I simmed it. As did MathProf (Mike Canjar). We came up with the same results. I seem to remember Cacarulo did too. The sims they performed were awful. For HiLo, they used ridiculous betting ramps including raising bets at negative EV and no indices. It was an embarrassing episode in our field.
"I don't think outside the box; I think of what I can do with the box." - Henri Matisse
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REKO or the basic version of Red 7 are every bit as easy as The Speed Count and much much more powerful. Tamburin's "Take the Money and Run" was my first gambling book (bought at Books-a-Million) way back in the early 1990's which had a good treatment of High-Low and the I-18...and fortunately a very good bibliography which enabled me to quickly find the most worthwhile books on blackjack. He did a good job at getting his book into the stores because his was one of the only ones I could find right on the shelf in my small Southern USA town.
Last edited by bigplayer; 06-05-2013 at 11:16 PM.
We have all these discussions about just how much advantage higher level counts are worth (if any). I am a proponent of keeping things simple, with a level one count as most probably know. A level one count like hi-lo of KO is pretty darn simple. Whenever I hear of a count like speed count that is easier than a level, I immediately think "easier than level 1". ?? That just seems like a person who is saying, "I am not willing to put any effort, what-so-ever into learning to play with an advantage."
Last edited by KJ; 06-06-2013 at 06:44 AM.
Someone "invents" this count every few years. OPP is the same count. Cacarulo and I worked on it for awhile and discarded it because of its weakness. Kim Lee invented it on the spot at a party and called it the "drunk count." Jake Smallwood came up with it 25 years ago calling it the Qwik Count.
"I don't think outside the box; I think of what I can do with the box." - Henri Matisse
"I don't think outside the box; I think of what I can do with the box." - Henri Matisse
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