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The RPC-Lite (Revere Point Count) Strategy
The Revere Point Count Blackjack Strategy is contained in the book Playing
Blackjack as a Business by Lawrence Revere. However, it does not contain
indexes for multiple-decks. This is too bad since it is one of the most
powerful multi-deck card counting strategies. I created a set of compromise
indexes for RPC designed for multi-deck but that can be used for any number
of decks.
This is a Lite strategy. That is, it is designed for ease of use and
not as powerful as a full strategy. The strategy only has eleven multi-deck
indexes plus four Surrender indexes and only two index values (0 and 6.)
You can use a strategy like this to start and then use better indexes
later when you gain more experience.
Revere Point Count Lite Tags
Cards: Ace through Ten: -2 +1 +2 +2 +2 +2 +1 0 0 -2
True Count Calculation: divide by full decks. (Note: The original Revere
Point Count calls for half-decks.)
RPC Index values
There are two groups of indexes:
- Group 1
- Hit/Stand 16v10
- Double Down 9v2
- Hit/Stand 13v2
- Hit/Stand 13v3 (Hand-held games only)
- Hit/Stand 12v4 (Hand-held games only)
- Hit/Stand 12v5 (Hand-held games only)
- Hit/Stand 12v6 (Hand-held games only)
- Surrender 15vA
- Surrender 15v10
- Group 2
- Hit/Stand 15v10
- Hit/Stand 12v2
- Hit/Stand 12v3
- Double Down 11vAce
- Double Down 9v7
- Double Down 8v5
- Double Down 8v6
- Surrender 15v9
- Surrender 14v10
Group 1 index value is always 0. Group 2 index value is +6.
Insurance is +3 for single deck and +6 for multi-deck.
Note: Four indexes in Group 1 (13v3, 12v4, 12v5 and 12v6) are only used
in single and double deck games.
Performance
To measure performace I compared RPC-Lite with 11 indexes and the Fab
4 Surrender indexes to HiLo with the Illustrious 18 & Fab 4 indexes
with the following results for varying spreads:
- At Six decks, 75% penetration, S17, DAS, LS: 6.8%-7.1% improvement
over HiLo
- At Six decks, 75% penetration, S17, DAS: 6.6%-7.4% improvement over
HiLo
- At Six decks, 67% penetration, S17, DAS, LS: 9.6%-11% improvement
over HiLo
- At Six decks, 67% penetration, S17, DAS: 9.3%-10.7% improvement over
HiLo
Performance at single deck is about the same as HiLo.
Clearly adding uncompromised indexes later can improve results.
Indexes were generated with the CVData
Blackjack Simulator.
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