The 2nd best straight count game I ever played was a single deck s17/das and they would routinely deal 7-8 rounds heads up and tolerated my discreet and respectful 2x25 to 2x1000 (table min to table max) spread. Played there once a month on junkets, would camp each time for the entire trip and no problems. Then word got out and some jerks came by and took advantage of the joint and were a little too aggressive on the game and it ended.
My last trip there they converted the sd to a dd with 50% pen. I asked the critter where the SD went and she replied oh we still have it, its just we deal the 1 deck outta 2 so its the same thing. Needless to say it is not the same thing and so my honey pot was spoiled.....
Cohiba
I have thought about this again and found your conclusion is valid, but your math has some typo. Suppose we have a deck of cards that consists of 2s (2 of spades) and a 3s (3 of spades), and another deck of cards that consists of a 2d (2 of diamonds) and a 3d (3 of diamonds).
If we put these two decks together, the six total 2-card combinations are as follows:
2s3s, 2s2d, 2s3d, 3s2d, 3s3d, 2d3d
The odd of drawing a 2-card 2+3=5 combination is 4/6=67%. If we remove one deck off the top, the odd of a 2-card 2+3=5 is still 67% statistically.
If we have three such decks of cards: 2s, 3s; 2d, 3d; 2c, 3c, the odd of drawing a 2-card 2+3=5 combination is 9/15=60%. If we remove two decks off the top, the odd of a 2-card 2+3=5 is still 60% statistically.
This consideration can be generalized to 3-cards deck to find the odds of a blackjack by replacing 2 by Ace, and 3 by King and adding a neutral card of 8.
Unfortunately i never did. Played some SD at Maxim's a few months and through the time that they tapped out but dont recall the rules at the time. I have it recorded on my database in my non-functional computer. I didnt start playing until much much later as I am significantly younger than many of the posters on here.
What were the games like at Caesars and Maxims in terms of pen and tolerance?
Thanks
Cohiba
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