Richard Munchkin said:
Not sure what you mean by multiple occurrences, but using just 1 key would mean you would bet into many false sequences. This would increase variance and lower your edge.
Multiple occurrences means more than one key per betting opportunity.
Here are a couple of examples- you are playing 8D, and the Two of Clubs was keyed to an ace twice for the last shoe. Betting now makes it the equivalent of single-key on a 4D game, which is playable.
Or the Two of Clubs and Four of Spades are both single keys, and both of them turn up in the positions where you are looking for your key cards. That is also approximately a 4D game, and if they were both keyed twice it is like a DD game, and so on.
There are a few benefits to this method, the first being practicability, in that it is a very VERY rare talent to be able to double-key 20+ aces. I'm good for 4, without moving my lips or anything. :laugh: But I can single-key them all, probably a lot of people can do that with practice.
So let's say you can only double-key a few, you are going to to end up having to go to the table max on your hits if you are going to get any money out of it, because you are only going to get a hit per hour or so. This can also increase variance and draw a lot of attention from the pit. But using a multiple-single-key approach yields a lot more betting opportunities (maybe 2-10 per shoe, depending on a few variables) and much more earthly advantages on the order of 1-4%, so your spread won't be much bigger than a card counter's spread, but without being correlated to any count.
Just my thoughts, I think a method like this might work a little better for most people in most stores than double-key.