Heads up / Burn card adjustments

[ShipTheCookies]

Unseen, dealt cards should be treated as if they're behind the cut card. You certainly don't count that slug of cards as "minus"

[UncleChoo]

Unseen, dealt cards should be treated as if they're behind the cut card. You certainly don't count that slug of cards as "minus"

That's how I remember some of the books I have saying you should handle the situation. It just seems like a bad situation either way. I sure wouldn't feel comfortable putting out max bets at a TC of +5 say three decks through. I would be thinking that fist slug I missed could of been really X heavy and what I think is a TC of +5 is really a TC of say -1. I have no doubt "Unseen, dealt cards should be treated as if they're behind the cut card" is the correct approach, only because that's what people more knowledgeable and experienced than me say. It's just one of those areas that I can't understand the logic behind myself. For instance, I know card counting works, not only because that's what experts say, but because I can see the math and logic behind it for myself. As far as the slug of unseen cards, I have a hard time understanding "why" it's safe to treat them as if they're behind the cut card.

Maybe it's because if we walked into the identical situation 1000 times of starting a shoe with a slug in the discard tray, each time we started the shoe short tens would be balance out with the times we started the shoe rich in 10's. Probably as simple as this and I'm just over thinking.

[Freightman]

Unseen, dealt cards should be treated as if they're behind the cut card. You certainly don't count that slug of cards as "minus"

As above and reduce deck pen accordingly