Originally Posted by
Meistro123
so step #1 is making sure you have perfected basic strategy for your rule set. probably you haven't even gotten this far. step #2 is master the basics of card counting BEFORE you put your money at risk. So this takes about 50-100 hours of practice. What you should be doing right now is purchasing 8 decks, a discard tray and a shoe and playing at home until you can play through two consecutive shoes with no betting or playing mistakes.
For a complete list of index plays you should purchase 'professional blackjack' or the CVCX software from qfit. You would split TT v 5 and 6 at +7 true count. You obtain the true count by dividing the running count by the number of decks remaining. With 50% penetration you aren't going to be making this play a lot anyway.
Anyway, the game you are playing is beatable but it is a very marginal game because of the slow game speed and poor penetration and bad rules. Basically conditions are all suboptimal. I know of a live dealer game that has the same penetration and much superior rules. Better rules make a significant difference because it means your advantage gets much bigger earlier. So at TC + 1 the game I am thinking of, with a liberal rule set, has an advantage probably of around +.6% whereas your game would be break even at the same point. Especially because penetration is so bad having an advantage at TC +1 is a pretty big deal because TC+1 and +2 are all you are going to see for the most part.
Eventually you could get backed off but it is kind of tough for them to catch on, because the games are actually outsourced to third parties mostly and also there is just so much whale action that you are just a drop in the bucket.
Soft eighteen you just hit vs 9 and T (always) and stay vs A at +1 true count. Vs small cards you will usually double.
You take insurance at +3 true count.
For the most part you just split eights. At very high counts you can stay this hand vs ten, but again with shitty penetration like you are playing that is never going to happen.
Yes you can double with 8 vs 5 or 6 at a modest true count.
and the 70-80% pen site is much much better. should definitely play that game.
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