From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2008-01-07T03:58:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Studying Blackjack (#151)

On Jan 6, 2008, at 7:40 AM, Paul Novak wrote:

> On Jan 5, 7:38 pm, James Gray <ja...@grayproductions.net> wrote:
>> On Jan 5, 2008, at 4:02 PM, Rick DeNatale wrote:
>> I actually had the idea for this quiz while learning one of the  
>> easier
>> card counting systems.  If you can add and subtract one to a single
>> running total and memorize less than 20 rules, you can learn the
>> system.  Maybe I'll make that next week's quiz...  :)
>>
>> James Edward Gray II
>
> A card-counting-system evaluator would be interesting as a follow-on
> to this weeks quiz.  If you were considering different systems, you
> would want to know which ones worked better (or at all) and how much
> additional advantage you might gain for learning a more complicated
> system, etc.

This has been well studied.  The short story is that most of the  
popular systems vary in expectations by pretty small amounts.

Given that, I personally prefer the easier systems.  I'll sacrifice a  
few percentage points for easier counting.

James Edward Gray II