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CVdata has a lot of blackjack sidebets included, I believe it can handle card colour. As for counting side bets, in general, if there's a side bet worth counting, it's more valuable than counting blackjack, so you wouldn't have to do both at once. You may actively not want to be counting...

If you're looking for math and maximizing ev, the double deck is almost surely the better play. If you're looking at actually making money there, you probably want to avoid spreading on double deck at all, most places will be watching double deck much much more than six deck.

In addition to game sim (which will test everything you need), there's also CVTest. You can design a testout, running through all the drills back to back.

https://www.888casino.com/blog/blackjack-strategy/one-or-two-hands "You can also keep your risk the same by betting 73% of what you would have bet on one hand on each of two hands instead. (For example, instead of betting, say, $50 on one hand, you could bet $35 on each of two spots with the...

Oh, I see. It's tricky to calculate the ev or variance yourself without running a simulation (but for baccarat side bets, that's not all that hard), but if you know the EV and variance, you can use that to calculate RoR super easy: RoR = e^((-2*EV*Bankroll) / Var) Just make sure your units for...

If you google "Baccarat dragon 7", one of the first results is "counting the dragon"... It's not a good look asking for such easy to find info, apparently without putting in any effort yourself first.

Coming at this from a broader perspective, it'd probably be more worth your time to find dealers/sites which deal faster, or cut deeper. Improving either of those even a little will almost certainly get you more benefit than another dozen indexes.

Assuming the loosest (and simplest to replicate) rules (S18, 3:2, Da2, full surrender, NHC, hit split 12s), I found a house edge of just under 7%. That's a rough game, my friend. My Google sheet is...

This seems like a fun game to analyze! I'm gonna give it a shot. Clarifications: If you hit soft 16 (6+6, 2+2) and get a 7, your total becomes hard 12, right? Does the dealer stand on a soft 18? I'm assuming blackjack pays 3:2? Can you double, split, surrender? Have those rules been sussed out yet?

Common wisdom is to count each player hand when the second card comes out, it lets you "cancel" a high and low card in the same hand. As for the dealer's card, it doesn't really matter so long as you count it, and don't count it twice. If you're counting the dealer's card first, great. Keep...

Getting better at this just takes practice. You gotta just put in the hours. First, count down a deck in a minute. Then push for 55 seconds... One quick tip if you're having trouble holding the count in your head, if you're saying the number to yourself, don't say "minus 3, minus 2, minus 3..."...