How low do you want to go?
HeadsUp said:
In BBII p176 Fred say that hands with low counts need to be true counted.
Where is the complete chart of low counted hands?
Is this really that important to Kiss III BJ?
Playing your negative index plays is not all that important since you'll have only 1 unit riding on them. Still, even in the shoe game, you'll still probably be around for the -1 TC deviations.
There are five main ones, and they're listed on page 176. They are 12 vs 6,,, 13 vs 2,,, 9 vs 3,,, A/2 vs 5 and A/4 vs 4. Recognizing when to simply hit all five of these hands is not hard to do -- once you become familiar with what the RC should normally be at the various shoe depths.
Remember, the KISS RC
normally rises by 2 points for every deck that get dealt out. So, starting at "9", when you're 1 deck into it, a neutral RC would be "11". Two decks in it would be "13", Three in should be "15" and four in should be "17". Now, if you're say, 1 deck in and your RC is only "5", you should indeed just hit all five of these hands. Why? Because you're 6 points low with 5 decks left. If you were 4 decks in and the count was "14", you should again hit all 5 of these hands because you're 3 points low with 2 decks left. In fact;
ANYTIME THE RUNNING COUNT IS LOW BY MORE THAN THE
REMAINING DECKS, YOU SHOULD JUST HIT THESE HANDS!
No division or converting is needed. What
is needed is to be familiar with what your running count should "normally" be at any particular point.
If you want to go further and play the -2 TC hands in that same "true count mode", then just hit 9 vs 4,,, 10 vs 9,,, 12 vs 5 and 13 vs 3 anytime your RC is lower than normal by more than 2x the number of remaining decks. This is basically spelled out on pages 175 and 176 along with the ever-nagging 16 vs 10 criterion..