Recent content by johndoe

Maybe, or they could be entertainers, making money from views. There's a few youtube gamblers who do quite well with this, despite the gambling losses. (Also possible that the casinos allow them to fake their play for publicity.)

Pretty sure going from $5 to $200 instantly would catch anyone's attention.

Katarina Walker wrote the seminal book on beating Spanish 21, and advocated for hilo tags and starting off with a negative running count. More recently just using A=-2 and a balanced count is more popular. Obviously the strategy is totally different. But yeah if you were counting with hilo...

I do remember Stations was doing a lot of preferential shuffling, be aware of that. Outright cheating, but that was a few years back.

There are tons of $50 H17/LS tables all over the strip, those are easy to get hours in and blend, backcount, etc.

Can you not manually install the .net framework prior to the software?

Two weeks of hammering them seems pretty good to me though, if you were putting in a lot of hours!

What game is it? It might have been analyzed already.

Thanks, Don, I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something! BID: You'll really have to analyze it for the specific games you have access to in order to see if it's worth it, and get a sense for how well you can do this without errors. I'm guessing it's probably not but it's easy enough to...

I'm confused by your comment, Don. Both counts above (KO with and without A2) were presumably analyzed separately as above, and Burnitdown is proposing, in effect, using each count separately for playing and betting (and insurance) decisions. Why wouldn't this result in the BC of the betting...

Sure, if they find/identify them and can properly serve them. Raises the bar I think.

Just heard it on Munchkin's podcast. Pretty awesome news for those with trespasses!

I usually point out that it's my money in the circle, and if they want to play it their way, they can buy my hand and make it their money in the circle. Usually it shuts them up, and sometimes I get to sell off lots of crappy hands, which is awesome.

Fantastic work! I wish I had the opportunity to apply it. :)

Maybe this is helpful? You can also check the books they refer to. https://wizardofodds.com/games/blackjack/expected-values/