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It sounds like you have generated a strategy for a “no-peek” game using the strategy engine or trainer. In that case the plays you mention are correct.
But if you are playing a standard US-style game, make sure you choose “peek” instead. The strategy for those hands will then change.
Edited to add: It looks like you are probably in the UK, where no-peek is the norm. As my charts indicate, don’t split against a dealer Ace, because you could lose both bets to a dealer blackjack. (Against a ten, only split aces.) That can’t happen in a peek game.
Ich bin 20 und habe gerade angefangen, Blackjack zu spielen. Ihre Website hat mir sehr geholfen. In den letzten zwei Wochen bin ich alle Lektionen durchgegangen und habe alle Hausaufgaben gemacht. Ich zähle fünf Decks, zehnmal am Tag, und ich übe auch regelmäßig Spielsituationen. Morgen hoffe ich, mit meinem neuen Wissen mein Glück im örtlichen Casino zu versuchen. Ich denke, dass ich im Casino problemlos zählen kann, denn die Croupiers sind extrem langsam, vor allem diejenigen, die die Frühschicht übernehmen. Ich möchte Ihnen jedoch eine Frage zur Penetration stellen, bei der ich mir nicht sicher bin. Der Croupier im Kasino legt die Karten aus dem Ablagefach nach jeder Runde in den Schuh. Bedeutet das, dass ich, um meine tatsächliche Anzahl zu berechnen, immer durch fünf dividieren muss, da sie fünf Decks verwenden?
Bitte helfen Sie mir
Ich habe schlechte Nachrichten. Das Spiel, das Sie beschreiben, verwendet eine kontinuierliche Mischmaschine, was bedeutet, dass kürzlich verwendete Karten sofort wieder im Spiel auftauchen können. Da sich die Zusammensetzung des Decks im Laufe der Zeit nicht ändert, wie es bei einem Spiel ohne CSM der Fall ist, kann dieses Spiel nicht durch Kartenzählen geschlagen werden. Sie werden Spiele finden müssen, die keinen CSM verwenden, um Karten zählen zu können. (Um Ihre Frage konkret zu beantworten: Sie würden in der Tat immer durch fünf dividieren, aber Sie müssten auch Ihre laufende Zählung nach jedem einzelnen Blatt auf Null setzen, da die gesamten fünf Decks ständig neu gemischt werden).
Ich habe eine Frage: Werden Sie nach der Berechnung des wahren Zählstands mit dem wahren Zählstand oder mit dem laufenden Zählstand weiterzählen?
zum Beispiel:
1 Deck wird in einem 6er-Schuh gespielt, und die laufende Zählung ist 5, Sie teilen 5 /5 = eine wahre Zählung von 1. Nachdem der Geber wieder mit dem Austeilen beginnt, werden Sie die laufende Zählung von 5 fortsetzen oder mit der wahren Zählung von 1 beginnen?
Sie verfolgen immer die laufende Zählung. Für Wett- und Spielentscheidungen stellen Sie auf echte Zählung um, setzen aber Ihre Zählung mit der aktuellen laufenden Zählung fort.
Just as the post above says… The number of spots in play, plus the number of rounds dealt, equals six. If three spots are in play, they will be dealt three hands between shuffles. If there are four spots in play, they will get two hands between shuffles.
Playin 8 deck shoes in Canada. Use an app on my phone that tracks the count by using volume up and down. Dont have to pull my phone out for anything. Vibrates when conditions are suitable for a big bet. App keeps a running count and true count as it counts down the cards. Phone screen looks blank while program runs
This app would be illegal in the US, and is likely illegal in Canada too. Besides, card counting is not rocket science. Just use your brain, leave your phone alone, and avoid legal trouble.
I use another app for baccarat aswell and run it as I bet behind people when conditions are ideal. App keeps a running tally of cards played with suggested play for next deal. Usually I wait for 2 or 3 losses in a row before I wager. Extremely lucrative and very accurate.
A baccarat app is worse than useless. You cannot beat baccarat by counting cards, and anyone who tells you otherwise doesn’t know what they are talking about. Go read Peter Griffin’s analysis of the topic.
And if you think that waiting for 2 or 3 losses before betting is “extremely lucrative and very accurate”, you have some expensive lessons coming your way.
Actually, given your two posts today, I would bet that you are the developer of these snake-oil apps. Don’t bother touting them here. We know better.
Been counting for about 3 months now,
Getting better every day!
Your strategies cards r really helping!
My guestion is, the casinos i play BLack jack in use a six deck shoe.
When they change dealers in the middle of the shoe. The new Dealer always burn the top card.
Should i count theis card is a minus or neutral. Since i never see the card.
Danke.
Hi Blackjack, great put down! You mentioned playing in Asia. Is there any place on that continent where one can still find non-CSM games – manual shoe with manual or automated (not CSM) shuffle? Macau and Genting (Malaysia) gave up manual shoes in a complete surrender to CSM several years ago. (And, further,Genting has only 4 BJ tables left outside VIP in a major shift from BJ to Pontoon).
Don’t know if Korea and Philippines have made a similar switch. I bet newbie Singapore too follows Malaysia’s lead as Genting is from there and Sands are the ones who first proliferated CSM as a standard in Macau.
Back to Macau: everyone fell in line with Sands and their CSMs, even the former monopoly casinos of Stanley Ho – by what almost looks like tacit cartel-like agreement. Not even one of those proliferating casinos seems to have cared/dared to break to differentiate themselves! Maybe because the main custom switched from the more knowledgeable Hong Konger regulars over the weekend to a constant churn of one-off raw Mainlanders any day of the week).Caveat – don’t know about those hidden away VVIP rooms though.
So any list of still manual shoe blackjack casinos in Asia that you know of will be much appreciated.
Hey Blackjohn, Fallsview outside of the VIP room does have quite a few automatic shuffling machines (ASM not CSM) but manual-shoe games – like the ones Ken mentions about the US. Check the table games hall at the far end from the VIP room. Unlike the fully manual tables in VIP they are not hand shuffle, but not CSM either. The machine merely has the role of automatically shuffling the stack vertically instead of the dealer doing it the manual way.. The rest is the same as a manual game – cut, reshuffle card, loading in the empty shoe – except it’s an 8-decker (VIP room fully manual tables are 6 decks). The gap between shoes barely leaves time for a toilet break.
Beware – a small handful of low seated tables with ASM and low min bets of $5 -10 are “Blackjack pays 6/5” or something equally avoidable. In all other tables (CSM and ASM) in that hall the regular min bet is $25 but at very busy times or if all seated players request and pit boss goes along they can get hiked to $50 or even $100 – existing players’ min bets get grandfathered till they quit the table but limited to one hand each.
I played live one night. Lost 20k, bout 73% of the cards were 7 or lower so every time i doubled i would get a 2 or 3 45% of the time at almost even time, so i ADJUSTED!! I stopped Doubling, keep hitting the 10 or 11 n get to 21 the hard way but I watched 32 cards come out n only 3 pictures, right!?.. Wasnt mad that i lost, but watched the next 60 cards come out, n told the dealer to watch with me., 8 picture cards came out, he started shaking his head i jus looked, shook my head n went about my buisness. End if the day ” i dont have to cheat to win, so i didnt like being cheated to lose”. Learn from this post cause Discipline is Key ?
Why dont you advise splitting 8s on ten and ace and ace on ace like other srategys thanks
It sounds like you have generated a strategy for a “no-peek” game using the strategy engine or trainer. In that case the plays you mention are correct.
But if you are playing a standard US-style game, make sure you choose “peek” instead. The strategy for those hands will then change.
Edited to add: It looks like you are probably in the UK, where no-peek is the norm. As my charts indicate, don’t split against a dealer Ace, because you could lose both bets to a dealer blackjack. (Against a ten, only split aces.) That can’t happen in a peek game.
Sehr geehrter Herr
Ich bin 20 und habe gerade angefangen, Blackjack zu spielen. Ihre Website hat mir sehr geholfen. In den letzten zwei Wochen bin ich alle Lektionen durchgegangen und habe alle Hausaufgaben gemacht. Ich zähle fünf Decks, zehnmal am Tag, und ich übe auch regelmäßig Spielsituationen. Morgen hoffe ich, mit meinem neuen Wissen mein Glück im örtlichen Casino zu versuchen. Ich denke, dass ich im Casino problemlos zählen kann, denn die Croupiers sind extrem langsam, vor allem diejenigen, die die Frühschicht übernehmen. Ich möchte Ihnen jedoch eine Frage zur Penetration stellen, bei der ich mir nicht sicher bin. Der Croupier im Kasino legt die Karten aus dem Ablagefach nach jeder Runde in den Schuh. Bedeutet das, dass ich, um meine tatsächliche Anzahl zu berechnen, immer durch fünf dividieren muss, da sie fünf Decks verwenden?
Bitte helfen Sie mir
Ich habe schlechte Nachrichten. Das Spiel, das Sie beschreiben, verwendet eine kontinuierliche Mischmaschine, was bedeutet, dass kürzlich verwendete Karten sofort wieder im Spiel auftauchen können. Da sich die Zusammensetzung des Decks im Laufe der Zeit nicht ändert, wie es bei einem Spiel ohne CSM der Fall ist, kann dieses Spiel nicht durch Kartenzählen geschlagen werden. Sie werden Spiele finden müssen, die keinen CSM verwenden, um Karten zählen zu können. (Um Ihre Frage konkret zu beantworten: Sie würden in der Tat immer durch fünf dividieren, aber Sie müssten auch Ihre laufende Zählung nach jedem einzelnen Blatt auf Null setzen, da die gesamten fünf Decks ständig neu gemischt werden).
Ich habe eine Frage: Werden Sie nach der Berechnung des wahren Zählstands mit dem wahren Zählstand oder mit dem laufenden Zählstand weiterzählen?
zum Beispiel:
1 Deck wird in einem 6er-Schuh gespielt, und die laufende Zählung ist 5, Sie teilen 5 /5 = eine wahre Zählung von 1. Nachdem der Geber wieder mit dem Austeilen beginnt, werden Sie die laufende Zählung von 5 fortsetzen oder mit der wahren Zählung von 1 beginnen?
Sie verfolgen immer die laufende Zählung. Für Wett- und Spielentscheidungen stellen Sie auf echte Zählung um, setzen aber Ihre Zählung mit der aktuellen laufenden Zählung fort.
what does “it deals to the rule of six” mean? I am translating a paper and I don´t know how to put it in Spanish.
Thank you in advance.
Just as the post above says… The number of spots in play, plus the number of rounds dealt, equals six. If three spots are in play, they will be dealt three hands between shuffles. If there are four spots in play, they will get two hands between shuffles.
Playin 8 deck shoes in Canada. Use an app on my phone that tracks the count by using volume up and down. Dont have to pull my phone out for anything. Vibrates when conditions are suitable for a big bet. App keeps a running count and true count as it counts down the cards. Phone screen looks blank while program runs
This app would be illegal in the US, and is likely illegal in Canada too. Besides, card counting is not rocket science. Just use your brain, leave your phone alone, and avoid legal trouble.
I use another app for baccarat aswell and run it as I bet behind people when conditions are ideal. App keeps a running tally of cards played with suggested play for next deal. Usually I wait for 2 or 3 losses in a row before I wager. Extremely lucrative and very accurate.
A baccarat app is worse than useless. You cannot beat baccarat by counting cards, and anyone who tells you otherwise doesn’t know what they are talking about. Go read Peter Griffin’s analysis of the topic.
And if you think that waiting for 2 or 3 losses before betting is “extremely lucrative and very accurate”, you have some expensive lessons coming your way.
Actually, given your two posts today, I would bet that you are the developer of these snake-oil apps. Don’t bother touting them here. We know better.
Been counting for about 3 months now,
Getting better every day!
Your strategies cards r really helping!
My guestion is, the casinos i play BLack jack in use a six deck shoe.
When they change dealers in the middle of the shoe. The new Dealer always burn the top card.
Should i count theis card is a minus or neutral. Since i never see the card.
Danke.
Ignore any unseen cards, so treat it as neutral. It is as if that card was behind the cut card, never to be used.
K thanks alot!
Ever consider the times you may be HELPED by someone’s bonehead play?
tends to even out over time, I’d think.
Hi Blackjack, great put down! You mentioned playing in Asia. Is there any place on that continent where one can still find non-CSM games – manual shoe with manual or automated (not CSM) shuffle? Macau and Genting (Malaysia) gave up manual shoes in a complete surrender to CSM several years ago. (And, further,Genting has only 4 BJ tables left outside VIP in a major shift from BJ to Pontoon).
Don’t know if Korea and Philippines have made a similar switch. I bet newbie Singapore too follows Malaysia’s lead as Genting is from there and Sands are the ones who first proliferated CSM as a standard in Macau.
Back to Macau: everyone fell in line with Sands and their CSMs, even the former monopoly casinos of Stanley Ho – by what almost looks like tacit cartel-like agreement. Not even one of those proliferating casinos seems to have cared/dared to break to differentiate themselves! Maybe because the main custom switched from the more knowledgeable Hong Konger regulars over the weekend to a constant churn of one-off raw Mainlanders any day of the week).Caveat – don’t know about those hidden away VVIP rooms though.
So any list of still manual shoe blackjack casinos in Asia that you know of will be much appreciated.
Hey Blackjohn, Fallsview outside of the VIP room does have quite a few automatic shuffling machines (ASM not CSM) but manual-shoe games – like the ones Ken mentions about the US. Check the table games hall at the far end from the VIP room. Unlike the fully manual tables in VIP they are not hand shuffle, but not CSM either. The machine merely has the role of automatically shuffling the stack vertically instead of the dealer doing it the manual way.. The rest is the same as a manual game – cut, reshuffle card, loading in the empty shoe – except it’s an 8-decker (VIP room fully manual tables are 6 decks). The gap between shoes barely leaves time for a toilet break.
Beware – a small handful of low seated tables with ASM and low min bets of $5 -10 are “Blackjack pays 6/5” or something equally avoidable. In all other tables (CSM and ASM) in that hall the regular min bet is $25 but at very busy times or if all seated players request and pit boss goes along they can get hiked to $50 or even $100 – existing players’ min bets get grandfathered till they quit the table but limited to one hand each.
I played live one night. Lost 20k, bout 73% of the cards were 7 or lower so every time i doubled i would get a 2 or 3 45% of the time at almost even time, so i ADJUSTED!! I stopped Doubling, keep hitting the 10 or 11 n get to 21 the hard way but I watched 32 cards come out n only 3 pictures, right!?.. Wasnt mad that i lost, but watched the next 60 cards come out, n told the dealer to watch with me., 8 picture cards came out, he started shaking his head i jus looked, shook my head n went about my buisness. End if the day ” i dont have to cheat to win, so i didnt like being cheated to lose”. Learn from this post cause Discipline is Key ?
Have used at the table many times and have been told by pit bosses that it is perfectly legal. No problem.