Don's book on the Hi-low card counting system is amazing so far after reading it. English is not my first language so excuse myself if there are grammatical errors. I notice that there is 6 deck, double deck in the book but struggled to find charts for single deck, 4 deck, and 8 deck? How does Don's book on the hi-low card counting system differ from blackjack attack which I am assuming has the same indexes? Someone please explain in laymans terms to me.
Hi and thanks for buying the book and for your complimentary review!
To answer your questions, we only covered double deck and six deck. We were constrained for space (336 pages with just those two!) and felt that these were the most relevant to today's environment. We did run some sims for 8-deck and noted in the book that the results were very similar to those for 6-deck.
The indices in the new book were newly generated by me in consultation with Don. In BJA3, Chapter 5, Don presented and ranked indices for the I18, Fab 4 and Catch 22 for a fixed set of rules (4-deck S17). He also ranked them according to contribution to EV using a fixed bet spread. In Chapter 10 he presented updated indices for those plays and our new index numbers are in agreement with those. He went on to present SCOREs for hundreds of games using those indices and a variety of bet spreads.
The new book presents hundreds of indices for the games mentioned above and ranks them according to contribution to SCORE for a wide variety of game conditions and bet spreads. In that sense, it is similar to BJA3 Chapter 10 except that we go beyond the I18, Fab 4 and Catch 22 and provide rankings up to the "Nifty 50" or "Sporty 40" depending on the game. This allows players to decide when enough is enough when it comes to learning indices. As you know from reading the book, there is also extensive commentary on the nature of and the interaction between many plays of interest.
Regardless, you should also own a copy of BJA3.
Last edited by Gronbog; 06-19-2025 at 09:23 AM. Reason: tupos
Just a quick comment, directed at all forum participants. Perhaps it's just a shortcut way of writing it, but when many refer to THLCCS as "Don's new book," you unintentionally ignore the indispensable contribution that Dave made to the research and finished product. Yes, I conceptualized the idea and presented it to Dave to see if the project would be feasible. Yes, I wrote the introductory commentary and consulted on every aspect of the presentation. But make no mistake about it: this is Dave's book, every bit as much as it is mine--and perhaps even more so! See, for example, page 21, under "Conclusions," for my remarks about Dave.
So, going forward, please do me a favor and refer to THLCCS as Don and Dave's book, or, even better, as Dave and Don's book! (And, yes, I know what it says on the bottom of the cover, but this was the publisher's decision, simply because he felt my name was more recognizable at the time of publication.)
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