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Could somebody please calculate the odds of my losing $6,800 in approx 100 hours of play, with an average bet of $50, using hi-lo and playing perfect BS? Also the standard deviation. Thanks much in advance, wvbjplayer

Do not go to tri-state racetrack!!! The dealers hand-shuffle and the games are rigged. I lost $3,600 before I finally figured out that they were bending face cards in order to enable dealing seconds, maybe even thirds. Wish I could bring a lawsuit... wvbjplayer

I usually do it in slightly negative counts, which maximizes the odds of getting at least one good DAS (you want those 5's & 6's, or, better yet, a 7) - w/out negating the whole point of a DAS, which is to get a high third card (8, 9, or 10). You also don't totally negate the likelihood of the...

So now I've played for 222.8 hours and made approx $4,300, playing hi-lo and spreading from $10 to $200. Who wants to calculate for me how much I should've made by now? Maybe one of those evil doubters who told me a month or so ago that I'd be flat broke by Tuesday? ;-) Seriously, though...

Seems to me that counting 7s-9s as ANYTHING, plus OR negative, would skew the count to appear disproportionately (un)favorable, barring appropriate adjustments (such as assigning fractional values to mid-sized cards), as are made in the more advanced systems like Uston APC and Revere APM...

I Am Able to Respond Non-Sarcastically 1. Facecards count as negative 1, not plus 1. Small cards (2s-6s) count as plus 1. Note, also, that this applies only to certain counting systems, such as Hi-Low (the best of the basic systems, and the one I use myself). 1. Players get paid 3:2 for...

Depends... how much do you plan to blow on hookers/strippers? ;-)

Caution The best explanation for your short-term success with this strategy is that you've been (unknowingly) playing in some very positive shoes. Naturally, one tends to make a good deal of money from such shoes (what I call "golden shoes"). By contrast, your losing session was likely...

That's scurry!

Oops. Make that "# of decks remaining (to be dealt)."

See my earlier post for most of this stuff. My BR is about $15k. TC calculation method is the usual: divide the RC by the # of decks in the discard tray. wvbjplayer

Also, where might I download such a free sim?

I'm no math or stats whiz, so I tend to defer to those who purport to have greater knowledge than I of such subjects. However, even as a layman, I cannot help but distrust all of the information provided in light of the vastly disparate accounts: according to one member of the forum, I should've...