George C.: CVData ver. 3 test drive

[George C.]

Arnold Snyder calls CVData The Top Blackjack simulator on the market today, bar none. I wholeheartedly agree. Now Norm has developed CVData ver. 3 that is full of new features not found in any other sim package.

Some of the new features are:

An index generator that many of you wanted to see before you would consider CVData.

Nuances tab that includes Sessions, Dlr Errors, Shuffle Tracking, Team Play.

Sessions:
User defines session bank, session target, and session length. The answer you?ll get while running a sim is; number of sessions played, session?s won in %, session?s lost in %, session?s pushed in %. Hit target in % and bankrupt in %.

Dlr Errors:
You can define options that favor you or the dealer. Say you?re playing a new dealer. You can toggle the following; dealer pays pushes, push on losing hands, pay early bets, pay busted hands. Each or all of these options can be set for number of errors per thousand.

Shuffle Tracking:
Normally most of you use a random shuffle to generate sims. Now you can define a real casino shuffle, which is simple to define.

Team Play: Not explored this option yet.

Sim setup is quck, thus I can define a fairly complex sim in a matter of minutes.
If I had to choose only one sim package, CVData ver. 3 would be the one. I would ask you to go to Norm?s site (www.qfit.com) for a more complete description of the numerous features.

[Small Player]

> I would ask you to go to Norm?s site
> (www.qfit.com) for a more complete
> description of the numerous features.

I went to that site and saw nothing specifically for CV Data Version 3. Is there a link for CV Data Version 3 features?

[Norm Wattenberger]

[Inskipp]

Can CVData generate "card counter basic strategy" for a given set of conditions?

[Norm Wattenberger]

I thought about adding this. But, why would anyone want to do it? If you can come up with a good reason I'll consider it. It's very easy. In fact it would be easy to create a RA CBS which I haven't seen. It's a cute idea. I just can't imagine using it. I don't believe it provides much if any cover.

> Can CVData generate "card counter basic
> strategy" for a given set of
> conditions?

[Inskipp]

It provides cover a la Ian Anderson's "Ultimate Gambit", and it also is a step between "just betting" and "betting and using playing indices". According to an article in the last BJF, CBS provides most of the profit of index play with a lot less work. Less work means more time plus fewer mistakes, equals more profit. (That is the attraction of unbalanced counts, too).

[Norm Wattenberger]

However, for it to work that efficiently, you would have to remember a different CBS for every betting ramp. Even with the same spread. It is easy to come up with one betting ramp with its CBS and compare it with indexes and say you get most of the benefit. But, that's an ideal. In the real World, you aren't going to play in one manner everywhere. Sounds like a lot of work to me.

> It provides cover a la Ian Anderson's
> "Ultimate Gambit", and it also is
> a step between "just betting" and
> "betting and using playing
> indices". According to an article in
> the last BJF, CBS provides most of the
> profit of index play with a lot less work.
> Less work means more time plus fewer
> mistakes, equals more profit. (That is the
> attraction of unbalanced counts, too).