(50% penetration, Flat Bet) ? Just want to have a comparison.

With CAC2 + 52 indices, 50% pen, CCE, peek on ACE but not on TEN, I obtained a House Edge (HE) of 0.583%. Then, given that against a ten, everything
is lost if the dealer gets BJ, I removed the doubling indices vs. T and splitting indices vs. T (88vT). With those changes, the HE was 0.668%.

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,
Cac