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Actually, I looked more closely at the Wizard strategy table for tripling and found a typo there. For the 6-deck Hit-17 game, the hand 8 vs 5 should not be tripling but the hand 8 vs 6 should be tripling.

It’s just because dealer busts less in 8 vs 5. Splitting always has priority over doubling, so split 4,4 vs 6.

The hand 9 vs 2 is tripling but 8 vs 5 is not.

It's a gambling website, so it is blocked for you. Just use the above Gronbog quadrupling table for tripling, except these four hands: 9 vs 7, A,9 vs 2, A,T vs, 2, and A,T vs 3.

I’m glad you finally agree with me. I just looked up these numbers. The Standing EV=1.5, Tripling EV=1.0047645. Gronbog is my one and sole reliable blackjack referee!

I just read Wizard “Triple up 21” page and found a problem there. Quote “It is not a typo that the player should triple down on a blackjack, against a dealer six, in the six-deck game.” I believe this statement does not sound correct. Based on my easy math, the player should not triple down...

I just read this thread and found some people were confusing tripling down and re-doubling. Everything has been posted above, so I don’t think there is any math in this.

As said above, it just sounds good on paper, but not in casinos. To convince yourself, try to calculate how much you can make an hour playing your strategy.

Please wait for a few days.

I have a hard time following the logic here, but tripling or quadrupling down is a very rare event, so we should not think too much about it. I find miplet’s posts above reasonable.

I’m not kidding.

Triple or quadruple down math is fairly easy. If you want these additional hands to do it, I can give you in a few minutes.

The definition of rounding itself in math is ambiguous. What the original post asking is ambiguous too. In your future BJA4 book using rounding, 2.5 gets rounded to 3, and −2.5 gets rounded to −2. Is this correct?

How come I am a troll? I have contributed more than 300 posts from a beginner AP’s view point, mainly to inform rising new APs from distorted misinformation. Trust me.

Not every responses, but sometimes I have my expertise. Your math makes sense in some degree, but not exactly. This is all about a match between the player’s method and what the deviation indices are intended to be used. I am saying that most published deviation indices are based on the...