Recent content by Grisly Dreams

No, no: CW is "Country and Western."

True, but it was important to be wrong in every conceivable way.

Don't listen to these "experts." At a true count of +2, you've got an advantage over the house of like .5%. Multiply that by the 12-14 units you're betting at that advantage, and that comes out to. . .let's see. . .I figure if you aren't seeing 6% returns, the casino is obviously cheating.

True count conversion is just not that bad. Go; do.

"When comparing 6 and 8 decks the percentage number is not what's important. The actual number of unseen cards are what is important." But when you're cutting, say, a deck off a double-deck, doesn't it have a more deleterious effect on the original EV for a double decker than cutting the same...

If you cut 2 decks off a 6D shoe, you have lopped off 33% of the cards, wrecking the usefulness of the information derived by counting cards. If you cut 2 decks off an 8D shoe, you have lopped off 25%. Both are pretty darned bad. The 75% pen on the 8D shoe is "better," I guess, but since...

Isn't that the point of counting the cards in the first place?

Thank the gods you're 3000 miles away.

I think I remember Ian Andersen talking about doubling on "11" one time. Might have been somewhere else. But I've seen it discussed as legal, but retarded.

Here are two claims: Apple exercises more control, and permits less freedom to developers, over its hardware/software stacks than the developers, and end users, would likely prefer. [Apple] is the most closed tech company in the world. One of these claims is perfectly defensible...

Norm's charts would indicate that late surrender adds at least 50% the SCORE of a 6-deck game at the commonly available penetrations. That's crazy. I think it rings true to me, though. I'm not sure I'll play a shoe game with no surrender.

Norm, I love your software, and your contributions here, but the above is not true. Yes, their iPhone software screening is egregious. But their Mac OS software is built in large part on BSD Unix, which is as free as a bird. One can run a large portion of the Mac OS by running (Dead link...

If you scout the deals, you can get VMWare or Parallels for less than $40. Then just run Norm's programs under the Windows emulated environment. You should just buy one of these anyway, in case you have a file that won't behave properly under OS X.

The algorithms that predict your blackjack results are significantly less likely to be the bug-ridden portion of the code than the other stuff.

Depends on the SIZE of the boost. Ritalin, the ADHD drug prescribed all over the damned place, is just a small dose of methamphetamine. Adderall? Dextroamphetamine and Amphetamine. The whole point of these medicines is to focus the mind of those who are distracted. Small doses of...