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A distributed, actor-based Blackjack system for research and teaching
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Implementing Client-Side Bots #6

Open travisby opened 10 years ago

travisby commented 10 years ago

Note: we are using a 1 deck shoe

travisby commented 10 years ago

This looks like an interesting article on the different types of card counting strategies. From the tl;dr reading, it seems like Zen is the best

http://www.blackjackforumonline.com/content/hundred.htm

travisby commented 10 years ago

we could very well implement each, and run through a bunch of games to see which appears to be more profitable in our case.

travisby commented 10 years ago

This also looks like an interesting resource: http://www.blackjackclassroom.com/card-counting/

travisby commented 10 years ago

Because we are limited to using the BasicStrategy, we should only search for card counting systems that maximize the Betting Correlation. Playing Efficiency is for adjusting how the bot would play, which we are not. Insurance Correlation is also immaterial: we cannot play insurance

travisby commented 10 years ago

We also do not need a "balanced" strategy. "Balance" takes into account the true count. For this final project, true count === count.

travisby commented 10 years ago

According to qtif, out of:

The three systems that tie with the highest (.99) betting correlation are:

[EDIT] http://www.qfit.com/cardcounting/Revere-RAPC/ has a BC of 1.0

travisby commented 10 years ago

http://www.qfit.com/cardcounting/Wong-Halves/

has an additional suggestion for single card decks, watch out for that.

travisby commented 10 years ago

JK, we can adjust play strategy

travisby commented 10 years ago

http://www.qfit.com/cardcounting/Uston-APC/ has an almost perfect playing efficiency, which they say is more important for small deck games

travisby commented 10 years ago

How to adjust play strategy based on a count: