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Midwest Player
Vegas Casino Talk is not really a blackjack advantage player site. There are very few folks over there who know about advantage play. However, one ex-member of this site is posting on Vegas Talk that if you adjust the Halves count you can improve SCORE. He suggests changing the tag for the 2 to 0 and increasing the tag from .5 to 1 for the 7.
I want to know if there is any truth to his claim. If I remember correctly Stanford Wong based his halves count on the value of each card. Wouldn't he have rated the 7 as 1 and the 2 as 0 if that was the case.
The only information I can find on effect of card removal is from these two links. I believe it is also in Wong's book, but I'm too lazy to look it up.
https://wizardofodds.com/games/blackjack/appendix/7/
https://www.qfit.com/book/ModernBlackjackPage68.htm
Both these links give a higher rating to the 2 than the 7.
Firstly, if you are going to change the tags on a Halves it is no longer Halves. Secondly, changing the 2 to 0 and .5 to 1 for the 7. It will decrease the betting correlation to .96 compare to original Halves with .99 BC. It also decreases the insurance correlation.
A-(-1)
2-0
3-1
4-1
5-1.5
6-1
7-1
8-0
9-(-.5)
T-(-1)
PE = .56 BC =.96 IC =.70
Halves
A-(-1)
2-.5
3-1
4-1
5-1.5
6-1
7-.5
8-0
9-(-.5)
T-(-1)
PE = .56 BC =.99 IC =.72
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