Recent content by gronbog

Fair enough. The Wizard generated his strategies for the complete set of rules as specified in the actual game being offered at the time. I'm not sure if it was a copyrighted game in the same way as Spanish 21. I was interested only in the triple/quadruple down aspect as that was what was being...

I just tried the Wizard of odds link and it works for me. It shows triple down strategies for various numbers of decks.

It's a rare occasion where aceside and I agree, but this is one of them. My software also indicates that tripling down on BJ is not correct. In fact, my strategy above for quadrupling on BJ also indicates not to do it. aceside, please post your EV numbers for tripling BJ vs 6 in a 6 deck S17...

Well that's a complete about face from "the math for this is very easy" and "I can provide results in a few minutes" to "I don't think there is any math in this". What specifically were you referring to when you said that it was easy? For those of you who are not familiar with aceside, this...

Yes. In one post, the comment I made was relevant to re-doubling, for which I presented strategies on a separate thread years ago. Apologies for any confusion.

Still waiting. "A few minutes" was three days ago.

Wait a second. I thought the math was simple and that you would be providing the correct strategy very quickly.

We await the fruits of your brilliance. Don't forget to include the initial doubles which become viable due to the possibility of a double/triple down later.

It took me a few weeks to write code to get this right.

Gamblers do play like that as do progression players, which casinos love even more than regular gamblers. That's the point of the post. You look more like someone the casino would normally welcome. BTW, that post is six and half years old.

Those of you who have CVData/CVCX (and hopefully the book and the companion graphs!) may be interested to know that the indices from the book are now included in the latest release as attachable strategies and as included simulations. See this post at BJTF for more details...

Not all casinos nor all players will allow you to do this. Misunderstandings about what happens when the bet wins or loses along with outright reneging on the "agreement" can be problematic. Once again make things very clear with the other player. Make it seem like you are "helping" them to make...

Thanks to Don S for pointing out to me privately that this is not true. What I meant to say is that, by doubling for less, your EV may become worse than that of hitting.

Double for less is only correct basic strategy when you can't hit or in games with re-doubling allowed. In a regular game, it is never correct basic strategy or correct index strategy to double for less, but people do it because they are afraid to double for the full amount. It is possible to...

For straight counting, the main technical reasons to spread to 2 (or more) spots at the upper level (i.e. when the count is favorable) are: There are other players at the table and you want more of the "good" cards for yourself. You want to bet more than the table limit. Other than that, there...