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- From: hall@kronos.arc.nasa.gov (Michael Hall)
- Subject: Splitting 10's (was Re: LV recommedations requested...)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.032417.5139@kronos.arc.nasa.gov>
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- References: <1992Nov9.201259.644@fibers> <1992Nov10.021330.12874@kronos.arc.nasa.gov> <JACOBS.92Nov9205337@cells.cs.utah.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 03:24:17 GMT
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- In article <JACOBS.92Nov9205337@cells.cs.utah.edu> jacobs@cs.utah.edu (Steven R Jacobs) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov10.021330.12874@kronos.arc.nasa.gov> hall@kronos.arc.nasa.gov (Michael Hall) writes:
-
- >> Preliminary simulation results indicate that it costs close to 20%
- >> of overall profit if you fail to split 10's.
- >
- >20%? I'm extremely skeptical of this claim. You are saying that a card
- >counter with a 1.5% edge will have a 1.8% edge by adding just this one
- >strategy adjustment? I really doubt it. I might believe that correct
- >insurance plays would be worth that much, but not splitting 10s.
-
- Sorry for waiting a while to respond...
-
- Someone emailed me saying he found not splitting 10's will cost 17%
- of expected winnings; as I recall I found that it costs 17% of return
- on investment, but I can't find that old article. So a 1.8%
- bankroll-per-hour-return-on-investment counter would have a 1.5%
- bankroll-per-hour-return-on-investment just by dropping this one
- adjustment.
-
- However, I imagine the effect would be very different in a fixed number
- of rounds situation versus a fixed minimum penetration situation. You
- can imagine splitting 10's being worth much more in a fixed number of
- rounds situation, much less in a minimum penetration situation. So I'd
- have to run four very long simulations to figure out what's going on.
-
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