Quote Originally Posted by Freightman View Post
Your thinking about right. The cost to me was simply a difference in amount lost on negative expectation hands versus the knowledge of an additional card, which represented additional deck penetration. Given enough hands, the differential is enough to potentially make a difference between medium type VS max bets towards shoes end. Now, I honestly don't recall if that indeed happened, however, the potential of it happening would be significant enough to make the play(s) very worthwhile.

I was essentially talking about passing 15, 16 type hands v 9 or 10 with NS, neutral and negative counts.
I should also point out that playing 2 spots required double min. Your thought is good if only single min for 2 squares, however, investing 4x at negative expectation seems a bit silly.