Cheap Cover Index Plays
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Daddy Bo -- if the game is H17, you can't stand on A/7 vs. A for cover -- it's a 6% extra penalty. It's easy enough to stick to cover plays that cost less than 2% -- there are plenty of them.
CP -- Remember that anytime you lose your whole stack or double thru in one sitting, it's not you -- it's the cards.
BTW, the BJ Mentor article was in there a few pages further back. It's a BJ IQ quiz for the typical ploppy.
CP -- Remember that anytime you lose your whole stack or double thru in one sitting, it's not you -- it's the cards.
BTW, the BJ Mentor article was in there a few pages further back. It's a BJ IQ quiz for the typical ploppy.
creeping panther said:
Dear BJ Master,
Yes Exactly, but you see I must take care not to call anyone stupid anymore
You just never know what someone will come up with as cover.
I hope your sons team won that Basketball Game the other day
CP
Yes Exactly, but you see I must take care not to call anyone stupid anymore
You just never know what someone will come up with as cover.I hope your sons team won that Basketball Game the other day
CP
P.S. Game was good!
Besides the several excellent cover plays you mentioned, to determine these, should you pick plays that have low standard deviations? Does cvdata give you these values somewhere?
It appears a lot of you more experienced posters somehow "just know" which plays aren't too costly and I'm curious how you know what the "close plays" are?
It appears a lot of you more experienced posters somehow "just know" which plays aren't too costly and I'm curious how you know what the "close plays" are?
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As a play gets closer to the index, the cost of the play decreases. So making a deviation that is not quite at the index but a TC or so away from it wont be that bad. Also, after reading about certain plays, you learn that some deviations that look rediculous are not as bad as they seem. Ex: At a quite negative count (-12 TC zen), it becomes the correct play to HIT 17 v A. Personally, I have never made this deviation (I try to avoid those -12 counts, even in DD), but I would like the see the pit's reaction to that one
You can get them from EV charts. Wong's Professional Blackjack has them, as well as Schlesinger's Blackjack Attack.
Just peruse the EV's for different hands when you play them differently, find the errors that are small, and if you think they fit in with either an ignorant or reckless image, you've got yourself a cover play.
Just peruse the EV's for different hands when you play them differently, find the errors that are small, and if you think they fit in with either an ignorant or reckless image, you've got yourself a cover play.
