basic strategy question

[macblack]

Hello all,

I have a simple doubt with basic strategy that i hope someone can clear it for me please.
A basic strategy chart is created for a set of a game rules and it's used to minimize the possible house advantage.

My question is how this basic strategy charts change during the start of shoe to the end.

From what I’ve seen, the same basic strategy is used through out the all shoe (I’m referring to action decisions, h, s, dd... and not to betting decisions based on counting or any other system).

Shouldn't a strategy chart continuously change after each hand it's finished?
My assumption is that the basic strategy gives you the best probable action you should take based on the rules of the game used. In a 6 deck game a specific chart is used.
Now, during after half a shoe is dealt, the remaining cards left have no longer the normal distribution of card types that in a new 6 deck shoe, so I’m trying to understand, if the probabilities have change, shouldn't the strategy also change? For example, is the basic strategy chart usefull in a shoe were all A's and 6's are gone?

I don't know if you understood what i was trying to ask, but trying to explain something in a second language, from a subject i don't know much, is a little difficult. Sorry for my english.

This leads me to another question, is there a possibility, for research purposes to have a computer continuously feedback the appropriate action based on the knowledge of all the cards dealt, using a new strategy based on the probabilities of the cards left?


Thanks
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MacBlack

[aussiecounter]

Welcome to the forums Macblack.

Basic Strategy is used the same at the start of a shoe as it is near the end. This is because if you haven't been counting, you wont know how many Aces or Sixes or whatever have come out. So even if there ARE no Aces left in the shoe, you will not know this, so you will still act as if it is a new shoe. So if you are not card counting, the Basic Strategy will not change.

If you are counting however, the basic strategy WILL change. Most of the Basic Strategy rules stay the same, but some do change, depending on what the True Count is. I think this is what you were getting at. If you want to research it, these changes are known as "indices". The most significant ones are known as the "Illustrious 18".

Regarding the computer you describe, yes it is possible, but would be VERY hard to put to use in a casino. It is my belief also that this type of device would be illegal in almost every place in the world.
Here is a link to a thread about this topic that was discussed recently on this site: http://www.blackjackinfo.com/bb/showthread.php?t=687

[macblack]

Fast reply, thanks. Got me still browsing the forums. Great resource by the way.

I will look for the "Illustrious 18".

Following the same principle, that the basic strategy changes according to the cards left, if an impossibility were to occur, were i could keep track of all the cards left, do you know if there are computer simulations done that could point to the strategy to use at any given hand?
Or is the deviation of the original strategy too small to influence the outcome?

Thanks
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MacBlack

EDIT: A have read the "Illustrious 18" posts and it basically answered my questions. Thanks for the info.

[aussiecounter]

Cool, happy to help.