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Originally Posted by
moses
I'm inclined to agree. The problem perhaps some don't realize is jumping from Hi-lo to Halves is difficult. The brain is forced to calculate 3 half point measures on one side, including the 1.5 value on the 5 and just 1 half point measure on the other side. Something about the imbalance of the halves forces a skipping when initially making the transition of the two counts. It was literally giving me headaches. It appears most give up and go back to Hi lo.
For what it's worth, I found a median solution. Move the 1/2 point on the 5 to the 7. You're actually gaining a little PE and not sacrificing much BC. Now with just a 1/2 point on each side it's far less taxing on the brain. From that, I didn't need to, but choose to take the step back up to Wong Halves. And no more headaches.
I never understood why people think halves is so hard. Some say because there's just not that many cancellations. Maybe its easy for me because I dont really cancel, i tend to do both, ill cancel but also count one by one depending on what i see at first glance. I don't know but the .5 and the 1.5 and -.5 really has no affect on me, and im not saying that because i think im smarter than anyone here, it's just weird why I dont find it one bit harder. To me it's basically hi-lo with a couple .5s here and there, what's so hard about it? It's not like the 10s and Aces are a decimal, they are full numbers, in this case -1. I think I know what you mean about the .5 on both sides, but I never looked at it like that. I guess the reason why I never looked at it like that is because I knew the 2 and the 7 are very unpredictable cards and not warranted a full +1 so for me it was easy to picture them being only .5.
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