Soft17: What is PE worth anyway?

[Soft17]

If a computer were to play the game of blackjack keeping not a perfect count but the exact composition of the remaining cards and make the mathematically correct play on each and every hand, how much money would it make flat betting? Lets only consider single deck for now to keep things simple.

I know the answer has got to be somewhere in Theory of BJ by Griffin, but cant get my hands on it.

Thanks,
Soft17.

[Don Schlesinger]

> I know the answer has got to be somewhere in
> Theory of BJ by Griffin, but cant get my
> hands on it.

See pp. 30 and 230.

Don

[Adam N. Subtractum]

...I believe, flat-betting, you can attain a maximum advantage of >2.00% dealt down to the last two using optimal play. Using a simple linear count system this figure drops to 1.20% or so, and with semi-realistic penetration of 75% would drop to around .80%.

ANS

[Don Schlesinger]

> ...I believe, flat-betting, you can attain a
> maximum advantage of >2.00% dealt down to
> the last two using optimal play. Using a
> simple linear count system this figure drops
> to 1.20% or so, and with semi-realistic
> penetration of 75% would drop to around
> .80%.
See, also, Griffin, p. 28. I think averaging all the playing gains (including zero for off the top) comes to aboput 1.5% or so.

Don