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Dealer 8 up + 3 in hole = 11. 11 + 10 = 21. If the count is high and you have 3-3 the chances for the dealer to also have a 3 in the hole is much lower than normal in a high count there are, on average, a normal amount of medium cards and a higher amount of big cards so you have a better...

Probably some old crusty AC guy thought late surrender was the same thing as the old "Early Surrender" that was required in AC in the early days. They shouldlet you surrender, if they don't go directly to the PA gaming desk and they will tell the casino they have to let you surrender. (and...

I have the same index +4 for High-Low for multiple deck DAS split 33 vs 8

No need to worry about re-entry anyway. If you leave during a fairly deep negative, the Running Count tends to rebound towards zero but the True Count tends to stay highly negative. Even if it's the random shoe that has the TC rebounding back towards positive territory it is exceedingly...

Yes, get a $50,000 bankroll or figure out how to turn <$50K into >$50K pretty quickly. Without it you don't have a chance as expenses and variance will crush you.

depends on the rules and the penetration...for a bad ruled 8 deck game with h17 ds rules and no surrender or other beneficial rules and play-all, 1-30 probably isn't big enough. If you can spread something like 1-60 that is about the same thing as wonging. With good rules or exceedingly...

Minimum Spreads Required to beat Various Games 1-3 good ruled single deck 1-4 bad ruled single deck (d10) 1-6 s17 double deck with at least 60% pen otherwise 1-8 s17 double deck with between 50% and 60% pen 1-8 h17 double deck with at least 60% pen. 1-10 h17 no das double deck with at least 67%...

Why Two Hands All the Time The best way to think about EV is in terms of getting a certain number of shoes per day. If you want to play 25 shoes per day (starting one and wonging out still counts as a shoe played) then you will want to get through those as fast as you can to minimize your...

I don't know where you play, but almost every casino (98%) allow you to drop a hand out and add a hand back even with no Mid-Shoe Entry rules in effect. It's only if you drop out completely that you cannot re-enter the game until the shuffle.

No I vote Dumb Move. Those are the dealers you should not ever tip....if they are that gung ho about their job then tipping won't help.

LOL...wouldn't be the first time Rules for all casino contests are written up well beforehand and are on file in an office somewhere and also possibly with gaming...they almost always say "management reserves all rights" or "management may end promotion at any time" You will have...

Learn the Hit/stand and Hard Double Down Indexes. Soft Doubles have little value to be gained via indexes except A8 vs 4,5,6 and A9 vs 5,6 if you choose to do that one. Splits also have little extra value beyond basic strategy but I'd learn 99 vs 7, when not to split 88, and 99 vs Ace has...

Couldn't happen to a nicer casino (sarcasm detector going off). If the guy tipped 30K he definitely wasn't an A.P.

Thanks for the link. Very interesting thread. Problem solved easily enough with Excel Spreadsheet to calculate N, r, and(or) w. Gave me an excuse to finally wade though the math on the subject.

If you can afford $100 min Taj is great.