Single-deck
Let us look at the same subject but with single-deck, one player and a bet spread of only 1 to 3 units. This chart is significantly different. The top 16 indexes displayed in green still provide the majority of the gain. But the additional blue indexes are substantially more important at low and medium penetrations. Peter Griffin in The Theory of Blackjack discusses the importance of playing strategy in single-deck games.
Also note that the SCORE curve does not accelerate constantly upward in single-deck as it did with six decks on the previous page. Instead, we see a dip in the curve. This is due to the changing number of rounds as penetration increases and the cut-card effect. This is explained later in this chapter, in the pages on the cut-card effect.
This effect does not appear in single-deck if a cut card is not used.
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· Six decks, S17, DAS, LS, Heads-Up, Hi-Lo, truncate, half-deck resolution, penetrations from 26-130 cards cutoff by the card, optimal betting
· Single-decks, H17, Heads-Up, Hi-Lo, truncate, quarter-deck resolution, penetrations from 26-130 cards cutoff by the card, optimal betting
· Three sets of indexes. Two billion rounds each
© 2009 Norman Wattenberger
