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Yeah I was thinking about blackjack. So what did you end up with for a profit margin with you strategy? Looking at articles it seemed like your advantage while

• RiderOfGiraffes 17y ago
  Basically, BJ is around 50%. You win slightly less than half the hands, but some hands give you higher payoffs (doubling, BJ itself, etc). Card counting lets you move the odds by a few percent. If the deck goes in your favor, you then increase the size of your bets to recoup your losses and make a small profit. The margins are slim, but real. The deck goes in your favor about 10% of the time, so you have to multiply your bets 10 fold to break even (ish). This gets noticed, they reshuffle, and you lose your advantage before you recoup your losses. You ened "social" strategies to beat that. I've been meaning to write up my experiments for some time, but I've been reluctant 'cos there's already so much on the web about this. Have you checked what others have said? Why are you asking? What are you trying to accomplish? Computing an optimal playing strategy is simple with a spreadsheet, once you take into account all the baroque rules. Don't forget, different casinos have different rules. Some let you split multiple times, others don't. Some let you double-down on 8, some don't. Etc. It all depends on what you're trying to achieve, and how much reading you've already done.