Ouchez: What value do Ya'll place on L.S.?

[Don Schlesinger]

I wrote:

> This is easily done either by using BJRM
> 2002 or CVCX software. Perhaps someone will
> work it out for you. I can tell you, from
> the new BJA3 charts, that for a $10,000 bank
> and play-all 1-16 spread, 4.5/6, the
> non-surrender unit would be $8.61 (for 13.5%
> ROR), while the surrender unit would
> increase to $10.90, for the same ROR.

> No sure why this is any different from the
> above increase of 12.66% to the unit size.
> Doubt that it would be very different.

I read my calculator incorrectly. Sorry! Increase in unit size for the above is (10.90 - 8.61)/8.61 = 26.6%.

As for your other question, it makes no difference. We all specify a total bankroll that we have to play blackjack. From that bank, we calculate how we play any game, including the unit sizes. Now, if you want 10% ROR for four hours, or for 25 hours, or forever, you simply take with you different portions of that total bank. But, you don't play the game any differently.

Don

[Fred Renzey]

> We all specify a total bankroll
> that we have to play blackjack. From that
> bank, we calculate how we play any game,
> including the unit sizes. Now, if you want
> 10% ROR for four hours, or for 25 hours, or
> forever, you simply take with you different
> portions of that total bank. But, you don't
> play the game any differently.

snip> However, if you're on location and the game changes (as in adding the surrender option), I think the amount your betting unit increases to maintain the same "trip" ROR varies according to the size of that trip stake and the duration of the trip.

Simming a 4.25/6.0 & 1-to-12 with Wong's BCA, his "nadir" feature indicates that when late surrender is added, the ROR remains the same if you increase the unit size by:

4% playing on a 4 hour trip stake

8% playing on a 25 hour trip stake

22% playing on a 500 hour bankroll

Will BJRM allow me to plug in various limited hours of play to see how the unit sizes vary as the EV varies -- while maintaining the same ROR?

[Don Schlesinger]

> Simming a 4.25/6.0 & 1-to-12 with Wong's
> BCA,

No slight to Wong, but you really need to consider some new software!

> Will BJRM allow me to plug in various
> limited hours of play to see how the unit
> sizes vary as the EV varies -- while
> maintaining the same ROR?

Yes. And Norm's new calculators, in CVCX, incorporate all of the new ROR formulas to be found in BJA3.

Don