Recent content by DSchles

Take your question to blackjackinfo.com. Change your last sentence to: "What bankroll would be required to have 5% ROR if I flat bet $700 compared to spreading, say, $50 to $700?" Specify if you would be counting and if this is online or a land-based casino. Specify if split aces receive only...

All voodoo what you have written. It makes absolutely no difference whatsoever whether the dealer takes the hole card before or after. As long as it isn't European no-hole-card, where you lose all doubles and splits to a dealer natural, taking the hole card late doesn't change a thing. Just...

Were there other single-deck games available, or was that the only one? If you were planning to leave for a half hour, I'd have taken the chips with me. You probably gave them plenty of time to review your play while you were gone. Don

It's not N-O; it's N0 (N zero), and it's a number that tells you how many hands have to be played until the EV -SD equals 0. That is, the number of hands needed until the expected win overcomes a negative-one standard deviation. As such, it is the inverse of my metric of SCORE, which allows you...

Yes. CVCX and other CV products are the number one BJ software in the world. There is no number two! Don

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See BJA3, pp. 164-5 and 172. Don

FELT is basically the RPC. But, if you are to get the power of the RPC, then I would urge you to learn the proper indices for the count and not just the more simplified ones provided by Norm. RPC will outperform Hi-Lo, according to conditions, spread (which you didn't mention), etc., by about...

Go to blackjacktheforum.com and ask Norm there. Don

"Is the version 2 BJ strategy trainer optimized for Hi-Lo with basic strategy in mind because I was dealt a hand yesterday where I had 7,7 vs a dealer 8, I tried to hit the hand and the trainer recommended that I split in a Double deck H-17 game, DAS, no surrender? I'm not using Hi-Lo count."...

You realize you're responding to a thread from 15 years ago!! Don

This game/promotion can't possibly last. With the BJ payoff and ES, the player has a huge edge, and the casino is going to get hammered. Just play for as long as you can, as much as you can afford. Situations like this don't come around very often. Don

You're right. I thought he was asking a different question. But, I misread. Sorry. Don

No, BC, PE, and IC are not simply additive like that. You'd have to run a separate sim/analysis for the new count you propose. Don

Couldn't agree more. Don