Recent content by MGP

So T Hopper doesn't know him so he didn't copy from him, and digging in he didn't get it right anyways. He's really close but not exact. Thanks.

They match up to 4-5 decimal places - not the 16 that Cacarulo and I matched with brute-force numbers. The thing is though that he would have no way of knowing his values are exact without a reference. You can't just make a claim and not support it by brute force, which Cacarulo and I did...

J. A. Nairn Publications (orst.edu) Does anyone know this guy? He's claiming in his paper: [1909.13710] Exact Calculation of Expected Values for Splitting Pairs in Blackjack (arxiv.org) That he is the first person to get exact split EVs for finite deck splits which is patently false. It's bad...

Hi all, I just made my source code available on github: https://github.com/mustgoplay/MGPs-BJ-CA Enjoy. Sincerely, MGP

CDPN in my CA accounts for however many N cards are removed as well as the P cards. I'd probably name yours CDPN1x :)

My CA handles that too.

My CA handles this: http://www.blackjackinfo.com/free-blackjack-combinatorial-analyzer.php

If you look at how I calculate splits. CDPN not only removes P cards but also N cards before calculating the optimal strategy. It requires the use of burn card calcs.

If you have an old Excel 2003 my program should list every exception including post-split exceptions. You can also see them in the analysis I believe. There shouldn't be any differences with CDZ. It's simply the CD strat applied to all post-split hands.

It's not exactly fixed. To calculate CDP do the following: 1) Calculate the CD strategy for a full shoe. 2) Calculate the CD strategy with 1 P card removed 3) Repeat 2 for up to 3 P cards removed. 4) For each shoe state use the appropriate strategy with the correct number of paircards...

I reinstalled my program. It gives the same EV's that k_c's does for upcard 10. I think it's having a problem with the ev's for the other hands since the ev is > 1. I don't know why that would be the case for splits only but my guess is that somewhere in the calcs it's trying to divide by 0...

If you want more decimals then either click on the strategy box and copy paste the value (although it will only show the highest split level for that) or output to Excel 2003 and copy from the spreadsheet (if you can get it to work).

Mine will be exact so you should run that shoe on mine. My hard disk crashed at home and I don't have access at work.

That makes sense now. I didn't post my code because I program in spaghetti language and I wasn't about to open up the can of worms involved in trying to explain it. I also didn't take the time to write out a detailed help file but I assume it's clear enough from the GUI that it doesn't need...

I think GUI's are nice. You can have multiple results window open with my program. It also makes understanding the information easier if it's displayed properly.