Originally Posted by
Moses
Originally Posted by
Bob21
Yeah, makes sense. I used to play bridge quite a bit when I was younger so I’ve always had a general awareness of the cards I’ve seen. This has helped me with blackjack. I use a simple count, Hilo, but still have a general awareness of the cards left in the deck, which lets me know how strong my advantage is. I need to use this information a little more in my playing decisions.
I've never played bridge. Whizzed off a few of them in my earlier days.
Forgive me, but the words general awareness seem like sorta pregnant. Could you provide more insight of your thought process say at the 50% pen mark of the deck?
Not quite like being sorta pregnant. If you’re sorta pregnent, you probably aren’t pregnant. What I’m doing is giving me more information than standard Hilo, so it’s somewhat better than Hilo, but probably not by much.
I know all the EOR values, which is what all card counting systems are based on. I know you know this. So by using Hilo and having a general awareness of the cards I’ve seen, I know if my count is a strong or weak whatever the count is. For example, if the count is plus 2 and I’ve seen two more aces than what I should have seen, I know I don’t have a strong advantage and won’t bet much. Even though I don’t per say side count 7 and 9s, I know that if I have an excess or deficiency of these cards it will change my advantage....having more nines left helps me and more 7s left hurts me.
What I’m doing only holds for the first three rounds. After that I just got with Hilo. In the first three rounds it’s pretty easy to do this. Sometimes I’ll see a flurry of 7s come out and no aces in the first round. Even though my count might be zero, I know I have an advantage. As you know, a 7 is close in value to a 2.
I agree with your saying they it’s better to duck, or something like that. What you meant, I think, is to not bet into a disadvantage. This is obvious but you need to do more than Hilo to make sure you don’t bet into a bad deck.
For the most part, I think what I’m doing is accomplishing this. I just need to use this information more in my playing decisions. I’ve thought about going to a higher level count, but I like my method since it lets me interact with casino personel.
Hope this somewhat made sense. Btw, I’m giving you a lot of good information here for free. You should feel lucky. Lol. I’m thinking of having a bootcamp and charging $4,000 for this stuff. I hear you can make more money on bootcamps than counting cards. If the Blackjack Apprentice group can charge $3,000 to learn Hilo, I figure I should be able to charge $4,000 for my simple but more advanced system. And the good news is my bootcamp will only last one day. I think I should be able to get through all my material in about an hour. This would be one of those quick in and quick out type of bootcamps. It’d be more like a min-bootcamp. Who knows maybe we could partner up on this bootcamp thing and charge $5,000 and you could go over your system too. Lol