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Strategy

Friday, April 11th, 2008

To determine the effect of seating position on basic strategy players who were not counting cards, I ran computer simulations of fifty million hands with seven players at the table. The sims showed that seating position has no effect whatsoever, regardless of the number of decks in play. So, unless you’re counting cards, or using […]

Golden casino

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Counters

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

For professional players, seating position is often important and sometimes crucial. For card counters in single-deck games, the third base seat is quite a
bit more advantageous because the counter will be able to see and count more cards before playing his hand. In faceup shoe games, it’s much less important, but third base still has […]

The True Count (Part 4)

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Find a spare table or level surface and leave the decks set up for a while. Return to them often and study the heights of each pile and the corresponding conversion factors. Rearrange the piles and see if you can determine the correct conversion factors when the piles are not in ascending or descending order […]

The True Count (Part 3)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Once you have the appropriate number of decks, find a place where you can set them up in piles next to one another, preferably where you can study the piles for some time and where they won’t be disturbed exclusive blackjack. Divide the cards into piles that increase in half-deck increments, starting with one half-deck […]

The True Count (Part 2)

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

But how do we best determine how many cards remain? In order to do this game of online blackjack , we use the discard tray and work our way backwards. If we’re playing in a six-deck game and about two decks are sitting in the discard pile, then by process of elimination we know that […]

The True Count (Part 1)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

At last we’ve reached the meat-and-potatoes of the entire process. Think about this for a moment: What’s the difference between a running count of +26 early on in a six-deck shoe when, let’s say, five decks remain, versus a running count of +26 much further along in a six-deck shoe when perhaps only about two […]

The Value of Each Card

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

No matter how many decks are in use, as the cards are dealt history begins establishing itself. And as you know, card counting involves using history to gain a better understanding of what cards remain. That’s best accomplished by assigning a point value to each card and then keeping a cumulative running total, commonly referred […]