Hello Peeps !
I was just going through the book of Kevin Blackwood - Play Blackjack Like The Pros and KO BJ in the meantime.
And something seemed really strange to me, or well, unclear to say the least.
Page 69 Blackwood gives a list of the illustrious 18 with Hi-Lo indexes.
You have roughly the same Page 85 of KO BJ.
While I understand with KO system a RC of +4 (Pivot Point) roughly equals a TC of +4 in HI-LO, and Key Count roughly equals a TC of somewhere between 0 and 1 in HI-LO, something looks not right somewhere.
Taking for exemple 16v9
HI-LO index is +5
KO index is Pivot Point (+4)
That looks ok to me. KO system is devised to be simple and only use 2 index values for 6 decks games, PP and KC. +4 or +5 doesn’t make a big difference.
Next one, 16v10
HI-LO : +1
KO : Key Count (somewhere between 0 and +1)
This is ok again,
Here comes the problems... !
9v2
HI-LO is +1
Yet ...
KO says Pivot Point (+4)
That makes quite a BIG difference !!
It should be Key Count, but never pivot point !
Is it a mistake in KOBJ book ? To me it looks like a mistake ....
Also, KOBJ says something about 8v5 and 8v6
Yet Blackwood doesn’t speak about it, why that ?
Did the KO book just try to replace the «*not to use*» indexes of 10/10 vs 5 and 10/10 v 6 by the two most important indexes following up being 8v5 and 8v6 ?
If someone can enlighten me on this, it would be great.
Thanks !
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