good article Sonny :grin: so wat the idea is that you play perfect BS for 10 shoes and have only 5 betting errors (only whole unite errors count) or less.
to help your betting, as i said earlier, u just need to know wat a deck (or two or three or four) of cards looks like... 1 deck is about 5 chips tall if ur sitting at 3rd and need a lil help guestimating.
i would agree with the Johnny C article that Indexes are beside the point of fundementals. indexes are used to help a player reach the theoretical efficiency of a count. However, the article says they were counting for betting purposes and using BS for playing. BS is a losing strategy, and even if a player wins money they will probably have lost many more hands than one, hence the importance of BC. There is a thread somewhere else on here about people's preffered ways of learning indexes.
from reading on other forums and books, you should be able to count down a deck of cards in 25-30 sec min; if you want to be fast, shoot for 15 sec.
HOWEVER: that is all "kitchen table" practice. As AM said, there is no sub for the casino. you have to knuckle up and put your money where your moth is. I have also heard kitchen practice of BJ compared to readin books on baseball... everything you "know" is worth NOTHING until you actually face a live pitch, everything else is just supplemental