<br>yeah you're right ... I guess you can tell I haven't played blackjack for about 17 years!!!!<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/30/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">gts</b> <<a href="mailto:gts_2000@yahoo.com">
gts_2000@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:24:59 -0400, Benjamin Goertzel <
<a href="mailto:ben@goertzel.org">ben@goertzel.org</a>><br>wrote:<br><br>> -- Basically, you then want to bet more when a lot of "10's etc." have<br>> been dealt, and bet less when a lot of "2-6"'s have been dealt. Because
<br>> you are more likely to get screwed when hit with a "10 etc." than with a<br>> "2-6"<br><br>You have it exactly backward, Ben. :)<br><br>The card-counter increases his wager when a lot of low cards and non-aces
<br>have been dealt, because the odds favor of the player when the deck is<br>rich in high cards and aces.<br><br>Two basic reasons why this works:<br><br>1) A preponderance of high cards in the deck works against the house
<br>because the dealer must hit to reach 17 or better on a stiff hand (12 thru<br>16), likely busting with a high-card, while the player can avoid going<br>over 21 by standing on a stiff.<br><br>2) A preponderance of high cards + aces in the deck works in favor of the
<br>player because of the increased probability of someone at the table<br>getting a blackjack. It could be the dealer who gets a blackjack, but<br>blackjacks favor the player over the dealer because of the asymmetry in<br>
the payoffs: blackjacks pay a player 1.5 x the original bet only 1x for<br>the dealer.<br><br>-gts<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list<br><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">
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