FrostByte,
Thanks for the comments. The game we play in the majority of UK Casinos has a HE of approx. 0.43674% source
http://wizardofodds.com/games/blackjack/calculator/ 4 Decks S17 DAS DOA RSA ENHC NS NI Even Money option on Dealer A or 10 against BJ.
A little confused about your comments about the game being unplayable, we do very well with Hi-Lo and KO-Pref
As you can see from my questions the objective is not to make money from the A 5 (would be nice) but rather to not lose money! The Analysis that Norman did for Mike Shackelford
http://wizardofodds.com/games/blackjack/appendix/17/ seemed to suggest a player advantage of 0.3% over a 6 deck game so slightly worse than our 4 deck game, thereby achieving our objective of potentially Eradicating the HE. The devil is always in the detail. Do you have any analysis for your comments?
The Paul L. Schaffer version of the Ace 5 make some minor changes to basic strategy (15v10, 16v9, 16v10 3Cards, A2v5, A4v4,) and overall playing strategy and uses a max spread of 1-4 units (1-8 units would be no problem for us higher that 1-12 could be an issue) to improve the efficiency. Bank roll should not be an issue (however I am struggling to find any detailed analysis for BR and ROR) she generally has 400 units as her BR. Her play has been an overhead (she plays perfect BS stands on 16v10 3+cards) and as you would expect is up and down but down long term on her action due to the HE. Clearly if we can eradicate that loss and not have to make too many mods to her play that would be great.
So our questions still stand:
What would the Risk of Ruin and Bankroll requirements be assuming $5 units and $25 units for player 1?
Is the Ace 5 the simplest and best HE minimisation/eradication strategy?
Any further help appreciated as it seems we are either misinterpreting whats our there about the A5 we have read everything we can find and played on our practice table to reasonable effect. It seems that because everyone is focused on squeezing the last drop of advantage out of counting and playing strategies (and we are very thankful for that), any strategy that seeks to break even or just squeeze over the line in the players favour has not had any attention. If the A 5 has merit in these circumstances it should be the most valuable CC strategy for the majority of the BJ playing world (the ones that will never learn any kind of full CC) and play for fun.
Any math experts please feel free to chip in.
Very best regards
Anton
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