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Don Schlesinger: Re: Camouflage/for Don
> Of all the great work you have done in Blackjack, the
> article on camouflage for the basic strategist and the
> card counter was one of the best.
Thank you. It doesn't get as much "press" as some of the other, more well-known stuff, but I enjoyed doing it very much.
> I use it all the
> time. When you're a card counter you can't always play
> textbook card counting. I continually refer to the
> conditional and absolute penalty tables to mix up my
> play.
Glad you find the charts useful.
> In your book "Blackjack Attack" (I have all
> three editions)
The first one hasn't disintegrated yet? :-)
> you state that the Appendices to
> Wong's revised edition of Professional Blackjack
> provides the most accurate information in print on
> this topic.
The topic was the frequencies of the various holdings. Frequencies for initial, two-card hands are fairly common, but frequencies for the decision, where the total may be multi-card, are less frequent, and Wong supplies them.
> I reviewed the appendices in Wong's book,
> and it appears that his figures give only the
> conditional penalties.
Again, we're talking about the frequencies of the holdings, by which the conditional penalties are multiplied, to get the absolute penalties.
> I'm primarily interested in the
> absolute penalties.
Understood.
> Maybe I'm reading it wrong, if so
> can you clarify it.
See above.
> Is there any other source?
Most of the software also uses the initial hands, and not the totals, for the penalties and frequencies.
> Are you planning to update
> your great work?
Hard to say. When I finished it, I tought that BJA3 might be the end. We'll have to see.
> Thanks
> A fan
You're most welcome.
Don
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