How Counting Weights Affects
Wager Variation
“Big Money Hands”

Touching On The Power

Here is an example from the Playing 21 Program that we wanted to share. The purpose of this is to show you how placing different weights on different cards while Counting can affect the overall game.

In this example, we set up the House Rules, Number of Decks and Penetration Points. You will set those up to mimic the casino or Blackjack game you will play. There are too many variations to list them all, and what we are showing you is nowhere near the best there is. That only adds to the excitement of having the program and knowing what truly are the best.

In this small test, Player Two and Player Six both played the same 50 million rounds (This means they sat at the same table, with the same variables). The thing they did differently was Count Cards.

Here are Player Two and Player Six’ counting methods

You can see that Player Two counted the 3,4,5 and 6 as Plus One (+1) vs. the four Face cards, which were counted as Minus One (-1). This is an even count as the total weights equal; four cards counted as plus one and four cards as minus one.

Player Six has a different count. He counted three cards with plus counts and six with minus counts. He did this by placing different weights on different cards. He placed a count of Plus Three (+3) on the Five, Plus Two (+2) on the Six and Plus One (+1) on the Four (3+2+1=6). His plus cards have a total weight of 6. Now he counted six different cards, the Ace, Nine and four Face cards as a Minus One (-1). This also equals 6, so Player Six also has an even count (6 Plus weights and 6 Minus weights).

Huge Effects

If you follow this so far, you will enjoy what you see next. Player Two actually won a higher percentage of hands overall (48.17%) after the 50 million rounds, compared to Player Six (48.14%). Those 50 million rounds (50 million rounds, each round resulting in one Dealer Up Card) actually turned into 56,339,634 Total Hands after splits and double downs. How Player Two did is shown here in his Win/Loss Report:

You can see that when betting $10 per hand, Player Two actually lost $1,837,060. That is shown above in the bottom right corner.

Now we can see how Player Six did below in his Win/Loss Report. Again, you can see he lost 48.14% of his total 56,338,960 Total Hands. After all their splitting and doubling over the course of 50 million rounds, Player Two and Player Six played within 1,000 Total Hands of each other.

You can see that when betting $10 per hand, Player Six actually lost $2,135,805 as shown at the bottom of his Net Wagers column. This is a loss of $298,745 more than Player Two. It should be noted that due to space, we have just cut and pasted parts of each players Win/Loss Report. The actual Win/Loss Report tracks much more information than what we show here.

Counting Weights and Wager Variation

Now this is where this all gets interesting. This example is about more than just Wager Variation. We are going to make this very simple, but look at why things turn out as they do. Let’s say that another thing each of our players do the same is this: When the count reaches Plus 10 or more, they are going to wager 6 base units, or $60 each. This amount could be any amount, but in this example, that is what we are doing. Every other hand, at every other count is a $10 wager. A very subtle change really.

As you can see below, now Player Two goes to a $1,363,990 winner. That, my friends, is a swing of $3,201,050. We never even bet table maximum either. You must remember that we didn’t run a new test. We just changed how we bet at each count (see the Units Bet column changed from One Unit to Six Units at the count of Plus 10, or from $10 to $60). All the statistics stay the same as far as our Total Wins, Losses and Pushes. Cool huh!?

Now Player Six bets the same thing at the Plus 10 count and his Totals are shown here:

As you can see Player Six has won a total of $2,282,195, or a swing of $4,418,000. WOW! Player Six bet the exact same as Player Two, yet now has won more money, $918,205 more. How is this possible? (See them side by side below)

More “Big Money” Hands

Take a look at the examples above and again at the side for each player. You can see under the Total Hands column that Player 2 only had 4,491,989 bets placed at the Count of Plus 10 (about 8% of his total bets were at his $60 bet). That is because he had less counts make it to Plus 10 (or higher) compared to Player Six, who had 10,476,100 Counts at that Plus 10 (about one in every 5 hands where he bet $60). Player Six had over twice as many top bets. The reason for this is Player Six was placing more weight on certain cards. His counting method was an unorthodox one, but he made more money.

The real beauty is that this is only one example. We never showed you our best (Not yet anyhow). Why take away some of the fun? We will learn more and more each day, and, to those who are serious about making careers out of beating the casino, we will disclose our findings here in the site, through the articles that we write. We are in this to beat the casinos, do your part and get serious about winning.

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