From: Chris Lowis Date: 2008-01-07T07:39:58+09:00 Subject: Re: Studying Blackjack (#151) > > But consider a three-card hand like ace, ace, 10.  The first ace is > > counted as 11 since that wouldn't bust the hand.  The second ace is > > counted as 1, since valuing it as 11 also would bust the hand.  But > > the hand still busts due to the 10.  If both aces were counted as 1, > > then the hand would not be a bust (so far, at least), and it would > > need for another hit. I'm not sure if that's what I do with my algorithm, but that's what I was trying to do, by evaluating the score on every deal, and sorting the aces to the end of the array to value them. I need to compare other submissions with mine to be sure. Chris