15 vs 10 question

[ihate17]

Maybe the rounding etc

We must have different books then?

Here's my Table 33 on page 93.

8,9,10,Ace with S17, Ace with H17 n(dealer upcards) along the top

Player hand of 10-6 or 9-7 indexes of 4,0,-2,-1,-4
Player hand 8,8 indexes of blank,7,0,blank blank
Player hand of hard 15 indexes of 7,2,0,2,0

Also has hard 13 & 14 but who cares lol.

Then, below, it says "do not surrender if count per deck is less than the number".

Maybe it's all that "equals or exceeds" stuff vs "less than" and it's mostly semantics?

Maybe he switched from rounding TC's in earlier editions to truncating them in his book?

Surely any of the differences probably have to do with how TC's are calced (round, floor, truncate)? Would you say?

Same table, same page, my book is the 1994 edition. Your thought about rounding, truncating etc might be the difference.

ihate17

 

[Kasi]

Same table, same page, my book is the 1994 edition. Your thought about rounding, truncating etc might be the difference.
ihate17

LOL. The first sentence in the Preface says ""This 1994 edition .. is a major update..." lol

I guess the difference shows that one should understand how the index numbers actually were calculated since different assumptions can give off diff numbers.

Now I have no idea how he calced his index numbers. I had thought he floored them but I'm beginning to think he rounds them.

 

[mdlbj]

You surrender.

Hi,

For 15 vs 10, Using Hi Lo with I18 and Fab4, we stand when TC>=4, and we surrender when 0<=TC<4, but what do we do when TC<0? Do we just revert back to basic strategy? For example if BS for the game we playing says surrender, then do we also surrender for TC<0? Or do we hit?

Thanks.

 

[johndoe]

You surrender.

No, you hit, per the fab 4; that's the idea of the index. Unless it's right off the top of the shoe. (it's borderline)

http://www.bjmath.com/bin-cgi/count.pl?noframes;read=1606 (Archive copy)