Originally Posted by tableplay View Post
How are you going to get to a high enough count on an electronic machine such that you are in a position where you have to make these departures from basic strategy in the first place ? Does a glitched machine virtual dealer keep dealing without reshuffling until a certain point like a real dealer would ? The only way a player would have to consider these cases you put forth is if the virtual dealer does not reshuffle after each round. I totally get that in early versions of Dealer's Angels individuals and teams would wreck the casino since the cards were not shuffled after every round. But is this the case with double down glitched games ?
You are not understanding what I am saying. (and that is probably my fault). I am NOT saying we were counting this game. We were not. I am saying there are certain instances that can change whether a hand is +EV or profitable to double down. Counting is one such measure. With a higher count some hands are profitable double downs that otherwise wouldn't be. In this case, it was that ability to hit after doubling down and the chance to improve a hand where you otherwise wouldn't have that opportunity that could make a hand a profitable double down opportunity, when it otherwise wouldn't have been.

But it is all good. the play is over for me. We got what we got out of it.

Rob Singer: Just shut the fuck up for once. You have no idea what you are talking about with your comments on this situation, as you usually don't. Stay in your lane! And that lane is an old man, who's retirement plan is living off his daughter.

Axelwolf.: No I didn't give a lot of details, like how many hands, per hour, what the advantage was. I did give this privately to a couple people that I asked what it was worth. I will say that the game had a $100 bet maximum, and that seemed to be built or programmed in, as that was constant everywhere. And that was disappointing. That low bert max, and speed of the game, which were constants is what prevented this from being a really big play and payday.

Based on the numbers I was given of what it was worth per hours, we came in reasonably close, but a little bit under expectation. That may have been because the speed of the game was a little slower than I estimated. It may have been that despite my common sense strategy, we missed something, some particular hand that reduced EV, or it may have just been regular variance. But we were a little under. But in the end, still did well. The play was well worth it for us.

It really does seem like there are some favorable glitches out there with all these electronic and computerized games, seemingly especially blackjack. Like mickey said, I will probably keep an eye out and take a look at different games going forward.