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thanks guys! appreciate the responses and insight :P

so if i'm reading those charts correctly by arnold snyder in the link...if i use a 1-16 spread playing a avg. 6deck game with 4.5d pen using system 1 i can expect an hourly rate of 2.90 units, given i can play a hundred hands in an hour? this seems to good to be true....i found this a really...

i really need to get this book, i have (to date) only purchased professional blackjack by wong and though it has given me a lot of insight and started me in the right direction, i think it is time to broaden the horizon a little more and i've hurd nothing but good things about bja 3...thanks sonny.

thankyou friendo, so since i truncate my true count, being off by plus/minus one in my running shouldn't have a noticeable effect on my ev in shoe games particularly? it would seem to me that as you have less decks to be played being off by plus/minus 1 in your running count will have a bigger...

thanks guys! i will check the charts out most definately when i get the chance, appreciate all the answers and insight :P

because true count conversion requires estimation what is the cost of being off on our running count by 1, i know its important to strive for accuracy, but i was wondering how costly it is for a player to be consistently off by 1 on his running count since true count conversion is an estimation...

thanks let me rephrase my original question, if i am only playing at a count per deck equal/greater than +2 what is my expected frequency that this will occur per shoe/deck...thanks for timely response friendo.

my guess is that with more decks their will be less frequency of positive counts...but what is the estimated frequency of positive counts i can expect for single deck, dd, 6d, 8d?? thanks, and can someone explain why this is...thanks guys.

thankyou ken that makes sense, appreciate the timely response:)

so i have been studying professional blackjack by wong and trying to learn and memorize the indices for hi/lo...while browsing over the numbers for h17 i found the index for splitting 99 vs. A is tc>=1, is this correct, and if so can someone explain this to me as I would (guess) that it would be...

wow, how stupid and funny...perhaps he is a professional dis-advantage player i remember reading something in the Tao Te Ching along the line of those that know do not tell and those that tell do not know or vise versa....

welcome if you are underfunded your best bet is heavy wonging and trying to identify and play in specific conditions only... as for the drinking thing, i've often wondered this myself if you can swing it than by all means go for it. in my experience card counting is not one of the tasks...

also.... practice counting down a single deck starting at different counts ie. -15, 21, -13, 17....and see how you do. after i was able to count down a single deck in less than 30 seconds starting at zero i practiced starting at random numbers and found that it was like starting over in a way...

welcome and goodluck :) I started the journey about 6 months ago. A few things I would add to ringle's post that I have learned along the way thus far... 1.) Counting down a deck fast and being able to count in casino-like conditions with little to know error are totally different animals! I...

don't really have a favorite hand, atleast none really stick out in my mind. my favorite experience was going to Tahoe on my 21st b-day with my dad and watching him sit down at a 5 dollar table with a hundred bucks and lose all ten hands he played. that was priceless comedy with the old...