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Originally Posted by Tom Ames
Way too much work for very little gain in an 8-deck game. Just widen your betting spread a little. Or find a better game.
But what is the actual advantage? If I know that then I can determine whether it's worth it to do it or not
DMMx69 said above that in two deck games, each extra ace is worth 0.25%, if I understood that correctly, that was over and above what it's worth for the Hi-Lo count. But that would be too much, right? Because each TC in Hi-Lo is worth 0.5%, right? So that would mean that aces/decks would be worth about 0.75% to 1% each in total, which would be huge.
Also I'm confused by the Zen Count. If it values 10s as being worth twice as much as an Ace, does that mean that the 10 is actually more valuable than the Ace? Or does it just use the Ace as a way to counterbalance the 7s?
What I would like to know is, assuming before we start the game I can remove any number of cards I want, for each 10 missing from an 8-deck shoe, how much edge am I losing? And how much am I losing for each ace I remove? From those numbers I can calculate how much the ace-rich shoes are worth, and if that value is positive or negative and I should instead prefer ace depleted decks given the same TC.