Meistro said:
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RC +7 and 34 cards dealt so basically TC +1 you probably shouldn't be raising your bet here. IIRC was H17 LS game.
Wrong. You have an edge at +1 with almost every rule-set even H17 DAS with no surrender, unless you're playing a ridiculous bad rule-set with restricted doubling on certain totals, limited splitting, no surrender, etc. I'm also talking about shoe games. For a shoe game with just H17 and DAS and no surrender, depending on count used, number of decks, and penetration, your edge will be around +0.15% to +0.20% at +1. With surrender it is going to vary from +0.30% to +0.35% depending again on count used, number of decks, and penetration of the game.
If you want to talk double deck; with surrender you're going to have an even bigger edge at +0.50% at +1, give or take a few percentage points for count system used and deck penetration and without surrender over a 0.40% edge at +1, once again give or take a few percentage points difference depending on count system used and penetration.
In the OP's game, it looks like the game I play in Vegas which is a shoe game consisting of H17 DAS LS, double on anything, as well as splitting to 4 hands, which is a very much beatable game with the edge starting at +1 and if you want to be technical maybe even at TC +0.5.
The problem most counters don't understand is that each count's edge doesn't increase by the standard estimate of +0.50%. The first true count actually increases your edge by around +0.75% give or take a few percentage points from whatever the house edge is.