I played what I thought was an interesting hand while practicing on Verite with complete Zen count using half deck estimation.
Suddenly I had an early running count of -9 and looked down at 12v dealer 5. She had only dealt half a deck.
I barely use any negative indices, but 12v5 (-2) and 12v6 (-1) are two of them.
So my understanding is that I hit this 12 anytime the count is -2 or less. In my hand I would need a running count of -11 with 5.5 decks left to reach this threshold so I should stand here at -9.
However Verite indicated I had my -2 true count I assume because I have the estimation set on "round" instead of "truncate" .
I am not sure which estimation setting to even use. It seems that rounding makes me play more aggressively, at least in this case.
So I decided to stand on the 12 against my Overlords wishes, knowing that I did not have quite enough negative count to justify taking a shot at improving my hand. I guess that if i had it set on truncate It would have said my true count was -1 and indicate the correct play to stand?
Anywho I stood and expected to be blasted with the error warning but It did not sound. This further confused me- I double checked Verite and the Hard/Hit table says to
Hit<Value. Does this mean it has to be -3 true to hit this 12 v5? It had no problem with me standing here even though the software had calculated I had reached -2 true.
It worries me that I am at first overestimating the true count enough to make the wrong index play and when I make the right play anyway, Verite doesn't even care.
Thanks for any thoughts
Suddenly I had an early running count of -9 and looked down at 12v dealer 5. She had only dealt half a deck.
I barely use any negative indices, but 12v5 (-2) and 12v6 (-1) are two of them.
So my understanding is that I hit this 12 anytime the count is -2 or less. In my hand I would need a running count of -11 with 5.5 decks left to reach this threshold so I should stand here at -9.
However Verite indicated I had my -2 true count I assume because I have the estimation set on "round" instead of "truncate" .
I am not sure which estimation setting to even use. It seems that rounding makes me play more aggressively, at least in this case.
So I decided to stand on the 12 against my Overlords wishes, knowing that I did not have quite enough negative count to justify taking a shot at improving my hand. I guess that if i had it set on truncate It would have said my true count was -1 and indicate the correct play to stand?
Anywho I stood and expected to be blasted with the error warning but It did not sound. This further confused me- I double checked Verite and the Hard/Hit table says to
Hit<Value. Does this mean it has to be -3 true to hit this 12 v5? It had no problem with me standing here even though the software had calculated I had reached -2 true.
It worries me that I am at first overestimating the true count enough to make the wrong index play and when I make the right play anyway, Verite doesn't even care.
Thanks for any thoughts