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Re: hi-lo with aces on the side

Posted By: Norm Wattenberger
Date: Tuesday, 28 December 2004, at 8:39 a.m.

In Response To: hi-lo with aces on the side (sunfighter)

> I use the hi-lo systems for years now.How
> much i increase my hourly winings if I have
> a side count of aces?How is it used
> practically?

Practically speaking, it isn't used in HiLo:) At least by many people lately. The gain isn't large enough for the effort required. The procedure is as follows:

  • Calculate the number of excess Aces (may be negative) in the remaining cards

  • Multiply the number of excess Aces by the absolute value of the point count value assigned by the current strategy to Ten-value cards (normally one or two)

  • Temporarily subtract the result from the running count

  • Recalculate the true count for strategy decision purposes only

  • If this is an Insurance decision, temporarily subtract double the result from the running count

  • Recalculate the true count for Insurance purposes only

However, and this is important, you need to use different index tables. Stanford had a set of index tables for this purpose in the original version of Professional Blackjack. But I believe they were removed from the 1994 edition; presumably since they are little used.

For more info on side counts see:

Blackjack Side Counts

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