Certain desks & and probabilities

[bluestar]

I was just wondering, but lets say if I counted just the high cards in certain deck games, for example: a 6 deck game would have 120 high cards assiging a 1 to each high. Could this be a simple strategy for increasing my bet if the count hasn't exceeded lets say 75%(30 count)?

[KenSmith]

That's basically what a simple system like Hi-Lo already provides. To me, it seems more complicated and difficult to determine a percentage of high cards seen compared to total cards seen than to maintain a running count that does the same task.

The first idea requires you to keep two running totals: The number of high cards, and the number of total cards. Using a plus-minus system does the same thing with a single running count.

Would it work the first way? Sure, but with extra effort.