shuffle tracking vsace prediction...

J

Jay

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Hello,

Now that the mayor and others have dispelled the myth of clumping for me, I am wondering about shuffle tracking and ace prediction. I was wondering which is the best to use in a 6 deck game with 5-7 players. My thinking is that when you track aces, it would be beneficial to have less people at the table to give you a better chance of getting the A. But with shuffle tracking where we track sequences of cards, then I would think you have a better chance of getting a face card with that many people, rather than one of the aces. The reason I ask is that where I live, pretty much any time of day those are the conditions you have to face.

Thanks for any insights!
 
Automatic Monkey

Automatic Monkey

Banned
It depends

It all depends on the nature of the shuffle being used. There are casinos with autoshufflers and others that use hand shuffles that are very difficult to track. Or rather, they can be tracked but the benefit you get from tracking them is minimal.

Ace sequencing is just a special case of shuffle tracking and if the shuffle is untrackable chances are the aces are also unpredictable. The big difference is that shuffle tracking is best used as an adjunct to card counting and spreading, while ace prediction can be used in place of it.

You can practice tracking the shuffle at your favorite store like so: buy 5 decks of cards with one color back and 1 deck with another. Carefully learn the shuffle, then reproduce it at home with the odd deck at different points in the shoe, and see where the odd cards end up.
 
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