newbie: floating advantage

[newbie]

I play 8 deck games with Hi-Lo. I've been told by other veterans not to enter the shoe with TC of 2/3 when there is still 6/7 decks remaining.

I am not sure if their reasoning is floating advantage or superstition.

Could someone tell me the advantage of TC 2/3 when there is 5/6/7 decks remaining?

Game - Soft17,

DAS,

Double on 2 cards hard total 9,10,11

Re-split to 3 hands, except 1 card only on A,A splits
TC 2 - TC 1.8 to TC 2.2
TC 3 - TC 2.8 to TC 3.2

I am not sure if anyone has the data I ask for. I know the global advantage of TC2 in my game is about 0.6%. If you were to guess the advantage of TC2 with 5/6/7 deck remaining: what would it be?

7 - -0.000001%
6 - 0.01%
5 ? 0.03%

[Don Schlesinger]

> If you were to guess
> the advantage of TC2 with 5/6/7 deck
> remaining: what would it be?

> 7 - -0.000001%
> 6 - 0.01%
> 5 ? 0.03%

Much higher than all of the above. Probably at least 0.25%, if not 0.3%.

Don