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- From: eric@hup.ucla.edu (Eric J. Splaver)
- Subject: Re: Interesting (?) System to take advantage of winning streaks
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- Date: 25 Dec 92 16:42:35 PST
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- In article <21DEC199214054605@misvms.bpa.arizona.edu> venkataraman@misvms.bpa.arizona.edu (Remesh Venkataraman) writes:
- >You start out with one unit. If you win the first hand then you play the
- >next hand with one unit. Now if you win this hand then you go ahead and
- >increase your bet by one unit. If you win this hand too, then you
- >increase your bet by another unit and so on. His argument (with me since I
- >was the only one not convinced, I am still not,) was that using his system
- >you are trying to take advantage of the winning streaks when they happen.
- >The stopping point using his system was a loss.
- >
- The basic underlying assumption of any "betting sequence" system is that the
- results of past trials influence future outcomes. This kind of system is
- usually hawked for craps, those little die are assumed to have a fabulous
- memory. In a game like craps where there is obvious independence (barring
- crooked dice, etc) between trials this type of system is pointless. In BJ
- however where it is the effect of past trials (cards gone from the deck)
- which makes the game beatable in the first place, this type of system is not
- no easily thrown out. However, if you think about winning hands in BJ you'
- ll probably imagine hands with large negative counts. More often then not,
- a win in BJ probably indicates a smaller probability of a successive win.
- Consider a hand with a pair of aces, clearly the liklihood of a bj on the
- next hand is dramatically reduced. When you adjust your bets according to a
- card counting scheme you are essentially forming an approximation to an
- optimal "betting sequence" system. So forget that guys system. It does
- sound like great cover though, I would have been pushing for bigger and
- bigger betting ratios. I will admit that the runs of good, and bad luck
- are far more memorable than the much more common switching between win and
- loss.
- ________________________
- Eric J. Splaver
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