Recent content by J10

All the BS tables give you the optimal decision assuming the count or TC is 0, but I've become interested in software that could perhaps come up with different strategy tables and players/casinos edge based off the cards that have been dealt in past games. The following link gives a good idea...

I had one strange shoe Today where I didn't lose a single hand or have a push, this was mainly because the low cards came out early on and everyone was getting a stiff hand and being able to make >17 after one or two hits, then the dealer would draw loads of cards and go bust, then after that...

Decided to go to another one instead which has a 6 deck shoe. I lost a lot at the start because the shoe was very bad, and the dealer was drawing 5-6 cards and getting 21 which is dishearting when you split then double both and make 20. The next 3-4 went very well and I made all my money back...

So basically the only chance I have is to wait for a new table to open up and only play through the deck when its been played through one cycle? So after that the deck becomes to unreliable. Remember the entire deck is never shuffled after any one hand only the discard pile.

The reason I ask this is because one of the Casinos I went to had one of these electric shoes. Basically after every two hands. The discard pile was then feeded back into the shoe, which shuffles the cards before going back to the top of the deck. The topic title is just a rhetorical question, I...