I was thinking the same thing when he said it but the dealer and the player have the same chance of getting them. Your advantage is in how you play your stiffs versus how the dealer must play his and in your doubles, splits and the bonus payout on your blackjacks. All three of the latter come with high frequency in this situation.
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Sorry that is the bad advice. I dont know how else to say it, but more complicated counting strategies that include side counting do not give you any additional significant edge in Modern Blackjack games. I will repost something i posted in theory and math
Chance favors the prepared mind
I'm doing this from my phone right now, so it's a little bit difficult to find and paste the link. Maybe someone can hookup Nogumby with that. It was around december, Norm showed us sim results of what I think you would call mini-martingales as cover betting. My recollection was they all hurt, though some schemes are less disasterous than others.
The bottom line is that you bet more when you have the advantage, and less/none when you don't. Deviating from that costs money.
http://www.qfit.com/blackjackblog/?p=337
The best way to use a martingale as cover (aside from not using it) would be to do a 1-4 martingale in negative counts, and then proper/optimal betting in positive counts. This cuts your hourly win rate by 52%. If you prefer to martingale in positive counts, and flat bet in the negative counts, martingales like 2-16 and 1-8 will cut your win rate by 86% to 99.7%.
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