Recent content by ThePloppyInTheAlohaShirt

Mahalo! I had actually looked at that page earlier and missed it. I'm starting to doubt my reading comprehension skills.

I seem to remember reading that the house advantage for the "push on dealer's 22" in Free Bet Blackjack is about 6.8%. Can anyone verify or correct that number for me? Numbers for that rule from other blackjack variants would also be appreciated. Thanks.

The Ill. 18 are the indices that provide the greatest value. This includes how often they occur (frequent low index number plays) and how much money you would expect to have on the table at that count (less frequent high index number plays with large bets).

Your true count, using any method, will only be as accurate as your deck estimation skills allow. Since your choice of 1DTC or 2DTC shouldn't effect your ability to estimate remaining decks, you shouldn't lose any accuracy using the 1DTC and multiplying it by 2 (as long as you don't round...

I would suggest you try to use the 2DTC first. It provides an opportunity for an extra sliver of accuracy, and the indices are readily available. If you find it cumbersome in some manner, you can easily move in a direction that you find more efficient. There are no serious drawbacks to using...

I've lurked on this sight for almost three years now and enjoy it immensely. Many thanks to the people who make it what it is. I wanted to put that right up front before suggesting more work for the administrators. In using the sight to dig up information, there are certain threads that I...

I'll provide some basic discussion anyway. Much of this is repetitive from the "how to learn zen" thread, but this collects it in one post. 1/4-deck true count - This true count is computed by dividing the running count by the number of 1/4 decks remaining in the shoe. - Alternatively, the...

Yes, thats what he's suggesting. So your TC after the first hand from a 6 deck shoe would be RC/3. Your indices could be estimated by doubling the values linked to in the first message of this thread. If you get your 2-deck indices by multiplying the full-deck indices by 2, I'm not convinced...

Not on dry land.:( Aloha

They are just two different methods of doing the same thing. One won't lead to significantly different performance than the other. Mr. Renzey's response to zengrifter's question in the Mentor count thread points out that your indices become coarser as you lower the TC (by dividing by 2)...

Yes, the ramp is too slow. Its confined by: 1. the way I interpreted his statement that he didn't want to bet more than $5 is negative or neutral counts, 2. trying to hit even $20 units, 3. not allowing the bet to more than double from one step to the next. He did not state his bankroll...

Easy enough. For TC = RC/#decks: TC Bet Advantage <2 $5 negative 2 $10 about even 4 $20 about .5% 6 $40 about 1% 8 $80 about 1.5% 10 $120 about 2% Aloha

The only weakness I see is that when Irish divides his RC by 2, he's performing an additional operation at the table. Dividing by half decks remaining or using 1/2 scale tags gets around that (at the table anyway). Otherwise its just the full deck TC scaled down by a factor of 2. Is this...

Here's something rough for your TC = RC/2/#decks TC Bet Advantage <1 $5 negative 1 $10 about even 2 $20 about .5% 3 $40 about 1% 4 $80 about 1.5% 5 $120 about 2% Its probably not terribly close to optimal, but you're never more than doubling your bet and none of...

You just need to know what you want to bet at a given TC based on the way you compute that TC. Here's two ways to look at the same spread. For TC = RC/#decks TC Units <2 1 2 2 4 4 6 6 8 2x6 For TC = RC/2/#decks TC Units <1 1 1...