how to round off the count?

[jee_pack]

OOPS, made a spelling mistake in the subject, can't correct it though, how nice...

I know that at TC+2 I bet 1 unit, and TC+3 I bet 2 units and so on...
But where is this optimal if you are looking at the TC with 1 decimal? For instance, the 1 unit bet, is it most optimal at TC 2.5, TC 2 or the closer you get to +3, so TC 2.9? So this will bring me to ask how to know which bet is optimal if you look at each posible decimal for the TC. I mean, to be optimal (and also not to complicated of course), are you supposed to bet 1 units only from TC = 2 to 2.9? Or is it more like 1.8 to 2.7? Or whatever...

thanks in advance

 

[sagefr0g]

OOPS, made a spelling mistake in the subject, can't correct it though, how nice...

I know that at TC+2 I bet 1 unit, and TC+3 I bet 2 units and so on...
But where is this optimal if you are looking at the TC with 1 decimal? For instance, the 1 unit bet, is it most optimal at TC 2.5, TC 2 or the closer you get to +3, so TC 2.9? So this will bring me to ask how to know which bet is optimal if you look at each posible decimal for the TC. I mean, to be optimal (and also not to complicated of course), are you supposed to bet 1 units only from TC = 2 to 2.9? Or is it more like 1.8 to 2.7? Or whatever...

thanks in advance

ideally you shall have run a simulation that has a specific way that the true count is determined. so if you are using Hi/Lo then you will see your true counts as an integer. the value of that integer you determine in the casino the same way that your simulation software determines the true count for the simulation. that might be rounding, truncating or flooring.
but if you relate how you determine your integral true count to how a simulation does it then you can keep your bets within the bounds of expectation produced by the simulation.

 

[jee_pack]

I don't know if its because i just woke up but you lost me. Thanks for the input though, I didn't understand but I see your saying that the best thing to do is to run a simulation, I don't have a simulator though...

 

[sagefr0g]

I don't know if its because i just woke up but you lost me. Thanks for the input though, I didn't understand but I see your saying that the best thing to do is to run a simulation, I don't have a simulator though...

right and then match the way you determine your true count (which for simplicity will be an integer) to the way you set up the simulator to determine the true count. the simulator will present the ev your going to bag correlated to those true counts.

 

[Sonny]

OOPS, made a spelling mistake in the subject, can't correct it though, how nice...

I fixed it.

I mean, to be optimal (and also not to complicated of course), are you supposed to bet 1 units only from TC = 2 to 2.9? Or is it more like 1.8 to 2.7? Or whatever...

Most people group their TCs by whole numbers. For example, they will find out what their average advantage is for all TCs between 2.0 and 2.99999 and use one bet for everything that falls in between. This is called “flooring” the TC because you are rounding the positive TCs down (from 2.9999 down to 2.0) and the negative TCs up (from -2.9999 up to -2.0). Anything between +2.0 and +3.0 just becomes +2.

Some people prefer to round their TCs instead of flooring them. That just means that they group together the TCs from 1.5 to 2.499999 and use that to make their bets. Anything between +1.5 and +2.5 becomes just +2.

Both methods are fine and I don’t think either offers any advantage over the other.

-Sonny-

 

[jee_pack]

thanks a lot sunny, that seems to answer my question... btw: just bought KO Blackjack from chapters.com (good price, god a used soft cover). So perhaps, if I like the system, I won't have to worry about TC anymore...