How often do you get each count?

It depends on the penetration. The deeper they deal, the more often you will see positive counts. You can get the numbers from a simulation program, and the book Blackjack Attack has charts for the most common games and penetration levels. Arnold Snyder also has a series of books called Beat The X-Deck Game that have the numbers for different numbers of decks. The best option would be a simulator like CVData from Qfit because you can adjust the rules and penetration to any settings you want.

-Sonny-

Thanks Sagefr0g that's really great.

But as said before I'm not a shark to the different Blackjack-words
What does f% means and 6D/52 for example.

I know I'm a noob but it's really great to learn a lot of new stuff here.

There are 4 players (including me) and I'm not wonging in.

As a tangential question, is the optimal bet you should be making (like those cvcx calculates) dependent on the frequency of each count as well as the actual advantage of each count? Does Kelly Betting take the frequency of each count into account?

According to Brett Harris' formula, the optimal bet takes account of the frequency of each counts along with the advantage associated with each count. However, so far as I know, Kelly Betting does not.

you are welcome.

sorry i forgot how cryptic the symbols i used are....

f% stands for frequency percent (how often in the long term a given true count presents)

6D/52 is a way of denoting penetration.
in this case for a six deck pack fifty two cards are cut out of play.

According to Brett Harris' formula, the optimal bet takes account of the frequency of each counts along with the advantage associated with each count. However, so far as I know, Kelly Betting does not.

correct - the reason is because the main gist of Brett's paper (as opposed to what i call "true" kelly betting) is that the player wants to fix his maximum bet and minimize his N0. the frequencies play a part in determining where that max bet is placed and are also used to calculate N0. in fact, though, for a fixed max bet, the brett's method should generate the same result as the kelly optimal method published by yamashita, which should also require TC frequencies. TRUE kelly betting in proportion to the advantage, without fixing a max bet, does not need TC frequencies. generally, though, in CVCX and other software, you have to fix a max bet and as such they use the frequencies.

again, note that these frequencies are the TC frequencies that YOU experience, not that the table experiences. what i mean is, if you just stand behind a table and watch the shoe but never jump in, you will get one set of TC frequencies. once you decide jump in though, you change the frequencies for each TC, and it is these adjusted frequencies that you must used when working with the fixed max bet formulas.