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I suppose no one knows. I'm headed there in a couple days so I will have to find out for myself. Anyone searching for Monaco info in the future feel free to PM me for details.

1) How many units are you typically betting when insurance is -EV? 2) "Insuring 20s" ? You mean taking insurance when you have 20? Why does it matter what your hand is when you make a sidebet for a dealer blackjack?

No problem at all. Thanks so much for your help, and for a really cool program.

Thanks -- I did. I wasn't sure that he was the same KC. Now I am. Thank you.

I recently purchased CDCA, and sent an email to the address on the website to get the product key to unlock my version. However, the email bounced back. I don't see any other means of contacting CDCA on their website. Does anyone know anything about this? Contact info, etc? Thanks in advance.

Right. How can we determine what k is, or even what it should approximately be? How did one come up with the .5 and .8 figures, for example? CDCA does this. In this instance ror is not zero, right? Since there is a minimum bet, ror must be > 0? This sort of gets back to the initial...

Ah! OK, got it. Thanks. I haven't read it in awhile, but I believe Griffin's Theory of Blackjack shows a player advantage of something just under 1% if perfect composition dependent play is assumed. Playing with CDCA, I see that it happens on occasion that the player advantage exceeds 5%...

Interesting stuff, though I admittedly don't quite understand everything you are talking about.

Answering your questions/points: I want to maximize the total money made (EV). Maybe I need to work with Kelly betting. Composition is unplayed card composition. Thanks. I appreciate your thoughts.

Thanks. I have CVData, and have used it for this, but like you said it won't do a betting strategy based on an exact advantage. I guess one way I could do it would be to use the best/most complex count, and use that. But a Composition Dependent determined edge would still be far better, as would...

Good points. Thanks for your posts. As for a time constraint: Let's assume you must play 1000 (6 deck) shoes with another player. You can play as few or as many hands as you like. If you play them all, you will see something like an average of 30 hands/shoe (240 cards). But you can play fewer...

Assume a theoretical blackjack game where we can calculate our exact advantage before each hand, and can play perfect composition-dependent strategy. We can also play or not play at any given time. We cannot play more than one hand at a time. Given this scenario, what would be an appropriate...

I didn't run a sim on this, but I would think the odds of losing 10K in 20 hrs with this approach are exceedingly slim, much lower than the 25% OP was asking for? Or am I missing something?