Quote Originally Posted by aceside View Post
I haven’t examined this paper but I still insist that the use of the term “exact calculation” for a deck of finite number of cards is just misleading. The paper calculated the EV for a deck of 52 cards, but has not calculated it for a deck with 26 cards. How come this is exact exact? Research is meant to be useful for the people here, after all.
It is no problem to compute splits or any hand for any shoe composition/cards remaining. The only requisite is that enough cards remain to complete any possible drawing sequence without running out of cards.

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