Recent content by Lapper

The Palms Casino in Las Vegas I believe has pioneered a side bet that they call, "Lucky Ladies". I have noticed it turning up at a few other casinos also. The bet is as follows, you place $1 - $25 in a circle to the right of your normal bet and if your first two cards are a twenty (either two...

If you shave the advantage to .33% per +1 of TC than the critical point for getting the money becomes +4 rather than +3 as I said. I think that you would certainly need good penetration and not too many other players at the table to see enough +4 or better opportunities to make it worthwhile...

I just came across a balanced count that seems to match up better with your EoR table than UBZ11 or KO. It is called the Silver Fox count and it is basically KO except you assign a -1 to the nine, making KO a balanced count. Since this is a level one count it would be easier to keep than UBZ11...

I just answered my own question, by looking at your EoR table. Since removal of aces is still -.3 or so it still makes sense to count it as negative. It looks like a good count for this game would be Wong's Complete Halves count, because it not only counts the ace as negative but assigns a -1/2...

The problem with this strategy is that most casinos put a restriction on betting more than one hand. For example, two hands you must double the minimum and three hands some places make you play 5 times the minimum. If you are a red chipper and your unit is $10 or $15, then your strategy is...

At the advice of our mutual friend who just graduated from UCSB I read your page on SF21. You know me as LAPPER on the bj21 boards. I am very impressed by your analysis of Super Fun 21 and am thinking of trying to play it at one of the local Indian casinos. I'm sure that Harrah's at Rincon...