Recent content by OMendoza

Looks like it. I extracted some more data from the 1d, 2d, and 6d games I examined earlier. These are play-all spreads. 1d Spread CE 2 $9.61 4 $34.48 8 $59.36 16 $77.32 32 $88.56 64 $94.96 128 $97.36 256 $98.27 512 $98.66 1024 $57.40 2d Spread CE 2 $1.53 4 $14.26 8...

The pitch game figures are for playing hands with TC of +0 or better. Technically, I suppose, the player would be wonging in if he left a shoe on a negative count and then returned if a nonnegative count emerged later. I think that that is how Norm Wattenberger had it set up. I would like to...

Since the dawn of card counting, blackjack players have been told that they must spread their bets in order to make any serious amount of money off their play. The only restriction has been the unknown, subjective, arbitrary, and post hoc limits imposed by casino management. Don Schlesinger...

Two-Card Cumulative and Marginal The "two-card cumulative" column lists the total effect when both cards are removed at the same time. The "two-card marginal" lists the effect of both cards minus the effect of the first card alone, so it's a way of isolating the effect of the second card of...

I have copied below a post I have made to my blog addressing generalized effects of removal methodology. One implication it has is that single-card EOR tags are provided with mathematical context that should influence how robust and how precise they may be considered to be. There are other...

Those of you who have thrilled to my earlier efforts on the subject can take heart: I have addressed linearization and effects of removal methodology on my blog again. Here is the link: (Dead link: http://360.yahoo.com/orestes_mendoza) Problems with simply accepting the linearized EOR...

Interaction effects are all over blackjack, with the ways in which Aces and ten-valued cards interact being only one case where they come into play. Griffin addresses the robustness of the linear assumption in the face of the obvious nonlinearity in the game more than once in Theory of...

Today I have posted to my blog ((Dead link: http://360.yahoo.com/orestes_mendoza)) an assessment of the EOR and BC methodologies that examines as a case study their extrapolation to Reno/Tahoe/H17 play. There are ramifications, in theory and in practice, that may surprise the card counter who...

ZG: Was your last post to this thread a response to me? What is a "Syph" and why are you calling me one? O.M.

I have modified my LL strategy after seeing the thread on this forum in which Eliot Jacobson posted a couple of systems. I am playing with a QhSC and am doing some other things to address this side bet more effectively, like establishing removal effects of each type of card to set up a "Lucky...