Crown Casino

[jimmy]

I live in Southbank, Melbourne and go to Crown very often. In the main gaming floor they have recently introduced Sports Blackjack which are $10-$200 8-deck shoe games, No Hole Card, H17, DAS, D9/10/11 and penetration ~75% with blackjack paying 6-to-5!!. Upstairs they still have the usual $10-$200 Crown Blackjack with all the same rules above except bj pays the normal 3-to-2.

I have recently started using ReKO (http://www.qfit.com/rekostrategy.htm) with moderate success (won $850 in 2 visits in roughly 10 shoes) at the tables upstairs. But from my own CVCX simulations the win rate will be about $15/hr in the long run given those Crown Blackjack rules. I have realised that the most important thing at the moment for me is the get enough bankroll and time to spend if I really want to make a decent earning from it.

I know Crown's rules are very bad, but they are still beatable (according to CVCX simulation). You just need patience. And given it's just metres away from my house I think it's the only reasonable choice for me.

They do use quite a few CSM machines but there are still shoe games available, I think the ratio of CSM to shoe games is roughly the same.

[FLASH1296]

I simply do not believe that the game that you describe is beatable without a HUGE spread.

What spread did you have the software use for the simulation?

24-1 ?, 32-1 ?, 40-1 ?

[jimmy]

it's a 20 to 1 spread as described on the reKO strategy website. I simply use $10-200 instead of $5-100. Oh and I actually used CVData not CVCX. I included all the ReKO index, running count parameters and the betting ramp in the simulation. It gave me a player advantage of roughly 0.3% over 400 million hands (if you play every hand) and an advantage of 0.5% if you only play when the running count is favourable. The hourly earning is about $8 and $15, respectively.

[jimmy]

oops i just realised that the demo version of CVData does not produce correct results (which mine is). Can anyone kindly do a simul under those rules if they have a real copy? maybe I am just lucky after all...