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Ken, Thanks for all your work on the websites and your comments in general. I’m interested in buying your e-books on Winning BJ tournaments, but I can’t find them anywhere on your sites? Can you give me some guidance?
See http://www.qfit.com/card-counting.htm for a list of systems with BC, PE, and IC numbers. You can also calculate these numbers for any system here: Card Counting Efficiency Calculator For advanced counts (although you really don’t need one, honestly), I prefer Wong’s Halves at BC .99 and PE .56.
if more people are at the table and they draw cards out, wouldn’t that change the percentage or odds of me using the practiced chart? if it says hit on a certain hand but 3 people were ahead of me. i don’t understand how that wouldn’t change my odds or change my betting style.
Usually the casino is using several decks so a few cards do not do much to change the odds. The only way that can happen is if you have counted cards and it is getting close to the end of the shoe.
makes sense to an extent. another thing. when your changing the rules to meet my area of casinos, does the advice change automatically with charts and explanations to meet my rules?
Thanks for the reply; can you explain why the -4 makes it favourable to surrender as opposed to hit? I thought a lower count would increase the player’s chances of getting winning hand. Thanks so much! B
Fallsview is all CSM except for the high roller room, $100/hand minimum bet. I’ve read the above posts, and chuckle to myself. The first rule of gambling in general, is and always will be: “the game can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” The casinos main advantage is an unlimited bankroll. If you are on a bad run, and feel upset about it, stop! If you see it as part of the process, and remain in control, decide if you want to continue or not. You will not always win, anyone who says that is selling something. Other players impact your chances if you let them. If you don’t like your dealer, leave the table, why would you stay anywhere you are miserable? If you decide you’re going to leave at the end of the next shoe, just leave immediately, your bank is likely good, and you are no longer focusing, and destined to lose a bit more money you could have had in your pocket. My last piece of advice: after winning three or four hands in a row, then losing, complain to the dealer that “I can’t win a hand!” They laugh, and you get to remember you’re there to have fun. Remember, gambling isn’t a problem if you win…
“As soon as someone makes a mistake in Basic Strategy, there goes the SHOE” (Corrections to spelling and punctuation were made to the above quote because the entire post is so ridiculous, I had to do something to make it a little more tolerable.)
Why stop with SHOE? If a single mistake in Basic Strategy ruins an entire shoe, doesn’t it also ruin every other shoe at that table for the rest of the day? After a single mistake in Basic Strategy, the “Universe” now knows that the cards are in a different order than if no mistake had been made. This is probably due to the fact that the “Universe” wrote the Basic Strategy Charts and monitors every Blackjack Table on every inhabited planet in existence anywhere!
This terrible situation, caused by a single mistake in Basic Strategy, cannot possibly be rectified. The only possible solution would be to destroy all of the cards in the shoe and start with fresh decks. Unfortunately, almost all casinos won’t do this. Their favorite solution to this common problem is to wait until some predetermined time to change to fresh decks. Wait; do you suppose that casinos place a shill at every table just for the purpose of making a Basic Strategy mistake and “ruining” the shoe for everyone for several hours each day?
By the way, we are looking for additional people to join the National Sarcasm Society. (Like we need YOUR support!)
Ken,
Thanks for all your work on the websites and your comments in general. I’m interested in buying your e-books on Winning BJ tournaments, but I can’t find them anywhere on your sites? Can you give me some guidance?
I’m not very good at promoting my own e-books. 🙂
I never got around to making my store software capable of selling downloadable products, so the books are only available at my publisher’s site.
Here are links to each:
How to Win More Blackjack Tournaments
How to Win Even More Blackjack Tournaments – Volume II
and a bundle deal for both:
Both Books
if i play $50 table how much Bankroll do i need bring in the casino,and how much my spread in +count
The next lesson covers exactly that. Just multiply the numbers there by 5, to move from a $10 unit to a $50 unit.
can use dealing device option for the blackjack trainer. The Game is very Good.
I think “better” or “worse” is more intuitive for newcomers than “higher” or “lower.”
Good point Al. I’ll take a look at my card documentation and see where I can apply that idea.
I just arrived in Vegas yesterday!!! The 6-5 totally took over the strip. I finally found 3-2 blackjack at the SLS hotel and casino.
Bleh. It sounds like it has become even more common since my last trip to LV.
Which counting actually rates at 98% BE 70%PE?
See http://www.qfit.com/card-counting.htm for a list of systems with BC, PE, and IC numbers.
You can also calculate these numbers for any system here:
Card Counting Efficiency Calculator
For advanced counts (although you really don’t need one, honestly), I prefer Wong’s Halves at BC .99 and PE .56.
Do you have any information on how to beat California Blackjack? Such as when to bank the game?
if more people are at the table and they draw cards out, wouldn’t that change the percentage or odds of me using the practiced chart? if it says hit on a certain hand but 3 people were ahead of me. i don’t understand how that wouldn’t change my odds or change my betting style.
Usually the casino is using several decks so a few cards do not do much to change the odds. The only way that
can happen is if you have counted cards and it is getting close to the end of the shoe.
makes sense to an extent. another thing. when your changing the rules to meet my area of casinos, does the advice change automatically with charts and explanations to meet my rules?
Thanks for the reply; can you explain why the -4 makes it favourable to surrender as opposed to hit? I thought a lower count would increase the player’s chances of getting winning hand.
Thanks so much!
B
Sorry, I’m no help there. I rarely pay much attention to the Spanish 21 tables.
I’ve been searching for a good Spanish 21 table. Where do you play? I’m on the Gulf Coast.
Fallsview is all CSM except for the high roller room, $100/hand minimum bet. I’ve read the above posts, and chuckle to myself. The first rule of gambling in general, is and always will be: “the game can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” The casinos main advantage is an unlimited bankroll. If you are on a bad run, and feel upset about it, stop! If you see it as part of the process, and remain in control, decide if you want to continue or not. You will not always win, anyone who says that is selling something. Other players impact your chances if you let them. If you don’t like your dealer, leave the table, why would you stay anywhere you are miserable? If you decide you’re going to leave at the end of the next shoe, just leave immediately, your bank is likely good, and you are no longer focusing, and destined to lose a bit more money you could have had in your pocket. My last piece of advice: after winning three or four hands in a row, then losing, complain to the dealer that “I can’t win a hand!” They laugh, and you get to remember you’re there to have fun. Remember, gambling isn’t a problem if you win…
“As soon as someone makes a mistake in Basic Strategy, there goes the SHOE” (Corrections to spelling and punctuation were made to the above quote because the entire post is so ridiculous, I had to do something to make it a little more tolerable.)
Why stop with SHOE? If a single mistake in Basic Strategy ruins an entire shoe, doesn’t it also ruin every other shoe at that table for the rest of the day? After a single mistake in Basic Strategy, the “Universe” now knows that the cards are in a different order than if no mistake had been made. This is probably due to the fact that the “Universe” wrote the Basic Strategy Charts and monitors every Blackjack Table on every inhabited planet in existence anywhere!
This terrible situation, caused by a single mistake in Basic Strategy, cannot possibly be rectified. The only possible solution would be to destroy all of the cards in the shoe and start with fresh decks. Unfortunately, almost all casinos won’t do this. Their favorite solution to this common problem is to wait until some predetermined time to change to fresh decks. Wait; do you suppose that casinos place a shill at every table just for the purpose of making a Basic Strategy mistake and “ruining” the shoe for everyone for several hours each day?
By the way, we are looking for additional people to join the National Sarcasm Society. (Like we need YOUR support!)