I just received your book and I am very impressed with it. When will you make software for Spanish 21 available? Will it allow playing the game, strategy and betting drills and simulation? Will it have a printed manual? Will a CD be available? I am looking forward to it.
Thank you for your kind words.
I have heard that Norm from QFIT's CVData works for Spanish 21 now.
My software is not commercial, i.e. it has no GUI. I am more than happy to make it available for people, but it does not have the functionality that Norm's does. It is a simulator only. You cannot play a game with it, nor does it have drills. It doesn't allow for camouflage play. No printed manual. It was written for me, to give me all the data I needed for the book, plus my own playing obviously. Before I go to a casino, I run my betting strategy through the simmer to see what kind of win rate and SCORE I can get.
So I would recommend that you use CVData.
What language did you use to write your simulator?
BJinNJ
Thanks for the quick response. I will use CV. I have no intention of using any count other than High-Low, but I will buy your more advanced books.
Does the index generator work as well? This would be excellent.
> What language did you use to write your simulator?
> BJinNJ
The CVData index generator supports oddball bonuses for composition-dependent indexes, but not general, total-dependent, indexes. Although you could probably use a few CD indexes to come up with the general index. That's something I could add. There hadn't been much demand in the past. I haven't yet read the recent version of Kat's book and will need to see what else is called for. It's possible there are other indexes not yet supported by the generator.
> Does the index generator work as well? This would be
> excellent.
OK, I'll see what I can do. This is probably the only time I wish I learned a different count! So, how bad is this idea: I've tried to see what the differences are between I18 for HiLo and SP21, and guesstimate how much to add or subtract from the I18 figures I would use for UAPC. I know that is going to be off, but my guess is it would be a whole lot better than playing BS and ramping bets accordingly. The other thing is, TC starts off the top at -6 with UAPC, not -4 like HiLo. For betting, my guess would be +EV starts at -4. Lastly, how bad will I be hurt by not sidecounting 32 aces? What if I just side count A of spades, or all black aces? 8 is a lot more manageable than 32, and I'm used to 8 from the DD games. Thanks for any and all help, I know no one but me is probably going to benefit from this info.
> The CVData index generator supports oddball bonuses
> for composition-dependent indexes, but not general,
> total-dependent, indexes. Although you could probably
> use a few CD indexes to come up with the general
> index. That's something I could add. There hadn't been
> much demand in the past. I haven't yet read the recent
> version of Kat's book and will need to see what else
> is called for. It's possible there are other indexes
> not yet supported by the generator.
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