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Old 12-09-2006, 02:41 PM  
Pleasurepays
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Originally Posted by bdjuf View Post
think about it from a statistical point of view

8 deck shoe = 416 cards

you have a 11, and the guy before you has a 16 while the dealer is showing you a 6.
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think about it this way... Ed Thorpe (the guy who invented card counting) realized right away that one 52 card deck has 32 or 34 million possible outcomes (forgot). 8 card deck... has...............

"good runs... bad runs" = "delusional and mathematically challenged"


the funny thing was tha the published a book about it... explained how to do it and all Vegas casinos thought they would have to stop blackjack completely... instead all the "Metamen" showed up with a plan and it became their biggest money maker.

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