Recent content by Stephen Bauer

Re: You are a tool. Go do something useful. Dear Mayor, The above post seems obvious flaming, perhaps you should list both sets of posting rules. The one for friends seems very different from the one for dissidents. Stephen Bauer

Re: Nope... Dear Mayor, I was discussing very politely about the sharing of knowledge and experiments we can do to solve one of our problems (stiff hands). What did you mean about the flaming.? Who would say something negative aabout the process of free inquiry, and if someone did , I would...

Dear Alientated, Thank you for your contribution to this discussion. The assumption I am making is that all remaining cards will have the same value. the number of pips on the remaining cards divided by the number of cards, therefore i need not worry what this or that card is; they are all the...

Dear Mayor, Thank you for your contribution to my thought experiment. I have read your resume and was very impressed with both your credentials and your thoughtful and enlightening posts. I cannot tell you which numbers will be selected in a lottery however i will make book with you that the...

Dear Wong out, Thank you for your response. The system we are using to evaluate our imformation has taken you to an impass. We are free to randomly choose our action. There is no longer an incorrect answer to our decision. I am now suggesting that we use another valid system to yield additional...

You are always basing your decision on the three cards shown. The count is just one more piece of data you collect to make your decision more accurate. Add the numbers up from 1 to 10. I get 55. Divide these numbers by 10 i get 5.5. Now if i select 4 numbers at random and add them they will tend...

I have a new idea for help with stiff hands and i am looking for an open discussion of its merits and weaknesses. What I have been doing is when i have a hand that has almost a .50 expecation I switch to another system temporarily. I give the average card a value of 7.5 so that there is a total...

sing along with me. Zo-Zah One-Zah Two-Zah Three-Zah Four-??? If you said Four-Zah you got it right The Zah in the second syllable has a Z sound for Zero. Zero Aces played next chorus N-2-Zah N-3-Zah ?-4-Zah If you Said N you got that rignt also. you are counting backward with Zero Aces...

Dear Yaada, I recommend Hi lo for many of the reasons our fellow counters have been telling us about. I have additional reason why I think Hi lo would be better. It is a balanced system. You can play it your whole life, and I've made money with Hi lo, or you can use it to transition to a more...

Re: never db 7 mayor Dear Hammer, I double on 7 once in a while. Uston APC indexes are 7v4:13,7v5&6:12. There is a name for people that believe their intuition is superior to the mathematics , they call them Gamblers.

Re: A big reason why SD is best for BS players Nice explanation *NM

Re: Indices for HiLo from -10 to 10? Dear Elliot, It seems that you would only use most of these indexes in a one deck game. In which IMHO Hi-lo is a poor choice of strategy. If you play shoe games I have a really nice set of indices that I got from S-a-g-e.com and then expanded to include...

Re: 1 2 6 or 8 Deck? Dear Rob. APC on 1,2 deck. Hi low on anything else. Actually you don't have to be very bright at all to count and play advantage BJ. You only need one trait, tenacity just sit down and learn what you have to memorize and practice till you can do it in your sleep aand then...

Re: Uston (translation) Dear Mayor, I have gotten quite adept at the use of the Uston APC count. I learned at a website called "gamemaster"; there I learned the hi-lo count with many indexes. Norman Wattenbergs Casino Verite is a most excellent program which combined with hundreds of hours of...

Dear Mayor, Been polishing my 1981 Uston APC. Took it for a spin on a cruise to nowhere and It runs so sweet. Its a new baby, the pain of which was quickly forgotten. I admit that I listened to the pundits and chatted with the talking heads. I played full index hi-lo but there is nothing like...