I've been doing alot of lying in bed thinking about blackjack and counting, heres what was going through my mind last night, I just need the mathematically inclined to assess my assessment.
Often times when i've been backcounting in a Casino with just one other player playing, the count will reach a nice high thats hard to resist wonging into, the shoe being close to finished with only one card on top of the cut card left. If there is only one other box being played, and you've been shuffle tracking the cut off slug and have already roughly estimated that a large portion of the cut off slug is 10/Ace rich, on top of that you've counted the majority of the shoe and have a high count, this taken in combination with your shuffle tracking and one more hand to be played puts you in a very powerful situation.
You could now open every other box not in play and also put your chips behind the one box being used by the other player. So lets say you max out all seven boxed, so a minimum of 8 x 2 cards will have to pulled from the remaining cards in the cut off slug which is only 1 deck thick. This combined with the potential for splitting tens, and other additional cards could potentially give you a situation where just over half of the remaining cards in the cut off slug are drawn. Wouldn't this now give you a massive advantage compared to what you'd usually be acustomed to?
uk rules S17, DOA, DAS, Split any pair, no peek, no surrender 4 decks. 75 -80% pen.
Often times when i've been backcounting in a Casino with just one other player playing, the count will reach a nice high thats hard to resist wonging into, the shoe being close to finished with only one card on top of the cut card left. If there is only one other box being played, and you've been shuffle tracking the cut off slug and have already roughly estimated that a large portion of the cut off slug is 10/Ace rich, on top of that you've counted the majority of the shoe and have a high count, this taken in combination with your shuffle tracking and one more hand to be played puts you in a very powerful situation.
You could now open every other box not in play and also put your chips behind the one box being used by the other player. So lets say you max out all seven boxed, so a minimum of 8 x 2 cards will have to pulled from the remaining cards in the cut off slug which is only 1 deck thick. This combined with the potential for splitting tens, and other additional cards could potentially give you a situation where just over half of the remaining cards in the cut off slug are drawn. Wouldn't this now give you a massive advantage compared to what you'd usually be acustomed to?
uk rules S17, DOA, DAS, Split any pair, no peek, no surrender 4 decks. 75 -80% pen.
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