Blackbelt In Blackjack, page 83:
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Arnald Snyder is on Don's side, he advocates rounding the remaining deck. When 2.2 decks are remaining, Arnald calls it 2 decks remaining.
I don't like this way of estimating the remaining deck cause it increases the difficulty of training.
For 6 deck game, using half deck estimation, people usually make up stacks of cards containing 5.5, 5, 4.5, 4, 3.5, 3, 2.5, 2, 1.5, 1 decks to practice eyeballing. It would be a wrong set up if they use rounding method to estimate the remaining deck because the boundary is blurry, thus it takes longer to make a tough call(i.e. 2.2 decks becomes 2 decks, 2.3 decks become 2.5 decks).
It would be better to make up stacks of cards containing 5.75, 5.25, 4.75, 4.25, 3.75, 3.25, 2.75, 2.25, 1.75, 1.25 decks, so the boundaries would be established precisely. Eyeball these boundary stacks long enough and memorize them cold, then it won't take more than a blink to conclude the remaining deck falls into which section, according to the eyeballed thickness.
This is the default Set Custom TC page in CVCX:
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The Deck range makes the segmentation of 2.02-2.5 decks, or 1.52-2 decks. This is clearly not Don or Arnold's way to estimate the divisor.
To make the CVCX estimate the remaining deck for TC divisor exactly the same way as Don and Arnold described, I click Set Custom, input below numbers in Set Decks & Divisor column:
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Does this match Don's method to get the TC divisor?
Besides, if I don't use the Custom TC option, what exactly does the default Half Deck Resolution mean? The PDF manual doesn't specify clearly how the divisor is calculated:
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Card Range 221-246=Divisor 4.5?
Card Range 209-234=Divisor 4.5?
I still prefer Three's "Round Up the Remaining Deck" method, which means: Card Range 209-234=Divisor 4.5
(note: in CVCX, Deck Range of 0-1 equal to Card Range of 0-51 cards. This is confusing cause I think one deck should be equal to 52 cards, so I set 0-1.02 as the Deck Range to make the Card Range 0-52, I set 1.04-1.52 as the Deck Range to make the Card Range 53-78, and so forth..)I've used to eyeballing 4.5 and 5 decks as boundaries, practice eyeballing 4.25 and 4.75 decks is very unnatural to me.
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How to redo all the Hilo indices according to Three's method of estimating the divisors?
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