For someone who is a recent convert to a balanced count, converting to a True Count is a whole new beast. Mainly I want to stick to DD games so I want to break my TC down into quarter deck increments.
I know there are different methods for calculating TC such as Fred Renzey's method of true counting up to two decks although I find it odd to work in increments of whole deck, 1 1/2 deck, and then 1 1/3 deck. Seems like that's missing a large gap between 2 deck and 1 1/2 deck, and it also may be odd to estimate that way, and then go back and estimate quarter decks only for my side count.
Breaking down each increment shows some to be easier than others such as 1 Deck RC=TC, or 1/2 deck is RC multiplied by 2. Even 1 1/2 deck is only subtracting 1/3 running count from current RC to get TC. The problem comes in on deck levels such as 1 3/4. At this point you'd subtract 2/5 RC (approximately) from RC which seems like it would be very odd to do at the table.
What methods do most of you use to convert to TC as I'm sure there must be much easier methods than what's going on in my head?
I know there are different methods for calculating TC such as Fred Renzey's method of true counting up to two decks although I find it odd to work in increments of whole deck, 1 1/2 deck, and then 1 1/3 deck. Seems like that's missing a large gap between 2 deck and 1 1/2 deck, and it also may be odd to estimate that way, and then go back and estimate quarter decks only for my side count.
Breaking down each increment shows some to be easier than others such as 1 Deck RC=TC, or 1/2 deck is RC multiplied by 2. Even 1 1/2 deck is only subtracting 1/3 running count from current RC to get TC. The problem comes in on deck levels such as 1 3/4. At this point you'd subtract 2/5 RC (approximately) from RC which seems like it would be very odd to do at the table.
What methods do most of you use to convert to TC as I'm sure there must be much easier methods than what's going on in my head?
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