Dear all,
let me briefly introduce myself. My name is Fabio, I'm 27 years old, PhD student in Artificial Intelligence and I recently started to study a few books about blackjack.
What I'm trying to do now is to write a simple blackjack software simulator, in order to test the effects coming from using different counting systems, different way of calculating the true count, etc.
The first "beta" version of my simulator is ready. But I'm getting an unexpected result. It looks like that just applying the basic strategy, without any card counting (betting always the same amount), after 10,000 runs of 1,000 hands each (averaged together) the software is able to score a (very small) profit. According to the literature I didn't expect this result at all. I spent a couple of days debugging my code, but I can't really find any issues. Therefore what I'd like to ask you is if, under the following conditions, is it normal for the player to have a positive edge.
These conditions are:
- 6 decks used;
- dealer stands on S17;
- penetration rate (I guess this is not that important if counting is not used): 75%;
- unlimited splits;
- split aces are considered like every other split hand (you can double, split again or hit as many cards you want);
- double allowed on any two starting cards and after any split;
- no surrender;
- no insurance;
- natural pays 3-to-2 (before paying, the dealer checks for blackjack if he has a T-valued or an A card exposed).
Thanks in advance to anybody who would like to spend few minutes helping me...
let me briefly introduce myself. My name is Fabio, I'm 27 years old, PhD student in Artificial Intelligence and I recently started to study a few books about blackjack.
What I'm trying to do now is to write a simple blackjack software simulator, in order to test the effects coming from using different counting systems, different way of calculating the true count, etc.
The first "beta" version of my simulator is ready. But I'm getting an unexpected result. It looks like that just applying the basic strategy, without any card counting (betting always the same amount), after 10,000 runs of 1,000 hands each (averaged together) the software is able to score a (very small) profit. According to the literature I didn't expect this result at all. I spent a couple of days debugging my code, but I can't really find any issues. Therefore what I'd like to ask you is if, under the following conditions, is it normal for the player to have a positive edge.
These conditions are:
- 6 decks used;
- dealer stands on S17;
- penetration rate (I guess this is not that important if counting is not used): 75%;
- unlimited splits;
- split aces are considered like every other split hand (you can double, split again or hit as many cards you want);
- double allowed on any two starting cards and after any split;
- no surrender;
- no insurance;
- natural pays 3-to-2 (before paying, the dealer checks for blackjack if he has a T-valued or an A card exposed).
Thanks in advance to anybody who would like to spend few minutes helping me...