Recent content by OldGuy

Not at all. This is all relevant to how one writes a simulator. I'm glad to hear that (at least a few) people here know what a Fisher-Yates shuffle is, because I just discovered that this year (and I'm an OldGuy).

Great insights here. Thank you very much. I didn't realize that having 5 players would give any different results than with ONE player. I did that just for compute efficiency. I will change that to one player and start "simming" (if that's a word) again. Yes, I would like to match up to results...

Ah, that's the sort of answer I was looking for. Thank you. Pardon my newbie-ness: What is BJA3? Presumably, that's a book. One more question: Your answer seems to imply that it's hopeless to play BJ without deviations from BS. Is that indeed what you're saying? I watched a Youtube video from...

Thank you for your thoughts. I can run more hands and see if the numbers change. But can you comment, numerically, on the house edges I get with various bet spreads. Does one really have to spread more than 4-1 to get a dead even game?

My background: I'm 70-something, math major in college, 40+ years in computer work of all sorts. I have been a BJ card-counting admirer for many years. I have read several books on it, but I have never tried card counting in a casino, although I can play basic strategy easily. I'm now ready to...